The herald., 1895-12-13
AMBASSADOR BAYARD AND THE DEMA-
G0GUES

One William E. Barrett, whom a
thoughtless, not to say unpardonably
negligent, Providence permitted to
escape from the Businesses Of Massa-
chusetts and to rest his asinine person
atty in congressional seat, Tuesday
achieved lofty notoriety as the mover
of resolution impeaching Thomas F.
Bayard, the American ambassador to
the court of St James.
According to this intolerant partisan
and political ignorsmus, Ambassador
Bayard has been guilty of high crimes
and misdemeanors because in the ex-
ercise of his natural right as human
being he chose to express his views
on a non-political occasion, OF certain
economic theories.
Mr.. Bayard is a gentleman, high
minded statesman and distinguished
student of public questions. Mr.. Bar
rett is bigoted bore, who fl Dated as a
piece of political driftwood on the
misguided and temporary stream of
popular preferment which was pro-
duced by the election freshets of 1894.
Mr.. Bayard has ideas which are the
fruit of long, intelligent and consistent
thinking, and he knows how to express
those ideas 80 we'll that both at home
and abroad he has been much in de-
mand, not only at political meetings,
but also at the gatherings of people
who represent the best thought in Geo.
nomic, literary, philosophical and other
fields of reason, research and educa-
ton. Mr. Bayard was honored, we say
honorsd advisedly, for the association
which invited his presence is one of
the most eminent of its kind, with
request to address the Edinburgh Phil
osophical institute. Mr. Bayard in the
full consciousness that in his accept
ance of the position of ambassador to
England he had not Invested himself
of his right as mau to discuss eco
nomic questions, addressed the insti-
tute on the subject of individualism
and the various social theories that op-
pose it,
A synopsis of this address which
seems to have stirred the Republican
party from it's middle TO its outer rim,
was published throughout the country
the day succeeding its delivery, and
newspaper readers will recollect that
Mr.. Bayard stigmatized the theory of
tariff protection as antagonistic to in
dividualism, which is essentially demo-
cratic and American. He very cor
rectly referred to it as form of state
socialism and most accurately de-
scribed it as doing more to foster
GLASS legislation" breed iniquity,n
Corrupt public life, Clover the tone of
national representation" and to "di-
vorce ethics from politics than any
other single cause. MIR. Bayard is one
of the strongest statesmen this coun-
try has produced, and there is little
doubt about this arrangement of the
thievery, the tyranny and the dangerous
heresy of protection being most force
full and logical.
And it is the power and the hurtful.
ness of the castigation he administered
that have SO wrought up the party of
moral professions and immoral prac-
tices. Mr.. Bayard put the question of
protection in light that is true and
clear when he classified it most prop
erly as state socialism. 1t Is most dis
tinctively the latter, for it represents
paternalism, the essential principle of
socialism, it involves regulation by
the government of the private and per-
sonal business of the citizen, AMI it
directs the energies and activities of
the people into certain channels, in
stead of leaving them as individuals to
find and select, unrestricted, the lines
Of commercial and industrial action
they seem best adapted to.
Protection, being socialistic, can