Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-12
THERE IS BUT ONE favorable SIGN or REDEMPTION
The Porty is Faced Toward the Sun Of the People $
DelNerOnce. WOE Unto Him Who TrfIes
with the National Platform"

geld OF Illinois was the principal
speaker at the Jackson day banquet
given by the Jackson Club tonight,
The grand old man, who, by consent
Ing to run for mayor of Chicago on the
municipal ownership platform, has
torn the mask OF treason from those
who would betray the living Issues for
which the allied forces stand was at
his best and said In part.
Tho Republic Threatened.
This club has won fame through It's
struggle for higher politics-for higher
standards OF Justice, and for moro hon
est economic and financial policies. But
great as are your achievements, much
ag you have accomplished, your work
has barely begun. This Republic has been
tho beacon light OF the world for more
than n century. II has not only lifted
the hopes OF all men, but by Its example
II has turned the face OF nearly all ma
tlons toward liberty, Since the iirst read
Ing OF the Declaration OF Independence
over two hundred and flfty constitutions
that were Republican In form have been
adopted. Most OF them pershed, but they
will rise again. Now the founda tlons are
being pulled from under our own instltu-
tlonB The very affairs OF liberty arc
being betrayed by the men set to guard
them. Two years ago, when we turned
the face OF our party toward the sun, We
protested against economic policies that
robbed. against financial policies that
paralyzed, and against judicial usurpa-
tlon that enslaved. Every days develop
ment since that time has shown not only
that we were right but that the situation
was far more serious than we supposed
Look About You, American CitiEonM
Look about youl Nearly all OF the
wealth Of this land is passing into few
hands, and not one OF these hands favor
able to the freedom OF the citizen. Every
great Industrial, commercial, mining or
transportation enterprise Is passing Into
the hands first OF corporations, and then
by further consolidation into the hands
OF trusts which thus have an absolute
monopoly-a monopoly which can, arbI-
trarlly, fix prices fix wages and regulate
output-a monopoly which has no soul
and whose chief purpose Is TO plunder
the public. The monopolist and the spec
ulator prosper, but the masses wlther.
Men of moderate fortunes and OF fair
incomes, who were the bulwark Of the |
Republic, are slowly but surely being |
wiped out We are being reduced to two |
classes In tho first stage these Will be
known as the very rich and the moder-
ately poor, and In the second stage as
tho masters and the slaves, We have |
established monled arlstocracy and are |
now fastening q yoke on posterlty, A
standing army s TO be enthroned and |
bayonot argument is to govern.
Wealth the Enemy OF Liberty.
Republican institutions cannot live amid |
these conditions. Wealth has never been
tho friend OF liberty Concurrently with |
the progress OF these changes we hear
the snarling voices OF men who derlde
the doctrines OF Jefferson and Lincoln
that made our country great and mighty,
Already we see magazine articles urging
tho establishment by law OF permanent
arlstocracy In our system Of government,
and from high quarters we hear de-
mand for Hamltonsm. Hamilton be-
leved In monarchy and arlstocracy bot
toned on corruption. He was In love
with the English system as 1t existed In
tho last century, thoroughly rotten from
top TO bottom and he labored to trans
plant whatever he could Of that system.
He once said TO John Adams; purge
the British Constitution of Its corruption
and give to It's popular branch equality
Of representation and II would become an
impracticable government. But as II
stands at present, It is the most perfect
government that ever existed" He did
not, advance q single new thought, did
not promulgate a single new prlncIple;
and he sneered at the idea that the people
were capable OF self-government.
Hamilton Was Against Our Consultation.
England herself has since that time re-
pudiated corruption and established
equality OF representation. Hamilton
favored the adoption of the now Consti-
tuition, but was not satisfied with Il. and
openly expressed the hope that some fu-
ture war would centralze the powers OF
the government. When he was made
Secretary Of the Treasury the new Con-
stitution had been adopted, Congress had
been given power to raise money, every
body could see that the Republic could
now easily pay its debts, and that II was
not necessary to introduce corruption of
any sort. But true to his theory, he at
once secured the establishment OF ma
tlonal bank and introduced the British
funding and bond-issulng system, coupled
with Its limltless opportunities for plum
der. A short period of unparalleled spec
ulation and population followed. The
sharks and financial birds OF prey made
fortunes and Hamilton became the hero
OF the hour, The whole system collapsed
IN few years and scattered ruin and
misery over the country, Yet for whole
century the men who use the goyern-
ment to plunder the country have shout
ed for Hamilton. Whether Hamilton
himself shared In the plunder is imma-
terlal. He expressed his belief in the
system, and deliberately furnished the
opportunity to others. During the ad-
ministratlon OF Mr.. Adams Hamlltonlsm
ran Wild Almost every principle of
the Declaration OF Independence was
trampled under foot, and those provisions
OF the new Constitution that were in
tended to protect the Individual were
ruthlessly brushed aside. No man dared
to criticlse the administration. Scores OF
good men were denied trial by Jury and
languished In prison for exercising the
right OF free speech. A tyranny was es-
tabllshed that surpassed anything exist
ing In England. Four years OF this re-
gime was all the American people could
then stand; they declared that they had
not cast off foreign yoke to take up a
more CALLING home yoke, and In 1900 they
arose and overthrew II so completely that
II has taken nearly century for resur-
rectlon. n.rtaa
Death Of HamiltonlaIn.
Had HamIltonism prevailed at that time /
the whole history OF the Republic would r
have been different; the brains the in
dustry. the skill and the enterprise OF /
the earth would not have focked to our
phoreD. The genius Of Suan being cowed [
u IT,. .. !