The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-02
PARKER WILDLY CHEERED
 FOR SPEECH AT NEWARK
perhaps more dignifying positions IT our larger national life
 Excellent State Ticket.

 .Perhaps upon this, the first oppof- |tunity I have had to meet my fellow citizens of the world at large. l may be permitted to refer to .ae high standard which the Democratic party has set for It's State ticket. All along the line from one end of the country Ito the other. only the best men that could be found in their respective States, Rave apparently been good
 enough for Democratic ideals and pur= poses
 | ''The benefit of this policy not only
 to the party but to the world at large tcannot be exaggerated. No man has
 been in a position to know better than
 that 1t has. been great source of
 strength during the present campaign. From every nation of the union I have found not only the greatest com l fort but have received. the most favor able help in those efforts In which I have made to reach my countrymen and to set before then 50 far as have had opportunity. fhe plans. the purposes and the ideas of united party.
 | T cannot help recalling that of the citizens of New Jersey 100000 are na- lives of my own State of New York. I therefore not only feel that ! come among you to speak to you and through you to the people within your borders and to the people of the coun- try, but my visit has this still closer relation, that after all am only speak ing to my neighbors and friends. DeveIopnsent UnparaIlcied. This, however, Is a purely natural and inevitable result of the methods under which our country has been peopled. There is no parallel in his- tory for development like ours. In former times population spreads slow ly and gradually over the forests and plains of Europe but 1t was not com posed of people. all moved by the same ideas and inspired bya common pur- pose. Different forms of government, intolerant sects. killing each other for what they claimed to be the glory of God, now with ambitious leaders again with, dangerous adventur CTS, they represented motives so an- tagonistic that their progress was marked with violence and bloodshed. Here we have seen in each success sive township. county or State an en- tirely different view. Absorved in tolerant in spirit and in truth. our settlers went forth battling only with savages and with those forces of nature which were almost as pitiless. Into each of these new communities they carried order and law. In each one the | first public building was a church. the second a school house and the third a court house, where all the forms of law sanctified by precedent and fitted for the use of free, self-governing people found adoption.
 PescefuI Progress.
 s''rhey have spoken the same lan- Af.a~ union. the same tolerance for every religious belief and the same con- | fdence in and cooperation with each other. This expansion, unique In human history, has gone on under the auspices of republic and with a devotion to self government, the like of which the world has never seen. The military power has not transferred the popula- l ton of one country to another; no reli- | gfous persecution has forced single
 reluctant sect from its old homes; no | moving mass of population and no drill
 master except industry and the natural
 instinct of men to unite fin self-defense 1 has called our people away from their ! peaceful pursuits. l From wherever drawn or in what 1 ever place he settled. the man became l at once a citizen and a free paftaker i in the benefits that already had &C., crued to generations formed by intel
 ligent self-government.
 | Tt is this expansion, national, inevi-
 table. almost as silent as the tides
 of the ocean which has made this coun- try what 1t is and in the society that
 has come out of this varied effort the words, Empire and Subject have be- l come meaningless and obsolete.
 Turn for a moment from this pict- 1 ure to that which sets before us the
 process of expansion even in the great
 countries of Europe and we find 1t en- tirely ideal There 1t has been accom- | panied by the cruelty of the conqueror.
 the ambition of the soldier and the l rapacity of the tax collector.
 ExpansiOn of Other Nations.
 Tt has gone on not only over virgin
 lands. but among crowded populations.
 It has brought millions under the heel ! Of the condueror and has inculcated among those at home the idea that
 these great masses have been brought
 into the world in order to serve a dis | tant master whom they would never
 see. or to provide business, or pleasure,
 or. profit for conquering race.
 Tt has promoted the growth of na-
 vies, useless and unnecessary, save for their natural purpose of protectino,
 commerce. and armies which, quartered
 upon the conquered land, have been 1 paid by revenues drawn from scantv or decaying industries. Even in these
 days of arbitration and peace confer i.
 ences. the rage for conquest, national
 rivalry and the fear that one might 1 obtain an advantage over another. have
 made conscription almost universal | over the whole continent of Europe They have divided unknown continents
 into protectorates or spheres of influence which thus far have been almost use
 less to the holders and harmful to the l natives.
 1 Tt is this kind of expansion upon
 which we are invited to look with ia. |.
 vor. We are asked to turn from our
 own mighty but peaceful triumphs.
 from the spectacle of a continent set
 tied by a homogeneous people. attached
 to liberty. fitted to govern themselves, | in order that we may enter upon the
 evitably end fin the adoption of the
 other methods which I have so briefly
 and so imperfectly outlined,
 A Protest Entered.
 When we are asked then to turn
 away from the assured triumphs which ! a pouplar system-familiar as house.
 hold words-has brought to us and to
 adopt methods which, opposed to all
 our traditions. have not even the merit
 of success or of bringing govern 1 ment, happiness and contentment to a ! single people thus far subjected to l them, we may well enter our protest 1 against such a policy.