Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26

| and in the pursuits of happiness, and
guarantee to every citizen a fair shore
of the proceeds of his own toll, and then
my boy take his chances with other
peoples boys in this country (applause).
Il want to ask you Republicans il you
are not interested in protecting individual
enterprise. What do you find today:
You can go into a business, no matter
how much you are experienced, no matter
how honest, how Industrious. how per-
severing and tomorrow a man will come
representing some great trust and give
you Your choice between bankruptcy and
conspiracy against your fellows That is
what it is today. No man is safe. They
are driving out the small business man
and small manufacturer and they are
making it more and more difficult for Il
man to aspire to independence in this
country.
What is the position of your party
on the money question? 1t tells you
| the money question is dead. 1t has not
presented single proposition that it
intended to stand upon. I call your
attention to its promise for bimetalism
in &c. When the campaign was over
Mr. Mckinley went through the form
of sending commission to Europe to
get international bimetalism, and the
Republican Congress appropriated $780,
600 to pay the expenses of the commits
sion that went to Europe to ask Eu-
| rope to help us get out of the hole that
the gold standard had put US into. And
vet when England spanked our COM
mission and sent it home. not Re
publican leader had any complaint to
make at ALL They just dropped the
whole thing and said: We'll. we will
stand for the gold standard il nobody
will help US get rid of it,
"And now they are trying to force
through Congress a bill called the
| Fowler bill containing three PROPOSE
lions which are antagonistic to the
welfare of the great producing masses
of the United States. You never read
| the Fowler bill in a Republican news
paper You never read an editorial
! o14,la iiaiuE the Fowler bill or telling
you very much about it, and yet 1t was
| introduced in Congress, but postponed
to the next session because those who
| backed it dared not submit it to the
| people in q campaign. Let me tell you
| what your Republican speakers will
not tell you, dare not tell you before
| an audience That Fowler bill, backed
| by a Republican committee and backed
! by the ma jority of the House If they
! dared to meet the issue in the cam
paign. provides for an asset currency,
branch bank and redeemable sill
yer dollar.
but there is a greater question than
all this. greater than the tariff ques-
| ton. greater than the money question.
greater than the trust question. 1t is
| the question of Imperialism and l am
going to spend the remainder of my
| time on that question, for 1t is palmer
| than any other question with which
our people have had to deal.
There are certain self-evident
There are certain sef-evident truths.
What is self-evident truth:
| 1T is truth so plain that it dos not
need any definition, and / am coming
10 believe that all truth is self-evident
and that the best service you can rem
der truth is just to strip it of all those
J things that obscure it and conceal ii,
50 that the people can see the truth
| themselves. And when we come to deal
/ with the question Of imperialism we are
dealing with self-evident truths. Now
| they have tried to confuse this issue.
| They have said we wanted expansion
| and they have appealed to American
pride. Expansion is one thing and inn
perialism is another. We have had ex-
| panson in the past but when we have
expanded we have taken in land that
could be made into states and people
| who could be made into citizens. When
we have expanded the constitution and
| the flag have gone together and WIN
! the flag waved over a man the cOnsti-
/ ~ hi
shield and as his protection. Eut now
| they think that you can carry the flag
and leave the constitution: that you
can't stretch the constitution beyond the
limits of the States. but that yoi can
spread the President all over the world.
When he out-grows the constitution
there is no place TO stop him and 1t is
all President and no constitution.
There was bred Scott decision 80
years ago and 1t stirred this country
from center to circumference, and yet
that bred Scott decision only affected
four millions of black people and in
stead OF turning them back il simply
stayed their further progress. but the
decision In the Downs case affected 15,-
100000 of people and it not only stopped
further progress towards the realiZa-
ton of the ideals of the Republic but
it turns us back to the point from
whence we started f25 years ago. That
decision holds that this nation,
through it's President and Congress,
can deal with the people us George III
and the English Parliament death with
the people of this country before the
Revolution According to that decision
you can tax them without representa-
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