The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18


 sav that this very movement to Amer. ica of workingmen. under both high tariffs and low tariffs after we became d Federal Republic. and under no tar
 mrs. nrsof a of the fact that higher wages kave hecn paid, at every stage of our history. to white men working In fields and factories and mines and forests in
 the United states ,nan @ wors,n were Dsahg 1g pald liar pursuits in the old country. They say. that the currents of labor flow, unlike the currents of our rivers, to-
 wards the highest ievei-towards the standard of living are highest They say-these foolish people-nearly all Democrats--that taxes are necessary evils and never In themselves bless ing to be sought for; that there is some element of common sense in the old aphorism of having as little gov. ernmental interference with the af- fairs of men as is possible. consonantly and property. All of which Illustrates to what heights of palpable absurdity so-called intelligence can climb!
 An Error of Our Grandfather. Another error of our grandfathers in connection with our foreign affairs has come over me lately with weighing. down emphasis. George Washington who, however, was nothing but a plain Virginia planter, sort of high-class farmer. and. therefore. one of the tSe same breath With sucn Sd n makers as the Senator from Massa- chusetts, or such virile history makers as our fellow citizen in the White House-othSusht-and ought possible his Sec, a great deal to do with inspiring him to think-that our wisest and best and most patriotic foreign policy con- sisted in aoicable relations with all he eth Af tl> entangling alliances with none of them; in other words. that our chief duty was to keep our own house in or- der, with the notion in our stupid minds. that the sum total of the right full purpose of all just government is the freedom and happiness of man How wonderful 1t Is that we prospered with that sort of a foreign policy and good will of the world-wonderful in- deed, when we consider what we now know to be accepted sound axioms of international policy. We know now. House. that the peoples. who may ex- pect our tolerance and friendship, are those who maintain order and pros perity,' those who govern themselves legations. and that 1t may become a duty, which we cannot ignore certain fly in the Western Hemisphere to in- tervene' in some way. more or less i'm
 
 those who do not do all these things. nor behave with decency in political and industrial matters whatever in the world that may mean. but who. by things. do loosen the ties which bind together civilized society," which ties. of course. God has apponted us his mundane vice,regent,mechanics to ideas of our duty as a nation militant. lit may not be very long before we are firing off cannon to celebrate the glo- rious use of the United States army ica. as a constabulary to collect debts due from South American governments, or individuals, to European govern ments. concessionaries or traders. Let and. when we see 1t; let us Close our eyes. gradually but triumphantly cease to breathe and as our hearts grow weaker and weaker, surrender our them. with the grateful exclamation; Now. Lord. thy servant hath seen It"
 What queer. old-time. childish idea was that of our ancestors. that simply a chief executive and thcx his duty consists in executing the laws as they were written. I need now tell, you, sir. that if you should be elected duties as sort of heir-apparent to the crown to train yourself and to influ- ence your chief-Judge Parker--in the way of usurping the other departments will not be as great as that of the President himself, butA as President of the Senate, you may have some oppor- tunity; the opportunity of changing ar doing some other revolutionary thing. which. as play to the galleries. will make your good old Welsh name famous. as that of one of the most AvtIn nd ct AR Men. Sir. are not responsible for the size of their opportunities. They are responsible for taking advantage of them-sometimes for not making them
 Must Despise Congress.
 Tt will be your duty. as part of the executive branch of the govern soon learn that the cattle.' who ir habit the Senate Chamber and the oth- Ter wing of the Capitol-the Lower stantly lower and lower every day for many years)-are but little. if any. better than the other cattle who sent them there, the farmers and mechan- merchants of the United States. Inhu- ence the President to feel as you do He will be told, perhaps, that an exec utive officer can go too far and finally
 
 He may be told that any man who has such a profound contempt for the leg |islative branch of this government Is unfit to be the head of its executive branch.' What stun! And yet this last sentence is an actual quotation from a member of Congress! Tell your chief that the man who uttered the lsentiment was only a Southerner and not even a Southerner of the right sort-not an Image of God in ebony but just a white man of that coarse and brutal strain which turned loose upon the world George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Rob ert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Gener Il George D. Thomas, Admiral Farragut, Sydney Lanier and Thomas Nelson Page.
 ''As to the common herd. who send these cattle to Washington. all you need with them Is to talk platitudes about civic righteousness. and the 'strenuousness of life What they want to do is to sit in the galleries and witness the play. Make yourself the star performer. according to your op- Iportunities.
 "Remember. especially that all pros- perity amongst the people is due to ing with the hand of taxation from one man in order to ot-house the prosperity of another. has. in some way or other. benefited and enriched both. Do not stop to explain how this Is possible. It would take too much time. It might. besides that. be em- Ibarrassing. If anybody is impudent enough to insist upon knowing how it could possibly come about tell him that you are not teaching a kindergar- your duty to do things and not to be bothered with any consideration of whether you are doing them right or wrong.