The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-15

all of our institutions have been supported
and kept up to the highest standard of
efficiency and usefulness. Our university,
| sanftarium institutions for the deaf ana
dumb and the blind. have been well sup
ported while our common schools have
continued to improve, the standard of pro-
| fesSional excellence among our teachers
has been elevated and they have been
paid as well and as promptly as at any
time in the past, and the high credit of
the state has been maintained in man>
ner most gratifying to every patriotic
Georgian
All these results have been attained
without a resort TO even temporary loans,
save in one instance, when 70 pay the
teachers in our common schools hundred
| thousand dollars was borrowed for three
months. This loan was effected at the low
est rate of interest at which any state or
oven the United States has ever been able
to borrow money.
The white people of the state are again
practically united under the banner of
| Democracy. Most of our brethren who
were driven a few years ago into sepa-
rate party organization by the stress of
| hard times brought about largely by vi
cious Federal legislation, have become
| convinced that there is no room in this
country for third party, are back in the
| fold and are as true and loyal to the
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who have never faltered in our allegiance.
All classes of our people are more pros
porous and contented than for several
years past That lawlessness and crime
which for a time disturbed the peace and
quiet of the people and brought reproach
upon our state. has largely disappeared,
and, all in all, Georgia is more prosper
Gus and her people, white and black, are
more contented than those of any other
Southern state. These results are to be
attributed largely TO the uubroken rule
Tor tWenty-seven years of an honest, just
and ever-faithful Democracy
But our work is not done and will not
he done when tie state election is over
Our Democratic brethren in other states
and in the Union need all the support
moral and physical, that We can give
them. The work before the National Dem
octacy is herculean and urgent The ma
tlonal eli ction which confronts us is the
most important without any exception in
the history of the republic. The contest
Will not be for party supremacy nor the
spells of office. nor will it involve merely
questions of legislative policy, not alone
the question of single or double stand
ard of values, nor the question of a high
or low tariff. These questions ordinarily
of paramount importance, pale into utter
| lnslgnincance at such a crisis. The ques-
! ton that confronts US is whether this
| shall continue TO be a republic or be
! changed into an empire. l am no alarm
! ist, but l declare that I want TO go on
! record as declaring tEat the issues Of 1860
! out of which grew the most desolating
! civil war of modern times, were not 50
/ fIaught with danger to the principles for
| which our ancestors fought in 1776 as are
| the issues involved in the pending cleo
| ton. In 1850 all parties adhered to the
! Monroe doctrine, the doctrines Of the De-
claration of independence and of the con-
| Stitution.
The present Republican administration
| has abandoned the Monroe doctrine the
| sheet anchor of the safety of the re0ub-
! lies Of the Western hemisphere. 1t has
| spit upon the doctrine that all govern
ments derive their just powers from the
| consent of the governed and has ia a
! thousand ways defied and ignored the con-
! stitution of the fathers. IL has waged a
war OF conquest against a people whom
it found struggling against a Spanish ty-
rant for the right of self-government. 1t
has imposed taxes without represen a ion
on a people whom the fortunes Of war
have put under It's rule. II has by engag-
ing in a war of conquest created a neces-
sity for a standing army of a hundred
thousand men in times of peace, and for
a large and expensive navy. 1t has to
meet the demands for money thus Great
ed, imposed a tax of $40 per annum on
every voter in the republic, aud thus built
up monopoies that have closed every ave
nue. TO successful individual enterprise.
The people who fight the battles and pay
the taxes no longer control Federal cleo
tons nor shape Federal legislation. The
trusts and monopolies and combinations IN
restraint of trade fostered by unjust Re-
publican legislation have usurp-d taese
/ prepogatives of the people. Our govern
ment is no longer the republic of he faith
ers, but is an oligarchy. The next
step is into empire 1t is the province Of
the Democracy the party of the people
and of the constitution. to avert so dire
a calamity. he last hope for the liheties
of the people is in its success. The mass s
of the people are with us. The only hope
of the enemy is in force and fraud and
bribery. Hence his frantic effort to- raise
a corruption fund of thirty millions This
party has already stolen the presidency
once and bought it at another time They
realize that they cannot steal 1t again and
hence will go any length to buy it. Ic is
our mis- sion TO ST them in this mad
reer Empire must be made odious. Tner1
is no room in our system for vassal
states. A British colonial policy can have
no place in a republic. The West Indie
are a part of The Western Hemisphere. 1t
is right that we extend the Aegis Of our
protection over them. In Going so we 60
rot violate the Monroe doctrine nor the
traditions Of the republic. The Philippines
are a rart of the Eastern Hemisphere on
the OF pOS1te size or me SlgDe. Ihere Is
nothing IN common between us ana their
people Differing from us in race Ian
guage religion, tastes and habits they
cannot be assimilated, or absorbed into
the body Of the American people We
should treat them as we promised in the
outset to treat them, and as we promised
20 treat the Island of Cuba, exercise a
guardian care over them till trey are
able to maintain a stable government of
their own. and then withdraw our hand.
To do less would be inhuman and treach-
erous, to attempt more would be subver-
sive OF our own government and bad faith
to those victims OF our own war with
Spain.
The safety and even the perpetulty Of
this republic and the happiness and pros
perity OF our own people demand a re-
turn to the Old landmarks. The policy
Of imperialism. inaugurated by the Re-
publican party must be abandoned, the
standing army must be disbanded the
trusts must be dethroned; monopoly IN all
its forms, must be destroyed. What men
own and not what they consume. must be
taxed. The income Of the millionaire, rs
well as the dinner pail OF the wage Garner.
must bear It's share Of the burdens OF
government The way must be opened
as Of old TO successful individual effort.
Men must be- elevated TO high official posi-
ton because Of what they are, and MOI
what they have. The Senate must be