The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-01-17
CHARLES KRTCHBATM
TOUCHES UP PATERNALIsM AND
POPULISTIC BELIEF.

He Makes an Able Address at the Jack
SON Day banquet at wooster-VitaI
Issues of the Day FearlessIy Dis
cussed by the Brilliant Young Can
tSnssrn-His Belief in the Grand
old Democratic Party Firmer Than
Ever.
Tho address Of Mr.. Charles Krichbaum at
the Jackson banquet at Wooster Tuesday night
WIS the event of the evening. The Wooster
paPers say, great many pleasant things about
Mr.. Krichbaum. His splendid oration is COM
n8snted upon in the Wayne County Democrat
and rs spoken of as an address of the highest
merit compendium of Mr.. Krichbaums
address, containing many of its salient points,
is appended:
NV POSTMASTER: 1t has been beautiful
custom with you annually for over quarter
century to celebrate great and heroic deed of
battle.
take IL that celebration has always been at
tended with genuine appreciation and in
some sort a recreation of the hero himself so
that there is here tonight genuine JacksOnian
flavor and by the presence of the spirit of that
great personality the charm of this banquet is
ineaacolably heightened, inspiring patriotism
rather thanpartsanism, for of all things Jack
sou was, he was patriot first and a partisan
afterwards.
Without education he was deeply read in
NDen and things rather than in books. Igno.
rant of European customs and traditions in his
s0ulthere logically unfolded instincts of liberty
and natural right which are the heritage of
the common man who tolls and earns his in
disPsnsable bread in the sweat of his face, The
battle of New Orleans emanCipated us from
foreign interference and then began to be APP
piled and perfected those Democratic doctrines
that guaranteed the largest liberty of the indi-
vidual compatible with the liberty of every
other man; than began our matchless growth
in local self-government and local patriotism,
which principle, says Prof Bruce in his
American commonwealth, deserves to be
studied by all European Nations.
lt is 10 this paramount principle Of DCmOC-
racy that shall address myself
1st. Of the principle as vital and indispen-
sable TO the safety of the Republic.
2nd. How it has been violated and outraged
sprotectiOnism, and how CoNeyism, POpulism
and paternalism generally would violate it and
d0 lrrepaTble damage to the republic. AbsO-
lutte fidelity and loyalty to the little locality in
which we live is the first of civic duties.
To be absolutely free in your own home and
locnlity IS to dwell in the paradise of civil
liberty.
II begcts this highest patriotism, for local
patriotism is the basis of all patriotism, be-
cause the little locality in which you live with
IFS environments of domestiCity landscape and
shy has done more for you than any spot in
the wide world. 1t has created you; you are
of its earth, earthly; Of its beauty beautiful:
Of It's strength, strong; its earth nOurished
ydEr body. its light lighted your foot steps
Its landscape delighted your soul: the most
priEagy Of your knowledge is from con-
tact with men and things, and the world in
yoaT immediate community. DO you wonder
tbRt the historian says that he who would
know Napoleon must study the geography of
Corsica DO you wonder that the heart swells,
and It's fountains flow all tears at the words of
Home, Sweet Home? Do you wonder that
your nights and privileges of complete freedom |
IN 80 20
cred can be, and that the invader of those
rights is considered by us as an enemy of the
republiC2 This is the ethics and philosophy of
civil and personal liberty, the paramount
principle of Democracy. 1t is from this
standpoint that we consider proteCtiOnism a
menace to our institutions. 1t has violated the
domestcity, has taxed without return every
happy and fruitful little community in
the whole republic for over quarter Of a cen
tury.
Has not the little community of Wooster
ps0d its tribute TO the Pittsburg community
No, not to the community but to a special class
living in the community of Pittsburg. Has ii
not paid its tribute TO the lumber lords of
Michigan and more or less directly or indi-
rectly TO all the great benefCaries of protection
IN the land? To be sure it was only taxed a
little, the defenders of the system would say,
but, as Edmund Burke said, 'WOuld the pay
Epeut Of 2n shillings have ruined Mr.. Hamp.
den S iortuneY No, but the payment on the
principle it was demanded would have made
him slave.
And we contend tonight that in so far as
This and every community in the land has
paid a tariff tax, in so lar has il been enslaved,
and therefore the most sacred principle in
American institutions has been violated until
men have come TO relax their love and their
F1caA patriotism because they are no longer
shirle 20 supply the neCessaries which are indis
pensable 10 their happiness and their useful
ness In their despair they are grasping at all
sorts of isms and schemes And this
caused by the violation of the civil
and domestic liberty of the citizen, in taking
away his earnings inincreasing the price of the
necessities Of life, has given brth 10 Coxeyism
and POpulism and every conceivable form of
paternalism. And paternalism need not say,
y the antipode of local self government and
the mortal enemy of local patriotism and indi-
vIdual development. Every scheme by which
the general government is to appropriate large
SHns of money for the building of roads, for
she assumption of mortgage debts, is a tax
np1n the people of one community for the ben
sft Of another cOmmunitV
10 behOOves, therefore, the Democratic party
-o stand for this ancient and immortal princ-
pie, which despite its imperfect application has
sEade our country the envy and admiration of
he world; that has equaliZed humanity and
sLssd as on the plane of human intelli-
,enee and equality; infused backbone in the {
s0dy polite and made us a set of dilgent in
lependent and at the same time a mutually
lelpful and order loving people
The Democratic party depend upon it, still J
'as great mission to perform. The last and
,reoeding elections were only the cOnsterna-
i@a wrought by ignorance Of real causes of =