The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-24

tense Americanism' nor in indifference 70
he preservation or spread OF republicans
forms OF government everywhere. nor III
suppressing free speech. nor IN conquer
inq the free people OF other and distant
lands who desire to govern themselves
nor in |unlawfully sending accredited rep
reeeptariyes OF this government abroad.
,xirhout the consent of the Senate, 10 WI
ross the coronation o. 4 King whose mon
archial government, to its shame De II
eaid. had just succeeded in crushing me
TWO struggling republics q south Area
and right here | may be permitted 10
suggest that the administration OF fFFS-
;dant Roosevelt Will particularly slahi
IN history as the one during the existence
n, which the republics OF those bfaNt
and gallant people Were Destroyed ue-
stroved without one word OF protest or
one effort 10 save them or one hlnd "oIu
NJ sympathy for them in Their uneQual
struggle expressed on the part OF ms
the greatest republic of the world. whose
influence should always be eSeried on 'Hs
side of free institutions.
I'm contrast with that suplne altlluue
of the Roosevelt administration We should
NOT forget the vigorous and patrlotlc
action of that Democratic President
who bonors this club with his presence
here tonight-who, when that same
mighty empire Of Great Britain IN 1899.
attampted to crush the republic OF
Venezuela. at once sent that FAMOUS
message to Congress, Whlcn elecIilIeu
the country. wherein he insisted 'nal
Great Britain might not be pefmllleu
under the pretense of a boundary us
pute. to seize Venezuela without HISt
submitting the alleged differences 70 N
ternational arbitration, or else TINS GoN-
eminent would interpoSe It's slrohs arm
for the protection of that republic anu
Great Britain finally concluded to afbl-
trate the dispute and Nenezuela was
saved from destruction
HILL ARRAIGNS WOOD.
The ex-senator then took up the sub
| iect of Cuba, dealing first with the ad-
ministration of General Wood, whom ne
| bitterly arraigned. The use of money
for partisan and lobbying purposes IN
aid of administrative measures, pending
before Congress- he declared, served
to emphasize the irresponsible ana
dangerous character of arbitrary mill
/ tarv rule anyWhee, whether temporary or
permanent
The subject he went on, demands
the investigation of Congress and the
prominent punishment of the offending
official. if he can be reached through
criminal or military law.
The history of the country does not
furnish a more fragrant breach of official
| duty, as we'll as official propriety, than
that presented by the misconduct of
Wood. Yet he has neither been arrest
ed, nor rebuked nor censured, nor called
to account by the administration
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Discussing the Cuban tariff question,
Mr.. Hill said the present controversy in
Congress over tina subject served to il
lustrate, 1.-The hypocrisy as We'll as the
~unsoundness of the whole Republican
position in the subject of tariffs
Proceeding on this topic, he said:
THE whole Government favoritiSm
whereby the constitutional power to tax
for the purpose Of providing revenue for
the needs of the Federal Treasury, is
improperly used to build up one mans
business at the expense of anOther's, by
discriminating in favor of one industry
as against another-is a vicious system
which has long afflicted the country, and
cradle with years and against which he
cradle with years and against which, the
Democracy has ever protested.
1T is not believed that it is the prov
ince Of the Democrats in Congress to as
sist in the contamination of any such in
adequate and questionable schome.
e the injustice be wholly or sub
stantially righted, not by piecemeal
legislation, but by a complete and com
prehensiVe measure based upon sound
Democratic principles and along right
lines.
"A reciprocity measure is a MISSIONER
VI, - Jo0. ~14 1z-4 err
per cent reduction of the existing tariff
burdens. When the people of Cuba are
asking for bread we should not offer
them a stone"
Mr.. Hill asserted that the logic -
events had demonstrated the sound. -.
of many Democratic contentious Of re-
cent years. He recalled that portion of
the Kansas City platform, which con
demned the Dingley law as trust
breeding and said that this measure had
not only succeeded in creating more
trusts than ever before in the history of
the country, but it has also succeeded in
sitting competition to a greater extent
than was ever known. He declared
further that it had succeeded in un-
necessarily raising the cost of living and
had caused more strikes on the part Of
the working men than at any period ia
our history.
PLAYING WITH THE TRUSTS.
"That there has existed for some time
a popular sentiment demanding relief in
some form from trust eXactions is quite
apparent. Acting upon the assumption
that the trusts should be prosecuted by
their friends and not their enemies. the
national administration was at last con-
/ strained to institute some civil suits ia
test the efficacy Of the Sherman act
What has been the net result? A few tenn
porary injunctions nave been obtained
with the tacit consent of the trusts them
selves, or at least with little or no on
position, which in general terms restrain
the trusts from violating the Sherman act
(Which they expressly deny that haze