The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-17
ANOTHER CALL TO PATRIOTS.
President of Democratic Clubs Issues
an Address.

AASSluShI VI OeIuOCIdJlc NluDS Issues
an Address.
Washington. July 16.-W. r. Hearst.
president of the National Association
of Democratic Clubs, has issued the
following address:
TO the Democratic Clubs and ASsOcia-
tons of the United States
The time has come when all the
Democratic societies in this country
and all the patriotic bodies associated
with them should publicly ratify the
nomination of w. J. Bryan for presi-
dent and Adlai r. Stevenson for vice
president, and defend the republic
against the cOrrupting spirit of i'm
perialism.
This is no ordinary year in Ameri-
can politics. Colonies have been es-
tablished under the American flag,
without the consent of the American
people and in defiance of the conStitu-
ton.
The unlawful and brutal policy of
President Mckinley and his advisers
involving the abandonment of the prin-
ciple of public equality on American
soil, has been confirmed by the Repub-
hCdn party in its national convention
The Republican party, under it's
present leadership, is attempting to
commit a hitherto peaceful and just
nation to a career of imperial adven-
ture and conquest. Its conservatism
has disappeared and its main policy is
dominated by a vulgar spirit of greed
unknown on this continent until now.
The Republican party has become a
party. of revolution. 1t is attacking the
irreproaChable and time-approved pO-
litical. industrial and social systems
under which this republic has steadily
grown in strength and glory, and has
dishOnOred our flag and our national
obligations before the civilized world.
1t has made subjects of the inhabitants
of the American territories and has de-
MED to them the wise guarantees Of
constitutional government. 1t has
trampled the Declaration of Independ-
ence"
Promoter of Trusts.
"The Republican party is promoter
and ageI of the new and terrible trust
system, which seeks to destroy indus
trial and commercial competition in
America-another revolutionary move
ment hostile 10 free institutions.
1.-The humane and moral struggle for
the emancipation of the neighborinG
republic of Cuba was VIGOROUSLY ended
two years ago. and yet our army Occu-
pies Cuban soil and the political favor
ties of the Republican party Dlunder
great army raised for the liberation Of
Cuba, is still maintained for the pur-
pose of extending trade by bloOdshed-
The spirit OF lnilitaTiSm marks every
act Of the national government These
radical experimental conditions in the
order of our national progress threaten
the existence Of republican government
on the American continent.
Subjects and citizens cannot long
endure under the same flag.
Monopoly takes away opportunity
and hope from the masses of the peo-
pie, it rObs the young men of the ma
ton of all chance to achieve their in
dependence, and fastens upon them a
perpetual wage serVitude; it converts
small proprietors into hirelings. and it
puts into the hands of few men the
absolute control of production and
prices.
Democrats Are Conservative.
Against the new and dangerous pol
icies-Condemned alike by experience
and by justiCe-the Democratic party
is eXerting It's whole strength. Its can
didates and it's political form represent
the conservat tive spirit of the American
people and their faith in American in
stitutiOnS. They represent opportunity
at home as against adventure in Asia,
RtdNNs ltAltl IMAM NdLs lllSAl'Fu ny lliC
lust of money: citizenship, not subject
hood: a homogeneous republic. not a
heterogeneous empire; a nation Of pros
porous. equal. liberty loving citizens,
unburdened by war taxes or a great
standing army leading ultimately to
military ConScTiptiOn.
The reelection of President McKin-
ley win be taken by the Republican
leaders as a proof that the American
people approve of an imperial. military
and trust-bTeeding policy. Can any
thoughtful citizen doubt what the con-
sequences Of Republican victory this
fall will be? The swift and unsus-
pected developments of the past four
years point significantly to the pur-
poses of the president and his advisers
in the future.
''In the presence of these impending
national evils. the National Associa-
ton of Democratic clubs calls upon all
Democratic clubs, organizations and
societies in the United States to organ
ize their forces for the defense of re-
publican institutions. Patriotic citizens
regardless of past political ties or pref
udiCe. are earnestly asked to assist in
this work of preservation.
This wear the nation must choose
between the European and the Ameri-
can theory of government"