Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13
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OF frldIu anu AeucdS
The robber barons know their business
They never go to sleep. They reilnaulsh
nothing Their rapacity is Unsuitable IL
was the history of the old slave power that
the more it got the more it demanded. 1t
might have had emancipation, and its
gradual and peaceful elimination from the
body corporate. 1t refused this, to end IN
blood and fame, carrying with them vast
losses and cruel hardships. Yet, in spite
of the tenacity with which the southern
people clung to slavery, going to war to
defend and maintain it, the south would
not have it back today on any terms.
Mr.. Wilson's moderate dose of revenue
powders in protectionist capsules is rejec-
ted by the protectionists as vigorously as
the slave owners rejected Mr.. Clay's sug-
gestion of emancipation. Like the slave
holders, the robber barons yield nothing.
They will not reform themselves or con-
sent that any one shall reform them. The
work must, therefore, be done from with
out. 1t will never proceed from within.
And when it is done, if it be done by
statesmen and not by the sword, the
American manufacturer will rise like one
who has been in chains, amazed, as the
slave owner was. to find that the theory
he cherished was curse, and not a bless
ing, The Chinese wall removed, the world
Will be at his feet, Does national charac-
ter count for nothing? Does land TEEN
ing with original resources count for moth
ing? Are the creative energies and inven
, tive genius of people who have reversed
the feudal policies of the old world, to
build a fabric in the new whose corner
stone is competitor and whose watch word
is freedom to be accounted nothing?
The cry of the poor goes up to God for
work. But there is no work Why? Be
cause there is overproduction. Why? Be
cause we can produce in nine months more
than we consume in IL. The remedy9
More consumers; wider markets; freedom
of trade with all mankind. Let us out of
this black hole of protectionism, where.
with banks bursting, with money and mil
lionaires multiplying by hundreds, men
are starving by thousands. Let us out,
out to the world, and, with plants estab-
Iished, processes perfected and cheapened,
trademarks and patents carrying all the
protection that honesty ought to desire,
and we can meet and beat all our CONNER
cial rivals-yea, England-in every neu-
trail market, recovering those markets
that geographically belong to US, but
which have been stolen from us by our
senseless policy Of restriction.
Fellow Democrats, it is of the first i'm
portanca for us to know, and to know rs
speedily as possible, whether we have
Democratic party, homogeno oous and
strong, as in the day of the sage and hero,
whose memory we celebrate this night-a
party whose lines are laid in fixed princi-
ples-honest money, home rule and free
trade-With power to compel discipline
eyerywhere-6f, whether we are a mere
agglomeration of factions, thrown together
by the upheayal of the times. My own
effort is, and always shall be, for straight
politics and square issues. want to know
spade when l see it, and to call it a
spade don't want to deceive, to mislead
anybody l love no neighbor less because
he does not agree with me. He may be
right and may be wrong. But let us at
least be honest. Let us say what we mean
and mean what we say. That is the road
to good government. 1t is also the road
to universal patriotism, which, founded in
free thought and free speech, and support
ed by the virtue and intelligence of the
people. is to precede that period Of peace
on earth, good will to men, to which the
the Christian world looks as confidently as
to the coming of its Redeemer / do not
despair of it's realization. do not despair
of the Democratic party. The immediate
outlook may not be all that we would
have it, but the fnture is always ours Let
us cling to it. Let us fight for the best
that it has to give.
NHII tCy