The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-02-19
Honor BoIEs, democratic Cove

HORACE BoIEs, democratic Cover.
nor of Iowa, delivered the following
address before the Greystone Club
of Denver, Col, in response to the
toast Democracy in 1892"
"The Democracy in 1892" What will
the people expect Of il? On what lines
must It's battle be fought? For what prin-
clples must IL stand 10 be worthy OF sue
cess7
These and kindred questions crowd the
mind as we look forward TO the political
struggle in which we are so soon TO en-
gage.
In a broad sense the Democratic party
must continue to stand as the champion
of the personal rights of the individual.
IL must at all times recognize the fact
that men inherit from their maker GER
tain natural rights that neither kings
potentates nor msjOrites can rightfully
despoil.
That chief among these in a govern
ment of the people Is the right OF each in-
dIvidnal TO be as fairly and Justly trea-
ted by the laws thereof "a is every other
member of the same. Three years ago a
Democratic President aroused the coun-
try by his declaration that unnecessary
taxation Is unjust taxation" and by that
declaration incorporated into the politi-
cal creed of his followers, As one of its
cardinal princi pies, to remain, / hope,
forever the doctrine that the rightful
power OF this Government to levy assess
ments, direct or indirect, is limited to its
necessities for revenue alone.
This vas no declaration of hostility to
the manufacturing industries of this coun-
try IL was the assertion of a principle
that put into practice would give them
free raw material-that would stimulate
the commerce OF the nation and open to
the products of their mills the market of
the world-that would send the Ameri
&. can flag at the masthead of our own mer-
chant marine into ports from which il has
been banished for generation.
Nor does a tariff for revenue only i'm
ply that American manufacturing indus
tries are to be deprived of all benefit there
from.
Theorize as we may, il would be impos-
sible to so levy il on articles of any kind
manufactured and consumed by our peo-
pie.
The United States is to-day i'm It's agrl-
cultural advantages the Egypt of the
whole world.
1t is from her graIaries the food should
come TO supply a constantly increasing
deficit in the markets of the more pOpu-
lous countries of the eastern hemisphere.
Nearly as many of our people are en-
gagged i'm this one industry as in all 9th
ers combined.
II is from the products of their labo
that three-fourths of that vast volume oi
our foreign exports have come that has
developed our trade with the countries of
the world, and enriched us as a nation
more rapidly than any other that ever
existed.
To them, il they are not 10 be- enslaved
by laws that foster other industries at the
expense of their own, open markets in
the great centers OF civilization are a ne
cessity-not those of the undeveloped
countries OF the southern half of this hem
isphere, and islands of the sea, that pro-
ducts than they consume, and, furnish
vastly better markets for the products
of our mills our farms, but those OF the
most populous countries Of the old world
whose hungry millions are ready to
take all our surplus food productions at
fair prices in exchange for those staple
necessities of life that they produce and
we must use.
IL is no stinted concession of right in