The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-08
BY HON. DAVID S. ROSE
The Issues in the Next National
Campaign
THE WAR AND OUR FOREIGN POLICY
Republican MisruIe Brought on the Panic Of
1893 and ! hen War Was Declared
as an Aver ue of EScapr.

One of the best speeches made at
the Kansas City convention. and Ger
tainly one of the ablest discussions
of the issues now before the people,
was by the Hon. David S. Rose, of
Wisconsin. He said:
"One hundred and twenty four years ago
this day, the great disciples of personal
liberty met in solemn conclave. in the
presence of a mighty responsibility, to
proclaim a new gospel of hope to the op-
pressed and down trodden of earth, and
to dissolve the bonds of political union
that had become odious from abuses long
continued. They had no country, for
they were mere subjects of a crown. They
hal no national flag, but only the ensign
of a monarchy. They had no laws, ex-
cept such as had been thrown to them
as the bone is thrown to the dog, but
that which neither king nor queen, nor
potentate could give or take, implanted
in their beings as an inherent attribute
by the Great Creator who made them
they had the spirit of human freedom.
spirit that rebelled at restraint whether
legal or physical, spirit that ever craVed
an inimitable field for humane action,
spirit that resented imposition and in
spired declarations to the fulfillment of
which they dedicated all that they had
TO give-life. property and sacred honor
Their children are here today. They,
too. are assembled in the presence of
great responsibility. But they have
country A country in whose institutions
has shone resplendent, through the peril
Gus course CT a century and more, the
light Of the spirit that was the inspira-
tion of their conception We have flag
whose graceful folds embrace the SYM
pathy and loyalty of 70,000,000 true hearts,
whose stripes betoken the purity of our
purposes and the blool in which is ce-'
mented the elements Of our union, whose
every star sings everlasting praise for
the blessings we enjoy as free and in
dependent people We have laws. in
which every man who enjoys the privi-
leges of citizenship is given free and equal
voice We have the same spirit that
sustained the fathers-the spirit of hu-
man liberty-and in that spirit our acts
shall be sanctfied.
REPUBLICAN MISUNDERSTANDING
when l read the speech of Senator
Wollcott. in opening the convention at
Philadelphia, enumerating the ills that
befel us in 1896, a speech received with
the plaudits of thousands of Republican
partisans and in assent and approval OF
which even poor innocent old Mark Han
ma nodded acQuiescence, / thought 10
myself that the machine which controlled
that convention was acting in perfect har-
mony with itself when it selected the
man having the audacity TO assent TO
proposition of that character in the face
of the history of those years and in de-
fiance of the memory of our people.
THE panic of 1898 came as though the
Republican party had from its stronghold
in the Harrison administration planted
mine under the place which it was known
that the Democracy must occupy when
it came into the ascendency and llghted
the slow match to blow the incoming ad-
ministration into extinction. The success
of our party at the election of 1893 was
the greatest calamity that could have be-
fallen us, for had the Republican party
been left in power, it would have been
compelled TO father ills of which it was
the author.
STORM BREWING IN HARRISON AD-
MINISTRATION.
During the closing months of the Har-
rison administration the storm cloud was
gathering above the horizon of our manu-
featuring and commercial interests. the
forked tightening flashed threatening
| warning and the mutterings of the roll
ing thunders of discomfort and oppression
admonished us that the tornado was upon
us.
| REPUBLICAN MISRULE CAUSED TIE
PANIC OF 1893.
The expenditures of the government
were constantly growing larger and he
receipts we're constantly growing small
or. Exports Of products had decreased 50
that the balance of foreign trade was
| against us while the exports Of gold had
| increased so that the exports exceeded the
| imports by $158, 900. 600 depicting our pub
| lie treasury and running our manufae-
turing. commercial and business interests.
These conditions. of necessity, resulted IN
! stringency Of the money market and a
| contraction of the volume OF nanuiac-
| ture and commerce. Another agency oi
destruction. perhaps more potent than
all of the others. for which the RepubH-
| can party was responsible, was the So
called Sherman silver law. which required
the purchase Of four and one-nalf millions
of ounces of silver per month to be placed
| in our national trasury as the basis Tor
| silver certificates to be redeemed a. par