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what. All of them opposed to State
banks of issue with proper safeguards
and most other things we need i'm the
South. This was called the * New
Democracy in contradistinction from
lhe Old, and some of its leaders stated
that It's crecds were revolutionary and
were so designed to be.
TO SOW discomfort with industrial
conditions and Iistrust of the govern.
ing power; TO array class against class
In the hope of securing fancied social
ana Industrial equality, is to nv mind
the first step in revolution. The South
Is the American end of America. In
no section is there 50 small foreign
element, 81 much conservatism, and
so pure patiotism. What a political
paradox then it is for our people to be
the allles of profcsscd revolutionists
elsewhere.
1t was not the pure type of Southern
Democracy that the balance of the
country feared in the last Presidential
election. They knew that properly in
terpreted this was conservative and
safe. 1t was well understood, how
ever, what influences dominated, and
that, therefore, the South in national
affairs was still powcrless. One doubt
ful Northern Slate 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 l will do as ] please
help yourself if you can. What posi-
ton for brave, high-splrited people
bound hand and foot, the miserable
slaves of one party and football for
the other.
/, TO ne, do not believe that the
people OF the South are ready to trust
this government into the hands of any
party to begin the levcling process
through the exercise of the taxing
power; and yet this is exactly 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 inseparaby inter.
woven. Go into the West, attend one
OF their campaign meetings, scratch
beneath 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 op."
Taxation for the purpose of equaliz
ing or redistributing property is ranl
socialism, not Democracy. Let it take
hold in the South and with 1T will gt
those barriers which we have erected
to maintain the purity of cur race ant
the integrity Of our civilization.
Another tn ng-to my mind it il
folly to oppos, expansion under thu
name OF imperialism. II deceives II,
man of intelligence. He understand
that there is no analogy between th
country and the Roman Empire, ant
that those who talk Of imperialism dc
not take into account that power whicl
is born of our free institutions, n fort
ress in tho hearts of our people strong
er than any ever built of stone. A
long as this is there they can never be
come slaves; and when it is dead
matters not whether under republic q
empire, they become an easy prey. |
: depends upon the people, not th
government, whether they be slave
or freemen. 1t is the people that max
: the government, not the governmer
: the people. With brave, strong, il
F, telligent people, with free press an
popular education, there can be n
imperialism. why should we be afrai
c to trust ourselves9 The whole tel
Q dency oil the times and the spirit
q the age Is toward Democratic instes
t Of imperiallstic ideas Of governmen
y The throne of the "Great White Cxal
" trembles today at the roar of the d