The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-09

and fame carrying with them vast losses and
cruel hardships. Yet in spite OF the tenaeity
with which the southern people chung TO
slavery, going to war to defend and maintain
T. the south would not have it back to day on
any terms.
Mr. Wilson's moderate dose of revenue
powders in DrotectiOnist capsules IS rejected
by the protectionists as vigorously as the
slaveowners rejected Mr.. Clay's suggestion
Of emancipation Ike the slave holders the
robber barons Welded nothing. They will
not reform themselves or consent that any
one shall reform them The work must,
therefore. be done from without. IL Will
never proceed from within. And when II Is
done, II 10 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 lind that the
theory he cherished was curse, and not
blessing. The Chinese wall removed, the
world will be at his feet. Does national
character count for nothing: Does the land
teeming with original resources count for
nothing: Are the creative energies and In
ventive genius OF people who have reversed
feudal policies OF the old world, to build
fabric in the new whose cornerstone IS com
petition and whose Watch-wOTd Is freedom"
TO be accounted nothing?
THE WHY'S AND wHEREFoREs.
The cry of the poor goes up to God for
work. But there is no work. Why; Because
there is Over-productiou. Why: Because we
can produce in nine months more than we
consume Ia twelve. The remedy: More con
SulntESs WlutT uldIktLSs lTttuOL1 Oh LIhlb
with all mankind. Let US ont of this black
hole OF prolectionism, where, with banks
bursting with money and, mlllionaires multi
plying by hundreds, men are starving by
thousands Let US out out 10 the world and,
with plants established, processes perfected
and cheapened, trade marks and patents car
| rying all the protection that honesty ought to
! desire, and we can meet and beat all our com
mercial riVals-yea, EnRland-in every
neutral market. recovering those markets
| that geographically belong to us, but which
have been stolen from US by our senseless
| policy OF restriction.
There will not be such excessive and une-
| quail profits TO the manufacturer There VIII
not be so many great fortunes accumulated
| by the spoiled children OF monopoly. 4 he
| trusts will be harder to form and maintain,
and hence fewer In number. But there will
! be more general diffusion OF the real wealth
OF the country. There will be more work,
and steadier work and a greater demand for
labor. The living of the poor will be cheap
ened. The living of all will be bettered. So
cialism will be shorn Of its most potent ar
gument and one iirebrand at least will be eX-
tracted from the brain-one bullet from the
weapon-of the anarchist
do not predict the millennium. No act OF
Congress, out Gods will alone, can hasten
that But free trade may, and believe it
will witness the realization OF the dream of
that great statesman who braved the eXecra-
tons o. the rich and laid down power, with
the hope that he might leave a name some
times remem bered with expressions of good
will In the abodes OF those whose lot II is to
labor and TO earn their daily bread with the
sweat Of their brow when they shall recruit
their exhausted streng tn with abundant and
untaKed food, the sweeter because ii is no
longer leavened with sense of injustice"
Fellow democrats, IL is Of the first imror-
tance for us to know, and to know as speedily
as possible whether we have Democratic
party, homogeneous and strong as in the day
VI the sage and hero, whose name we cele-
brate this night-a party whose lines are laid
In fixed principles-hOnest money. home rule
and free trade-with power to compel disci-
pltne everywhere-or, whether we are a mere
agglOmeration Of factions, thrown together
by the uphaeyel Of the times. My own effort
Is, and always shall be- for straight politics
and square issues. want to know spade
when / see It, and 10 call It n spade. 1 don't
want to deceive, or mislead anybody. l
love no neighbor less because he does
not agree with me, He may be right
and may Q 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 gov
eminent. IL is also the road to universal
patriotism which founded in free thought
and free speech, and supported by the virtue
and intelligence of the people, IS to precede
that period Of peace on earth good Will TO
men, TO which the Christian world looks as
confidently as to the coming of It's redeemer.
! do not despair of its realization. | do not
despair OF the Democratic party. The i'm
mediate outlook may not be all that we would
have; but the future is always ours. Let us
cling to it. Let us fight for the best that it
n Give