The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-19
TO YOUNG MEN.

struction upon the one hand and destruc-
ton upon the other hand. The elements
among the people which are constructive.
the elements that build, plant, plan and
advance. gradually crystalline into one
party; and against that party the elements
that destroy. disintegrate and retreat,
crystalline into another party No matter
what names these parties may bear, TINS
is the nature and purpose or each-con-
struction on the one hand. destruction on
the other hand.
And this is the first natural development
that determines the line of cleavage which
Is separating the American people into two
parties for the present and for the future
The second natural development. per-
maps. grows out of this. When a people
reach its young manhood, as the American
people has reached its young manhood.
they naturally look beyond their boundaries
for opportunities for their energy and en-
terprise. The world becomes their field.
They must look beyond their boundaries,
because they begin TO produce more than
they can consume; because they become
conscious of a developed strength which
the work OF mere internal development
does not satisfy; because. by the very law
of their Icing they are no longer content
to live to themselves alone; because they
hear the voices of the sea calling to them;
because visions of other lands rise before
them; because an expulsive energy sends
them outward to the ends of the earth. 1t
is a law of nature, whose compelling infiu-
ence every nation that has written on his
Tory pages a record or dcnleVement mas
felt and obeyed And in obeying this nat
ural law of national development every
people have achieved their greatest glory
and accomplished their greatest duty in ad-
vancing the common civilization of man.
kind.
But there are and always have been.
and always will be, those who resist obedi-
ence to this great law of national advance.
ana, therefore, of international commu-
nication and civilization. In England there
Is what is called the little Highlander who
has steadily opposed England's policy of CO.
lonial and commercial advance In Germany
there has been and still is the party of
little Germany which resists that great
development of the German people which
mas made Germany's advance all around
the world in the last ten years the won
Ger and envy Of Germany's rivals. In
Russia there has been for two hundred
years the party of little Russia-the party
that has resisted the expansion of the en-
pire of the Car. What party objected to
ally checked for nearly one hun
dred years Russia's expansion over
that great dominion, which all men
of all nations now perceive will soon be
Russla's greatest source Of strength And
just so in America, there has been and will
always be, the party Of the little Amer
lean, who has resisted, now resists, and
always will resist the progress of his coun-
try because he lacks faith in the Amer
lean people, and doubts, after all,/ the
strength of free institutions. And this is
the second natural development that de-
termines the line of cleavage which is sepa-
rating the American people into two parties
Tor the present and for the future.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
And now and for all the future the Re-
publican party is to be the party of con-
struction and advance, and the Democratic
party is to be the party of destruction and
retreat. Now and for all the future the Re-
ma ic 70 ha ho Of I'm
teligent, systematic and definite foreign
policy. instead of a haphazard, retreating
and pointless foreign policy; the party that
at home fosters and directs the energies
that produce and then finds abroad an out
let for those products; the party that sees
in the American flag something more than
an apologize emblem, and that beholds in
that banner the ensign of the people whom
Providence has appointed to lead the world
until our work is done. The Democratic
party Is now, and forever will be- the party
OF reaction against the progressive tend
encies of the Republican party; the party
that resists constructive methods at home
and the party that sounds retreat at every
suggestion of an advancing and definite
American policy abroad.
And, therefore, the question for the
young men who in this campaign
are going to enlist in one or those two great
political parties Is, Where can they find
helpful and most hopeful comrades? In
the ranks of which party can they, during
the period Of their active manhood. best
advance the power and authority of the
American people? In the ranks of which
party can they help to carry the American
flag farther and still farther UP the heights
of glory? Our Nation is young Our country
is young Our flag is young Our destiny
is the destiny of the youth among nations
The question for the young men of this Re
public to decide is whether they will enlist
with the Republican party. which is har-
monious with all those natural elements of
youth, of progress and Of power and whose
foreign policy is the policy of American adj
vance, or with the Democratic party. which
ment of our civilization and whose foreign
policy is the policy of American retreat
For these are the laws of the very be-
ing of the Republican and the Democratic
parties. These are the laws which apply
to and explain the attitude of each party
on every issue in this campaign, and which
will apply TO and explain the attitude of
each party In every campaign for all the
future. Let us take the issue of money as
an illustration. 1t was not long ago that
both parties were affected by fiatism But
the Republican party progressed The
Democratic party remained stationary. The
Republican party perceived that constant
ly and steadily this Nations business was
increasing, and that, therefore, it ought to
have money of the highest standard value
known to commerce. and so we finally de-
CldTeu SOlu- Inc DemOcrdUc party
stood by the fiat idea, and declared that
so cents worth of silver could be made
dollar by stamping IL as such. The Re-
publican party perceived that where bust
ness transactions and amounts of exchange
are large, denomina tons of money should
be large; and that the small exchanges in
daily business should be discharged by the
smaller denominations Of money And so
the Republican party applied the philoso-
ply of subsidiary money to silver, giving to
that metal its just and natural place, and
thus increasing the use of each The
Democratic party resisted this doctrine of
financial advance, adopted by every other
progressive nation of the world The Re-
publican party discovered that when the
farmer has his crops to market a larger
supply of money Is needed in every agri-
cultural district of the country; and when
these exigencies of business, caused by the
very nature of production and exchange
have ceased this volume of money is no
longer needed. and as an excess of circula-
ton unused Is always source of financial
weakness that any unnatural congestion of
the circulation ought to be relieved And
the Republican party has attempted TO
provide. and has largely provided. for this
immediate and particular need of business
by constructive legislation. The Demo-
cratic party did not even suggest a rem
edy for either, but merely opposed the
proposition advanced by the Republicans
And to-day there is not a constructive pro-
gramme of finance in the entire Democratic
creed. In finance the Democratic pro-
gramme is g programme of destruction.
and its leader is the greatest iconoclast
America has yet produced.
TRUSTS AND POLITICAL PARTIES.
'Just as larger denomina tons of money
are required to discharge the larger bal