The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-19
M'LAURIN'S SPEECH.
tcontinued from FIrst PAGE,
ing the last month of the campaign to
class hatred and prejudice.
Errors of the Last Campaign.


ing the last month of the campaign to
class hatred and prejudice.
Errors of the Last Campaign.
| Fundamental principles were lost sight
| of, and in an insane effort to secure party
| success at amy cost, the attempt was made
to combine socialism, populism and sec
tionalism, with nothing but the sentiment
and traditions of Democracy. The real
! Democratic leaders in the Senate for the
| past three years have been Teller, Petit
grew Allen. all of them able men. but
one Populst, one a high-tariff Repub-
! lican, and the other, do not know what.
All of them opposed to state banks of
| issue with proper safeguards, and most
| other things we need in the South. This
was called the New Democracy in con-
| tradistinction from the old and some of
| it's leaders stated that its creeds we're
| revolutionary and were SO designed to be-
To sow discontentl with industrial con-
ditons and distrust of the governing pow
| er; 90 array class against class, in the
hope of securing fancied social and in
dustrial equality. isrto my mind the first
| step in revolution. The South is the
| American end of America. In no section
! is there so small a foreign element, so
much converse ton, and so pure patriot
ism. What a political paradox then it
| fessed revolutionists elsewhere.
1t was not the pure type of Southern
| Democracy that the balance OF the coun-
| try feared in the last Presidential cleo
| ton. They knew that properly interpret
| ed this was conservative and safe. 1t
was well understood, however, what in
fuences dominated, and that, therefore,
| the South an National affairs was stiH
| powerless. One doubtful Northern state
had then and has now more influence than
| the entire South combined. One party
says, why should l consult you, / can
| hope for nothing The other says, I've
| got you any way, and viii do as l please;
help yourself if you can.
What a position for a brave, high
spirited people, bound hand and foot, the
miserable slaves Of one party and the
football for the other.
The New Democracy"
I, for one, do not believe that the peo-
pie of the South are ready to trust this
| government into the hands OF this So
called New Democracy" to begin the
leveling process through the exercise of
the taxing power; and yet this is ex-
actly what this new propaganda means.
and outside of the South it is proclaimed
by the very same class who preach and
practice social equality between the races.
The two dogmas are inseparably inter-
woven. Go into the West, attend one
Of their campaign meetings scratch be-
meath the skin and you will find the same
old social equality dogma, to the tune of
which the soul Of John Brown is still
marching on"
Taxation for the purpose Of equalizing
or redistributing property is rank so
cialsm, not democracy. Let II take hold
in the South and with it will go those
barriers which we have erected to main
l..
tegrity of our civilization.
Another thing-to my mind 1t Is folly
to oppose expansion under the name of
Imperialism. It deceives no man of in
teligence. He understands that there is
no analogy between this country and the
Roman Empire, and that those who talk
of imperialism do not take into account
that power which is born Of our free in
stitutions, a fortress in the hearts of our
people stronger than any ever built of
stone. AS long as this is there they can
never become slaves; and when II is dead
It matters not whether under republic or
empire, they become an easy prey. II de-
pends upon the people, not the
government. whether they be
slaves or freemen. It is the people that
make the government. not the govern
ment the people With a brave. strong.
intelligent people with a free press and
popular tuuCdLlOiis NaA NC III I'M
perialism. Why should we be afraid TO
crust ourselves2 The whole tendency of
the times and the spirit Of the age is to-
ward democratic, instead Of imperialistlc.
IDEAS Of government.
The throne Of the Great White Gar
trembles to-day at the roar OF the Demo-
cratic Lion. and the echoes resound even
from the far-on Orient.
Our people understand that II Is not
actual territory or dominion over peo-
pie that we seek but the expansion OF
American thought IDEAS Of government,
commerce and civilization.
Political leaders might as well say that
the law OF progress will sweep away as
chan those who would place barriers
against this mighty tide which II destined
70 spread the Democratic idea Of govern
ment 70 the uter1ost bounds Of the earth
Ny definition of democracy IL liberty for
man, formulated into o theory % govern
ment II means mans inaiienabie owner
ship Of himself. Il means free thought
ana free speech.
The Orislu % Democracy.
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sieve raised bic head sno looking 40 into
ths blue aky, caught inapifanon from
Co1f free an Code free sunshine. thar
Nf alaa IN rlfff NAd free and ever since
thai flaicr ~ liberty tef been AZ INDY.
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