The age-herald., 1901-04-14
HILL HAD ROAST
 FOR B|G TRUSTS In Buffalo Speech Senator Said Restrictions Are Necessary SPOKE OF THOS. JEFFERSON Pronounced Eulogy On His Democratic Principles and On the Party as 1t
 Now Stands-He Is Not
 Discouraged.
SPOKE OF THOS. JEFFERSON

Buffalo, April 1S.-Hon. David B. Hil, addressed the members of the Jefferson Club and their guests at the Teck The atre tonight. His theme was Thomas Jefferson" In introducing Senator Eill to the audience, Chairman Maurice c. Spratt president of the club. referred to him as the greatest living exponent of the prin- ciples of Jeffersonian Democracy.
 Referring to the extension of American institutions Senator Hill spoke of the ne- gotiation by Jefferson of the treaty with France for the purchase of Louisiana That, he said, was Democraticl expen- sion desirable from every point of view, because it's territory was intended for states and not for permanent colonies That expansion-natural. legitimate, in evitable-accomplished honorably with out wrong or injustice to any country or people, can no more be compared to the recent experiment with the Philippine Islands than light can be compared with darkness.
 Jefferson, he said would have unques- tionably viewed with abhorrence the es-
 tablishment of a permanent American
 colonial system whether obtained under
 
 appointed by the central government at
 Washington. His theory was unquestion-
 ably the Democratic doctrine of today
 that this government has no more author ity to create colonial system than it
 has the right to creat King.
 Referring to monopolies he said:
 When billion-dollar corporate combi-
 nations are forming on every side, daz- zling us with the boldness of their con ception and the bound1ess extent of their proposed operations, 1t Is high time to consider whether some wholesale restric-
 tions upon such corporate undertakings
 are not essential in the interest of the
 people.
 "Jefferson's teachings might suggest a limitation upon the amount of the diyl- dends which could be lawfully declared,
 or upon the profits which could be legally accumulated by these tremendous busl- ness organizations. Or he might demand that the government, in justice to it's overburdened taxpayers, should withdraw It's tariff favors from the infant indus tries' represented by these institutions
 whose projectors are already rolling in
 wealth and are astonishing the world by the munificence of their private benefac- tions. We may at least be quite sure that he would not appoint to the high office of Attorney General of the United
 States a man recommended by the friends and promoters of these very schemes, whose official province it would be to prosecute all violators of these Federal
 statutes passed to prevent the consum-
 nation ,of just such public wrongs" j In conclusion MT. Hill said: And now | a word to party friends as to the future. | We must not be dismayed by recent de- | feats. The Democratic party was not | born to die It has survived the political vicissitudes of a hundred years, disasters
 which would have destroyed any other political organization that ever existed,
 but 1t still lives, with its 6,342.000. voters unterrified, indestructible, unpurchasable conscious of the rightfulness of its cause
 and confident of the ultimate supremacy of its principles.
 We have right to be proud of our | ancient political lineage. Our party Is the | great conservative force in the country | today and absolutely necessary to its well | fare. It stands against radiealism of every description. It is opposed to plu- tocracy on the one hand and to com munism on the other. It antagonizes- mo- nopoly on one side and socialism on the other. It is opposed to imperialism in the Philippine Islands and to anarchy in Cuba. It sympathizes with labor op-
 pressed. It has no alliances with power full corporate interests. Neither Is it in league with demagogues who disturb so- ciety and agitate for the sake of agita- ton. It does not regard the possession of wealth as a crime nor even badge of honor; nor does 1t consider poverty as either a disgrace or virtue. It makes no war upon classes but opposes corrupt | and vicious systems and methods wher- ever they are to be found It has no use for the passing ''isms', of the hour. It proposes as its general policy to adhere
 to the fundamental principles upon which l the party was founded by the great Jeff ferson himself. Tn that path there is safety, honor success"