Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-08-02

In his speech before the National
League Of Republican Clubs Colonel
Roosevelt earnestly enjoins his eoun-
trymen to remember that expansion
does not bring war; it ultimately
brings peace"
'"fhe empire is peacew asseyerates
the dreaming, scheming, ambitious son
Of Hortense. Expansion ultimately
brings peace" echoes the dreaming.
scheming, ambitious govegnor-colonelI
Of New York.
Two lovely berries. nodded on one
stem, the stem of Imperialism; twin
statesmen reyeling in iridescent
dreams Of peace peace to be obtained
by a quantum sufFicit of throat cut
ting and bloodletting-the identical
sort of peace which reigned IN War
saw on memorable occasion and
which damned to everlasting fame
the men who secured it BY sword and
fire.
The Empire Is Blood.
Now, be it remembered that | am not
accusing Colonel Roosevelt OF plagiar-
izing from Napoleon III. | would not,
even In the estimation of hair, de-
tract from his just fame, but one of
two things is true either he had read
Louis Napoieon's Bordeaux speech and
boldly appropriated or unconsciousIy
assimilated both his ideas and his Ian
guage or the exigencies 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.
/ like epigrams The empire is
peace" is a splendid, sonorous, striking
sentence. 1t appeals to the imagina-
tlon, 1t soothes the troubled spirit, but
1t was lie when uttered by the willy
| Frenchman 1t is a lie today, and il
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, it -four
ished in blood; 1t perished in blood
The coup d'etat, 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
riea. a 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 a
savage beast upon the sullen rock of
st. Helena
That's the sort of peace which Louis
NaDoleon'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 to change
lue1 cOAcluStOuS SiuCe-
Consequently ut Kansas City we re-
adopted. not merely reaffirmed. but re-
adopted. the financial plank of the
Chicago platform in all It's integrity
and all its force, in spite of all cajol-
ings, all threatenings and all tempta-
tions to do otherwise From the bot
tom of my heart I rejoice that we did
so, for if we were right then we are
right now.
Individually l have no doubt what
ever that, Notwithstanding the recent
unfriendly congressional legislation,
not only America, but the whole world,
will soon return to bimetallism under
an impulse Of self preservation SO
strong that it cannot be resisted.
The fact that the per capita volume
of circulation has increased in the last
three years grows out of the accident
that the balance of trade has been
overwhelmingly in our favor, which
happy condition was and is purely
the result of the failure of crops in
India and of the abundance here.
Under normal conditions, good crops
in the old world and good crops Mt
home, the balance of trade will, as in
the past. be against us. and as soon
as that happens the drain of gold will
begin, and contractions will follow.
While the Democratic party has not
changed its position since 1886, the Re
publican party has changed its posi-
ton radically In 1896 it declared for
international biinetallism. At Phila-
delphia short time ago it pronounced
for the gold standard in all its bald
ness and badness Not only that, but
the latest Republican platform states
what is positively untrue wherein it
xeaffirms its allegiance to the gold
standard, when, as matter Of fact.
it never had declared for the gold
standard before.
International BimetaIlism.
AS matter of fact, the administers