The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-04
CARL SCHURz IS
FOR JUDGE PARKER
Unlike Mr.. Roosevelt, the DEM
ocratic Candidate Would Be
a Safe President

NEW YORK, Oct. S.-Can Schurz
has addressed letter to James w.
Pryor. grand secretary of the Parker
Independent club, in which he says:
The boast that the great advances of
this country in wealth and prosperity
were owing to the Republican policy OF
high protection is simply a Islander on the
American people. Our natural resources
are SO immense and the energy and in
genuity of American labor so exception
ally productive, that owing to the COM
blnation of these two tremendous factors
the American people were bound to pros
per and to grow rapidly in wealth under
or In spite of-any economic policy
1t is indeed time that the American
people should open their eyes to the mean
ing OF these notorious facts A large
NUMBER OF manufacturing establishments
as We'll Is their allied interests. receive
from the government favors or benefits
OF great money value in the shape of pro-
tective tariff legislation The political
party which, when in power, confers those
benefits of great money value, turns to
the interests so benefited for pecuniary
aid to support it in its efforts to keen
ltseH In power, or to regain power if it
has temporarily lost it, The protected
interests give to the political party that
pecuniar aid. of course on the under
standing that they continue to receive the
old or greater favors of money value from
the government through the instrumental
ity OF the political party in question
Republican Fat Frying
This political lewdness has already so
much debauched the public mind that the
corrupt business is done openly. without
shame. The fact is notorious that the
Republican party organization before ev-
cry national election fries the fat' out
ffOio Il,
ing that the beneficiares will be protected
In the enjoyment of their Benefits if the
yield OF the frying process is satisfactory
and If not, not. The upshot is a combina-
ton of bribery and blackmai carried ON
with hardly any conceament
DO | expect the Democratic party. if
successful promptly to repress the evils
of the protective policy? 1 see at present
no other fundamentally by which that
work can he put in practical motion and
do, indeed, expect the Democratic party
In partial possession of the government
the Republican senate being in any event
Tor season in a position to obstruct
changes in the tariff lawS-to uncover to
the eyes of the whole people the iniquities
OF the system to avail itself of every legal
possibility to relieve its rigors. and thus
| to start the reformatory movement with
| v1gor and i'll an enlightened spirit-in one
word. to prepare the field for the final
ton and tyrannical rapacity.
HOSTS Flag of Conquest
The Republican party. which owed its
existence to its belief in the Declaration
| OF independence, has before all the world
hauled down that banner of our faith
| and has hoisted in its stead the flag of
| conquest and arbitrary dominion over
| subject populations. l am we'll aware of
! the philanthropic cloak in which this
autocratic rule is wrapped-how it is all
| for the benefit of our SUBJECTS how we
| intend to make them free and rich and
| contented, if they behave themselves 1t
is the talk of autocrats from time i'm
memorial l will not question the good
faith of the rulers of today But the
rulers of today will not be the rulers of
tomorrow or the day after. The fact re-
mains that this is autocracy that this au-
tocfacy is to determine how much free
dom, and what kind of government the
subject is to have. and that it will deter
| mine this according to its own changing
pleasure and its temporary conception of
it's own interests.
Hazardous to Elect "Teddy"
President Roosevelt is an exceedingly
interesting, picturesque and f6rcible, char
acter, who would have found a most con-
genial and glorious field of action at the
time of the Crusades but sometimes
strangely fails to appreciate the higher
moral aims of modern civilization He is
a patriotic man who has done very good
service in several ways, and, being still
young, is capable of doing much more in
various important positions aside from
the presidency. His is q master nature,
but this republic does not want in the
presidency a master least of all one
who cannot master himself. To re-elect
him, and thereby to make him understand,
as he most certainly would understand
it, that the American people are immense.
ly delighted with all he has said and done
under the inspiration of his strenuous
tendencies, that they simply yearn to have
more of it, and that to this end they put
into his hand the great power of the
nland of the army and a big navy: with
all the temptations and possibilities of
such power so that his ambition to reg
ulate the world according to his notions
may have full sWing-this | humbly sub
NIT, would be so hazardous venture that
clear-headed and sober minded Ameri-
cans may well, for their countryS sake,
shrink from the risk.
Judge Parker's Merits
The alternative is the election of the
Democratic candidate, Judge Parker.
do>not indulge in the slightest delusion as
to the Democratic party. / know ltS
faults and shortcomings very Well, and
have opposed it often. But believe that.
if put in power, under present circum-
stances, it can do the country very I'M
portant service partly OF negative part
" of a positive kind. L believe also that,
in view of the peculiar requirements Of
the time, the Democrats have chosen an
eminently proper man for their candidate:
Mr.. Parker evidently is by temperament mn au,1;si
and mental habit, as we'll as by acqulSl-
ton of knowledge, par excellence, judge;
and it seems TO me that just now after
all the confusing experiences We nave
gone through it is peculiarly desirable
that we should have true judge in the
presidential chair-a man who knows the
law: who reveres the law; who will never
permit his emotions to make him overlook
, the law who will never presume that his
will is law and who will constantly keep
in mind that democracy will drift into
chaos as soon as its government ceases to
be a government of law.
His conduct has also shown that ne IS
a man of high self-respect. He Will be
no mans man. He has the courage not
only to resist his opponents. but the high
er courage much more valuable in a pres
ident in obedience to his sense of duty to
resist his friends.
The reasons have here candidly given
compel me to believe that the American
people will act wisely in making Alton b.
Parker their president.