The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-08

arisen in his place and, said gently as
sucking dove.
"His most gracious majesty is
wrong about this stamp tax business
but we must as loyal subjects support
him, right or wrong" and suppose
Washington, Jefferson, Warren.
Adams, Greene, Lee, Hamilton,
that glorious host of warriors and
sages had weakly agreed to that
what would we be today? Instead of
being the richest most puissant re-
public in all the flood of time. we
would still be English colonies, ruled
/. by British pro-consuls and governor
generals without any voice whatever
in the government under which we
live.
Condemned The Wrong.
l. Those immoral state builders were
reared on the fiction that THE king
can do no wrong" but when he did
do wrong they boldly and iconclastic-
ally trampled that preposteroui false
hood under their feet and wrestling a
continent from his iron grasp dedi-
Gated it as the home of freedom and
to the twin propositions that gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, -
and that, "all men are created equal. -
There were men in the land in 1776.
Are there only manikins now? / do
not believe such monstrous libel.
George III. did wrong. Our fathers
fought and conquered him. Theodore
| Roosevelt does wrong. We will OPP
pose and overthrow him.
Suppose the Presidents policy, Ell I?
Will some gentleman please tell us
what that policy is? Has he any? II
so why doesn't he say SO? The truth
is he has none. He is an opportunist
= Hon Co.., 1nk1.
is letting things drift and they are
drifting to the deuce Meantime, our
soldiers are being killed and are dying
of disease in shoals. For what pur-
pose?
| Will anybody undertake to say?
/ defy any lingo to stand up and de-
clare with a straight face what the
Presidents policy or the Republican
policy is. No one can say But they
say-more's the pity and shame
'The President is wrong, but we must
support the President
TO this complexion has it come at
| last by reason of the neW-fangled
| jingoism that we must shut up our
thinkers, close our mouths and chloro-
form our consciences in order to be
considered patriots.
IL avails nothing to claim-as some
do-that Colonel Roosevelt is better
than his party. 1t is to be hoped
| most fervently that he is-a great
deal better; but truth to tell a Presi-
dent cannot be better than his party
| Even if he tries to be he is ruined po-
litically. Johnson, Hay and Arthur
| and the younger Harrison all tried
] that experiment and all of them were
refused second terms either in con-
vention or at the polls. SO it will be
with Colonel Roosevelt His particu-
| lar friends may deem him better than
| his party. He may think so himself
but nevertheless the party will drag
him down to its level. No man ever
found himself in worse political com
pany 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.
Republican False Pretcnses.
| In every State in the Union it is a
| felony to get property of any sort
or to attempt to get it by false pre-
| lenses.
If the same rule applies to the get
| ting of offices or to attempts to get
| them the whole Republican party
could be sent to the. penitentiary.
one of their false pretenses-the
one on which they harp the most this
years. that the Democratic party is
in favor of free trade. The charge is
/
cloth. There are individual Demo-
Gratis 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 Re-
| publican party as the party of atheism
| as to denominate the Democratic par
| ty as the party of free trade.
1t never was a free trade party and
! is not now. The man who charges
| that it does so because of his ignor-
ance or because of his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down
of exorbitant tariff rates to a reason
able basis. They believe that in many
schedules of the present law the rates
| are too high; those that are too high
We are for cutting down.
We favor any modification of the
tariff schedules that may be required
| to prevent them becoming a shelter
for monopoly" | wonder if Mr..
| Secretary Shaw ever heard those
words before? They are taken YER
| batim from the Iowa Republican
| platform Of 1891. The Secre-
tary whooped it up at a great rate for
Governor A. B. Cummins and others
nominated in that platform. He
| scornfully denounces it now as 1.-THE
| dead Iowa plea" But it was
righteous declaration borrowed from
Democrats and is not dead-not even
| dying.
Where tariff rates are so high they
enable American manufacturers to
sell their wares abroad cheaper than
| they do to Americans here at home,
we say that they ought to be reduced.
Is this anarchy or treason. If so,
| make the most of it.
Let Republican spell binders and
| editors explain why an American far
mer should pay from a third to one
| half more for an American pillow than
his competitor in farming pays fol-
| it in Australia or South America, or
| the ends of the earth. Democrats say
| it is wrong and they stand by the
American farmer. Republicans say it
is right and they stand by the Austria
| liam and South American farmers.
| Choose We.
Choose We between us in November!
Not quite all Republican statesmen
| believe it right. Once in a while
ray of light breaks in on the benight-
ed intellect of Republican. For ex-
| ample, year or two ago, the Hon.
John w. Babcock, of Wisconsin, chair
man of the Republican Congressional
| Committee. had lucid interval and
J advocated in several interviews the
| cIlttino down IF ii ,o foe when thew