The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-08-01
DEMOCRATS in BOSTON.
Senator Carmack Lashes Trusts and
Imperialism.

Imperialism
Senator Carmack opened his
speech with tribute to the De-
mocracy of New England. who, he
said, Through all these years
have dauntlessly faced the brutal
Republican majorities that exist
and persist in this section of the
country" and "who, like one of
old, have always risen with re-
newed strength and courage from
regular biennial contact with the
earth"
After dwelling at considerable
length upon the alleged departure
of the Republican party of to day
from the landmarks set by it's
founders, Senator Carmack assert
ed that the concentration of wealth
and power in the hands of a few
men threatened the succession of
the republic by "a despotism 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
Roosevelt's "crusade against mo-
nopoly and plutocracy," Senator
Carmack predicted that "when
that distinguished statesman comes
to understand, as he doubtless
will, that the Republican party
has enthroned the trusts and made
plutocracy supreme in the United
States, he will prove a powerful
ally for the Democratic party"
'The President" continued Sen
ator Carmack, lis now engaged in
a terrific lingual assault upon the
trusts. He demands that there
shall be more and stronger laws to
curb the power. | have always
understood it to be the duty of the
President to advise Congress by
message of such legislation as he
thinks will promote the general
welfare. But he waits until Con-
gress has adjourned and then tells
the people of the laws he intends
to have enacted by some other
Congress at some other time.
eff" the speaker said further,
"you wish to deal effectively with
monopoly; if you want to sup
press the trusts, you must put a
party in power that means to dc
it. We know that the Republican
party will not even try"
The speaker censured the mill
tary administration in the Philip
pines for cruelties inflicted upon
non combatants, and for the en-
ployment of Macabebes.
eve have but to look back tc
the beginning of our war with
SPAIN" continued the speaker,
ito see how far we have wandered
from our ideals as a nation. Our
war in Cuba was for liberty and
humanity. Our war in the Phil
ippines is for subiugation and
spoils. The first war was blessed
of heaven and approved by the
enlightened judgment of mankind,
The second war is a crime against
liberty and the curse of God is
upon it."
Answering the statement that
the present policy of expansion
was similaA + Fl t4ha st. of the founders
of the DemoorD'l->~vss;xsn5ee SS Senator
Carmack said the par, .N,~9ever
acquired territory without SigCl
ing covenant that its inhabitants
should be clothed with all the
rights of American citizenship and
protected by all the guarantees of
the constitution; that they should
be organized into self govegnisas-SS
communities, and then finall ~
mitted as States of the April tr
Union" noo~,1h-
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