The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-02-20
vermont's Young Republicans.

week told of the great meeting at Bur-
ington and Mr.. Depew's magnificent
grafton on Lincoln. Supplementing
mastery analysis of Mr.. Lincoln's
character and the elements Of his
strength among "the plain people,"
Mr.. Depew passed from the era of the
president martyr to the present, when
another great crisis confronts the coun-
try. In this connection he said:
We cannot pass by this celebration, we
cannot relegate again to the books and he
libraries this heroic and majestic figure
without enforcing by his example and
teachings the sentiment of the hour. There
are always great crises coming periodically
in the history OF nations. 1t was the Revolu
tionary War which gave us our Republic.
1t vas the debates with Hayne and with
Douglas which gave us the love OF union.
1t was the Civil War which ended slavery,
and now it is the mighty contests of in.
dustrial forces, of economic principles, of
the proper relations of the currency and the
credit of The United States to its trade and
credit in oGher countries, upon which are
builded our hopes or our fears. We have
had civil war in which no blood has been
she'd but there have been more desola ed
| homes, more closed industries, more sacri-
| fees of property, more ruin and misery, than
was occasioned by the war from 1861 to
1865. This has been caused by the same
o,ces, 'pringing largely from the same
pale of intelligence and motives in different
sections as that which precipitated the great
! struggle. The generation which followed
the Civil War knew what the democratic
party in power meant, and kept 1t in the
! minority for quarter Of a century. The
world is fond OF experiments, and the ex
periments run in cycles. What has been
will be. So, after thirty years we have
tile the democratic party in power once
more. We gave them the presidency and
congress, and we hav3 had repeated, in.
dustrially and financially, the experiences
of the democratic party in power, as it was
evidenced in their rule prior to 1860. The
democratic party stands for nothing ma
tional. Its principles in the East are an
tagonistic to its principles in the West Its
ideas in the West are hostile to its ideas in
the South, and its views on the Pacific coast
have no relations to its principles or ideas or
views anywhere else in the country.
Mr.. Lincoln might have lived and added
to his greatness by aspeedier settlement of
the issues which arose out of the Civil War.
Mr.. Cleveland was president for four years
without power, and had he never been re-
elected, with democratic party on his
hands, he might, with the halo which was
thrown around him, have gone down to
posterity as one Of the great presidents OF
the country. But Cleveland was re elected
and did have the democratic party on his
hands, and what might have been is not,
and Cleveland is not regarded as one OF the
great presidents of the country
We have won our victory. 1t is the vic
tory of returning common sense, the victory
of experience over hope. We are not yet
out OF the woods. The republican party can
only hold the country where 1t is and pre-
vent further damage until it assumes the
responsibilities of power. The difficulty
with the democracy is not only OF inexperi-
ence, but of incompetence. The evolution
of the student is first his devotion to
phrases, and the more vague they may be
the more wise they seem, and from the
phrase he comes to theory. The theory
makes him a skeptic in religion and mug
wump in politics. Then he either settles
down to the stern realities of life and sue
cessful solutions OF his problems, or he be-
comes bankrupt in business and in faith.
The democratic party captured the country
by the phrases free raw materials" "the
tariff is tax" "the markets of the world"
We have lost the markets of the world we
have little left to tax, and our raw materials
and manufactured articles and labor are all
free, because there are so few purchasers or
employ els. We are governed by the party
which gave us tle German tariff, which has
left solvent only the business upon which
republican protection is continued, the
party which reversed the good old policy
that you should pay your debts with money
which you earned and adopted the new
one of paying them with borrowed mon ey.
Micawber is its financial authority. That
party Ii suspending credit by the eyelids
and business by the hair, in the effort to
solve the currency problem, which needs
little better solution than to leave it alone.
After thousands of years of hopeless expert
ments, the democratic leaders are still striv.
ing to square the circle and lift ones self
over the stone wall by the straps of ones
boots; they are still striving to pay debts
without assets; still striving to give money
where none has been earned, and distribute
currency where there is no property to ex
change for it; still striving to give value tc
the air and to coin and mint theories, and
they have reduced the national credit sc
that the government has to pay 81 per CEN
interest where the citizen can borrow for
per cent. Against that the republican party
puts in practice the maxims of Poor Rich
ard" and the principles which have made
commercial nations prosperous and CONNER
cial peoples rich. This is not the time nor il
there occasion for despair. The hand of thu
republican engineer Is on the throttle, ant
the train can no longer run away. The con
ductor can stop the momentum or sidetracl
the cars, but the engineer will not let hi q
derail them. The republican house O
representatives is the living protest of thu
country against paralysi and despair, an(
it will I'D the fort until in 1896 the relic
comes and the country is saved At thu
siege OF Lucknow a handful OF soldier
were defending their own lives and that o
their wives and little ones against tn
hordes of Sepoys about them. The foo
was giving out, the hunger belt was dra VI
= closer; it seemed that the day of relief ant
salvation would never come. Suddenly tb
keen ears of the Scotch woman heard til
distant bagpipes, and she shouted: "Dinn
ye hear the slogan? 1t is Havelock and hi
Highlandtrs." "DiDna ye hear the sic
GAM" 1t came In the last election an
gave the republicans the house Of represer
tati yes. "Dinna ye hear the slogan?"
came from the breaking Of the solid South
"Dinna ye hear the slogan" 1t came froI
Missouri, from Maryland, from Tennessee
from West Virginia. "Dinna ye hear tn
slogan2" 1t Is the marching OF the arm
which answered once, 1--WE are coming
Father Abraham, three hundred thousan
MORE" to the victory Of 1896. Then the rt
publican senate will respond to the repul
lican house, and the republican house wi
respond to the republican president, an
the country will receive prosperity, happ
ness and peace.
Letters were received from eS
Gapator Ebnnnds Gouarno, MoRt,1 .