The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
MANY PRoMINENTIEADERS
Shepard, Harmon and DeArm4l
 Ond Chief Speakers.
The Former Tells of the t1xessm4 Duties of Patriotic opposiA 7
 tion"-dives His udeas os .xii - the Ideal Platform.4 .akA1

Chicago. March 1s-Prominsnt -D@nss
 crats from every part of the country
 gathered today to attend the annual Jack@
 son day banquet of the Iroquois Club ax
 the Auditorium Hotel.
 Preceding the banquet many nokaksaN
 In the party held long talks togsther. ,dis-
 cussing suggestions for the Presidential
 campaign of next year. The speakssstax
 the banquet made strong pleas for a a.nns-,
 fled party and the adoption of piatfosuy
 that would meet general approval. l Mayor Carter H. Harrison. who was to@i
 day renominated by the Democratic cHtN
 Convention. was the first speaker. Aftss | welcoming the visitors to the city, kde red sponded to the toast ''The City of Chi~ | cago."
 He was followed by Edward N. sheparA | of New York who spoke on "Presiden&
 Duties of Patriotic Opposition" Edward M Shepard speaks> MT. Shepard said:
 ''The talk from one end of the land tm, the other Is of trusts on one side and trade unions on the other. There is q deep and widespread fear that Americaul
 industrial civilization may come to be ai
 mere interplay between those vast Sorcess
 in which the great body of independenE l small producers will cease to be indel pendent.
 T make tonight no protest against mere organizations or combinations of capitaf
 or labor, where freedom of others is noS
 impaired and where the power of thu government is not thrown into the scale.
 The idea of limiting individual wealth in no doubt perntcious dream. The Demo- cratic never make, an attack on the freedom of | those who have lawfully made fortunes, | to make them larger. And very certainly the Democratic party made up in SO largo part of wage earners, can never be oth~ erwise than loyal to labor organizations. T believe the economic efficiency of our
 own country has vastly been increased
 and justice promoted by trades unions.
 They constitute one of the great and con- Eervative forces of our industrial rights. No wise man can, however. fail to see that. with every standardization of eco- homie power by artificial limitation og our incoming and outgoing markets. with every increase of the power of captains of industry over the United States Sens ate and other divisions of our govern ment must go an increasing danger, thaA In sheer defense. the organizations of la hor may become unfavorable to HbeFtyS
 4AO Auhuub
 ''Can anything involve more danger t0i conservative interests than un-Americani interference with personal liberty, such. as was illustrated by the injunction or~ der granted in St. Louis the other day, by a Federal Judge of ability and chars acter9
 '"The Democratic party no doubt haa made some mistakes. for 1t is humansa but it has never lent itself to either ses-i islation or administration tending Co the destruction of the small. independent pros ducers, or of their independence.
 T should rejoice to hear the aDemos! cratic party propose mot 8 general rcvtsAl ion of the tariff with ali it's diff3cuitis@I and complications and with all of thal widespread popular belief. faulty as n believe 1t to be, of great masses of IAmer-j ican business and laboring men in thwi protective tariff, but in the first .instancaI a removal or reduction to revenue ba@i sis of the duties on goods the prodactioni of which Is today practically monopo-I lized. Instead of dealing with the whoiaI problem of free trade and protection, in~l stead of introducing doubt into almose1 every business, the Democratic party mayd well deal with the few schedules in which9 through such practical monopoly vasW fortunes have been made by taxation ur<, on the masses of the people. For thaA3 public sentiment Is ready. Ind that campaign every argument in favor of economic freedom can be readily made clear to the American people. Its essen~A tiaI conservatism will readily appeal t04 the average American citizen whatever he may scientifically think of free traded
 Question of Colonies.
 ''Nor is this the whole of Democrat0t duty and opportunity at present. No wise man can fail to see that the Rel publican establishment of new systen of colonies held for the American Re- publican by force of arms and at enor nous cost is but another phase of th@4 of power and disaparage~ ment of equal rights.
 ''The Republican Party has of late years affected to be the guardian of sound financial policy. But its leaders have deliberately, if not cunningly, re- fused to give the national bank note cur rency the sound and normal elasticity the business of the country requires.
 For any sound relief of this kind tha will, I believe. have to look to the Democratic Party.
 Upon this program let us then make our campaign. The establishment of equal rights; the abolition of special privi- eges; the maintenance of Democratio self government. The program meana 'esolute tariff reform. beginning with the goods which have fallen under monopoly; 'esolute and practical prevention of in- erstate commerce, preferences ana lbuses. rigorous reduction in cost of ad- tion; the promotion of Philippine elf government and independence, ana h provision of fair and secure, normal- y distributed currency by all banks which lold banking charters from the Rovernsi nent.
 Jackson and the removel of the .banls harter." was the topic chosen by JudgOi udson Harmon of Cincinnati, the Attor4l ey General under the second Cleveland Judge Harmon spoks aef Ollows:
 Judge Harmon's Address.
 "Jacksons veto of the bank bill Is ona f those events which have a lasting inAt