The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
DEMOCRATS STAND
FOR PATRIOTISM
Republicans Do Not Represent
standpointof Intelllgenceand
Virtue, Says Hornbiower

NEW YORK, Oct. 30. - Justice D,
Cady Herrick, Democratic candidate
for governor of New York, and United
States Senator Isidor Rayner, of Mary
land, spoke here tonight at mass
meeting held in Carnegie hall, under
the auspices of the College Mems Par
ker and Davis league. William Horn
blower was introduced as the presiding
officer. He said in part:
I'VE are prepared to meet our oppo-
nents upon every proposition which
they have chosen to make an issue in
this campaign and we claim that on
each of those propositions the Repub-
licans represent not the standpoint of
intelligence, patriotism and virtue, but
exactly the opposite; that, on the con-
trary, the standpoint of the Democrats
upon those propositions is the stand
point of intelligence, patriotism and
virtue.
t'The president himself, although a
university graduate and man whose
early career was one of cultivation and
studiousness, and who, before he be-
came a politician, an ofhceholder and
an officeseeker, was by conviction not
O41lJ OPPOSSO To IliSH PIOtOSI1C1lio14i, OOl
an out-and-out free trader-lowers
himself to the level of the English
country squire of the last century, to
whom Adam Smith, Golden and John
Stuart Mill We're mere visionary theo-
fists.
''The president, for the sake of keep
ing himself in office, appeals, not to the
intelligence, but to the ignorance, not
to the conscience, but to the prejudice
OF t1,n NIL NV nnt.in ut coll
professors and at those who have made
lifelong study of political economy"
Tax Is Not Right
Mr.. Hornblower further criticised the
president and the Republican party on
the tariff question. saying:
mo amount of sophistry and no ap-
peal to practical experience can con-
vince thinking and intelligent men that
it is right to tax all the people all the
time for the benefit of protected indus
tries"
Mr. Hornblower then spoke of the
Panama situation, saying:
q stand upon the facts as stated by
| the president himself. and by his sec
retary of state, and by his late secre-
| tary of war, and / assert that upon
| those facts the conduct of the presf-
| dent was absolutely indefensible from
the standpoint of international law or
| international morality"
Speaking of the Philippines, he said:
1--WE insist that no desire for false
! glory, that no pride of conquest or do
| minion, should blind the American peo-
pie to the essential injustice and I'M
| propriety of ruling foreign peoples in
a foreign cline without their consent,
| by force of arms. This is neither just,
| right nor American"
| Mr.. Hornblower also referred to the
i'll
| disputed the right of the president to
grant pensions of his own notion Mr..
| Hornblower closed with tribute to
| Judge Parker.
Words of Rayner
Mr. Rayner took issue with the Re-
publicans upon the prosperity argu-
Of business revival with the classes,
| but denying that it extended to the
masses.
There is no general prosperity" he
continued, among the millions of those
toiling for the necessities Of life, with
whom high prices are bane and not a
blessing. The artificial prosperity that
Republican speakers are dwelling upon
is all confined within contracted quar-
ters in commercial centers, while the
great body of the American people are
not nearly as contented and prosper
Gus as they have been during Demo-
cratic ascendancy. Assuming high
| prices are benefit and advantage.
which 1 deny, Republican legislation
has not brought this about except
among the trusts and industries which
| it has favored with its legislation"
Auction the Philippines
Mr.. Rayner advised Secretary Taft
to make an attempt to auction the
Philippine islands. Let him call at
some desirable spot an international
SALE" said the speaker, "and see how
much he can get for them. Let them
be thoroughly advertised. To be sold
without reserve. Tho people to go with
the territory. Taft is the man for auc-
tioneer His thorough familiarity with
the subject will enable him to dilate
with glowing emphasis upon the beau
ty and attractions of these pearls of
the sea.
Il tell you that do not believe they
will bring a dollar in the markets of the
world. As. financial transaction they
are about as valuable to us as the Dead
sea or the Desert of Sahara. These ISL
| ands are not ours by conquest, because
we have never been at war with them,
but at war with their oppressors.
There is no moral duty devoiving upon
| US at the sacrifice of blood and treasure
to take them under our protection.