The Republican journal., 1896-06-18


cued from commercial bondage to a ty-
rant, even as God grant we may see it
rescued from that tyrant's bloody oppres-
sion!
to drive that rich trade into the channels
Of our rivals. They said that this was
sham reciprocity, that they wanted a re-
ciprocity which would ID reciprocate.
is the reimposition Of the embargo on
our products which Republican recipro-
city had raised. They said they wanted
they repealed an act which gave free the
raw material for this purpose and made
the markets themselves free when doing
so would not cost our supremacy in our
own.
False to the interests Of the country
they were not true even to themselves
They were false to their own traditions
when they declared against even Incl
false when they failed to fulfill this
pledge of their national platform.
They gave us free trade sufficiently to
show what it means for the country, and
they recognized the principle of protec-
ton sufficiently to expose the hypocrisy
of all their pretensions.
They gave us free trade sufficiently to
paralyze the most of the Industries of the
land, they broke their promise sufficiently
to save few. And in this government of
ours, a government of parties as it is,
is that my friends, whose only virtue is
that it cannot be depended on to keep it's
own promise!
They denounced Capitalization and war
taxes in time of peace but they proceeded
to impose the most obnoxious of these
tax which violated the most cherished
precept Of Jefferson whose great name
invoked it, One faithful follower he has
had in the modern Democratic party, the
old Roman, faithful among the faithless,
and he, Allen G. Thurman, in almost his
valedictory to, public life, happy for him
had it been his valedictory to his party
tore off Democracy's mask and babe it
confess it's shame before the world.
II am an old man, too old to have much
more to say in this worlds affairs. I was
raised in a school that meant what it
said. What is the use of talking of be-
give up; let us admit that we have been
humbugs; let us say we have talked to
the people in words which had no me an
ing because our actions were opposed to
Whatever the failures of the last Dem
ocratic Congress and this Democratic ad-
ministration, it has fulfilled this char
acterization by the ablest, purest leader
the modern Democracy has ever had.
What wonder then, in the face of this
record, that such party has been driven
to the resort of every discredited party
in history?
What wonder then that at this very
moment the air is thick with rumors that
the head of this despairing and discred-
head, awaits only the adjournment of
Congress to precipitate such a situation
in our foreign relations as shall distract
What wonder then that Democrats run
up and down the land proclaiming that
their party is to give, what it has never
given us before, foreign policy that
shall meet the approval and aspirations
of the American people?
God knows we need such a policy, an
American policy commanding respect and
end to the jeers and gibes of Europe that
rather than be great in history we prefer
to have no history at all; policy COM
mensurate with our greatness as great
greatness, but greatest of all in that we
can rise above and beyond this greatness
and count it all for naught in the asser-
of which such greatness cannot measure!
God knows, l say, we need such a pol
icy, but as he is just and merciful, by the
shame and humiliation with which he has
seen fit to chasten this people through
the instrumentality of the Democratic
party, he will never lead US to seek such
a policy through the maintenance in
foreign relations has taught us the need
of such policy as we have never real
lied it before!
God knows we shall never seek that
of that party whose whole administration
of our foreign relations has been linked
with one virtue and a thousand crimes"
and that virtue assumed when its presi-
dent put on the Republican uniform and
Republican doctrine, q doc
trine enforced by the, first Republican
that ever called for its enforcement since
its PRONUNCIATION, and by every other
since doctrine endorsed explicitly and
by name in the last Republican national
a Int ,tn1,
would now rebaptize it and stand as it's
sponsor! Why gentlemen, one would |
think that Democratic responsibility in
ezuela incident. Democratic diplomacy
is older than that, and If you would I'M
derstand 1t as conducted today, go back |
to it's beginnings. Go back to the time
when Democratic emissaries sent out to
sea from the ports of England their
cruisers to prey upon your commerce and |
paid the price In free trade tariff on |
Thomas F. Bayard made his speech for
secession, when his words and those of |
men like him misled the British nation
into the belief tnat because the north was
back to the time when in response to
these words there echoed back from the |
British Parliament the e1ultant response
he the friend Of the WITH fnr evgf we Were
her enemy, her rivals politically and COM
"her rivals at every port and
at every court"
These were the beginnings of Demo-
cratic diplomacy and quarter of a cen
fury later we were to reap its full frui-
ton when Thomas F. Bayard Demo-
cratic secretary of State, was for four
years to direct that diplomacy, and for |
another four to occupy the highest office |
in it's service, to be ambassador at the |
court of which Lionel Cecil, Lord Sails
bury, was to be prime minister. Then 1t |
was I say, we were to reap its full frui-
ton when bound to that court by COM
mon disappointment that we live as ma
ton today, bound to it by common an
tagonism to that protective policy which
has made us nation feared and hated
by England her rivals indeed politically |
and Commercially her rivals at every
port and every court" this libeller of 10y
atty whose traitorous utterances only
ceased when the doors of Fort Lafayette
opened before him, who had denounced |
the followers of Lincoln and the men
who saNed the Union az .eco1ua rdlu edi. |