The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-12
IMPERIALIsM, PATERNALIsM, PRO
 FICTION, ROOsEvELTIsM.

AAcbS tSImo utty CHdi diaSeS3' " Presidents letter of acceptance. one not familiar with the history Of our Government would be led to believe py
 reading this letter that while some-
 what had been done for the betterment and upbuilding of the original thirteen
 States prior to the incoming of the Re-
 publican Party; that something more
 had been accomplished during the in-
 tervening period between the accession
 of Lincoln and that of Mckinley. 1t was during the seven years since the ac- cession of Mckinley that more had been done flor the well-being at home and the honorable repute among nations of the earth abroad" of this country than during all the many years of its pre- vious existence. This. too. in face of men of intelligence that the great State Of Virginia ceded it's territory beyond the Ohio River in 17S4 and that by the ordinance of 17s7 the Northwest Ter ritory was formed. now comprising the States of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Mich igan. Wisconsin and Minnesota, east of the Mississippi: that by the Louisiana purchase under Jefferson in 1903 we ac- quired New Orleans and tract of land extending westward from the Missis- sippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to British America; that in 1919, under Monroe, we acquired Florida; that in 1S4S, under Polk, we acquired California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona. a large part of New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wy oming; and that in 1858. under Pierce. we acquired, through the Gadsden Pur- chase, 45.000 square miles in the south ern tpart of Arizona and New Mexico. Thus 1t is seen that we extended our trations prior to the advent of the Re- publican Party from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mex leo on the South to the British possess sions on the North.
 Then one also would suppose that for the first time in our history > the right of a naturalized citizen to equal protection abroad with a native born citizen was first firmly established in 1899 through Secretary Hay, notwith- standing 1t Is a fact we'll known to all intelligent men that Martin Koszta, a Hungarian by birth. came to this coun- try in 1850 and declared his intention in due form of law to become a citi- zen of the United States; that after re- maining here for nearly two years he visited Turkey; that while at Smyrna he was forcibly seized. taken on board an Austrian brig of war and there con- fined in chains, with the avowed de- sign to take him into the dominions of Austria; that our Consul at Smyrna and Legation at Constantinople at once interposed for his release; that while thus in prison Commander Duncan N. Ingraham. with the United States ship of war St. Louis. arrived at Smyrna, and after enquiring into the circum- stance of the case came to the conclu- sion that Koszta was entitled to the protection of the Government and took energetic and prompt measures for his that Pierce. a Democratic Pres ident, also concluded that Koszta was clothed with the nationality of he United States and supported Ingra- hams demand for his release: that was speedily released, and that Congress in August, 1854. requested the President to present to Commander h. graham a gold medal for his gallant and judicious conduct. Certainly this incl dent marked an era in our history by the establishment of the right of ex- patriation. which has not been departed from, but the President seems not to have remembered.
 Then, too, one would wonder how 1t was possible that our country so abounded in growth and prosperity for the first three-quarters of a century of its existence when for f1ve-sixths of that time the Government was con- trolled by the Democratic Party; that during that period we had bimetallism, with the gold standard, a standard ad- vised and recognized in the beginning by Jefferson and vigorously maintain ed by Jackson. and never departed from until the Republican Party by the passage of the Allison bill over the veto of a Republican Presi- dent in 1878 established in theory the double standard, an absurdity in the plain practice of finance and trade; an absurdity which that party sought fur ther to maintain by the passage of the sherman silver act of 1890, supersed- ing the Allison act, which led to the panic of 1893. but which was brought to its death in November. 1893, by the persistent efforts of Democratic Pres ident thereby rescuing the United States from the degradation and disas- terS of 0 debased currency; opening the way for the restoration of prosperity and reestablishing the gold standard rendering it possible to maintain It. and at the same time preserve the full circulation of the silver dollar on a parity with the gold dollar.
 And then one, not informed, would be surprised to learn, in the face of what our President so vehemently says, that the eras of our greatest prosperity in this country have been those when revenue tariff. in contra distinction to a protective tariff, has been in force. and especially during the period from 1S46 to 1881, when the Walker tarif regarded by experts as a1 ideal revenue tariff wac Tn o0ara