The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-08-01

you may change the personnel you
cannot change the character of a Re
publican Congress. You may bleach
the Ethiopian and You may unspot the
leopard. but you cannot change the
character of the Republican party.
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
Fellow citizens, if you wish to deal
effectively with monopoly, if you Wi mt
to suppress the trusts, you must put
party in power that means to do it.
We know that the Republican party
will not even try because it belongs to
the trusts body and soul We know
that the Democratic party will try to
destroy the trusts, if for no other reason
than that the trusts are trying to destroy
the Democratic party. The trusts and
the Republican party are sheltered
behind the same breastworks of a
high protective tariff, and you cannot
effectively assail either without level
ing the defenses of both. You have
had Home Market Club here in the
State of Massachusetts, and it's bust
ness was to exalt the importance of
the home market. Today we are
sending products not only OF our farms,
but of our factories, to the most dis
tant markets of the world, selling them
in free and open competition with the
paupeI labor of all the earth. by the
help of our high protective tariff we
shut out competition from abroad,
while trusts and monopolies strangle 1t
at home. They are thus enabled to
exact exorbitant prices from the
American consumer. while selling at
a reduction of from % to so per cent.
in the msot distant markets of the
earth. Mr.. Schwab, of the steel trust,
testified before the Industrial Com
mission, that lower price was
charged to foreign than to domestic
consumers, but he said that as high
wages were paid to laborers manu-
featuring for the foreign as for the
domestic trade. If it be true that
J Americans can manufacture for the
most distant markets and sell there
in free competition with all the
, world and yet maintain the American
standard of wages what becomes OF
the p-etense that we must have pro-
lection for American laborY
COLONIAL EMPIRE.
Ladies and gentlemen, have made
this hurried and inadequate pIesenta-
ton of question that deserves better
treatment in order that | may pass to
question which still deserves the
pre- commence given it in the last
Democratic PLATFORM mean the ques-
tion of territorial conquest, or colonial
empire. 1t is necessary that we
should have clear understanding OF
, the real question because of the frantic
efforts of our adversaries to divert
public attention by raising false
issue based upon mere incident OF
their policy. The opponents OF this
policy have sought to uncover the sup
pressed history of our conduct in the
Philippines not to cast reproach upon
the immediate authors of the. atroci-
ties complained of, but to reveal to
the American people the natural and
inevitable result of an attempt to sub
iugate distant people who are de-
, termined to be free. Because we
sought to bring the truth to light those
who deliberately strangled the investi-
CATION in order to keep the truth from
the people and in violation OF their
solemn promises publicly made. have
denounced us as slanderers OF the
American soldier. Because we have
denounced the practice of torture, be-
cause we have protested against the
desolation and ruin of a whole coun
try, against famine and the torch as
instruments of war; and against the
killing of little children, all the ''hell
roaring Jakes' of Republican Con-
gress have denounced us as defamers
, of the American army. This is an
, argument that seems to have been
made to measure for the mouth OF a
demagogue and the ear of fool. The
object of our imperialist friends in
attempting this division is too obvious
, to be mistaken. They have taken on
| themselves the task of defending the
} honor of the American army in order
r to evade the more difficult task OF
, defending their own. We have not
, assailed our soldiers. who have fought
? and suffered with heroic fortitude In
, the Philippine Islands. We condemn
the bloody, cruel and criminal policy
that sent them there. The RESPONSE
bility tor every drop of blood that has
been shed is not upon the instruments,
but upon the authors of criminal ag-
erosion, and it will remain with them
though they wash their criminal hands
in the bowl of Pontlus PLATE forever.
. PHILIPPINE OUTRAGES.
That we have had in the Philippines
an organized system of torture in
fiicted. not for retaliation or revenge,
but upon helpless and innocent non
combatants; that large towns and vii
lagos have been given to the flames
and the people cast out without food
or shelter; that this has been done
upon the principle avowed by Gen.
Hughes as the best way to punish the
men was to infiict suffering upon the
women and children; that large tracts
of populous territory have been blasted
with the torch and the people left to
the mercy of famine; that an order
was issued by an American commander
for the practical determination of the
people Of whole province, including
little children; that we have employed
Macabebe savages who, according to
the admissions of Gems. Wheaton and
Macarthur, have practiced rapine and
robbery and rape and murder; that
such things as these have characterized
our war in the Philippines, has been
established beyond intelligent doubt.
But these crimes cannot be laid to
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