The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-14
HILL and JEFFERSON
TIE FORMER SPEAKS ON THE LAT
TER AT BUFFALO.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO-DAY
WITH IT'S 6,342,OOO VOTERS 1T
STILL LIVES.

How Jefferson Would Have Viewed
Colonial System and the Immense
Corporate MOnOpOlIes of To-day.
Democratic Party Was Not Born to
Die-The Great Conservative Force
of the Country and Absolutely
Necessary to Its Wclrare-A Grand
PerOrntion by the sage of VOL
fert's ROost.
Buffalo, N. Y, April 13.-Hon. David B.
Hill addressed the members of the Jeffer-
son Club and their guests at the Teck
Theater tonight. His theme was "Thom-
as Jefferson"
In introducing Mr. Hill to the audience,
Chairman Maurice c. Spratt. president of
the club, referred to him as the greatest
living exponent of the principles of JEFF
fersonian Democracy Senator Hill was
given an enthusiastic reception.
jefferson, he said, would have unques-
tionably viewed with adherence the es
adjustment of a permanent American CO.
lonial system, whether obtained under
military rule or under civil authority ap-
pointed by the central government at
Washington. His theory was unquestion-
ably the Democratic doctrine of to-day
that this government has no more au-
thority to create colonial system than
it has the right 20 create king.
Referring to monopolies, he said:
when billion dollar corporate cbmbina-
tions are forming on ever side, dazzling
us with the boldness of their conception
| and the boundless extent of their pro-
| posed operations. it is high time to con-
slider whether some wholesale restrictions
upon such corporate undertakings are not
essential in the interest of the people.
What Jefferson Would Do.
'Jefferson's teachings might suggest a
limitation upon the amount of the divi-
dends which could be lawfully declared or
upon the profits which could be legally
accumulated by these tremendous bust
ness organizations. Or he might demand
that the government in justice to its
overburdened taxpayers, should withdraw
| its tariff favors from the infant indus
| tries represented by these institutions,
whose projectors are already rolling in
the munificence of their private benefac-
tions. We may at least, be quite sure
that he would not appoint TO the high Of
| fee of Attorney General of the United
The Future of the Party.
States the man recommended by the
| friends and promoters of these very
schemes, whose official province it would
be to prosecute all violators of those fed
eral statutes passed to prevent the con-
summation of just such public wrongs"
In conclusion Mr.. Hill said
| And now q word to party friends 10
! the future. We must not be dismayed by
| recent defeats. The Democratic party
was not born to die. 1t has survived the
| political Vicissitudes of a hundred years,
| disasters which would have destroyed any
other political organization that ever ex-
| listed, but it still lives with its 6,3i2, ,0OC
voters, unterrified, indestructible. unpur-
chasable, conscious of the righteousness
of its cause and confident of the ultimate
| supremacy of its principles.
I'VE have a right to be proud of our
ancient political lineage. Our party is the
| great conservative force in the country
to-day and absolutely necessary to its
welfare. 1t stands against radicalism of
| every description. 1t is opposed to pluto
| cracy on the one hand and to communism
| Ou Tie OAiINl II dilAde5Oll4LtS filOiSEfOlS Oii
one side and socialism on the other. 1t
is opposed to Imperialism in the Philip
| pine Islands and to anarchy in Cuba 1t
| respects the vested rights of capital and
at the same time sympathizes with labor
oppressed. 1t has no alliances with power
! full corporate interests; neither is
| il in league with dema-
! gogues who disturb society and agitate
for the mere sake of agitation 1t does
not regard the possession of wealth as a
| crime. nor even a badge of honor, nor
does it consider poverty as either a dis
| grace or a virtue 1t makes no war upon
classes, but opposes corrupt and vicious
systems and methods wherever they are
to be found. 1t has no us for the passing
'isms' of the hour. 1t proposes as its
general policy to adhere to the funda-
mental principles upon which the party
was founded by the great jefferson HIM
| self.
'In that path there is safety, honor.
success