The evening times., 1900-10-19
An HISTORIC PARALLEL
The Present Campaign the Story of
'76 Over Again.
Ex-Representatfve Williams Makes
Al Powerful speeck Against Impe-
riuiisna at New Castle, Del.-Re-
pubIIcans Said TO Be Defending
Taxation without Representation.

NEW CASTLE. Del, Oct 19.-This. the
Oldest town in the Diamond State. was
thronged last evening with persons who
came from every section Of New Castle
county to attend a Democratic mass meet
ing
Music and enthusiasm marked the occa-
sion. Peter J. Ford, the Democratic
nominee for Governor. after being con-
fined TO his home for some days by illness,
made his appearance, although unable to
address the large audience at length.
Representative John S. Williams, OF
Mississippi, made the principal address.
was frequently interrupted by storms of
applause, He said in part:
'Our forefathers. on July 4, 1T76, said
that taxation without representation was
tyranny. They did not mean by this that
every human being should De represented
in the way of casting his ballot. as some
Republican spellbinders in attempted de-
rision of them-a derision, alas. necessary
for political purposes this year-wolid
| have you believe There were then ne
groes in all the colonies. neither taxed
nor voting in any OF them. There were
then, as now, women taxed, but not vot-
ing. There was no doubt at that time in
any mans mind of what they meant nor
is there really any noW- Community tax
alton without community representation
is tyranny.
But did this expression contain a truth
or did it express lie? II it is q lie now
it was a lie then, and our forefathers
were wanton, ungrateful rebels against
Government which, with all its faults,
had been infinitely better than any other
colonial government maintained by any
other people. Are you ready to concede
that King George and Lord North repre-
senteds the right common-sense principle.
ard that our forefathers uttered glitter
ing generality for the purpose OF furnish
ing themselves with an excuse for rebel
lion against Government OF benevolent
assimiIating characteristics?
ION this 4th Gay of July, 1776, they said
another thing which was either lie or Is
a truth namely: that all just government
is founded upon the consent or the gov
erned. Again, they did not mean, as
great Senator unworthy OF his position
has delusiveIy intimated that they must
have meaut.-that the man on his way
10 the scafTold must consent to his own
hanging Their meaning was that all just
government OF any people must be found
ed upon the consent of that people
Now. then, our platform adopted upon
the 4th day of July, 1900, redeclares these
PRINCIPLES. ana does out little 6i5S. Are
these principles true or false? Or can it
be that another thing is true, namely,
that taxation without representation and
that government without the consent OF
the governed ara tyranny whenever we are
taxed or governed, but that they are not
tyranny when it is We who exercise the
power and some other community is the
victim of it? II so. our forefathers were
worse than wanton rebels. They were
hypocrites-
Draw the deadly parallel, in every par
! ticuIar, between the relationship existing
| between ourselves and Great Britain and
| the war growing out of it, and, on the
! other hand, the relationship existing be-
tween ourselves and the Filipinos and
! the war growing out Of that. There is
! but one difference, and it is rather
startling one Great Britain had not
bought the allegiance of our forefathers-
They were born under the British flag.
1t had protected them IN a larger measure
OF liberty than any other colonies or any
European nation had ever possessed
And the argument with which Lord
North came to the colonies was a plausi-
F.! bic one. He said: We have spent mil
! lions, and have accumulated a large debt
! in your defence. It is but right that you
| should help pay the debt. The tax on tea
! is a small matter. The tax On stamps is
| not an uncomfortable tax in amount or in
| principle Our foreTathers answered:
| Yes, as you say. it is but right that we
| should do our share. But We shall do it
| through our colonial assemblies. in which
alone we are represented!
The history of the world shows that
! the life of each nation which has existed
| and passed away can be summed up in one
sentence: First, freedom; then military
| glory and strong government; then at
! tempted world dominion and worship of
| splendid government; then corruption, de-
cay. and death.
'It shows another thing: That the ap-
proach OF absolutism in government land
| that is what the word imperialism
means in the sense in which it is being
used in this campaign has been insidu-
| Gus, slow, OF gradual and even concealed
| aDnroach