The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-27

the same effect. Full confidence after
all seems not to have been placed on
the defense of justification, for 1t is
pleaded in mitigation that a former
Democratic President did something
| looking in that direction. Even If
that were so-which is not admitted
our present duty would be none the
less plain and imperative. Our peo-
pie must never tolerate the citation
of one act of usurpation of power as
an excuse for another. The first may
possibly be due to mistake; the second,
being based on the first, cannot be. In
explanation, however, it should be said
that the order relied on simply pro-
vided that the age of seventy-five
years should be regarded as evidence
Of inability to perform manual labor.
Few men are able to perform manual
labor at that age, but nearly all men
are at sixtyNtwo. The first order is bas-
ed on a fact that experience teaches
the other is based on the assertion of
that which is not true as general
rule
The old inquiry, What are you go
ing to do about it?" is now stated
in new form. 1t is said by the ad-
! ministration, in reply to the public
: criticism of this order, that 1T is
easy to test our opponents sincerity
, in this matter. The order in question
: is revocable at the pleasure of the ex-
} ecutive. If our opponents come into
: power they can revoke this order and
: announce that they will treat the vet
: Grams of ,sixty-two and seventy as
| presumably in full bodily vigor and not
entitled to pension. Will they authori-
, tatively state that they intend to do
= this? If so, we accept the issue"
: This suggests the suspicion, at least,
that the order was made to create an
s issue that it was supposed to pres
4 ent a strong strategic position in the
e battle of the ballots. On the assump-
d tion that the order, as stated by the
= administration, is revocable at the
: pleasure OF the executive, it having
e been an attempted, though perhaps un-
D whiting encroachment upon the legis-
lative power and therefore unwarrant-
e ed by the constitution, l accept the
d challenge and declare that If elected
n will revoke the order. But l go fur
o ther and say that that being done, l viii
S contribute my effort toward the enact
), ment of law to be passed by bott
: houses of congress and approved by tn,
executive that will give an age pension
T without reference to disability to tn,
surviving heroes of the Civil war; ant
e under the provisions Of which pen
= sion may be accepted with dignity be
i cause of the consciousness that it 1
t. comes as a just due from the peopl
d through their chosen representatives
d and not as largess distributed by thu
% chief executive
n FOREIGN RELATIONS.
l. The foreign relations of the govern
IS ment have in late years assumed spec
ial importance. Prior to the acqhisi
tion of the Philippines, we were practi
cally invulnerable against attacks b
foreign states. Those tropical pos
sessions, however, seven thousan
y, miles from our shores, have change
~ all this and have in effect put us un
der bonds to keep the peace. The neI
, conditions call for a management G
" foreign affairs the more circumspect i
that the recent American invasion c
% foreign markets in all parts of tn
world has excited the serious appre hen
r, sion of all the great industrial people:
~ 1t is essential, therefore, more tha
ever, to adhere strictly to the tradi
D. ticnal policy of the country as formu
rs lated by its president and never, i
ID my judgment, wisely departed from
t. to invite friendly relations with a
lie the nations while avoiding entanglin
IS alliances with any. Such a polio
p means the cultivation of peace instea
IN of the glorifcation of war, and tn
t. minding of our own business in lie
I'd of spectacular intermeddling with tn
g affairs of other nations. 1t mean
r strict observance of the principles {
as international law and condemns tn
n- doctrine that great state, by res
of son of it's strength, may rightfull
lg appropriate the sovereignty or terri
ne tory of small state on account of il
is weakness. 1t means for other Amel
Ill ican states that We claim no right
n and will assume no functions say
es those of friend and of an ally an
m defender as against European aggre'
or sion. 1t means that we repudiate tn
c. role of the American continental pC
US liceman; that we refuse to act as del
m collector for foreign states or the
or citizens; tnat we respect the ind'
a pendent sovereignty of each America
Mt state and its right to preserve ord'
by and otherwise regulate its own inte
X nal affairs in its own way; and tn;
any Intervention in its affairs by l
rs is limited to the single Office of enal
UT ling its people to work out their oW
he political destiny for themselves fl,