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


tional expenditure much larger than
+ the amount l have named. Our civil
list, already so enormous, must be
enormously increased. Instead of TAX
ing from the people by fair competition,
or even by fair selection, men to take
their share in self government, we must
have in the future, as they have in
England, a trained class whose lives
are to be spent not in self government,
but in the government Of other men.
cat the close of the nineteenth cen
fury the American republic, after it's
example in abolishing slavery has
spread th-c-gh the world, is asked by
the senator from Connecticut to adopt
doctrine of constitutional expansion
on the principle that it is right to con-
quer, buy and subject whole nation
If we happen to deem it for their good
for their good as We conceive it, and
not as they conceive it. Mr.. President,
Abraham Lincoln said, No man was
ever created good enough to own ali
other No nation was ever created good
enough to own another.
''No single American workman no
! uuuiDlc AultIlCtu uOlne Will ever De
better or happier for the constitutional
doctrine which the senator from Con-
necticut proclaims If it be adopted
here, not only the workman wages
will be diminished, not only will the
burden of taxation be increased. not
only, like the peasant of Europe viii
he be born with Il heavy debt about his
neck and VIII staS,gor with an armed
soldier upon his back. but his dignity
will be dishoncrcd and hislrarhood dis
crowned By hi5 UH'a government.
{ Cubn ns Precedent.
1.-THE senator from Connecticut him
self acted on a different doctrine within
six months. He resolved. That the pao-
pie of Cuba are and of right ought to
be free and independent. l am sure he
is now incapable of resorting to the poor
, subterfuge that the right to be free and
independent belongs to them by reason
of any special conditions, because they
are white men, or because they are
! Americans, or because they are Chris
tians, and docs not appertGin to every
people the world over. The senator and
people who think with him committed
themselves to this doctrine as the right
of other people not only to freedom, but
to independence, and they went to war
for it. VIII they attack it now?
Il do not agree, Mr.. President, that
the lesson of our first 100 years is that
the Declaration of Independence and the
constitution are failure, and that
America is to begin the twentieth CEN
fury where Spain began the sixteenth
THE Monroe doctrine is gone. Every
European nation, every European ALI
ance, has the right to acquire dominion
in this hemisphere when we acquire it
in the other. The senator doctrine, put
anywhere in | ractice, will make of our
beloved country cheap jack country.
raking after the cart for the leavings
of European tyranny.
''It may be that in some storm and
tempest of popular delusion cloud may
for the moment cover the great truths
of our Declaration. | have within the
compass of my own life encountered
such storm and tempest more than
once. In 1880, after the passage of the
compromise measure the great contest
for the freedom of the vast territory be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific
seemed hopelessly lost. Senate and peo-
pie, courts and state legislatures seemed
all bowling in assent to the overthrow of
the great principles of the Declaration
But after a few short years the cload
and storm passed by, and the eternal
constellation shone out. unmoved and
mistaken, in its glory in the sky.
Il remember when the great political
party swept over the north, electiug in
my own state every member of the log
islature but two, every member of con
gress, every member of the state gov
eminent, based on the doctrine of deny
ing the application of these truths TO
citizens of foreign birth But again the
delusion passed by. and the eternal
truths shone out | have seen like move
ments Of popular error and delusion in
more recent years. So far God has given
me strength to withstand them in NY
humble fashion. But they We're over
thrown and brought to naught, not by
any human strength, but because the
eternal providence of God is on the side
of freedom.
Cur fathers dreaded q standing
army, but the senator's doctrine, put in
practice anywhere, now or hereafter,
renders necessary standing army, to
be re enforced by powerful navy. Our
fathers denounced the subsection of any
people whose judges were appointed or
whose salaries We're paid by foreign
power, but the senator's doctrine re-
quires us to send to foreign people
judges not of their own selection. APP
pointed and paid by us. The senator
doctrine, whenever it shall be put in
practice. will entail upon us a national
debt larger than any now existing on
the face Of the earth, larger than any
ever known in history.
"Our fathers respected above all the
dignity of labor and rights of human
nature The one thing created by God