The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-08

French republic and his establishment
Of the second French empire, he SOL
emnly and falsely denied that the re.
stored empire meant war, but eplgram.
matically and vehcmently exclaimed.
"The empire is peaccy'
Colonel Roosevelt Is not only both q
voluminOus writer and vOluble speaker,
but Is also an OmnivOrOus reader.
Whether during any Of his incursiOns
into history and literature he ever read
Louis NapOleOn's famous speech TO the
chamber of commerce of Bordeaux,
Oct. d, 1S52-the speech containing the
imperial maxim just quOted--I do not
know: but, IL he never perused that
remarkable grafton, he, by strange
concatenatiOn of events and mental
processes, performed the most astound-
ing piece Of paralleling both thought
and expression to be found in the an.
mails Of Ora:Ory
In his speech before the National
League OF Republican Clubs Colonel
Roosevelt earnestly enjOins his coun-
trymen to remember that expansion
does not bring war: it ultimately
brings peace"
THE empire Is peace!' asseverates
tie dreaming, scheming, ambitious son
Oh HOrtense. Expansion ultimately
brings peace!' echoes the dreaming,
scheming, ambitious governor-colonel
Of New York.
Two lovely berries, nodded OH one
stem, the stem Of imperialism; twin
statesmen reveling in iridescent
dreams of peace-peace to be obtained
by a Quantum sufficit of throat cut
ting and bloodletting-thc identicG,
sort Of peace which reigned in War
saw OH memorable occasion and
which damned to everlasting fame"
the men who secured Il by sword and
fire.
The Empire In blood.
Now. be 1t remembered that l am not
accusing Colonel Roosevelt Of pla agiar-
izing from Napoleon III. l would not,
even in the estimation of a hair, de.
tract from his just fame, but one of
two things is true-cithcr he had read
Louis NapOleOn's Bordeaux speech and
boldly appropriated or unconsciously
assimilated both his ideas and his Ian
guage or the cxigencies 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
L like epigrams. "The empire is
peace" is a. splendid, sOnorous, striking
sentence. II appeals to the imagina-
tion. 1t sOOthes the troubled spirit, but
IL was lie when uttered by the willy
Frenchman. 1t is lie today, and It
never can be the truth.
The entire history Of Louis Napo-
Icons tawdry. tinsel empire demon
strates the utter falseness and hollow
ness OF his terse epigram, THE empire
Is peace" 1t began in blood; 1t flour
ished In blood; 1t perished 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 Frenchman
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. 1t sent Louis Ma
pOleon himself to die an exile at CHS
elhurst and his son to die in South At
rica. soldier Of fortune, fighting saw
age Zulus under the cross of st. George
In the service of that country which
had Gagged the great Napoleon like
savage bea't 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-
tion precisely where we stood four
years ago. Truth does not change to
falsehoOd in four short years. The
men who wrote the Chicago platform
had the courage of their convictions,
and they have had no reason tn change
their conclusions since.
Consequently mt Kansas City we re-
adopted. not merely reafiirmed, but re-
adopted. the finaucial plank of the
chicago platform IN all its integrity
and oil its force, in spite Of all cajOl-
ings. all threatcnings and all tempta.
tiOns to do otherwise. From the bot
tom of my heart l rejoice that we did
so. for IL we were right then we are
right now.
Individually have no doubt what
ever that. Notwithstanding the recent
unfrlcndly congressional legislation.
not only America. hut the whole world,
VIII soon return to bimctallism under
IN impulse Of self preservation so
strong that it cannot be resisted.
The fact that the per capita volume
OF circulation has increased i'm TIE last
three years grows out of the accident
that the balance of trade has been
Overwhelmingly in our favor, which
happy condition was ana is purely
the result of the failure of crops i'm