Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-15


light that was to gladden. the earth.
Had the powerful and influential class
es triumphed, this Republic would not
have been born. Every European ma
tion would to-day be owning parts of
North America. No star of liberty
would ever have crossed the armament
of the nations, or aroused the spirits of
men. We will not dwell on the long,
weary struggle that followed You
are familiar with it.
HAMILTON AND JEFFERsoN.
At the conclusion of the war there
were two great political parties in the
countryside Federalists and the Dem
ocrats. then called Republicans The
very wealthy, the powerful and the
fashionable were Federalists, while
the great masses of the people, who
were doing the nations work, adhered
to the Republicans. The Federalists
wanted splendid central government,
modelled after the English Government
with nristocratic and monarchial feat
ures; the Republicans wanted a gov
eminent possessing all necessary
powers, but one that should be free
from those features that made Euro
pean Government curse. They be-
lieved that government to be blest
which interfered as little as possible
with freedom of the individual.
Hamilton and Jefferson were the re-
spective representatives of these two
opposing forces, The former has been
described as young man of 80, who
tried to introduce the English system.
He claimed that government was an
affair of the rich; that government
should take care of the rich, and let
the rich take care of the poor
Jefferson said: Nay, it is the bust
ness of the government to do equal
justice to all men, and to grant special
privileges to none.
Hamilton said The people cannot
be trusted to govern themselves, Only
q special class should be intrusted
with government
Jefferson said: The people can be
trusted, and they are capable of gov
erning themselves Let the same
hands that do u nations work and Gre
ate nations wealth also guide ma
TONS government, and all will be
we'll
Hamilton said: Hug the shore and
follow the example of European ma
tions.
Jefferson, with eyes fixed on the sun
lit peaks Of the future, cried: Nay,
yonder lies tine ocean OF freedom. Steer
out upon it. Keep away from the rocks
and the debris, which the centuries OF
ignorance and injustice have strewn
near the shore; steer for the haven of
human rights, the haven of equal just
ice; steer for the great harbor of the
brotherhood OF man, and glorious will
be your career
Jefferson was denounced as a dema-
gogue while wealth, rapacity and
privilege applauded Hamilton.
Let me say here, that no man, in any
country or any age, ever cspnused the
cause of the toi!er or raised his voice
for the common people without being
denounced as demagogue.
ANDREW JACKSON
| We cannot stop to study the events
of the next quarter of century which
all teach the same lesson; but we will
stop moment before the figure of
Jackson, one of the most heroic OF all
nations The great national bank of
that dug had its branches all over the
land, and practically ruled the country.
The people were at its mercy. It's char
ter was about to expire. and it demand
ed renewal. 1t controlled Congress
just as the money power controls the
legislative bodies of to-day. 1t controll-
ed the Federal courts just as the mon
ey power controls the Federal courts of
to-day. Congress- passed its bill; the
court held it to be constitutional. Mr..
Biddle, the president OF the bank, went
to Jackson, who was then President of
the United States, and demanded his
approval, declaring that the bank could
defeat any man for President.
jackson regarded the bank as me-
mace to the people, and he vetoed the
charter on the ground that it was un-
constitutional He then stood for re
election. The bank charter became the
issue. Congress and the courts were
on the side Of the bank. The politi-
ticians, the newspapers and that horde
of men whom money could reach were
on its side; with few exceptions, the
rich, the powerful, the fashionable
were on its side. Every man not for 1t
was denounced as a demagogue and
unworthy of respect. But the men who
toll with their hands stood by Jackson
and triumphed. IL was the third great
victory for republican institutions, won
by the common people against the