The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-03
no such word as home. .

lndI DISSSSu WOru burning In their
breasts and craven on their bones.
They have sadly left friends and ma
tive soil for the priceless heritage
found in land of the free born home
that has reared the only true republic
that ever existed and which is about
all that makes life worth living. They
came here to make this their country;
to live and fight for the flag, and to die
beneath its folds. They are loyal and
patriotic citizens. They have enriched
our blood, ennobled and perpetuated
the stock, and built up the home.
They are here to become true Ameri-
cans and add luster to the Stars and
Stripes. They love their home and
wife and child and friend.
Charity Begins at Home.
| believe it is better to look after
the folks at home, to stand by our own
people, than it is to corrode the shrine
of free and dignified labor and corrupt
the morals of our race in the vain at
tempt to Christianize vast throng Of
orientals that would bring to us moth
Ing but political decentralization and
social despair. | believe the time has
arrived for charity to begin at home.
| believe that no one ever lost any,
thing by building up his own family.
l believe in standing by our own peo-
pie.
| wish it could be. | want our labor
ing men to have enough to eat and
wear; enough for sickness and old
age. | want them to have enough to
educate their children. and to lay by
something for rainy day and for their
loved ones when they are gone. I
would like to see them have some lef-
sure and the means to improve it.
want them to have enough to meet the
demands of modern civilization.
would like to see the wife with a new
dress, wearing a smile on her face and
some ribbons in her hair, and the hope
of the republic guaranteed by the flags
that glow in the cheeks of the little
children
The only hand that can light the
lamp of progress and prosperity is the
hand of toil-of intelligent and eXult
ant labor-and | want that hand anc
arm upheld and protected by this law.
| have always believed in rational
protection. We are today more pros
porous than ever before in the history
of this or any other country through
the wonderful resources of the soil, the
genius and industry of our people. and
the protection of our political policies.
But the hour has come when we must
protect not only industry and those
| employed in it, we must also protect
men and citizenship as such. This is
one step in that direction. | am ready
for every other reasonable proposition
tending to elevate, ennoble and make
happy the labor of my country.
Why, Mr.. Chairman. there is place
for every kind of honorable employ
ment, and they all command my fealty
and respect. But when you sum it up
when you read the life of every ma
ton in the checkered history of the
world-the toilers are about the only
men who do anything. Labor enters
into and supports everything. Labor,
which includes the farmer, is the back.
bone of the nation. II is the strong
arm and staiwart son of America that
holds up the ridgepoIe of our national
structure, and spikes, through endur-
ing centuries, the rafters Of the home.
He supports the government, he
breeds our children, nourishes and re-
| "a he he a
flag; and | repeat again that human
toll of heart and brain and hand is the
only true manhood, the only real no.
bIity of the repubIic-the aristocracy
of democracy-and ! am for anything
that can give him an advantage and
make him glad and prosperous.
Therefore am for this bill, to protect
the wage-earner in the eminence of his
high estate.
Morality Greater Than Markets.
They talk of Chinese trade. They
say this act may circumscribe t.
Yes; | would like to have that trade.
We are getting more and more of it.
1t is the great trade of the future to
|
crease it. With our new possessions
as stepping stone, believe we will
walk right into the open door of that
great market. a market born In the
womb of S0O,000,000 people But,
whatever happens, nothing can be
gained by sacrificing the labor that
produces the surplus we sell, by de-
stroying the happiness and prosperity
of millions of our best people at home
for a commercial dream.
This country is wonderfully inter.
ested in markets today. The foreign
veal or woe of our future prosperity.
We now manufacture more than we
can consume. We have an overplus o.
everything. But this government Of
ours has more to think of than mar
kets. 1t has men and women, flesh
and blood, God and morality, our home
and country to think Of.
I believe in men, In the genius Of
American manhood. We cannot long
survive upon cheap and enslaving la
Dor; we cannot hope long to endure
the ravages of an Asiatic industrial
onslaught.
The Nations Real Heroes.
The real heroes of nation are not
alone in the sounding titles of ensan-
guined war, but they dwell in the
silent grandeur of a quiet name. They
live in the vine-clad cottage beneath
| the hill kissed by all the suns of ioy