The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-26
port of this Nationf
The Democratic Record.


Democratic party been doings What
triumphs are engraved upon its ban
ners? What has it accomplished tc
warrant the people in deposing the
Republican party from power and
placing the control of the govern
ment in its handsf
Gentlemen, have you ever permit
ed yourselves to contemplate what
would have been the in
evitable results had the
Democratic party been able to exc
cute it's plans and purposes at differ
ent periods in our history, since the
birth of the Republican party?
If that organization had been GER
mitted to carry out its designs in the
sixties this proud Republic would to-
day not be. We should instead look
out upon once great Union dissolv-
ed, its former states discordant and
belligerent, their people animated by
hatred and malice and inspired by
motives of revenge.
If that party had been permitted to
carry out it's designs in the sixties we
should today behold the black banner
of African slavery waving over the
fields of the Southland; yet behold
the auction block and the whipping
post; yet behold millions of our fell
low beings driven to their daily tasks
by having the lash Of cruelty andpain
laid upon the naked back of unre-
Quilted toll; African slavery, with all
it's unspeakable woes, would today
curse the fairest portion of our land,
and the hands would be set back upon
the dial Of time a thousand years.
If that party had been permitted
to enforce it's policies in the sixties
our obligations would have been repu-
dated, our debts would have remain
ed unpaid, our bonds would have been
abroad would have been ruined, our
self-respect would have been sacrific-
ed, the great lessons of national honor
we have since given the world would
have remained untaught, and that
lofty moral tone which today charac-
terizes international thought, feeling
and action would have been an i'm
possible dream. For with nations as
with men, aye more than with men,
when honor is lost all is lost.
Had that party had free hand in
the sixties, or the seventies, or the
eighties. as it once had in the nineties
it would have destroyed utterly the
last vestige of our protective tariff
system. 1t would have given our
manufactures over to the keen and
merciless competition of similar in.
stitutions in Europe, where the labor
engaged has always been underpaid
and underfed and underclothed.
This policy would have taken oul
raw material to Europe to be there
converted into the finished product
and would then have exchanged oul
corn, our wheat, our hogs, our cattle
for that finished product. Foreign
capitalists would thus have laid thei,
exacting hand upon the products OF
our farms, our forests, our mines, anc
levied tribute upon every branch OF
our industry to sustain their factories
their mechanics, their artisans. They
would thus have prevented that rich
diversity of industry which is so es
sential to complete civilization. His
tory proves that no people can eve1
attain the supreme heights of nation
al success that do not fully develop
manufacturing. The national han(
must be trained, as we'll as the ma
tional head and the national heart, il
order to measure up to the full stand
; ard of national symmetry.
The Tariff.
Is the issue to be the tariff? If so
we are prepared to meet it at ever.
point. The Democrats in this cam
paign will vigorously assail the tariff
From beginning to end they will de
nounce it. They will proclaim it a
the mother of trusts. They will charg
that it unjustly discriminates a
against its own citizens; that it build
,, up the few at the expense Of tn
many; that it exempts the pampere
plutocrat from his Just share of taxa
ton and lays unusual burdens upo
the already overworked backs of tn
poor and that it raises the price o
the necessities of life without any ad
, ditional compensation in wage or sal
airy. It is so easy to denounce. It