The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-07

When "the Imperial nephew Of bis
uncle' or Napoleon the Littleu 90
'ictof hugo contemptuouslv duhhod
Uni was en~deavoring to justify his
Dsu"Sal and murder of the second
niehch republic and his establishments
u 'ic second French empire. he sol
ehihiy ana falsely denied that the re.
stored empire meant war, but epicram-
inatlcally ard vehemcntly exclaimed.
me empire is peace,.'
SoioHeI Roosevelt is not only both a
,oiuiaihous Writer and voluble speaker,
put IS also an omnivorous reader.
Nhcller curing any Of his incursiOns
INTO history n literature he ever read
LOUIS NapOlcon's famous speech to tie
Of commerce Of bordeaux.
oct. >, lSo2-the speech containing the
imperial maxim just quoted-I do not
Know; but, if he never perIlsed that
remarkable Grafton, he, by a strange
concentration of events ana mental
processes, performed the most astound-
ing piece of paralleling both thought
and expression to be found in the an
nails Of oratory.
In his speech before the National
League Of Republican Clubs Colonel
Roosevelt earnestly cnjoins his coun-
trymoa to 'reulembor that expansion
Toes not bring war; it ultimately
brings peace"
The empire is peace.' ~asseverates
the dreaming, scheming. ambitious son
of lortense. "EXpansion ultimately
brings peace echoes the dreaming.
scheming, ambitious governorcolonel
of New York.
Two lovely berries. nodded on ore
stem, the stem Of imperialism; twin
statesmen rovcIing in iridescent
dreams of peace-peacc to be obtained
by a quantIm sutIicit of throat cut
ting and bloodletting-the identical
sort Of peace which reigned in War
saw on a memorable occasion and
which damned to everlasting fame
the men who secured it by sword and
fire.
The Empire Is Blood.
Now, be it remembered that [ am not
accusing Colonel Roosevelt Of plagiar-
iZing from Napoleon III. l would not,
e in the estimation of a hair, de-
tract from his just fame, but one Of
two things is true-either he had read
Louis NaDOieOn'S Bordeaux speech and
boldly appropriated or unconsciously
assimilated both his ideas and his Ian
gUagc or the CXiGcncies OF the case
compelled Colonel Roosevelt to use the
same argument in favor Of his i'm
perialism as the French emperor used
in defense of his Imperialism.
| like epigrams. THE empire is
peace" is Il splendid. sonorous, striking
sentence. 1t appeals to the imagina-
ton, it soothes the troubled spirit, but
it was a lie when uttered by the willy
Frenclman. 1t is q lie today, and it
never can be the truth.
The entire history of Louis Napo-
Icons tawdry, tinsel empire demon
stTates the utter falseness and hollow
ness Of his torse opiGram, .The empire
is peace" It began in blood; it flour
ished in blood: it persisted in blood
The coup d'ctat. which gave it birth
was one Of the bloodiest and most mon
strous crimes recorded in the files OF
time and brought death, imprisonment
and exile TO nearly every FrenchmaI
of that generation at all worthy of re
membrance.
Instead of bringing peace to France
the empire brought the unprecedented
humiliation of Metz and the awful ca
tastrophe Of Sedan. It sent Louis Ma
poleon himself to die an exile at CHS
elhurst and his son to die in South Af
RIGA, a soldier Of fortune, fighting say
age Zulus under the cross Of st. George
in the service of that country which
had Gagged the great Napoleon like 6
savage beast upon the sullen rock OF
st. Helena.
That's the sort Of peace which Louis
Napoleon's empire brought to France.
The Money Question.
We stand today on the money ques
ton precisely where we stood -four
years ago. Truth does not change t.
falsehood in four short years. The
men who wrote the Chicago platform
had the courage Of their convictions
and they have had no reason to change
, their conclusions since.
Consequently at Kansas City we re
adopted, not merely reattirmed, but re
adopted, the financial plank of tn
Chicago platform in ali its integrit,
and all its force, in spite of all caJol
incs, all t~Eroatenings and all tempta
lions to do otherwise. From Il bot
tom Of my heart l rejoice that we dix
so. for if we were right then we ar
right now.
individually l AVE no doubt what
ever that. Notwithstanding the recon
unfricrdIy congressional legislation
not only America, but the whole world
will soon return TO bimetallism unde
an impulse of self preservation 81
strong that it cannot be resisted.
The fact that the per capita Volum'
of circulation has increased III the las
three years grows II Of the acclden
that the balance of trade has beel
overwhelmingly i'll our favor, Whlcl
hapDy condition was ana IS purel.
the result of the failure OF crops II
India and OF the abundance here.
Under normal conditions, good crop
in the old world and good crops q