The Irish standard., 1900-08-11
A Great Difference in Policias
Since Lincoln's Day.
D0LLAR MARX IS PLAINLY STAMPED
A Few Apt Quotations from the
Speeches of Old Abe.

Each year the departure of the rcpub-
l'cans from the early ideas OF the party
becomes more apparent. Lincoln often
referred to "thc plain people" and to
the common people" but any one who
thus Classics the people at this time is
sure 10 be called a demagogue by the
republican leaders, says William ].
Bryan in the Chicago American.
When the republican party wrote its ma
tlonal platform in 1856 it invited the
cooperation Of all those who were in
favor "of restoring the action of the
federal government to the principles OF
Washington and Jefferson" and Lin
coin himself was great admircr of Jef-
ierson. In 1850 the republicans OF Bos-
ton celebrated the birthday of Thomas
Jefferson, and Lincoln i'll his letter of
regret paid the following tribute to JEFF
ferson: "All honor to Jefferson; to a
man who in the concrete pressure of a
struggle for national independence by
single people had the coolncss, forecast
and capacity to introduce into merely
revolutionary document an abstract
truth. applicable to all men and all
times, and SO to cmbalm it there that
to-day and in all coming days il shall
be a rcbukc and stumbling block to
the harbingcrs of rcappcaring tyranny
and oppression" In the beginning OF
the party's existence the Republicans
appealed to the name and the principles
OF Jefferson, but at Republican banquc,s
nowadays Jcffcrson's name is spoken
with disrcspcct, and Hamillon's name
and ideas are cxtravagantly laudcd.
The significance of this change be-
comes apparent when it is remembered
that Jefferson was the foremost repre-
sentative of the democratic idea, while
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in his life
OF Hamilton points out that the latter
was the representative of the aristo-
cratic idea. Lodge says: "Thc republic
of Hamilton was to be an aristocratic,
as distinguished from democratic re-
public, and the power OF the separate
states was to be cffcctually crippled.
The first object was attained by COM
hitting the choice Of the president and
senators, who we're to hold office dur
ing good behavior, to a class Of the conf
munity qualified to vote by the posses
sion of a certain amount Of real prop
crty. The second was secured by CIV
ing to the president OF the United States
the appointment OF the governors OF the
various states who were to have veto
on all state legislation. These provi-
sions as may be seen at a glance, in
volvcd the essential character Of the
government and although purely re.
publican, came much nearer to the Brit
ish model than any other by their recog-
milton of classes and Of the political
rights of property, while by the treat
mcnt Of the states highly centralized
national government was to superscde
entirely the confederate FORM"
In 1850 Lincoln, in speaking OF the
relation which should exist between
money and humanity, said that the re.
publican party believed in both the man
and the dollar, but that in case OF con-
flict it believed in the man before the
dollar In one Of his early messages to
congress Lincoln warned his country
men against the approach OF monarchy,
and said that his alarm was caused by
the attempt to place capital upon an
equal footing with, if not above, labor in
the structure OF government. Now the
republican party seeks to settle every
question upon financial basis. The
dollar mark is plainly stamped upon
every modern republican policy.
Lincoln signed the bill which pro-
vdcd for a graded income tax; in the
Fifty-third congress the Republican
party voted against an income tax
The republican party created the
prccnback; now it is planning to de-
stroy the grccnback.
When the war closed Lincoln began
to plan to make the payment OF the ma
tional debt easier by increasing the vol
ume OF money available for the payment
of debt In Raymond's Life of Lin
colin" published in 1866, the presidents
views are set forth as follows:
Nothing can indicate more clearly
the elation of mind with which the
president regarded the future OF the
country, now that its safety had been
assured, than the language he ad-