The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-11-02
REPUBLICANS TRY 10
BREAK UP THE EeIlNG
Continued from First Paee)

campaign the first speech when II mas
been my fortune to deliver OUTSIDE my
native state 1t is the more gratifying
TO me to do this because OF the relations
that these two states have always borne.
There have been no quarrels or differences
| to divide these two great states, and
their people from each other, so they
have generally been found marching to-
gether in the support of a given political
party or cause.
Amy consideration which makes 1t not
only the more agreeable to come among
| you, and also incumbent upon me. IS
that / may say a word in commentator
and support of your admirable state
ticket, which represents at their best
the character, the needs and the aspira-
lions of the people of your state
ut is mach to be feared that in the
7 latter days the dignity and the value of
your state offices to our scheme of gov
eminent have not been fully appreciated.
This is especially true of the good ship
which, during all the history of our
school, has been the school in which
statesmen have been trained, and from
which they have been often drawn into
the higher and perhaps more dignified
positions in our larger national life.
High Standard of State Ticket.
Perhaps upon this the first opportu-
nifty have had to meet my fellow citizens
or the world at large, | may be permitted
TO refer to the high standard which the
democratic party has set for its state
ticket. All along the line from one end of
the country to the other, only the best
men that could be found in their re-
spective states have apparently been good
enough for democratic ideals and pur-
poses. The benefit of this policy not only
! n ia f4fr
cannot be exaggerated. No man has been
IN position to know better than | that
1t has been great source of strength
during the present campaign. From every
nation of the union l have found not only
the greatest comfort, but have received
the most favorable help In those efforts
which l have made to reach my country
men, and to set before them, so far as
nave had opportunity, the plans. the pur-
poses and the ideas of the united party.
cannot help recalling that of the citizens
or New Jersey 100000 are natives of my
own state of New York | therefore not
/ only feel that l come among you to speak
to you and through you to the people
| within your borders, and to the people
of the country, but my visit has this still
closer relation, that after all l am only
speaking to my neighbors and friends.
Natural and Inevitable Result.
This, however, is a purely natural
and inevitable result of the methods un-
| der which our country has been peopled.
| There is no parallel in history for de-
velopment like ours. In former times pop
ulation spread slowly and gradually over
the forests and plains of Europe, but
1t was not composed of people, all moved
by the same ideas, and inspired by a
common purpose. Different forms of gov
| eminent. tntOlaTanf aph
other for what they claimed to be the
glory of God, now with ambitious lead
ers again with dangerous adventures.
| they represented motives so antagonistic
that their progress was marked with vio-
| lence and tloodshed Here we have seen
in each successive township, county or
state, an entirely different view Alb
sorbed in ther industries, dependent up
on none tolerant in spirit and in truth.
our settlers went forth battling only with
savages, and with those forces of nature
which were almost as pitiless Into each
of these new communities they carried
order and lew. In each one the first pub
lie building was a church. the second a
| schoolhouse, and the third a court house
where all the forms of law. sanctifled by
precedent and fitted for the use of a free
self governing people found adoption
''They have spoken the same language,
they had the same thought of union, the
same value for every religious belief, and
the same confidence in and cooperation
with each other.
Devotion to SeIf-Government.
This expansion, unique IN human his
tory has gone under the auspices of a
republic and with a devotion to self
| government, the love of which the world
has never seen. The arbitrary power has
transferred the population of one coun-
frIr IN thnr oil er9t f{o,
has forced ? single reluctant sect from
its old homes no armies have accom-
panied this great moving mass of popu-
lation, and nc drillmaster except industry
and the natural instinct of men to unite
in self-defense, has called our people
away from their peaceful pursuits.
From wherever drawn or in whatever
place he settled. the men became at
once a citizen and a free partaker in
the benefits that already had accrued tc
generations formed by intelligent sell
government. It Is this expansion national
inevitable, almost as silent as the tides
of the ocean, which has made this coun-
try what it is, and in the society that has
come out of this varied effort, the words
empire and subject have become mean
ingless and obsolete.
Process of Expansion.
Turn for a moment from this picture
to that which sets before us the process
of expansion, even in the great countries
of Europe and we find it entirely oppo-
site from ideal. There 1t has been ac-
companied by the cruelty of the conquer
or, the ambition of the soldier, and the
rapacity of the tax collector. 1t has
gone on not only on virgin lands but
among crlwded populations 1t has
brought millions under the heel of the
conqueror and has inculcated among those
at home the idea that these great masses
have been brought into the world in order
to serve a distant master, whom they
would never see, or to provide business
or pleasu. {. or profit .or a oonuuering
race 1t has promoted the growth of ma
vies, useless and unnecessary for their
natural purpose of protecting commerce,
and armies which quartered upon the
conquered land. have been paid by reve-
nues drawn from scanty or decaving
industries. Even in these days of arbi-
tration and peace conferences the rage
for conquest. national rivalry and fear
that one might obtain an advantage
over another, have made CONSUMPTION al
most universal over the whole continent
of Europe. They have divided unknown
continents into ,rotectorates, or spheres
of influence, which thus far have been
almost useless to the holders and harmful
to the natives.
at is this kind of expansion upon which
we are invited to look with favor We
are asked to turn fro mour own mighty
but peaceful triumphc, from the spectacle
OF a continent seize by a homogeneous
people attached to liberty, fitted to gov
ern themselves, in order that we may