The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

the money power destined to absorb every attribute of American government and destined te spread dominion from wash fngton over vast areas yet undefined. among millions of people incapabls of accepting the American Idea.
 We now amuse ourselves with the de- nland for a candidate for President will ing and able to enascuIate the
 trust" from :. our political conditions, When 1t is seen that Seceion measures itself by the side of our demand for such candidate without blush. we may well take counsel of our discovery
 As long as the government is able to create a debt Section makes it a, safe debt. The law builds up every enterprise of productive industry upon that debt So we have the trust"
 Of the original bonded debt of the United States, large part. more than a fourth part, was water Paper of the government bought paper Of the govern ment and the government funded 1t, drawing interest at It's face value. The agricultural element of wealth and population lost cast thus and that des- boiled primary interest Is assigned to a back seat in our civic customs. Abata- doned farms, needy farm tenants. towns peopled by shiftless farmers and Demo- cracy in. tears make up the ungracioue composite which once challenged the envy of the world.
 If the National Treasury be scarce of funds, the issue of bonds. made sacred by Article of the Fourteenth Amendment. I fills the vacuum. In order; to create the scarcity. the Secretary Of the Treasury lends the surplus to favored banks with out interest. When he proposes to draw in his loans, the trusts and the gamhlefs threaten to tiaislocates' business. | The value of the entire exports of the Philippine Islands, some ten millions of people. to the United States last year, five years after we took upon ourselves the ownership. was about one quarter part of the salary. paid by us to Governor Young over there. But for the security given by Section { to the bonds sold to buy the archipelago, the United States would now be many hundreds of nhiiiionS better off and many homes would have been cheefed by the presence of sofs per- ished or perishing siIn in the desperate trust" venture there
 As long as government debt is made ea- cred as by Section l. the invitation stands out to Mfr. Roosevelt to seek glory in wars of conquest for the advancement of the trusts.
 When the fraction of coneress met T,a. cember {, 1885. tho members had not seen each other since Appomattox. They found Lewis D. Parsons and George s, Houston waiting as Senators from Ala bama to take the places vacated by Clay and Fitzpatrick four years before. They found Charles c. Langdon Of Mobile. George c. Freeman of Lowndes, Cullen A. Battle of Macon, Joseph W. Taylor or Greene. Burweil T. Pope of St Clair and Thomas J. Foster of Lawrence. wait ing for their rightful seats in the House. The validity of the State government had been solemnly recognized by Congress in acce pting the State ratification of tha Thirteenth Amendment. The doors of Congress were closed by that fractional part of the body that had possession Our representation was shut out and thus the step preliminary to robbery of tha negro of his right of Federal apportion- taken
 Senator Sumner at once offered peti- tions in great numbers from ali sections of the Northern States. that the rebel debt be repudiated and the loyal debs he secured before rebels should enter Con gress Progress was sloy with the Four teenth Amendment. Seeing this, a meas ure was introduced fin the Senate called the civil rights bill and another to en- large the powers and perpetuate the in-
 
 discussions of these two measures for several months, and President Johnson's veto Of each, aroused the sectional spirit North and South. The purpose had been accomplished The discriminating IeRis- lation of the Northern States against the negro was pacifed and information of the Section of the amendment and its vaIua to the people who held ths national debt. was spread abroad.
 Senator Sumner never for an instant gave his consent to the Amendment. He spoke nine hours, consuming two iegIsla- tive days, Tn violent opposition He point ed out the false pretence of the article toward the negro. He said the North had enlisted 2E,000 negroes from the South an the ranks of its conduering army and that without this contingent on the side of the North. the Southern Confedaracy would have succeeded. You will hand over wards and allies through whom the Republic has been saved. and therefore our saviors. to the control of vindicative enemies" said the Senator. And &his you will do," he continued, flor a cofl- sideration nominated in -,le bond, by oth- CTS of which men may do a great wrong provided they will submit as a auid pro quo to a proportionate a~.4dgment of power" ''The slave master will drive his coach and six through your Amendment with all his Representatives" cried the indignant leader of radlcalism.
 MT. Sumner said no Amendment was needed to protect the negro. Congress had the power and should use 1t. and be con- tent in the use of it. to legislate to estab- fish the principle of the Declaration of Independence. that all men are equal