The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-14

w had the country to save first But
that the rebellion Is overthrow
and we know pretty nearly the amount
Of our national debt. the more Soio anu
rivsr we mine. we make The payment
of that debt so much the easier. Now
said he. speaking with more emphasis
7 am going to encourage thal III eN1
-I1be wav we shall nave hundreds
~ thousands Of disbalded soldiers, anu
,nanv have feared that their return Hoihe
!, crch great numbers might paraisZe
;,5,s-rv nv furnishing suddenly q greater
sunnIv OF labor than there woulu DC ue.
rand for. / am going % tFs 70
them TO the hidden wealth OF our Houl
tain range where there IS room eno"s"
for all. immigration, when even ~
b9e nor stopped. will land upon our
shores hundreds Of thousands more pea
,aor from o~vercrowded Europe. | IN
800 - noint them to the sold and silver
tba+ u-,it for them in the West. Tell the
r,f,ars for me that I shall promote their
interests 10 the utmost Of my AFFINITY
because their prosperity is the prosperity
90 the nation, and, said he, his eye
l.indljng with enthusiasm, we snail
nroye in a very few years that we are
indeed the treasury Of the world.
The Republicans are now e~nde3Ycrlns
IL lessen the volume OF money aVailaDle
for the payment of debt by limiting the
M to gold alone.
On the Philippine question the posi-
ticn Of the Republican party IS dlamet-
ricaIly opposed to the position taken ny
it in its earlier days. The republican
platform of 1850 copied from the Decla-
ration Of independence its four gfeae
PRINCIPLES. namely: that all men are
created equal: that they are endowed
with inalienable rights; that govern
ments are instituted among men to Sc
cure these rights. and that governments
derive their just powers from the con
sent Of some Of the governed. Lincoln $
eulogy CT the Declaration CT lndepen-
dence. delivered in 1858, when he de-
clared that it was erected by the fore
fathers "as a beacon to guide their emil
dren and their children's children and
the countless myratds who should inhabit
the earth in ether ages" contrasts
strangely with the language of present
dav Republicans, who declare that our
nation is too big to be bound by the
limitations imposed by the doctrine of
self-gCyernment.
One Of the main arguments advanced
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the Philippine Islands is that we GIVE it
to the Filipinos to take them under our
| protecting wings, tax them without rep
resentation and govern them without
their consent, on the theory that they
| are not capable of self-gOvernment.
In one Of his speeches just prior to the
war Lincoln said: These arguments
| that are made, that the inferior races
are to be treated with as much allow
| ance as they are capable of enjoying;
| that as much is to be done for them as
| their condition will allow-what are
these arguments?- They are the argu-
! ments that kings have made for enslav-
ing the people in all ages Of the world.
You will find that all the arguments
in favor Of king-craft were Of this class;
they always bestrode the necks of the
pecple-not that they wanted to do it,
but because the people were better off
for being ridden"
The Republicans who contend now that
any criticicm Of the administration pol
icy is unpatriotic and calculated to help
the Filipinos have either forgotten, or
never read, the speech made by Lin
coin in the denunc:ation OF President
Polk in the midst Of the Mexican war.
Those Republicans who would crush
I'M Golii-ltlCiIO vi liz L IL SNlI
government should read Lincoln's speech
of 1858, in which he said:
what constitutes the bulwarks of our
liberty and independence? 1t is not our
frowning b~attlements, our bristling sea
coasts, our army and our navy. These
arc not our reliance against tyranny. All
OF these may be turned against US with
out making us weaker for the struggle.
Our reliance is III the spirit of liberty
which GCd has planted in us. Our de-
fence is in the spirit which prizes liberty
as the heritage of all men in all lands
Everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and
you have planted the seeds of deSpotiSm
at your own doors"
Thirty-five years ago the Republicans
declared that no white man could own
a black man under the American flag;
now some CT the Republicans assert tina
this nation can rigntfully purchase
brown people from an alien monarch al
two dollars apiece, and then put then
to death if they object to the bargain.
The Republican party was largely in
~sirumental in securing a constitutional
amendment which prohibits slavery il
the United States, the adnriniStratioI
hss made a treaty which recognizes sIav-
cry in the Sulu Archipelago, and pro
vides lin Article X that ANY slave il
the archipelago Of Sulu shall nave thu
right TO purchase freedom by paying t
the master the usual market price
Presto, change. But will all the Repub.
licans change with the party?
W. ]. BRYAN.