The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-10
AMERICA In DANGER.
GROWTH OF IMPERIALISM A MEN,
ACE TO THE GREATEST Gov
ERNMENT ON EARTH
SENATOR CAFFERYs APPEAL
Statesman Urges WipinE
Out of the Policy of Expansion
and Return to the Principles of a.
Government With the Consent of
the Governed - Massachusetts
Reform Club Banquet.

BOSTON, March 9.-The members
of the Massachusetts Reform club had
as their guest at the regular monthly
banquet tonight Donelson Caffery,
senator from louisiana Morrison
Stokes presided. The sentiments Of
Senator Caffery were loudly applaud
ed. He said:
Duty ana truth are synonymous in the
sense that Shakespeare uses them. Every
man erects an ideal standard to be his guide
in the affairs of this world. When he is
true to that standard he is true to himself.
If he is true to himself, true to the standard
OF duty, he cannot be false to a private
trust or to public obligation.
Our simpleminded ancestors left the shores
OF the old world with the set purpose of living
in new world Of freedom. They builded, in
the course OF time, a government whose
corner stone rests upon ''the consent of the
governed" They have into every state gov
ernment erected beneath the folds Of their
starry banner incorporated this living princi-
pie OF self-government. They have widened
their borders SO as to embrace vast extent
OF practically co-terminous territory. and
erected 1t into sovereign states where this
self-governing principle is recognized and en-
forced.
Not until the fires Of liberty cease to burn:
not until our race forgets its inheritance of
freedom; not until that eternal vigilance
which is its price sleeps on its post" be-
drugged with Imperialism and expansion and
all the parasites and crawling things of
tyranny and empire, will this energizing
thing, essential, vital principle leave our
breasts and cease to be a governing princi-
pie OF the republic. When that time comes.
let the destiny that overtakes the degener
1nyip0
Mammon, the followers of Moloch, overtake
us, as surely 1t will overtake u.s. The prin-
clple OF self-government is our coliseum
while 1t stands our republic shall stand when
II falls liberty shall perish from the earth
DANGERS OF FATAL1sM.
1t Is left in the closing hours of the nine
teenth century to clothe TYRANNY and Grim.
fnal aggression in the cast-off clothes Of
Asiatic and Egyptian fatalism Are we to
take for the guide of our national life the
enlightened factor Of a living human con-
science, or the dark counsel of dead fatal
lsmI Shall nature and free will both be bound
IN the chains Of "destiny?" All sir. the star
OF empire has lured conquerors and states
to ruin.
1t Is not too late to repair the wrong of
the treaty of Paris. The better sense of the
American people, not the promoters. the toh-
ners' the franchise hunters, the place men.
the searchers after glory, may come to the
rescue of our imperilled institutions. God
grant they may come soon.
The duty of the legislator to his state and
to his country consists. first, in suuarine
every act and vote with the constitutes,
which he is sworn to support Second. In per.
forming every act and giving every vote in
all constitutional legislation, under the sane
ton and approval Of an honest conviction of
right. Neither fattery nor threats, nor GEN.
sure, must sway him from the right HI.