Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-14
SENATOR HILL TALKS
ON THOMAS JEFFERSON
An ADDRESS DELIVERED To MEM.
BEERS OF THE JEFFERSON
CLUB AT BUFFALO.
DANGERS OF IMPERIALISM
\ H GROWING POWER AND IN
FLuENCE OF THE Trusts
POINTED OUT.

BUFFALO, n. " April 13.-Ths
hon. David 3. Hill addressed the mem
bers Of the Jefferson club and their
guests at the reck theatre tonight.
His theme was Thomas Jefferson"
In Introducing Senator Hin to tina
audience, Chairman Maurice c. Shratt.
president of the club, referred TO him
as the greatest living exponent of the
principles OF Jeffersonian democracy.
Senator Hill was given an enthusiasts
tic reception.
Referring to the extension of Amer
lean institutions, he spoke OF the nego-
tiation by Jefferson of the treaty with
France for the purchase OF Louisiana.
That. he said. was Democratic axpan-
sion, desirable from every point OF
view because its territory was intended
for States and not for permanent coll
onies; and the constitution was applie-
able to it with all its sacred guarantees
Of life, liberty and property.
That expansion-natural, legitimate,
inevitable accomplished honorably.
without wrong or injustice TO any
country or people. can no more be COM
pared to the recent and pending ex-
pertinent with the Philippine islands
thar light can be compared with dark
ness.
Jefferson, he said. would have un-
| questionably viewed with abhorrenec
the establishment of a permanent
American colonial system, whether OBJ
tanned under military rule or under
civil authority. appointed by the Gen.
trail government at Washington. His
theory was unquestionabiy the Demo-
cratic doctrine of ~to-day-that this gov
eminent has no more authority to
create a colonial system than 1t has
the right to create a king"
Referring to monopolies. he said:
When billion dollar corporate com
binations are forming on every side.
dazzling us with the boleness OF their
conception and the boundiess extent OF
their proposed operations, 1t is high
| time to consider whether some whole
sale restrictions upon such corpora
tions are not essential TO the interests
of the people.
"Jefferson's teachings might suggest
a limitation upon the amount OF the
dividends which could be lawfully de-
clared or upon the profits which could
be legally accumulated by these tre-
mendous business organizations.
I'VE may at least be quite sure that
he would not appoint TO the high Of
fee Of Attorney General OF the United
States the man recommended by the
friends and promoters of these very
schemes whose official province II would
be to prosecute all violators OF those
Federal statutes passed TO prevent the
contamination of just such public
wrongs"
In conclusion Mr.. Hill said:
And now a word 20 party friends
as to the future. We must lot be dis
mayed by recent defeats. The Demo-
cratic party was not born TO die. IL
has survived the political yieissitudes
of a hundred years-disasters which
would have destroyed any other polit-
ical organization that ever existed. but
II still lives with lis six million. three
hundred and forty-two thousand
voters nterrifed-indestructible-un
~purchasable. conscious Of the right
fulness Of its cause and confident Of
the ultimate supremacy OF It's princi-
pies.
We have a right 70 be proud of our
ancient political lineage. Our party
~ the great conservative force In the
country to-day and a~bEoiutoly neces-
sary to re welfare. ~ proposes az 10
general policy % adhere to the funda-
mental principles upon which the party
was founded BY tho great Jefferson
himself
In that path there r. safety honor
success.