The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-11-02

ever heard or read OF certain man,
Andrew jackson, ''0ld Hickory. I
suggest that the troubled souls along
this line apply at the public library for
q copy Of the life OF this man, who has
been SO much idolized by his party, and
held up as an example worthy OF imi-
tation. Nearly all the things charged
against Roosevelt are small in compar-.
ison TO the conduct Of Jackson.
1t is said that Parker is cautiously
conservative" Well, do we want an
other Buchanan? Haven't we had
trouble enough with that kind Of a
man?
i But the Constitution. That Is in
danger, and the alarm signals are out.
It is true that for more than hum
bred years great and good men have
differed in regard to the Interpretation
of that instrument, and as to how far
the restriction should prevent desira-
BILE action for the public good In the
making of that instrument it was I'M
possible to foresee all the contingent
cies the times would bring forth, and
conditions have frequently arisen that
Required prompt action, and could not
wait for years to amend the Constitu-
ltion, so that the executive and the leg
islatiYe body has done that which was
not authorized, but which history has
fully justified, and which it would have
been a crime not to have done. And
this work has not been confined to one
lparty. The democratic party has done
its full share, as the quotations from
Jefferson above fully show. 1t is not
ancient history when Lincoln, who is
so often quoted by the opposition, was
told that he had no authority under
1.-THE Constitution to save the country,
till firing with homilies Of this kind he
said, II propose to save the country
first, and the Constitution afterwards.
We hear a great deal about the sayings
Eof the great men of the past, Washing
ton and Jefferson hundred years
Iago, and others of later date, and they
were wise. men Of their day and gene
ration, but were they better prepared
to tell us now, with changed conditions
what is wise and best, than our own
judgment, with present light and
Il knowledge? What was wise a hum
| bred years ago might be unwlse, and
4 fraught with danger, if followed now.
Take, as an example, the Philippine
question, and the Constitution follow
i ing the flag" Who knows but what
4 washington, Jefferson and Jackson
and other great men, Notwithstanding
their views when living, Il living now
would be doing just what is being done
by the republican party under present
conditions? II may be interesting to
know how our grandfathers did busi-
d mess in their day. but 1t does not follow
that success could be had now In their
4 way. Does the democratic party Of the
present day think that these who can
well remember the civil war and
younger ones. who have read the his
tory Of those times. can forget the vlo-
lent opposition to Lincoln, and tenfold
greater charges made against him
than anything that has been said
against Roosevelt? And many papers
and individuals who traduced Lincoln
now adore him, and advise the repub-
lican party to go back to this great
and good man as am example. These
same ones, when Mckinley was living,
condemned him for lack of backbone :,
and said ne kept his ear to- the
ground, was time server" instead
of a leader, but now call him a great
Il and good man, an example to follow.
Y and find fault with HIS successor as be-
ing too much of a leader, driving
things his own way Surely some peo-
pie are hard to suit.
There were at the time many severe
criticisms Of the conduct os this ma
ton in regard ID other powers, which
subsequent history has justified, so in
the light OF the future will the work Of
the republican party in regard to the
war with Spain, and the wrestling Of
her colonies from her prove to be- q
blessing to that country, but still more
to the peoples taken from her, espec-
tally to the far off Philippine islands.
We have not wronged Colombia, as the
canal when built will be Of incalculable
benefit to that nation, and forty years
hence we will not hear anything from
them about being wronged, or In this
country, as we do now No nation or
individual has such a right to any porr
ton of the world that it can be held
against the general good of nations or
communities.
4 If land is wanted for public purposes
4 II is taken foreibly, if the owner refus-
es to sell at a fair price; and III many
cases there is an offset of the benefits
to the Individual which often is great
er than the value Of the property taxi
en-. The writer deeply sympathizes
with a very few, like the late Senator
Hoar, who, with. sensitive consciences,
think this nation has been doing SO
much that is wrong the last few years.
Still, the number of such is few. In
/ the civil war there were few good
people here at the north that thought
we should not have gone to war, but
Il let our 'erring brethren go, but what
Y a country would this have been IL this
i course had been followed?
We have had but eight years of a
democratic presidency during the last
4 forty years, and whatever the result OF
4 the coming contest the principles which
governed the republican party, both as
to home matters and foreign, are what
will be sustained in the future, except
occasionally, when there may for a
short time be experiments tried as oe-
casionally in the past.
4 The extreme views held in the past
\ by the democratic party have thus far
been productive of much evil, and if
not the original cause of the civil war,
certainly FASTENED IT. when it was