The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-11-07
ARE THE REPUBLICANS IN TO
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care the Republicans in to stay ?'ls |
an inquiry which Hon. George F. Hoar
answers in the pages of the November
North american ReUielC. Admitting
that prophecy is not OF of the exact
sciences, and that party accidents might
change in a moment the careful plans
and labors of whole campaign, MIR,
Hoar suggests some considerations which
point to the present supremacy of the
Republican party in this nation as likely
to continue. ae combats at the outset
the accusations so often made against
the party, especially by renegades,
that 1t has become corrupt and has de-
terlorated and lost its usefulness. As
to the evils which actually exist, the rem
edy does not seem to be to go over TO
the enemy. Washington and the pure
patriots who were his companions set
themselves steadily to resist and sup
press the evils of their times, But they
did not send to England for Benedict
Arnold They did not restore the Tories
to power. They did not go down on
their knees to George III, and ask him
to take them back into favor" Senator
Hoar's comparison is telling one. The
reformer of the present day, W o i'm
AGNES that the evils which he deplores
are going to be corrected by intrusting
the reins of power to The Democracy,
simply invites his fellow-citizens to dis.
trust his good faith or the soundness Of
his Judgment. The Democratic party
instead of being Informative agent is
one of the things to be reformed.
First of the considerations which in
fuences him to believe that the Repu6-
lican party is to enjoy permanent ten
ure of power. Senator Hoar instances
the radical difference in quality and
temper between the two parties. There
are good men in both, but the men who
give, and have given, character to the
Republican party are mainly the men
VINO have given character to the great
free States of the North, The men who
give character to the Democracy are, in
the main, the men who gave character
to the slave States of the South and to
the civil administration of New York
city. This difference, the Senator
claims, gives the Republican party the
larger and stronger vitality, and makes
it more congenial to the spirit Of the
nineteenth century, and will, it is like
", make it more congenial to the better
and loftier spirit of the twentieth, The
history of the one part is history OF
success, the history of the other is his
tory of failure. American human nature
must be largely changed before the peo-
pie will listen to Democratic and Mug
wump appeals to cease to judge OF par
ties by their records. AS to the doc
trines of the two parties, Senator Hoar
maintains that the Republican princi-
pies, purposes and measures touch the
very life and health of the republic.
They give promise of health, strength,
vitality, permanence." On the other
hand, he argues that the doctrines OF the
Democratic party are in their very
nature Temporary, short-lived, perish
able, trivial, cutaneous. The six "es'
sential Republican propositions" Mr.
Hoar defines as follows:
1.-THE equality of every individual citi,
zen with every other, not only in lega
rights but in every opportunity and
privilege of the State.
"The obligation of the State to see
that every citizen has an education
which shall fit him for these duties and
privileges.
''The absolute freedom and purity Of
elections. The box where the American
citizen casts his vote should be as sacred
as sacramento vessel.
"The standard of wages must be kept
up to the highest possible point. Tc
that end the policy of protection tt
American labor must be maintained.
"Polygamy, which destroys the sane
tity of the home, must be extirpated.
"The drinking saloon, which corrupt'
and debauches the soul and destroys the
health of the body and mind, must be
suppressed"
Finally, Senator Hoar he lives thai
the new States and the new immigra-
tion promises large reinforcements t.
the Republicans. That promise has al
ready been fulfilled in the Dakotas
Washington and even Montana. AS tt
the new immigration, 1.-THE steadfast, in
dustrlous, intelligent scandinavian, love
of home, lover of country, lover o
schools, lover of wife and children, find
his congenial place in the Republican
party. "-BOStOn Journal.