The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-22

IarlI policy SnOuiQ pc con- sidered definitely established, which, in addition to its other sins, contributes to 3 situation that permits combination or monopoly to sell abroad articles of our manufacture at lower price than are exacted from our own citizens at home. They will see the sheer wrong fulness of this condition so clearlyf fand they will so firmly believe that in this way they are made to bear tariff bur dens in order that they may be dis criminated against in favor of foreign consumers, that they will not be satis- fed with the assurance that the tariff has nothing to do with trusts. They will consign such an explanation to the limbo of negation, to take it's place with the outworn deception that the foreign exporter pays our tariff taxes, and with two other sadly weak pre- tences- one that the tariff should be reformed only by it's friends, and the other that the party which believes that a protective tariff policy ought to be considered as definitely established, loves reciprocity in trade.
 When the platform boast is made that: Tn the Philippines we have suppressed insurrection, established order and given to life and property a security never known there before" the confession will be extorted that the instruction suppressed was no more than the crushing out of resistance to the army of the United States while engaged in the subjugation of aspeople thousands of miles from our shores, whom an incident of a war undertaken by us in aid of those strugglingffor hb- erty and independence in another
 quarter, had put within our power; and the people will ask under what sanction was this subjugation, entered upon by nation pledged to the doc Urine that all just powers of govern ment are derived from the consent of the governed; and they will deny that imperialism and our forcible rule of foreign people have any place among the purposes of our national life.
 When credit is claimed for securing a route for long desired interoceanic waterway, it will not be inla carping spirit that the people will look at the
 incidents accompanying this achieve Inent They do not underyalue the ob- ject gained, but they keenly appreciate the importance and value of our na-
 tional good name, and, above all our national morality. Not even the great worth of the thing accomplished will
 close the eyes of thoughtful Americans
 to the fact that in reaching the results
 we have exhibited such international
 ruthlessness and such selfish interna-
 tfonal immortality as have lastingly
 debiIitated our reputation for good
 faith, and established a precedent
 which, in time to come, may sbe invoked
 to justify the most startlingaand repre-
 hensible abandonment of the high ideals which have made US Ian example
 of the best civilization a people, hap by as we are intelligentlyi free, strong as we are scrupulously just, and every
 where trusted and honored as we un- follow in the way of up- brightness and rectitude.
 Misleading Claims to Support. I have ventured to suggest the mis- Heading purpose of the Vain-glorious lc1aims made by party organization st Icontrol, and to intimate the humilia- ting estimate of our peoples intelli- gence and patriotic vigilance which the exploitation of these claims involve. It lis surely not narrow partisanship which prompts me to entreat my coun- trymen to hold fast and sure their in dependence of thought and their cour- tage in judgment; nor do I speak in a tone of partisanship when beg them Ito remember that the true greatness and glory of our nation cannot safely rest upon wealth which finds Its way to 1 the few at the expense of the many; nor upon such material success as con
 taminates the purity or pIunts the pol tency of patriotism; nor upon expan- | sion in disregard of ouranational mis- sion and intent; nor upon achievements that put in question our national mo- iraltty. Above all, greater than all,
 guarding and protectingl all and foster
 ing everything that American patrio-
 tism should covet, are the service and 1 devotion to country of ia sincere people who believe that, if their government i is preserved in it's simplicity and de- lfended against perversibn, its blessings |of happiness, contentlnent and true prosperity will in bouhteous measure visit every corner of our land.
 The Pledges of Platform and Candi- dates.
 I do speak, however, as democrat |attached to democratic principles and
 anxious for the ascendancy of my par |ty when congratulate the democracy |of our country upon the clear and sat- |isfying statements in our party plat form and upon the manner in which it's
 doctrines are personitied by our candi- dates We pledge to our countrymen, through our platform, rest, genuine prosperity, safety, and return to the
 way marked out by the Constitution; land we promise, through our candi- dates, that, if it is the peoples will, our platform shall be camried out and that under our governmental management democratic conservatism and care shall rule the national councils to the ex- |clusion of rash impulse and spectacu-
 lar demonstration.
 I desire to congratulate you, my old neighbors, and the citizens of what I
 love to call my old state, upon the fact
 that what Alton B.SParker Is and what he represents in the nation, D. Cady
 Herrick is, and represents, in your
 state. The time has arrived when there is needed at the head of your
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