The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18

sources and our opportunities. You,
 sir, who have a Republican son-in-law and, therefore, possess culture oy ann
 ity at least, will hardly believe that
 fight against the principle. which we
 so frankly recognize in the Philippines,
 viz; that 1t Is perfectly right. self-evi- dently proper, for flag to cover and
 of government, one for ourselves at
 home protecting individual, civil and
 political liberty and pretending to tur-
 nish full and equal opportunities TOT m
 others in the colonies'--absolute and
 discretionary in It's character and
 evowedly limiting industrial deveiop-
 ment there by the necess.ues oI com
 mercial exploitation for the home mer-
 chant and the home manufacturers. we know, now, of course. that all our an- cestor's talk about fnalienable rights
 of self government. no taxation with,
 right of trial by jury, freedom or the
 press freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, were only pretext re- sorted to by ranting insurgents to the best government, which the world had that far witnessed. We have not been stupid enough to contfne to mere words our apology for this mistake in our history; we have apologized by deeds of confession: 1t seems strange that we could, as people, have pros- pered indnstrially and otherwise, as we have prospered so marvelously, sir, in all our history, both as colonies and as states, in spite of the monstrous er- ror-this unholy rebellion.
 Period of Popular Mysteries.
 Coming on down the current of time. we found another period of popular mysteries, that is incomprehensible to us of a wiser generation. in view of some enlightening facts In our recent history Some men in the troublesome To fnxu ne n a Indians, seized and threw into the sea, certain cases of tea belonging to cer- tain merchants of the East India Com pany. That this was a violation of the
 law, no man in England or America had any doubt; that the violators of the law were amenable to punishment un- der the law, through it's usual process ses amongst which were indictment by a grand jury and trial by petit jury, none doubted. With a wisdom. however equealIed only by that of the present occupant of the Chief Executive's chair in these United States these usual rem
 edies by law. against law-breakers were ignored by that sapfent states
 man, King George. as being reeds too weak to depend upon in an extreme like that. The consequence was that the entire population of Boston, men. women and children. observers of the law as well as law-breakers, were punished and the Boston port bill was passed, thus in fashion. Royalty ex- communicating the little town. com mercially and industrialIy. Then came that strange and unaccountable out break of popular hysteria to which I have referred. Not only all New Eng land rose in wrath. but distant Virgin ia and remote South Carolina caught the frenzy and said in effect this foolish 1 thing: If government can disregard the forms of law, whenever in govern
 ments opinion, the forces of law are too weak and can punish the innocent without trial. because of the deeds of violators of the law, then are we none of us safe, even to the remote confines of Carolina or in the depths nf the woods of Maine-safe neither in our per- sons nor our properties. nor in the pur- suit of our happiness-the very differ ence between free government and a despottsm being that a free govern
 ment operates without the prescribed forms of law and a deSpotism is a gov ernment in accordance wItn some indi- Vidual's discretionary notion of justice or necessity You will remember that all the wisdom of King Georges Cabi- net could not put an end to this wanton fury, even though the Cabinet answer ed: This concerns nobody except the town of Boston, Our ancestors could l not be quieted but got worse and worse. until their misguided counsels | led to the foolish result of 'insurrection' and a free and independent American | Government.
 We have. however made the
 amende honorable for this silly bus l ItltESt pN oul SIrRnuOS1tX
 at Indianola, Mississippi Not long 1 since it was alleged although not prov
 en, notwithstanding the fact that there was a United States Marshal to arrest,
 a United States grand jury to indict
 and United States petit jury to con
 vict, that certain people in the town of 1 Irdianola, Mississippi. had conspired
 together for the purpose of preventing
 an incumbent of a Federal office from continuing to hold that office. True, there is plain statute of the United
 States. writ large, on the pages of the
 Revised statutes. providing punishment for those guilty of that Identical crimt
 II was, perhaps, however. thought that
 the alleged crime could not be proven
 in court of justice under the ordinary
 forms of law; that ,Ae forces of law, as
 Tn the precedent cited in Boston, were l 100 weak or not to be altogether re-
 lied upon by those in authority. The | necessary and righteous consequence was that recurring to the precedent es-
 tablished by that miracle of wisdom, George Of Hanover, and his Cabinet, We
 promptly and strenuously deprived the | lCOntinued on Page Three.E..s, r