The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-02-28
HILL SOUNDS ToCSIN.
Leading New York Democrat Out
lines Party Policy on Issues.
Monroe Doctrine, Revenue Reform,
Regulation Of Trusts, ReciprOc-
ity and Hard Mony Are All
to BE Favored.

Field at the Manhattan club, New
York, on the evening of February 90.
There were a number of speeches
by prominent members of the party,
all being in favor of the overthrow
of trust rule. The principal speaker
vas ex-senator David B. Hill, who
said:
II speak tonight in favor of the main
tsnapce of the old landmarks of the demo-
cratic party.
'In that path there lie safety, honor.
self-respect, success. Temporary expedi-
ents and shifting issues may answer Tor
ephemeral parties born in day and per-
ishing in night but political organiza-
tlCn which has existed for century must
necessarily have had for its guidance
something inherently substantial-some
permanent governmental policies which
have been engrafted on its history and In
terwoven with its activities and traditions
I'VE trace our political lineage back to
, Jefferson, who founded the democratic
party.
Opposition to the precepts and practices
of imperialism was thus one of the cardinal
principles of our party faith at the very
inception of the government.
Jefferson organized the forces of democ-
racy with which to antagonize the excuses
of federalism-the twin sister and protege
of imperialism.
Federalism meant then what imperialism
largely means tO-Qay-SOVerilIleHldi pun
cies practically unreStrained by conSt1tu-
tional restriction-a strong government
not because safely entrenched in the affec-
tions of the people, but strong because of
its immense standing armies, Its posses
sion of power and its ostentatious display,
its munifcent expenditure of moneys, its
vast opportunities for official favoritism
and its general tendencies toward plutoc-
racy.
democracy means the maintenance of
~i<rl,f ,ayio1 ;Syro
elusive privileges to the few. Democracy
favors the preservation o fthe personal lib
erty of the citizen; imperialism exalts the
nation and belittles the individual. I'm
perialsm makes what it's apologsts call
splendid government: democracy makes
happy and liberty loving people.
1--WE should stand where our forefathers
stood before us, in favor of the preserva-
ton of our constitutional government-a
government based upon written constitu-
ton with its powers we'll limited and &C
curately defined-not an India rubber in
strument that will stretch and bend and
turn according to every whm and freak
and project of those temporarily or acct
dentally in possession Of the government
but a chart that will safely guide us in
storm and tempest as well as In sunshine
and calm; in war as we'll as In peace; In
times of peril as we'll as in times of secur-
ity.
1--WE should adhere to the policy involved
I'm Jeffersonian expansion-the reasonable
and natural requirement of territory ad-
jacent to our own, either largely unsettled
or peopled with inhabitants capacitated for
ultimate citizenship and the enjoyment of
all the privileges of our free institutions
No Place for Dependent Colonies.
1.-The recent mistakes OF our opponents
in that regard, perhaps, cannot now be
adequately corrected. but manifest duty
requires US to resist, as the permanent
policy of our government, the establish
ment of colonial possessions, governed only
by the discretion of congress and outside
the pale of the guarantees of the conStitu-
ton. Wherever the American flag of right
floats, 1t should be as the emblem. of a free
government and the aegis of constitutional
liberty.
There is no place in the American union
fer a permanent system of dependent col
onies.
THE fundamental rights of habeas cor
pus. trial by jury, freedom of the press,
freedom of speech. religious liberty. speed
In public trials, protection. of life, liberty
ard property without governmental inter-
ference except under due process of law,
and all the other guarantees of the consti-
tuition intended for the protection Of all
who owe allegiance to this republic should
not depend upon the within or will of con-
gress nor be considered as a favor to be
granted or withheld at its pleasure, but
should accompany our Jurisdiction wher
ever It Is proposed to be permanently
maintained. This is democratic doctrine
should cherish it as priceless heritage.
No Tariff Walls for Trade.
Neither should tariff walls nor customs
duties obstruct the path of American trade
from one portion of this government to an
other. Our opponents may invoke conSti-
tutional bubbles to justify tariff discrimi-
nations between different parts of our own
possessions, but such unna tural barriers to
commerce not only render our govern
ment homogeneous, but are antagonistic to
our own business interests. The spirit,
cortemplates uniform tariff laws through
out the strength and breadth of our posses
sio1s; hut. aside from all the technical
QUE stions a wise public policy Imperative
~ requires such uniformity.
The fragment of commerce was
declared by Jefferson in his first inaugural
address as president to be portion of the
so to-day.
appropriate to this subject let me sug-
gest that no political party, can AFFORD to
refuse to accede to the widespread senti-
ment of the people in favor of relief to
Cuba from the present unjust tariff exac-
tions imposed upon her by the short
sighted policy of our opponents now in con-
troll of the government
1.-The spectacle is at present presented of
Cuba relieved from Spanish political OPP
preston only to be enslaved by the United
States In commercial bondage Justice
demands that these lmpositions shall cease.
Nothing but selfish interests stand in the
way of tariff reform for Cuba, II being
feared that tariff reduction there may be
followed by a popular demand for tariff
reduction everywhere
THE pampered recipients of govern
mental favoritism are holding Cuba by the
throat for self-protection against the At