Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-07-25
HON. CHAMP CLARK
TELLS SOME TRUTHS FORCEEUl.
LY AT CONVENTION.
Democratic Contention TerseIy Stated. The
President is Not the Country. and May be
Wrong. Democratic Party is Not. Nor
Ever Has Been, Free Trade Party.

In the impending conflict our quarrel
is just and we are in the right beyond all
cavil.
To safe in general way our conten.
ton is that the government should be re.
stored to the democratic. re- blican basis
on which our fathers intended to rest on
and should BE- made once more a govern.
ment Of the people, by the people and
for the people, instead of government
OF the classes, by the classes and for the
classes. To state it with more particu.
larity we insist that exorbitant taxation
should be reduced to just and reasonable
rates; that extravaganza in appropria.
tons shall cease that economy shall
prevail in all transactions Of the govern.
ment; that all the departments shall be
thoroughly Investigated from top to bot.
| tom by congressional committees; that
all evil.doers OF any degree shall be
driven from the public service and prop.
ely punished; that the trusts shall be
proceeded against bv indictment AS COM
mon and smaller criminals, and that the
constitution accompanies the American
| flag into the new possessions.
The proposition that we must support
President Roosevelt's Philippine policy
| ii he is ri. hit or wrong-is the veriest
rot. am willing to go as far as any one
in patriotism. will support my country
in any emergency, but President Roose.
welt is not the county. The time has
not yet arrived. pray Almighty God
that it will never arrive, when the Ameri.
can people will accept the arrogant die.
tum of Louis XIV if repeated by an
American emperor: ~ am the state"
President Roosevelt, If at all worthy Of
his high position, must entertain su.
preme contempt for those political sup.
plejacks, particularly for those claiming
to be democrats, who go about with
| sanctimonious mein saving: "The presi-
dent is wrong in his Philippine policy,
but we must support the president."
out upon all sncn cringing idiocy. Sup
pose that when George III undertook to
force our fathers to pay the stamp tax
Patrick Henry, instead of delivering that
great lyric speech before the Virginia
honse OF burgess which precipitated the
rebellion and which still stirs the heart
like strains of martial music, had risen
IN his place and said gently as sucking
dove: "His most gracious majesty is
wrong about this stamp act business, but
We must as loyal subjects support MIN
right or wrong" And suppose Wash.
lngton, Jefferson, Warren, Adams, Lee,
Hamilton-all that glorious host OF war.
riors and sages had weakly agreed to
that-what would We be today? Instead
| OF being the richest republic in al the
food Of time we would still he English
colonies ruled by British provincial Off
GERS and governed without any voice
| whatever in the government under which
we live.
Those immortal state builders we've
reared on the fiction that "kings can do
no wrong" but when he did wrong they
boldly trampled the falsehood under
their feet, and wrestinga continent from
his iron grasp. dedicated it as the home
OF fire. dom and the twin proposition that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, and
that "All men are created equal"
There were men in Il e land in 1916.
And are they only manikins now? | do
not believe such q mOnstrous llbel.
Gle ,rge III did wrong. Our fathers fought
and conquered him Theodore Roosevelt
does wrong. We will oppose and over
throw him. Support the presidents
policy. Will some gentleman please tell
us what that policy is? Has he any? If
So why doesn't he say so! The truth
is, he has none. He is an opportunist
waiting for something to turn up. He is
letting things drift and they are drifting
to the deuce. Meantime our soldiers are
b,ing killed and dying OF disease in
shoals. For what purpose? Will any
body undertake to say? l DEFY any
lingo to stand up and declare with a
straight face what the Presidents policy
or the republican policy is. No one will
say; no one can say but some say, more
is the pity and shame, "The president is
wrong, but we must support the presi-
dent"
To this complexion has it come at last
by reason of the new-fangled jingoism,
that we must shut up our thinkere, close
our mouths and chloroform our con-
sciences in order to be considered patri.
OTIS. 1t avails nothing TO claim that
Colonel Roosevelt is better than his par
ty. 1t is to be hoped most fervently that
he is, great deal better; but the truth
to tell, president cannot be better than
ruined politically.
No man ever found himself in worse
political company than does President
Roosevelt in this year OF grace. He is
in the hands OF the republican philistines,
and they will bind him with their
withes.
In every state in the Union it is a
felony to get property of any sort-or to
attempt to get it-by false pretenses.
If the same rule applied to the getting
OF offices or to attempt to get them, the
whole republican party could be sent to
the penitentiary. One OF their false pre-
tenses-the one on which they harp the
most-is that the democratic party is in
favor OF free trade.
The charge is utterly false "a lie made
of whole cloth. There are individual
democrats who are free.traders, just as
there are individual republicans who are
atheists, but it would be precisely as
true and fair to denounce the republican
party as the party of atheism as to de.
nominate the democratic party IS party
of free trade.
1t was never free trade party, and il
not now. The man who CHARGES that IL