Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-20


on his will alone for the tenure of their
Offices and the amount and payment of
their salaries, and yet he proposes to
make judges for 1000, 900 people de-
pendent on the will of the president
only for their tenure of office and on
the will of congress alone for the amount
and payment of their salaries.
Further, they said that King George
had kept among us in times of peace
standing armies, and 'quartered large
bodies of armed troops among us with
out the consent of our legislatures.
suppose somewhere in this capitol men
are at work today in devising ways
and means for permanent standing
army to be kept in these islands east
and west without the consent of any
body there.
"They said King George had COM
bined with others to subject us to iuris-
dietti6ii foreign to our constitution and
not acknowledge by our laws, giving
his assent to their acts of pretended leg
islation for quartering large bodies Of
armed troops among us, for imposing
taxes on us without our consent, for de-
priving us in many cases of the benefits
of trial by jury, for altering funda-
mentally the forms of our government,
for declaring themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.
1.-THE Declaration of Independence de-
clares that whenever any form of gov
eminent becomes destructive of the
ends therein stated it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it and to in
stitute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles and or
ganizing its powers in such form as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. But the SEN
ator from Connecticut thinks we have
the constitutional right ourselves to in
stitute new government for that peo-
pie, laying its foundation on such prin-
ciples and organizing its powers in such
form as shall seem to us most likely to
effect our safety and happiness without
giving them the slightest voice in the
matter.
"And, further, the senator must
think, although he does not say so-I
suppose he expects to vote so-that we
have the right to turn our cannon,
bayonets and ships of war and armies
upon that people if they attempt to ex-
ercise this right and prevent them from
doing it.
"Now, Mr. President, our friends tell
us that all this is emotion and rhetoric
and sentiment. They tell us that it Goes
not belong to the domain of practical
craftsmanship or the conduct of the af-
fairs of life, that these are the things
we think when we talk, and that we
are thinking of quite other things when
we act and vote. Well, the doctrines
stand upon are the doctrines of the
most practical statesmen of the most
practical generation that ever lived on
the face of the earth. These sentiments,
wrapped in a few sentences, not equal
ing in compass the Ten Commandments
or TIE Lord S Prayer, simplifying only a
little the golden rule itself, have turn
ed out to be a practical force in this
world of ours. The Puritans took them
for their rule, and in one brief, crowded
century they made England, which had
been trembling before Spain, whose
knees had smote together before Hol-
land whose monarch had been the pen
sloner, and whose treasury had been the
tributary of France, the greatest power
the world had ever seen. 1t is these that
make world powers.
''Our fathers shod their feet with
them as with sandals. Borne up by
them, they crossed the Atlantic, and
with their invincible might builded on
its sure foundations this temple that
covers the continent and whose portals
are upon both the seas. Is there any
practical craftsmanship, is there any
cunning of the politician, is there any
struggling for power, is there any seek
ing for office is there any party disci-
pline which has ever wrought in all his
tory such things as these half dozen lit
tie sentences have wrought? Are there
any statesmen in American history,
among the living or among the dead,
! whom the people love and honor as they
do the men who planted their feet on
these truths and who bore witness to
them in life and in death?
Danger For Labor.
"The one great lesson which sums up
the teachings Of American history dur
ing our century of constitutional life is
the dignity of labor. 1t is an unques-
tionable truth that no tropical colony
was ever settled by men not born in
tropical climes for the purpose of find
ing work There was scarcely ever
tropical colony successful at all. There
was never a tropical colony successful
aycaDt nndpr cnp tract labor
"Our fathers taught us the priceless
value of national credit and to keep
free from the burden of national debt.
We have thought until lately that our
strength came in large part from our
unsullied and unequaled public credit
If we were compelled in self defense to
enter into contest with the strongest
or richest power on earth, our credit
would remain unimpaired until our
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