The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-25
Senator Carmack's Speech.

After dwellin at considerable length
upon the alleged departure of the Re-
publican party Of today from the land
marks set by it's founders, Senator Car
mack asserted that the concentration of
wealth and power in the hands of a few
men threatened the Republic 'by a des-
potism of force and corruption, operating
for time within the hollow form of a
republic until at last even the form shall
perish With the reality of freedom"
Adverting to what he termed President
Roosevelt's crusade against monopoly
and plutocracy," Senator Carmack pre-
dicted that when that distinguished
statesman comes to understand, as he
doubtless will, that the Republican party
has enthroned the trusts and made plu-
tocracy supreme in the United States, he
will prove a powerful and effective ally
for the Democratic party.
1.-The President" continued Senator
Carmack sis now engaged in a terrific
lingual, labial and laryngial assault upon
the trusts. He demands that there shall
be more and stronger laws to curb their
power / have always understood it to
be the duty of the President to advise
Congress by message of such legislation
welfare. But our President is nothing if
not original and unique. He waits until
Congress has adjourned, until the law
making power has been suspended, until
a political campaign is on and then tells
the people from hastings of the laws he
intended to have enacted by some other
Congress at some other time.
The speaker said further: "If you
f,,n Lap e
you want to suppress the trusts, you
must put party in power that means
to do it. We know the Republican party
will not 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 Dem
ocratic party"
He censured the military administra-
tion in the Philippines for cruelties in
ficted upon non combatants and for the
employment CT Macabebe savages, and
said:
you cannot justify the means unless
you can justify the end. The end in this
case and the object is to destroy the
liberty of the people who but lately were
your allies and your brothers in arms,
and who had never offended you except
by wishing to be free"
In conclusion, Senator Carmack said:
Let me warn you who sheer at the
doctrines and sentiments we have been
taught to revere that the time will come,
in some hour of madness and passion,
when you yourselves will appeal to the
stirTer of the storm in the name of the
old principles and the ancient faiths,
and he will answer you out of the whirl
wind and with your own sneer. He will
tell you that you yourselves have taught
him to despse all the faiths and tradi-
tions fthe past and to trust only in the
opinions, the sentiments and the pas
sions of the hour.
"Onee unchain the spirit of revolution
and do not suppose that you circum-
scribe or direct it's work of destruction;
do not suppose that it will spare for
Constitution where you may find shelter
and protection. Say not to yourselves,
When the overwhelming scourge shall
pass through, it will not come nigh unto
US
eff we would perpetuate this Republic
we must perpetuate those high purposes
that gave it life and are the very breath
of its nostrils If we would resist the
forces of disorder we must preserve in
tact and unbroken the walls which our
fathers reared, and stand fast by the
citadel of the Constitution as by the ark
of the covenant of the Living God"