The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-20

no doubt. Standing now In the dawn of the
twentieth century, having forbidden the
reading of the Declaration of independence
in a part of the country's domain with
courts ready to decide that the c~onstltu-
ton Is not q written letter to be read and
obeyed. but a dancing panorama. changing
itself to suit changing conditions :" having
put our foot down, wisely and firmly, upon
freedom of speech and freedom OF assembly
and freedom of the press In Colorado and
in those ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" where
freedom or speech, press and assembly might
be awkwar for us having discovered that
Gods command against robbery and theft
does not apply to men In the aggregate. act
ing as nationalitles, when robbing commu-
mites of their Independence, or benevolent
ly assimilating" their resources-amid all
these reversals of the historical plumbers
of our past, l boldly aver that we need
not despair Of the republic.
True, there are those who say. with
blind faulty, that the Dingley tariff law
did not always exist. that everyone of it's
schedules Is not unchangeably TO be wor-
SHIPPED, that the Republican party Itself
was not born until a comparatively recent
date, and that yet the country on the whole
has prospered. They say that Its prosperity
has been owing to new and cheap lands, in
viting the Drawn and muscle OF the white
men of the world to their cultivation, skim
ming from the surface Of the human ocean
its wave-crests of courage and enterprise.
They say that 1t has been owing to a mag
nificent area of free trade. first between
the colonies and then bAtween the States
an area that has grown, by Democratic
American expansion of homes. institutions
| and industry, and not by Republlcan-British-
Crown-Colony-Conquest, until 1t early be-
came larger than any area or untrammeled
free trade which exists or has ever existed
on the earth they say that 1t was due also
to our freedom from the tax burdens OF
militarism and the consequent ability to
devote our resources. thus saved. to the
education OF the people and to their better
mani In home and industrial life. They
point to the fact that, even during the
period Of our existence as colonies. that con-
| slant movement of labOring men from the
| old world to our shores, which still con
tinues, was going on that this movement
was accelerated after we became a separate
| sovereignty on the earth, and that 1T was
still more accelerated after the mooted
| question of the possibility OF a dissolu-
tion of the Union had been finally settled.
They say that this very movement TO
America of workingmen, under both high
tariffs and low tariffs, after we became
a Federal republic, and under no tariffs at
all, as in colonial days, was proof OF the
fact that higher wages have been paid, at
every stage of our history. to white men
working in fields and factories and mines
| and forests In the United States, than were
being paid to the same white men working
In similar pursuits In the old country. They
| say, that this Is because the currents OF
labor flow, unlike the currents In our rivers
towards the highest level-towards the
| DldCG MucEc nc IoIC VI "@S~
standard of living are highest. They say
these foolish ~people-nearly all Democrats
that taxes are necessary evils ana never IN
themselves q blessing 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 anairs OF
men as Is possible, consistent with the
| protection Of life and liberty and property.
All of which illustrates to what heights
of paipable absurdity s~o-called intelligence
can climb!
Another error OF our grandfathers In con
nection with our foreign affairs has come
over my soul with weighing down empha-
sis. George Washington-who. however.
was nothing but a plain Virginia planter.
a sort Of broad acre'd farmer and. there
fore. one of the "basest set" not to be
thought of In the same breath with such
platform makers as the senator from Massa-
chusetts. or such virile history makers as
our fellow citizen of the white house
George Washington thought-and possibly
his secretary Of state. Thomas Jefferson.
had a great deal to do with inspiring him
20 think, that our wiSest and best and most
patriotic foreign policy consisted In AMIGA
bile relations with all the other nations of
the world and entangltng alliances with
none of them; in other words, that our
chief duty was to keep our own house In
order. with the notion In our stupid minds
that the sum total of the rightful purpose
of all Just government Is the freedom and
happiness of man. How wonderful It Is that
we prospered with that sort of a foreign
policy and maintained, withal. the respect
| and good will of the world-wonderful. in
deed, when we consider what re now know
to be accepted sound axioms Of interna-
| tional policy. We know now from our fellow
| citizen in the white house, that the peo-
| pies. who may expect our tolerance and
friendship, are those who maintain order
and prosperity" those "who govern them
| selves WE'LL" 'those who pay their financial
obligations" and that 1t may become "a
| duty, which we cannot ignore certainly in
| the Western hemisphere" to Intervene IN
some way, more or less indefinite, In the
domestic affairs of those who do not do all
these things. now behave with decency I'm
political and Industrial matters. whatever
in the world fat may mean. bat Who. by
the omission of the doing of all these things
do loosen the ties which bind together civil
lized society" which ties, OF course, COO
has appointed us his mundane vice-gerent-
mechanics to tighten up again. With these
new ideas of our duty as a nation militant.
il may not be long before We are firing OF
cannon to celebrate the glorious use or the
United States army and navy somewhere In
South America. as a constabulary TO collect
debts due to European governments: CON
cessIonaries or traders. Let us live in the
hope of that great day and. when we see
1t, let us close our eyes, gradually but tri-
umphantly cease to breathe, and as our
heart beats grow voluntarily weaker and
weaker, surrender our souls at last to the
God who gave them. with the grateful ex-
clamation Now, Lord, thy servant hath
seen It!
What a queer, old-time, childish idea was
that OF our ancestors, that the president OF
the United States Is simply a chief execu-
tive, and that his duty consists In executing
the laws as they are written.
need not tell you, sir, that when you
are elected vlce-president it Will be one
of your duties as n sort of heir-apparent to
the crown to train yourself and 20 influence
your chief-Judge Parker-in the way of
u~surping the functions of the other de-
partments of the government. Your OPP
portunity will not be as great as that OF
the president himself, but. as president OF
the senate you MAJ have some opportunity ;
the opportunity Of changing the senate
rules on your own motion, or doing some
other revolntioparS thing which, as Q play
TO the galleries, will make your Htod Old
Welsh name famous, as that Of one of
the most spectacular and strenuous of men.
Men. sir, are not responsible for the size
of their opportunities. They are responsible
for not taxing advantage Of them-some-
tines for not making them, as IN &c Panama
republic. for instance.
1t will be your duty as part OF the execu-
tive branch of the government to look down
with contempt upon the legislative branch.
You will soon learn that .the cattle" who
inhabit the senate chamber and the other
wing of the capitol-the lower house (which
has been getting constantly lower and low
err every day for many years)-are but lit
tie, IL any, better than the other cattle
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