The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-18

. dpoiOAy LOT lHlS tulSLdke III our nj
tory we have apologizsd by deed
of confession; it seems strange tina
we could, as a people. have prospere
indrssrially and otherwise, as W
In all our history, both as colonis
ard as states, In spite OF the NOR
s;rous error-this unholy rebellion
Coming on down the current o
time, we found another period OF pop
ular Mysteries that is incomprehensl
| bic 10 us of wiser generation, II
view cf como enliehtening facts il
orr recent history Some'men in thC
! troublesome little town of Boston
masquerading as Indians, seized and
threw into the sea. certain cases 81
tea belonging 10 certain merchants
Of the East India company That this
was a violation of law. no man in
England or America had any doubt
that the violaters of the law were
amenable to punishment under the
law, through its usual processes,
amongst which were indictment by
grand jury. and trial by petit jury,
none doubted. With wisdom. how
ever equaled only by that of the pre-
sent occupant of the CHIEF executives
chair in these United States. these
usual remedies by law against law
breakers were ignored by that sapient
statesman, King George, as being
reeds to weak to depend upon in an
extreme like that. The consequence
was that the entire population of
Boston men, women and children, OBJ
servers of the law as well as law
breakers, were punished and the Bos-
ton port bill was passed, thus in a
fashion royalty communicating the
little town. commercially and indus
trlally.
Mr.. Williams then said that we
have made the amende honorable for
this SILLY business by our govern
mental strenuosity" at Tndianola,
Miss. He spoke in a very sarcastic
manner of President Roosevelt's
course in dealing with the postoffice
muddle at that place.
He talked at length on the tariff,
in his fine sarcastic vein
and laying bare the weakness of a
protective tariff Continuing, he
;aid he was reminded of another blum
Ter of our ancestors. both under the
common law in Great Britain and in
he United States. They seem to have
entertained, he said, the notion that /
in restraint of trade |
seeking monopoly and throttling
are in some way adverse !
o the development of individuality (
md somehow poison the life of trade. I
lie then turned his attention TO the /
question of the trusts which have 1
developed and grown to such an /
alarming extent in the last few years /
After discussing the trusts, Mr. /
Williams concluded his speech as fol- /
ows .aluding with biting sarcasm to
President Roosevelt and his usurpa
ions of the functions of his office: (
Our Strenuous" Foreign Policy.
Another error of our grandfathers
a connection with our foreign al
airs has come over me lately with
reigaing-down emphasis George
Vashington,-who. however, was no
hing but plain Virginia planter, a
ort of high-class farmer and, there
ore, one of the basest set, not TO
e thought of in the same breath
18th such platform makers as the
enator from Massachusetts,. or such
irile history makers as our fellow
itizen in the White House-thought,
nd possibly his secretary of state.
'homas jefferson, had a great deaf to
o with inspiring him to think,--that
ur wisest and best and most patriot
, foreign policy consisted in annie
BILE relations with all the other ma.
ons of the world and entangling al
anees with none Of them: in other
ords. that our chief duty was GO
eep our own house in order. with the
otion in our stupid minds that the
lm total Of the rightful purpose of
II just government is the freedom
nd happiness of man. How wonder
II II Us that We prospered with that
1rt Of foreign policy and main
aimed, withal, the respect and
God will of the worll--wonderful, in
eed. when we consider what we
DIV know to be accepted axioms of
lterra,ional policy We know now,
ON our fellow citizen in the
'hlte House, that the peoples who
ay expect our tolerance and friend
Zip, are those who maintain order
ID prosperity. those who govern
lemseives well, those who pay
leir financial obligations ana that
may become a duty. which We can
D. ignore. certainly In the western /
emisphere. to intervene in some
ay. mere or less indefinite, in the
omestic affairs Of those who do not
D all those things, nor behave with
ecency in poli;ical and industrial
atters, whatever in the world that
Jay mean. but who. by the omission ,
the doing Of all these things. do
oosen the ties which bind together
vilized society. which ties. Of
purse. God has appointed ms his
und3na yice-regent-mcchanics 10
ghtcn gp again With these new
ieas 1T our duty as 4 nation mill /