Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-12-12
PINE BLUFF. ARK. DEC. 12, 1895,
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION
TO IupE4 GH MR. BAYARD.

TO IHPE4 GIT MR. BAYARD.
 William E. Barrett, of Massachu- setts, offered a resolution in the House Tuesday impeaeibI{i,n,@g
 Thos. F. Bayard ardL IT. e'e -,e.@'
 -l,assadf, sweet and "'asnS hoh' at John H, Te;'onited II; States Am ,..,ador to Great Britain, of high crimes and misdemeanors. The basis of such action is MT. Bayards address before the Edinburg Phllo- sophieal Institute in which he said ssIn my own country l have wit. messed the unsuitable growth of that form of State Socialism styled pro- lection, which believe has done more to foster class legislation and create inequality Of fortune, to cor rupt public life, to banish men oi ln- denendent mind and character from the public councils, to lower the tone of national representation, blunt nublie conscience, create false stan- aards in the public mind, to famil- iarize it with reliance upon State aid and guardianship in private affairs, divorce ethics from politics, and place politics upon the low level of a mercenary scramble than any other single cause.
 ssStep by step and largely owing to the confusion of civic strife, 1t has succeeded in obtaining control of sovereign power of taxation, never hesitating at any alliance or to re- sort to any combination that prom ised to assist its purpose of peryert- ing the public taxation from its only true jurisdiction and function of ere ating revenue for the support of the whole people into an engine for selfish private profit of a crowd O benefciaries and combinations, called trusts.
 aIJnder it's dictation individua enterprise and independence hav' been oppressed and the energy o :scogery and invention debilitate' Nahd discouraged It had unhesitat ingly allied itself with every polio. which tended to commercial isolation dangerously depleted the treasnr and sapped the popular conseiene by schemes of corrupting, favor an largcsse to special classes, who's support was thereby attracted Thus it had done much to throw leg islation into the political market where lbbbers.and choppers took tn place of statesmen.
 .sI9 was incorrect to speak of pro lection as national policy, for tha if could never be, because 1t neve could be other than the fostering snecial interests at the expense the rest. and this overthrew tt great principle of equality before tn law and that resultant sense of lu tice and equalityin the administri ton of sovereign powers which wf the sense of domestic tranqulllt and human contentment.
 ssThe enfeeblement of individui eneroies and the impairment many self-reliances were necessaril involved and the belief in mystef ous powers of the State and rel ance upon them took the place individual exertion, fostered u growth Of State socialism and pc sonal liberty ceased to be the gre' end of the government.
 The resolution, after repeatir the above rem lrks, says:
 ssWhereas, Such reflection on u government policy and people of u United States in foreign countr and before a foreign audience,
 manifestly in serious disregard the proprieties and obligation which should be observed by an of cial representative of the Unit' States abroad, and calculated to i iure our national reputation, be 1t
 Resolued, By the House of Repr septatiyes, that the committee foreign affairs be directed to asce tain whether such statements ha' been publicly made, and, II so, report to the House such action ! impeachment or otherwise as shs beproper in the premises. For u purpose of this inquiry the commi tee is authorized to send for pc sons and papers.
 However true Mir. Bayard's stat znents are. it must be admitted thi considering his lofty position, the