St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-08
LIBERTY THE GERM OF NATIONS
AL PROGRESS AND PERMA- /
NENCE.
OUR ELOQUENT BAYARD.
MASTERFUL ADDRESS SETTING
FOBTH THE DIRE EVILS CT 2
PROTECTION.
THE DOOM OF ALL DYNAsTIEs.
They Are Drifting to DestructioR
and Republics Are Rising in
Their Places.

EDINBURHG, Nov. The United
States ambassador, Hon. Thomas r..
Bayard, delivered the inaugural ad-
dress this evening to the Philosophic
society. 1t was entitled individual
Liberty, the Germ of National Progress
and Permanence." 1t was a scholarly
and patriotic address, in which the
institutions of the United States were
glorified. 1t made fifty pages Of prilte1'
matter. The most striking passages were
those in which he denounced socialism
and protection. During the course OF
his remarks he said: 1.-The deep move
ment will not rest in the breasts OF
men. The weight of armed repression
and the upheavals of popular discon-
tent are plainly discernible. While in
some countries the consolidation of the
empire progresses remarkably, in 9TH
ers its disintegraton is unusually sig
nificant. The old dynasties are drift
ing hopelessly or sinking palpably."
After alluding to the preparations for
war on land and sea, which, he assert
ed, were never so formidable as today,
to the increasing burdens of militarisn
and to the hostile attitude assumed
towards each other of capital and
labor, Mr.. Bayard remarked: THE
movement of today is towards state So
cialism as an opposing force to aUtoc-
racy, either of which is despotism.'
Mr.. Bayard dwelt at length on the
theme Of his address, saying that how
ever society is framed it is by per-
sonal characteristics and individual
qualities that it's affairs in the end
must be decided. He continued: I'VE
are witnessing the decline and fall
of once mighty empires as the result
of despotic government and the de-
struction of personal freedom, while
those nations which have safeguarded
the freedom of the individual have
changed the face of the world
WONDERFUL AMERICA.
Mr.. Bayard spoke at length of the
wonderful growth and development Of
the United States, which he assured
his audience was due to this cause,
and earnestly invoked the opposition
of his hearers to state socialism in all
forms. He sounded a note OF warning
against the many proposals of politi-
cal interference and state nagement
under the garb of philanthropic aid or
he termed the tyranny of labor or
ganizations, Mr.. Bayard said:
'In my own country 1 have witnessed
the Unsuitable growth of that form of
state socialism styled protection, which
l believe has done more to foster class
legislation and create inequality of
fortune, corrupt public life, Danish men
of independent mind and character
from public councils, blunt public con-
science and place politices upon the
low level of a merenery scramble
than any other single cause. Step by
step. and largely owing to the con-
fusion of civil strife, it has succeeded
in obtaining control OF the sUs ereign
power of taxation, creating the rev.
enue into an engine for selfish and pri-
vate profit. Its allied beneffciaries and
combines are called trusts and grad
ually ythecommercial marine of the Unit
ed States has disappeared, the few ves-
sells lately built being an exception,
and proving the rule, as they were only
built by making a. breach in the gen.
eral tariff and navigation laws
Mr.. Bayard quoted at length from
the address of a, former commissioner
of navigation, read at the recent ma
tional congress CT farmers at Atlanta,
in confirmation of his views.
TT is Incorrect said Mr. Bayard,
ito speak of protection as national
policy. That could never be- as it
will never be anything but the foster
ing of special interests at the expense
of the rest. 1t is fatal to hopes of
advancement or even to the retention
of what has been gained by civiliza-
tion'
In conclusion, Mr.. Bayard acI<nowl-
edged the debt owed by the United
States to Scotland for Hamilton and
others and paid q tribute to the mem-
CRY of Scott and Burns.
PRAISED BY THE PRESS.
LONDON, Nov. S.-Most of the morn
ing papers comment on the address
by Ambassador Bayard before the
Philosophical society at Edinburgh.
and all unite in commendation of his
ideas.
The Daily News, after congratulate
ing Mr.. Bayard alike upon his courage
and wisdom In denouncing the policy
of protection, says: Nobody could
speak upon the subject with higher
authority. His plan for individual
freedom against socialist tyranny was
equally forcible and persuasive
The Times says Mr.. Bayard, in re-
plying to a vote of thanks for his ad-
dress, stated that his object individual
liberty, the germ of national progress
and permanence," was to advance the
adjustment of differences between man
and man on this side of the Atlantic
as we'll as on the other.
The Dundee town council has adopt
ed q resolution to present the freedom
of that city to Mr.. Bayard on the
occasion Of his visit. on Wednesday
next, to- open the art exhibit.
The Chronicles editorial comment
on the address is as follows: After
the remarkable Republican victory in
America 1t required some courage to
so fervently denounce protection, but
evidently, like his famous namesake.
Mr.. Bayard is not lacking in courage. 90
The article proceeds at length to dis
cus; the question Of individual freedom,
and concludes that Mr.. Bayard has not
succeeded In solving the difficult prob
lem.