The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-02-07

referred to the platform promulgated b,
the native members of the Philippine
Commission promising statehood IL
the Union. This, he said. was bast
deception practiced upon the peopl,
and would SOW the seeds of future
instruction.
He ridiculed the idea of obtaining
any great trade in the Philippines,
and said that when Republicans talKed
about governing the Filipino. he was
to trading with him it took all the
factories in the world to supply his
luxurious tastes A composite picture
of the Filipino, according to these de-
scriptions, would represent him as read
ing Senator Hoar speeches by the camp
fire while waiting for the missionary to
boil If we should increase our trade
there over thousand per cent. and
make ten per cent. profit. it would
about pay the cost of maintaining two
regiments of soldiers He dwelt upon
the question of oriental trade, showing
that England's trade, in despite OF her
colonial possessions there, had been
steadily decreasing for years, while
that of the United States had been
steadily increasing long before we ever
had the Philippines.
He commended to the Republicans
their own motto, "Let well enough
alone He did not want to send Ameri
can capital across the seas he wanted
to keep it all at home to develop our
own resources and pay wages to Ameri-
can labor instead of scattering it among
the paupers of the orient. This policy
meant that we would scatter our
broken frontiers all over the globe and
push ourselves into the midst of
European quarrels and contentious.
That would cast upon us vast
burden of military taxes. This flood
of prosperity would ebb, the revenues
would dwindle and the people would
call for retrenchment of public ex
penses. We would not dare to cut
down our military appropriations, and
would have to reduce appropriations
for rivers and harbors and other
internal improvements. He ridiculed
the idea that the United States had
become world power by striking
down decrep;d nation.
In conclusion Senator Carmack said:
SIT is perilous thing to shake the
foundations of peoples faith. A great
English writer, Mr.. Lecky, said, The
appetite for organic changes is one OF
the vast diseases that can affect
nation All real progress must grow
out OF stable, persistent, national
character, deeply influenced by custom,
precedent and old traditional reverence.
"Sir, it is this staple and persistent
national character which strikes its
roots into the rocks among which it
terminated and leaped to life, it is
this alone that can perpetuate the lite
Of a republic. 1t is this faith in the |
wisdom of established principles that |
constitutes the great anchor of popular
and let me warn you who
would heap scorn upon the doctrines
and sentiments we have been taught to
.evere, that the time will come in
some hour of madness and of passion
when YOU, yourselves, will appeal to
The stirrer of the storm in the name
If the old principles and the ancient
faiths, and he will answer you out of
he whirlwinds with your own sneer
He will tell you that you, yourselves
lave taught him to despise all the
aiths and TRADITIONS of the past and
o trust only in the opinions, the feel
ngs and the passions of the hour.
"Once unchain the spirit Of revOlu-
ion, and do not hope that you can
or direct its work of
Do not suppose that it will
pare for your sake some nook or corner
# the constitution where you can find
heller and protection. Say not to
ourselves When the overwhelming
courge shall pass through it shall not
ONE nigh unto lis.
IF we would perpetuate the repub-
ic we must perpetuate those high pur-
oses that gave life and the very breath
4 its nostrils. If we would resist the
orces of disorder we must preserve
intact and unbroken the walls which
Ut fathers reared and stand fast by
ne citadel of the constitution as by
1e ark of the covenant of the living
Iod. "