The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-13

correctly and trenchantly stated the true
| Democratic doctrine:
"The powers granted the Federal gov
eminent were not meant to be used to
conquer and hold in subsection the people
of other countries. Their use for such
purposes not only bellies our declaration
of the rights of men. but also unbalances
our system by increasing the centraliza-
tion of power at Washington to the ulti-
mate overthrow of home rule.
1.-THE Democratic party has never fav-
ored, and now opposes, any extension OF
the national boundaries not meant to car
ry speedily to all inhabitants full equal
rights with ourselves. II these are
untitled by location, race or character to
be formed into self-governing territories
and then Incorporated into the union OF
states in accordane with the historic pol
icy OF the Republic, they should be per-
mitted to work out their own destiny. II
territorial expansion is demanded by
the national welfare and the national
safety is to beat any time favored, the OBJ
lection which should have prevented GER
tain of our recent acceSSionS is that
they imperil the national safety without
promoting the national warfare; that
they devolve upon us enormous RESPONSE
bilities we have no call to assume; that
they are certain to be an immense and
unremunerative drain upon our resources;
that they tend to embroil is with Euro
pean powers; that they weaken our claim
to supremacy on the American continent
at the same time they lessen our ability
TO make the claim good, and that they fur
nish a dangerous opportunity and tempta-
tion for the disregarded of 1.-The self-evi-
dent truth of universal application that
governments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed"
A plank in line with the Ohio declara-
tion truly defines the Democratic position
from the days of Jefferson until this good
hour, and neither the siren voice of traf-
fic and trade enunciated by Herbert, nor
the hypocritical cant Of philanthropy and
five per cent enunciated by McLaurin,
nor Gen. Carrs indefinite endorsement of
Expansion on reasonable lines will Sc
duce the Democratic party from its time
honored principles.
General Carr claims 1.-THE right to hold
and express an opinion upon all public
questions This nobody would undertake
to deny him, but when he couples the
exercise of this right with a slur upon
the opinions Of the constituted authority
and the bulk of the voters of his party, he
need not expect to do so without being
subjected to criticism" This is particu-
larly true when in his New York Times
voices in part the same sentiments as
have been expressed by the McKinleytes
for more than year. That interview
has been printed Sby every anti-Demo-
cratic paper in the country, and widely
heralded as one of the indications of
trend toward Republican principles in
men who are now parading his roast"
of the party's national and State
policy will in the future, as in the past,
"kick out of the traces" unless they can
rule, and when it is too late General
Carr will wake up to find that he has
given encouragement by his criticisms of
his party to these traitorous foes who
seek from the inside to make the Demo-
cratic party the agency of trusts or to
work its destruction.
There is one paragraph in Gen. Carr's
interview which is direct attack upon
h - orfv txhic ha rp1i ord n
pass unanswered, because if the indict-
ment is well founded, the party leaders
must change their policy. After stating
that he has used all his influence to keep
the business interests in the Democratic
party, Gen. Carr says:
II am frank to say that l am appre-
hensive that unless this element sees
greater safety and promise in the policies
of the Democratic party and it's interests
better guarded, it will slip away from us
more rapidly in the future than in the
past"
What interest of the business element
needs to be better guarded" 1t is
fresh in the memory of every business
mdu III I\UTlu CdIOllud lHdI luey IOuuu
Russelrs administration intolerable, and
with other patriotic men they helped to de-
feat that gang that in some cities almost
destroyed all business prosperity. Every
thing they have asked, has been done by
the Democratic administration, except
when some of them opposed a system of
taxation that would reach much untaxed
property. During the Legislature a hue
and cry was started against fair taxa
ton by tax-dodgers, and was voiced by
the papers that get down on their knees
and pray daily to the Almighty Dollar.
The reasonable requests of the mill men
were granted in every particular, the
franchise tax on railroads was levied
after the railroads expressed assent to
the very moderate tax, and the revenue
bill of 1901. as it stands in the laws. is
most favorable to all large business in
terests in the State except those that
wish to escape just taxation. This will
be seen to be true when an examination
of tho tay tiStc ic made RuSi0pSS mon