The age-herald., 1899-07-06
WlLLETT BEFORE
 TAMMANY HALL
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only to read the history of nations which have drifted to learn what became of that nation after individual manhood had been destroyed. Where shall we look for re- lief? To which party shall we turn? Sure ly not to the republican. for it is the author of our woes. Certainly no relief can be expected from that party, which not only passed the laws under which these trusts became possible, but derives it's campaign contributions from the trusts themselves, ana selects vice president and attorney general who are the friends and compan- ions of trusts from the state wherein they are all created That party is irrevocabiy- on record ins favor of trusts. The Congress sional Record of March % and 31, 1897, tells the whole story. It was then that MI. Dockery, of Missouri, offered a proviso in the first section of the Dingey bill to the effect that should the secretary of the treasury be satisfied article was manu- factured or controlled by trust, the duty on such article should cease, until in the opinion Of the secretary of the treasury such control by such trust had ceased. How was this received? Lost-one hundred and four yeas; one hundred and fifty-four nays. A strict party vote; the democrats voting for the proviso and the republicans against it. What a hollow mockery it would be under these circumstances to ap- peal 10 the republican party for relief against tariffs and trusts. It would be like sending the accomplice to catch the crim- inal. There Is a party however which is as old as the government itself, and which has always been nearer the hearts of the people than any other, and 1t is competent to deal with this question In just and equitable manner with a due regard to the welfare of the citizen and the capital in- vested in the companies. It is the demo- cratic party, and it is to it we must turn for relief Its record on this question is clear and splendid, and it is entitled to and will receive the confidence of the voters on this great and absorbing question.
 Industrial and Colonial Imperialism
 Fellow citizens there are other ques- tions which will engage our attention, and one is the right to raise large armies to subdue colonies, govern them without their consent, and inject our civilization and christianity into the natives by ball and bayonet. If we must do these things, let us at least not be hypocrites and not pro- fane our holy religion by protesting to do these things in its name. It will not do for us to inveigh against trusts, which is nothing but industrial imperialism, and not condemn colonial imperialism. They are both founded upon the same principle which democrats must ever condemn, that is, the right of the strong to crush the weak. While we all take just pride in the strength of government and it's feats of arms by land and sea- we must remem- Der, Q, it is excellent to have a giants strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like @ giant
 We are approaching the great battle of 1900 with stout hearts, with unanimity of purpose and a conscious rectitude of our cause. Since the last presidential election we have passed through a glorious and suc- cessful war, in which democrats shared the honors equally with the others, but not the scandals. Thank heaven that while we furnished our full quota of men and heroes, we are guiltless of the death of those thousands of brave boys who miserably perished through the incompetency of those in authority. In this war all sectional lines were completely obliterated. We now have no north and no south-no east and no west-one common country, which is the pride of all. We belong to party as broad and catholic as our country itself. It was present at its birth, it shaped it's young manhood, which enabled it to take it's prop CT place in the family of nations, and 1t Is the conservative party of today. It still loves the constitution and revers the names of the fathers. It believes the Declaration of Independence is more than a curious parchment, and the brotherhood of man more than a pleasing fiction. It believes that corporate wealth is no substitute for individual manhood, and that God never gave the few the divine right to tax the many Believing and advocating these things as we earnestly do, when they shall be directly presented to the American peo- pie, as they will be next year in all their nakedness, it would be to lose faith in our fellow men and in our capacity for self government to doubt the result but if this intolerable state of affairs is to continue, wherein guiltless human poverty, suffering and sorrow is but the jest of the rich and powerful,
 "O masters lords and rulers in all lands, How will the future reckon with this man! How answer his brute question in that hour