The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-17
DAVIS KNOWS I.
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e have now. thank God, nobly sha
off.
Sir, there is hope for the Repub-
lc as long as it continues to move
in the tried ways of the old
World, divorcing itself from o%utgrown
American landmarks. That we are
and divorcing there is no
ioubt. Standing now in the dawn of
he twentieth century; having forbid
len the reading of the Declaration of
in a part of the coun-
try's domain; with courts ready to
decide that the constitution is not a
letter to be read and obeyed,
but a dancing panorama, changing
itself to suit changing conditions;
having put u foot down, wisely and
firmly, upon freedom of speech and
freedom OF assembly and freedom of
the press in Colorado and those 'ap-
%purtenant appendages,' where free
dom of speech, press and assembly
might be awkward for us; having
Joined the holy alliance of land grab
bling nationalities; having discover
ed that Gods command against rob-
berry and theft does lot apply to men
in the aggregate. acting as nationali-
ties, when robbing communities of
their independence or 'benevolently
assimilating' their resources;-amid
all these ~reversals of historical blum
ders of our past, I 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
everyone of it's schedules is not I'M
changable to be worshipped that
the Republican party itself was not
born until a comparatively recent date
and yet the country on the whole has
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 a that it was owing TO a mag
nifcent area of free-trade, first be-
tween the colonies and then between
the-states-an area that has grown by
moorot io- A M orioou avDaDciop Of
homes, institutions and industry, and
not by Republican, British Crown-Col
ony- Conquest until it early became
larger than any area of untrammelled
free trade which exists or has ever
existed, on the arth. They say that
it was due also to our freedom from
the tax burdens of militar1sm and the
consequent ability to devote our re-
sources, 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 colo
MES, that constant movement of Ia
men from the old word to our
which still continues, was go
ing on; that this movement was &C
CELEBRATED after we became a separate
sovereignty on the earth and hat 1t
was still more accelerated after the
question of the possibility of
a dissolution of the Union had been
finally settled. They say that this
very movement to America of work
ngmen, under both high tariffs and
low tariffs after we became a FEEDER
ii republic, and under no tariff at
LII, as in colonial days, was proof of
he fact that higher wages have been
laid at every stage of our history, to
white men working in fields and fac
cries and mines and forests in the
United States, than we're being paid
@ the same white men working in
pursuits in the old country.
rhey say, that the currents of labor
unlike the currents in our riv-
towards the highest level-tow-
Irds the place where the rate of wa
res and the standard of living are
lighest. They say-these foolish PEG
all Democrats-that taxes
necessary evils and never in
a blessing to be sought
or; that there is some element of
ommon in the old aphorism
t having as little governmental inter
with the affairs of men as
ossible, consonantly with the protec-
on of life. and liberty and property.
III of which illustrates to what
of paapable a%bsurdity social
4 intelligence climb.
another error of u grandfath- :
rs in connection with our foreign at
lirs has come over me lately with :
eighing-down emphasis. George
rashington-who. however, was moth
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