The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-07
CHAIRMAN ClARK'S SPEECH.

I'm haste. King David said that all
men are liars
Had he been in Chicago while Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge was reading the Re-
publican platform. he would, no doubt.
have pronounced the same opinion more
leisurely. for surely there never was more
mendacity packed into the same space
In any document purporting TO be grave
state paper.
Shakespeare says:
Thrice is he armed, that hath his quar-
rel just.
And no but naked though locked up In
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is cor
rupted."
In the impending conflict our quarrel
is just and we are In the right beyond
all cavil.
To state 1t in a general way, our con-
tention Is that the government shall be
restored 10 the Democratic-R Republican
basis on which the fathers of the re-
public intended II to rest. and shall be
made once more a government OF the
people. by the people and for the people.
instead of a government of the classes, by
the classes and for the classes.
DEMOCRACY INSISTS.
To state II with more particularly, we
insist that exorbitant taxation shall be
reduced 10 just and reasonable rates
that extravaganza In appropriations shall
cease; that economy shall prevail I'm all
the transactions OF the Cover nment that
all departments shall be thoroughly In
vestigated from top to bottoms by con-
gressional committees that all evil-doers
of whatever degree shall be driven from
the public service and properly punished:
that the trusts shall be proceeded against
taxr ffaEt t<sfN NJ M mr. nd
smaller criminals; that the constitution
accompanies the American flag into our
new possessions.
The proposition that we must support
President Roosevelts Philippine policy-if
he has any-right or wrong, Is the veriest
rot t-a-tale told by an idiot. am willing
10 go as far ss any one I'm patriotism: /
will support my country in any emer-
gency. but the president Is not the
country. The time has not arrived |
pray Almighty God that IL will never ar
rive. when the American people will ac-
cept the arrogant dbctum OF Louis XIV.
II repeated by an American president.
II am the state"
PHILIPPINE POLICY.
IL President Roosevelt Is at all worthy
OF his high position, he must entertain a
supreme contempt for those political
claiming to he Democrats, who go about
with sanctimonious mean. saying; THE
president Is wrong an his Philippine policy
but we must support the president"
Out upon all such cringing idiocy. Sup
pose n case: Suppose that when George
III undertook TO force our fathers 10 pay
the stamp tax. Patrick Henry instead OF
delivering that great lyric speech before
the Virginia house OF burgesses which
precipttated the revolution and which still
stirs the heart like strains OF martial
music had arisen in his place and said
gently MS a sucking dove:
Ills 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-al that glorious host off war.
riors and sages-had weakly agreed "a
that. what would we be today. Instead OF
being the richest. most puissnnt republic
IN all the food 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.
PREPOsTERoUS FABSEHoOD.
Those immortal state builders were rear
cd on the fiction, that the king can dc
no wrong" but when he die do wrong
they boldly and iconoclastically trampled
that prcposterous falsehood under theii
feet and wrestling n continent from his
iron grasp. dedicated IL as the home ol
freedom and 90 tho twin propositions that
Governments derive their just powers
from the consent OF the governed and
that "An men are created equal Ther'
were men IN the land IN i176. Arc ther,
only mannikins now7 do not believe
such monstroW libel
George III did wrong. our fathers
fought and conquered him. Theodore
Roosevelt does wrong We will oppose
and overthrow him
HAS NO POLICY.
support the presidents policy. ehl VIII
some gentleman please tell vas what that
policy isg Has he any7 II 80. why doesn'i
he say so1 The truth Is he has none.
lie IL an opportunist waiting for some
thing to turn up. lie Is letting things