The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-14
lEMoCRAcY'S SWELL DINNER.
Continued from First Page.

No reason for existence if it does
o+ always and unitedly strive for sucn
0nalitv of which the essence is freedom
rom restraints and burdens unequal be-
eause not imposed on every one under
Ike conditions That Democratic rule,
l fsariessly applied in each state, may solve
me present problem of trusts and spolia-
ion by unjustiied taxation.
Doctrine of Jefferson.
I'VE all agree that the Democratic party
sbou,d have for its cornerstone the doc
trines indicated by Jefferson. One was
The supremacy of the civil over the mill
,srv authority but that does not require
, national Democratic convention TO pre-
-orfbe to Congress the size of a standing
army. Another was honest friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances with
nome but that would not justify a ma
Sonal Democratic convention in debating
IA a Democratic President the details of
his diplomacy to preserve such friendship
and avoid such alliances. A third was
honest payment of our debts sacred
preservation Of the public faith, encour-
agement of agriculture and commerce.
but that does not compel a Democratic
national convention to endeavor to prevent
Democrats in any congressional district
from expressing their preference regard
ing the details which will best enforce the
doctrine.
There was a glory reserved for him
which no other President has had For
more than thirty years the executive de-
partment at Washington was, with the ex-
ception of four years under John Quincy
Adams, held by the Democratic followers
Of jefferson
1T will be said that Jefferson was a man
of peace. So was the Democracy he found
1 ed a party of peace, excepting when war
becomes necessary, as it did year ago.
Then Democrats in Congress and in the
field upheld the flag of our country with
their votes and with their lives Peace,
small expenditures and low taxation
were no doubt a passion with Jeffer-
son, but his diplomatic notes as Secre-
tary OF State, displaying the sword as
4 reluctant agent of peace, are a proud pos
session of his country because they brought
out OF darkness the rainbow of hope. The
hope of our country to-day is in the parry
whose fundamental principles were estab-
lshed under the wise and conservative
guidance of Jefferson"
Mr.. Van Wyck's Speech.
Mr.. Belmont introduced Augustus Van
Wyck by referring to the latters canvass
for Governor. He said Justice Van Wyck
had conducted a campaign with honor 70
himself and credit to the democracy
Justice Van Wyck was received with
great applause. He saidy
The toast to which you do me the honor
of inviting me to speak, must be carefully
circumscribed, since the directions in
which it points are innumerable. Your
patience and my voice would both alike
give out long before the task was finished
If l should venture to discuss with any
thing like adequacy even a very few of
the more important branches of American
commerce. 1t has come to pass as you
know, that our country is now the great
est center of industry and the chief produc-
er of exports on the globe. The evidences
of our skill and enterprise are TO be found
on every sea and in the remotest hamets
of every civilized and half-civilized land
Our steel rails for instance, are being laid
in British India, and our locomotives are
in demand In Europe, Asia and South
America; more than tWo-thirds of the old
world is clothed with our cotton, and were
1t not for the abundance of our soil COM
bned with the -well-applied labor of our
husoandmen, the inhabitants of several of
the chief nations would suffer for the
lack of food In the villages of Arabia
the American lamp filled with American
oil may be said to typify the mental light
which, we trust, Is destined to reach
those remote hooks from our centers of
CHRISTIAN culture; our reaping machines
are finding increasing favor among the
farmers of Russia; the electric light as de-
Veloped by Edison, sheds a cheerful radi-
ance over Cairo and Jerusalem; France
mas become considerable purchaser of
american wines; and the. people of the
biush Isles are reading newspapers
N printed by presses of American invention
on American paper and walk about their
aally business in American shoes. Japan
IS buying American built ships of war;
emma Is coming to terms with our men of
enterprise for the opening up of some of
ner 100 long dormant sources of wealth
ana In Australasia We find a still improy-
ing market for all sorts of Yankee notions
Commerce and Competition.
n commerce, one of the civilizers of the
world, is necessary element in the pres
efVauon of the prosperity and the happi-
ness or our country. 1t must be fostered
Hrst by the freest competition between our
own people IN all home enterprises secur-
HS Ior them untrammeled business inter-
course and enlarged opportunities for in
uNluuai advancement, and second, by the
Ireest competition between the internal
Hdght lines from and to the seaboard
securing the lowest pracAcal freight rates
n W me ocean for all kinds of products
venture to affirm, however, that some
N thhg remains to be desired in these two
N particulars. I mean in respect to lust
II Jaws and the spur to free competition The
II avs are not just which burden the many
n 10 the end that favorites may grow fat,
M as IN the case under our so-called pro-
n tectVe tariff; and when monopolies are
NJ suffered to lay their hands on the throat
n u individual enterprise the spur of free
competition is blunted if not DESTROYED.
N we nave seen in these more recent days
n a disposition evinced in certain quarters
II 10 dlsmiss the Declaration of Independ-
n ehce as no longer applicable in it's leading
NJ Wlhclple TO the conditions of modern So
n Uety. In putting themselves in this atti-
NJ 'lqe toward the basic doctrines of the re-
II puohc' the supporters of a tariff for the
N I'LL chment of the few and trust for the
NJ hAhhg of equal opportunity are not open
III 70 charge of inconsistency. 1t is the
N ,ouest Inockery of reason 10 profess in one
III l4lH devotion to the doctrine of
se equality of all men be-
to'e the law of the land and in the next
Nh ~ 'pplaud tariff system which squeezes
Nj e aq niood out of the average man for the
III reS'enhg Of select individuals who have
"a Mastered the OF win oil faIa