Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-11

souuiou Sdiu Ill part.
1t Is needless to assure YOU that l
esteem II a high honor to be allowed the
privilege of addressing this magnificent
assemblGge of the Democrats of Iowa.
| You represent a party that has done
splendid service for good government
in the past. You. more than the repre-
sentatives of any other party, repre-
sent the people, their rights, and their
demands for equal protection of and
equal obedience to all just laws.
| Many of you, like myself, have given
to the Democratic party the devotion
out hope of personal reward we have
given our time and money to advance
| its interests and make It's just princl-
| pies known to all men.
But we count no hour lost given to
the cause of Democracy. There are no
regrets MS we look to the past and
| measure the results of our labor
Whether successful or defeated the
Democratic party and its principles
have been an influential power, In the
| government of the State and nation,
whether in Office or out, Democrats
have left the impress of their influence
on public affairs.
The Democratic party must not be a
negative party-a party of mere OPPOSE
ton. 1t cannot be a party of calam-
ity which draws vitality and success
froEi Industrial or 6nanc'c, depression.
it will merit success because It crap.
pies the problems of the present and
brings to their solution, wise states
nanship, the wisdom that comes from
Democratic principles, because 1t is
| guided by the compass Of the constitu-
ton, ever pointing to the great declara-
| ton Of human rights which the fathers
proclaimed at the beginning and fixed
In the armament of our national life.
From that guide and that object we
get our cardinal principles of equality
| OF all men-natural and corporate TO en-
| 10y the rights and bear the burdens of
government.
| While it remedies the wrongs of spe-
cial Legislation for favored classes 1t
| will labor for the upbuilding of right,
industrial and commercial progress, for
real expansion from within that will
make our country the great political
and commercial power of the world
while all of our people will share in its
prosperity while they enjoy the bless
ings of free government and the no
hlest citizenship.
We are facing today conditions that
are momentOus, destructive to our in
dustries, our commerce, and the well
fare of our people-conditions that
have been created by the Republican
party in violation of the Democratic
doctrine of equal rights to all and spe-
cial privileges to none-that 1t was the
destiny of the United States to be the
great American power-the dominant
power of the western hemisphere.
The Democratic party proclaimed at
the very beginning of our history the
principles of the Monroe doctrine, and
has ever favored free and untrammeled
trade with all the world.
The fact that we have to-day in this
country vast consultations of capital,
giant monopolies with multi-million-
aires in control of the industries, the
finances and the commerce of our
country, is the Legitimate sequence of
the class Legislation of the Republican
party. That we are to-day 1000 miles
away from home. struggling to estab-
fish Il crown colony, to rob n people of
their liberty, is the legitimate out
growth of the violation by the present
administration, of the letter and spirit
of the Monroe doctrine.
Imperialism and trusts are the two
great dominant evils of our national
life. They produce the two great is
sues which the Democratic party must
meet. "They present the problems of
the present that demand solution, adj
justment and wise settlement at the
hands of the Democratic party. They
are more closely allied than we are apt
to observe. Monopolies spring from
the granting of class privileges. Trusts
are created to utilize for their organ
iZers the benefits of government given
privileges.
The colonial policy of the admins
tration had its inspiration and its de-
mand from place hunters, concession
grabbers, from those who have or seek
special privileges in our acquired pos
sessions. If the administration had
said to those who sought concessions in
Havana and Manila that It's policy was
equal rights to all and special prlvi-
leges to none, we would have had no
war in the Philippines and our army
of occupation would long ago have left
Cuba
Never did great nation enter upon
an enterprise more creditable and more
humane than when we declared war
for the liberation of the Cuban people
from Spanish misrule. That action
was justified by the American doctrine
that every people of right ought to be
free and independent. We rightly dis
claimed all intention of territorial ac-
QUESTION. recorded our pledge against
the exercise of sovereignty, jurisdiction
or control over the island after peace
was established. That pledge applied
to all the people and all the lands to
be wrcstled from Spain because 1t laid
down the only principle which justified
the war and thesonly object for which
100000 American citizens could be
asked ito risk their lives.
Never in the history of national en-
teiprise have national pledges been so
VIGOROUSLY broken, principles violated
and national power diverted from its
declared objects as in the substituted
policy Of the Republican administra-
ton towards the islands acquired from
Spain. More than three years have
elapsed since the defeat of Spain, since
our undisputed occupation Of Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippine islands.
We have in them to-day over IS, 600 SOL
diers of the United States. In them the
power of the United States is as abso.
Lutte as that of the Car of Russia in ST.
| IBERIA.
The administration adopted, with at
tention to every barbarous detail, tile
policy of the war lords of Europe, in
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