Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-17

In q part Of the country's domain with
courts ready to decide that the Constitution
is not a wrtttepyetteE to be read and
obeyed. but dsncing panorama. Changing
itself to suit changing conditions having
put our foot down wisely and firmly upon
freedom OF speech and freedom Of assem-
bly, and freedoneDf the press in Colorado
and those 'appurte1Iant appendaRes.' where
freedom of speech, press and assembly
might be awkward for US, having Joined the
holy alliance of land-grabbing nationalities,
having discovered that Gods command
against robbery Ssnd theft does not apply
to men in the fggreEate, acting as ma
t.onalities, when robbshg communities of
their Independents Or 'benevolently assimi-
lating' their resgurces-amid all these re-
versals of historical blunders of our past
boldly aver that We need not despair of
the republic.
True, there are those who say with
blind faulty, that the Dingley tariff law
did not exist always, that every one of it's
schedules is not Interchangeable to be wor-
SHIPPED, that the republican party itself
was not born until comparatively recent
date and that yet the country ON the whole
has always prospered
They say that its prosperity was owing
to new and cheap lands. inviting the Drawn
and muscle of the white men of the world
to their cultivation. skimming from the
surface of the human ocean its wave-crests
of courage and enterprise. They say that
1t was owing to magnificent area Of free
trade, first between the colonies and then
between the StdleS-an area that mas
grown, by democratic-American expansion
of homes, Institutions and industry and
not by republican-British crown-colony-
conquest until 1t early became larger than
any area of untrameled free trade which
exists, has ever existed, on the earth.
They say that 1t was due also to our free
dom from the tax-burdens of militarism
and the consequent ability to devote our
resources, thus saved to the education of
the people and to their betterment in home
and Industrial life.
They point to the fact that, even during
the period of our existence as colonies, that
constant movement of laboring men from
the old world to our shores, which still
continues, was going on: that this move
ment was accelerated after we became a
separate sovereignty on the earth and that
mooted question Of the possibility Of q dis
solution Of the union had been finally
settled.
High Wages at All Times.
"They say that this very movement to
America of workingmen under both high
tariffs and low tariffs after we became
federal republic. and under no tariffs at
all, as in colonial days, was proof Of the
fact that higher wages have been paid, at
every stage OF our history, to white men
working in fields and factories and mines
and forests In the United States. than were
being paid to the same white men working
in similar pursuits in the old country. They
say that the currents Of labor flow, unlike
the currents in our rivers. toward the
highest level-toward the place where the
rate Of wages and the standard of living
are highest.
They say-these foolish people-nearly all
democratS-that taxes are necessary evils
and never in themselves a blessing to be
sought for; that there Is some element or
common sense in the old aphorism of hay
ing as little governmental interference with
! Pot ~ 10
sonantly with the protection of life and lib
erty and property. All Of which illustrates
to what heights of palpable absurdity So
called intelligence can climb.
Another error of our grandfathers IN
connection with our foreign affairs has
come over me lately with weighing down
emphasis. George Washington-who, how
ever, was nothing but plain Virginia
plarrter, a sort of high-class farmer and.
therefore, one of the basest set not to be
thought of in the same breath with such
platform makers as the senator from Mass
achusetts. or such write history makers
thought-and possibly his Secretary OF
State, Thomas Jefferson. had great deal
to do with inspiring him to think that our
wisest and best and most patriotic foreign
policy consisted In amicable relations with
all the other nations of the world and en-
tangling alliances with none of them; IN
other words, that our chief duty was TO
keep our own house In order. with the no
ton in our stupid minds. that the sum to-
tai of the rightful purpose of all just gov
ernment e tne tMeeSm ana happiness pin n,o o.
pered with that SORT Of 9 foreign policy ana
maintained withal, the respect andsood Will
of the wOrld-wonderful' indeed Wnen we
consider what we now know to De accepted
sound axioms of International poNcy.
I'VE know now, from our, fellow-cittzen
in the White House. that the peoples VINO
may expect our tolerance ana 1rlehosnip
are those who maintain order ana pros.
q $horaS w
those who pay their financial obligations
and that 1t may become a duty, Wmch we
cannot ignore. certainly In the western
hemisphere to Intervene in some way.
more or less indefinite. in the domestic
affairs OF those who do not DO all these
things nor behave with decency In po-
litical and Industrial matters. whatever IN
the world that may mean. put Who ny the
omission of the doing of all these thnes,
do loosen the ties which bind together
civilized society," which ties. OF course. COO
has appointed US His mundane vice-regent-
mechanics to tighten up again
Duties of the Nation Militant.
with these new ideas of our duty as
nation militant, it may not be very long
before we are firing off cannon to cele-
brate the glorious use Of the United states
army and navy somewhere In south
America. as a constabulary to collect debts
due from South American governments. or
individuals. to European governments con-
cessionaries or traders. Let us live In the
hope of that great day. and. when we see
1t, let US close our eyes, gradually put trl-
umphantly cease to breathe and as our
hearts grow weaker and weaker, surrender
our souls at last to the God who gave them,
with the grateful EXPLANATIONS: NOW. LORD,
thy servant hath seen it"
What a queer. old-time. childish idea
was that Of our ancestors that the Presi-
dent Of the United States Is simply chief
executive and that his duty consists In exc
cutting the laws as they were written. l
need now tell you, sir. that II you should be
elected Vice President 1t would be one OF
your duties as sort of heir apparent to the
crown to train yourself and to influence
your chief-Judge Parker|n the way of
usurping the other departments Of the
government.
Your opportunity will not be as great
that of the President himself. but. as
President of the Senate. you may have
some opportunity: the opportunity OF
changing the Senate rules on your own mo-
ton. or doing some other revolutionary
thing, which. as a play to the galleries. will
make your good old Welsh name famous.
as that Of one Of the most spectacular and
strenuous of men. Men, sir, are not re-
sponsfble for the size of their opportuni-
ties They are responsible for taking ad-
vantage OF them-sometimes for not max
ing them-as in re Panama republic. for