The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-25

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
government communities, and then final
ly admitted as states of the American
union.
THE democratic party" he said, has
acquired territory in order that 1t might
add new states to the union and new
stars to the flag, but it is one thing to
add a new star to the flag and another
to put there a splotch of dirt and human
blood and call it a star. Upon every
part of the map of this country that
marks an acquisition by the democratic
party you may write statehood. citizen
ship and constitution Upon that which
marks the acquisition of the republican
party you must write conquered pro-
vince, vassals subject and despotio
power"
In answer to the theory that I'VE must
have colonies in order to have trade,
Senator Carmack said that without coll
onies we have become the greatest in-
dustrial nation of the world
Rapidly Assuming Colonies.
As part of an elaborate defense of his
hypothesis the senator said the fact waa
notorious that the United States and
Germany, the great non-colonial nations
are rapidly passing the two colonial ma
lions and will have soon all to them
selves the struggle for the commercial
supremacy of the world. It Is a fact, he
added, that for years past England's
trade has been steadily declining with
all of her own colonies and possessions
throughout the world, and that this trade
is being taken from her by the United
States and Germany, the two great nom
colonial powers"
The senator confessed that he did not
understand what men mean wnen they
affect to believe that our connection with
an Aslatic archipelago has magnified the
Importance of this American republic.
For 125 years this nation interrupted by
the lust for empire or dominion, free
from the burden of great military estab-
lishments, has kept the even tenor of it's
way until it stands today without a
rival among the nations of the earth.
Such nation does not need to proclaim
its greatness by the shoutings of its cap
tains and the thunder of us guns. 1t
does not need to scrawl it's name across
the page of history in the red blood Of
mankind.
In conclusion Senator Carmack saidi
Let me warn you who sneer at the
doctrine and sentiments we have been
taught to revere that the time will come,
In some hour of madness and passion,
when you will appeal to the stirrer of
the storm in the name of the old princi-
pies and the ancient faiths, and he will
answer you out of the whirlwind, and
with your own sneer He will say you
have taught him to despise all the facts
and traditions of the past to trust only
to the opinions, sentiments and passions
of the hour.
Once unchain the spirit of revolution,
do not suppose that-you can circumscribe
or direct its work of destruction; do not
suppose that 1t will spare for your sake
some nook or corner of the constitution
where you may find shelter and protec-
ton Say not to yourselves, when the
overwhelming scourge shall pass through,
1t will not come night unto us. If we
would perpetuate this republic we must
perpetuate those high purpose that gave
1t life and are the very breath Of its nos
trils. If we would resist the forces OF
disorders, we must preserve intact and
unbroken the walls which our fathers
reared and stand by the citadel of the
constitution by the ark of the cove
nant of the living Cod