Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-06
HILL SOUNDS TOCSIN.
Leading New York Democrat Out
lines Party Policy on Issues.
Monroe Doctrines. Revenue Reform,
Regulation of Trusts. Reciproc-
ity and Hard Mony Are All
to BE Favored.

held at the club, New
York, on the evening of February 90.
There we're a number of speeches
by prominent members of the party,
all being in favor of the overthrow
of trust rule. The principal speaker
was ex-senator David B. Hill, who
said:
'I speak tonight in favor of the main
tenance 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 for
ephemeral parties born in a day and per-
ishing in a night, but a political organiza-
ton which has existed for a 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.
1--WE 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 antagoni2e the excuses
of fclaralism-the twin sister and protege
of imperialism.
Federalism meant then what imperialism
largely means to-day-governmental poll
cies practically unrestrained by constitu-
tional restriction-a strong government,
net because safely entrenched In the affec-
lions of the people, but strong because OF
it's immense standing armies, its possess
SIGN of power and its ostentatious display,
its munificent expenditure of moneys, its
vast opportunities for official favoritism
ana its general tendencies toward plutoc-
rany
Democracy means the maintenance Of
popular rights-imperialism means ex-
elusive privileges to the few. Democracy
favors the preservation o fthe personal lib
erty of the citizen; imperialism exalts the
nation and b%elittles the individual. I'M
perialism makes what its apologists call a
splendid government; democracy makes
a happy and liberty loving people.
I'VE should stand where our forefathers
stood before us. in favor of the preserva-
ton Of our constitutional governments
government based upon a written constitu-
lion. with its powers we'll limited and ac-
curately defined-not an india rubber In
strument that will stretch and bend and
turn according to every whim and freak
and project of those temporarily or acci-
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hut 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 well as in times of secur-
ity.
eve should adhere to the policy involved
in Jeffersonian expansion-the reasonable
and natural requirement of territory ad-
jacent to our own. either largely unsettled
or peopled with inhabitants capacitated for
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all the privileges of our free institutions.
No Place for Dependent Colonies.
1.-THE recent mistakes of our opponents
in that regard, perhaps, annot 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 ongress and outside
the pale Of the guarantees of the constitu-
ton. Wherever the American flag of right
floats, it should be as the emblem OF a free
government and the aegis of constitutional
liberty.
There is no place in the American union
for n permanent system of dependent col
onies.
'The fundamental rights of habeas cor
nus, trial by jury, freedom of the press.
freedom of speech, religious liberty, speed
in public trials, protection of life, liberty
and 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
to us from our fathers and we
should cherish it as a 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
Our opponents may invoke consti-
.tutional bubbles to justify tariff discrimi-
between different parts of our own
possessions, but such unnatural barriers to
not only render our govern
ment homogeneous, but are antagonistic to
our own business interests. The spirit.
even If not the letter, of our constitution
contemplates uniform tariff laws through
the strength and breadth of our posses
slons; but, aside from all the technical
questions, a wise public policy Imperative
~ requires such uniformity.
1.-THE encouragement of commerce was
declared by Jefferson in his first inaugural
address as president to be a portion of the
creed of our. political faith and remains
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
Tuba from the present unjust tariff exac-
ions imposed upon her by the short
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
only to be enslaved by the United
States in commercial bondage. Justice
that these lmpositions shall cease. |
Nothing but selfish interests stand in the |
way of tariff reform for Cuba, 1t being
that tariff reduction there may be
'ollowed by a popular demand for tariff
everywhere.
1.-THE pampered recipients of govern
favoritism are holding Cuba by the
throat for self-protection against the at
of the people upon the tariff citadel
n other directions. They are deaf to the
appeals of humanity; the cries of distress
10 not move them: considerations of ma
.ional honor and fair dealing do not influ-
.nce them. Va
"Selflshness and greed are at the bottom
IF the refusal of congress to relieve an
people from grievous wrongs
under the name of governmental
which Is as unnecessary as Il !s
and unjust.
1T is seriously charged In some quar-
that the present attitude Of republican
in congress in declining to consider
he necessities Of Cuba at this time is at
ributed to a desire to force another in
direction In that island, occasioned by
he poverty and necessities of the people,
n the hope and to the end of compelling its
to the United States in the
very near future.
at may be we'll doubted, however,
this Is the controlling motive be-
lind their ~inaction and Indifference. Prob
bly, q better explanation Is to be found
n the complete domination Of the serious
consequences and actions by the gigantic.
[ not corrupt, combination Of protected
interests which has dictated and controlled
much Of the tariff legislation Of the United
In the recent past. There Is a limit
0 h patience Of the people, and 1t may
,e safely pradicted here to-nipht that a