The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-11
WATTERSOK ON DEMOCRACY.

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lvered a grand speech, from which
is clipped the following:
would not be entirely candid if
/ did not tell you at once that there
are some things in the political out
look that ar against my senslblll-
ties aud offend my jnd sment,
mean no dsrespect to persons In
authority when | declare that this
seems to me al era of very small
things and We = small men,. Yet
the stream of llfs goes on, bearing
its awful cargo of good and evil, of
hope and fear, aod holding to the
least of the generations the relation
1T held to the greatest. And,
surely, never in the history OF man
kind were deeper problems set to
statesmen and philosophers than are
hid den in the dark closets Of con.
temporary experience, arising out OF
the uutixed Laws that are to deter
NINE and the u1detin boundaries
that are at once 10 separate and in.
close the accretiols aud the rights
of properly and the opportunities
aud the liberties of people. 1t is
now, as ever, the old battle between
the many and the few, for the bless.
ings Of tree labor and free thought.
which, under our system, are sup
posed 10 be the blrthrights of all.
believe in the integrity and
courage of Grover Cleveland. l
believe in the pa riotism AMI genius
of John G. Carlisle. If we could
put the two into one, Jackson would
Ave again. | am giving the ad'
minist,ation the most earnest and
dlsinteersted support because l
believe it is try ing to do right aud
because, in the main, my judgment
approves the fruits of us intention.
My Judgment does not approve the
W.l,on bill, eItner ia method or in
detail, but if it Is the best that can
be got cut of congress, SO be it. l
shall say nothing, do nothing, to
make its transit harder. 1t liz, at
least, some degrees better than the
NJ, X nley bill, since IL proceeds
up Ii lne lower and not on the high.
or scale and faces in the right direc-
ton.
Bus it il far, very far, from
me sure that can be truthfullY de-
scrlo, d as embodylng the idea Of ga
tariff for revenue only 1t is merely
better than the MrKlnley bill in de-
gree, not in kind, and ii protection
ism is ever to be dlsIodged | doubt
The Troj an horse strategy to which
it seems to incline. We live in the
age of the Carnegles and the Goulds,
not in that Of Pnam and Aeneas.
The robber barons know their
business. They never go to sleep.
They relinqlish nothing. Their
rapaclty is Unsuitable. 1t was the
history of the old slave power that
the more it got the more II demand
ed. 1t might have had emancip,
ton, aud lts gradual and peaceful
elimination from the body corporate.
II refused this TO end in blood and
flame, carry lag with them vast
losses ami cruel hardships. Yet, in
spite Of the tenaolty with which the
S utheru people chung to slavery,
going 10 war to defend aud man.
vain it, the South would not have it
back today on any terms.
MIR. Wilson's moderate dose of
revenue powders in protectionist
capsules is re- cited by the protec
tonists as vigorously as tbs slave
owners re jscled Mr.. Gays sugges
tlon of emancipation. Like the
slave holders, the robber barons
yield nothing. They Will not re.
form themselves or consent that
anyone shall reform them. The
work must, therefore, be done from
Without. 1t will never proceed
from within.
And when it is done, if it is done
by sta,c.men and not by the sword,
The American manufacturer will
rise like one who has bssn in chains,
amazed, "a the slave opDer was, TO
find that the theory he cherished
was a curse, aud not a blessing.
The Chinese wall removed, the
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