The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-22
Ex-PreSident Delivers Magnificent Address in Carnegie Hall In Behalf. Of
 Democracy.

| responsible political thought and | watchfulness upon which the true in- tent and purpose of our government de- bends, are in grievous peril. If, on the | other hand. this assumption is viciously unwarranted. 1t Is an insult to Ameri- can manliness which should arouse prompt and effective resentment.
 l Never before have our people been so belabored with party deliverances which. in every line and with every | line and every word, from platform declarations to the last appeal of party | advocacy, are so saturated with con- ceited and tiresome claims of infalii- billty and with supercilious disdain of all political efforts except such as are | attempted under the banner of Re- publicanism. Shall this pass current at time when, at the parting of the ways in our nations development we are specially called to patriotic l thoughtfulness and careful contempla- tion of party designs and to a vigilant watch against dangers that beset us. My faith in my countrymen will not permit me to doubt that they will in- sist on examining for themselves the accounts of party stewardship.
 ''They know that their country's prosperity, like the rains of heaven. should be distributed among all the people in every station of life; and they will challenge the claim of a par ty which boasts of a prosperity 1t has wrought which gives to it's pampered fayorites added opportunities to in- crease their riches, while the poor and those who toll. wait like Lazarus to be fed from the crumbs which fall from the rich mans table.
 Republicans and Currency.
 'The party will be given just credit. which, early or late. has endeavored to safeguard the soundness of the na- tion's currency. but the people will re- ject as savoring of presumption the insistence that only those belonging to one party organization can claim to be the protectors and defenders of our financial integrity, nor will they for get that the fight was hotly on when many of the leaders of the party now making such an insistence, were worse than lukewarm In the cause.
 "A party may indulge in seif-con- graduation when 1t has effectively de- tended the people in their daily life from the rapacity of trusts and com binations which thrive as private en- terprise is strangled, and which grow as by their control of the cost of liv- ing they cause the homes of our land to grow lean; but the people will hard | " approve the vociferous pride which claims that successful attack upon the merger of the stock Of certain com peting railroads has rescued them from their oppressors.
 | "Thay will not fall to observe that the huge combinations which directly irjure them still flourish and they may also recall how the consernation anon g those implicated in such schemes who | a | qufeted when the soothing assurance reached them that the government did not intend to run amuck.'
 Supported by the Trusts.
 Nor win they probably accept the suggestion that repentance or a change of heart accounts for the manner by which the threats and animosity of many powerful trust magnates have been displaced by their approval and substantial support of the party which seeks to convince the people of its trust destroying proc1ivities.
 l This item of the account will not be passed over without a reference to the platform statement that 'protec- ! tfon which guards and develops our industries Is a cardinal policy of the l Republican party nor without noting the declaration of the candidate stand | ing on this platform, that the 'protec- tive tariff policy ought now to be con- sidered as definitely established
 The question will be asked which are the American industries that at this time are in need of the shelter of such tariff as Is now in force. And Is | there never to be time when AmerI- | can enterprises, American ingenuity | and American opportunity will free our industries from their stage of infancy and permit American inspiration and American self reliance to cast away the leading strings of a definitely estab- 1 lished' protective policy?
 The peope know that this policy has | given rise to reckless greed and to wor- ship of gain menacing patriotic senti- ment and our love for high standards of national greatness and they know that at best it lays burdens on the con sumers of our lands.
 Results of High Tariff.
 with these tendencies and these i burdens in mind they will ask the party | protesting It's anxiety to restrain or ] destroy harmful combinations, why a protective tariff policy should be con. sidered definitely established, which. ir addition to It's other sins, contributes 1 to situation that permits a combina. ton or monopoly to sell abroad articles of our manufacture at lower prices 1 than are exacted from our own citizens at home
 They will see the sheer wrongful. ness of this condition so clearly and they will so firmly believe that in thiI way they are made to bear tariff bur. dens in order that they may be discrim- mated against in favor of foreign con. sumers, that they will not be satisfied with the assurance that the tariff has nothing to do with the trusts
 They win consIgn such an explana. ton to the limbo of negation, to take it's place with the worn-out deception that the foreign exporter pays ouI tariff taxes. and with two other sadly weak pretences, one that the tariff
 should be reformed on1y by It's friend. and the other that the party which believes that a protective tariff policy ought to be considered as definitely es. abolished. loves reciprocity in trade. Boast aA to Philippines.
 When the platform boast is made that in the Philippines we have sup. pressed insurrection. established order and given to life and property a SC. eurity never known there before,' the confession will be extorted that the in. surrection suppressed was no more than the crushing out of resistance tc
 the army of the United Staes. while en. gagged in the subjugation of a people thousands of miles from our shores | whom an incident of war undertaken by us in aid of those struggling foi liberty and independence in another quarter had put within our power; and the people will ask under what sane.
 tion was this subjugation entered upor by nation pledged to the doctrine that