The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-17

independence IN part of the coun-
try's domain; with courts ready TO de-
eide that the Constitution is not a
written letter to be read and obeyed,
but a dancing panorama, changing
itself Ito suit changing conditions ,:
having put our foot down wisely and
firmly upon freedom of speech and
freedom Of assembly and freedom of
the press in Colorado and those zap
tenant-appendages' where freedom
of speech, press and assembly might
be awkward for us; having Joined the
holy alliance of land grabbing nation
alities; having discovered that God s
command against robbery and theft
does not apply to men in the -aggre-
gate; acting as nationalities when rob-
bling communities of their independ-
ence or 'benevolently assimilating
their resources; amid all these rever-
sails of historical blunders of our past
[ bodily aver that we need not dispair-
of the Republic.
with blind faulty that the Dingley
tariff law did not exist always; that
everyone Of its schedules is not I'M
changeable to be worshipped, that the
Republican party itself was not born
until comparatively recent date and
that yet the country on the whole has
always prospered.
"Another error of our grandfath-
ers in connection with our foreign af-
fairs has come over me lately with
weighing down emphasis. George
Washington-who however. was moth
ing but a plain Virginian planter
sort of high-class farmer and, there
fore, one of the 'basest set not to be
thought of in the same breath with
such platform makers as the senator
from Massachusetts, or such virile
history makers as our fellow citizen
in the White House. hought-and
possibly his secretary of State, Thorn
as, Jefferson, had a great deal to do
with inspiring him to think-that our
wisestand best and most patriotic
foreign policy consisted in amicable
relations with all the other nations
of the world and entangling alliances
with none of them; in other words.
that our chief duty was to keep our
own house in order with the notion
in our stupid minds, that the sum
{ofo nf hn f,,1 Of oil
just government is the freedom and
happiness of man. How, wonderful
it is that we prospered with that sort
of a foreign policy and maintained,
withal, the respect and good will of
the world-wonderful indeed when we
consider what We now know to be ac
cepted axioms Of international policy.
We know now, from our fellow citizen |
in the White House, that thes peoples, |
who may expect our tolerance and |
friendship, are those who maintain
order and prosperity those who gov
ern themselves well,' those who pay
their financial Obligations and that
it may become "a duty, which we can
not ignore, certainly in the Western
to Intervene in some
way, more or less indefinite, in domes-
tic affairs of chose who do not do
all these things, nor behave with de-
cency in political and industrial mat
ters, whatever in the world that ray
mean, but who, by the omission of the
doing of all things, do loosen the ties
to collect debts due from South Amer
which bind together civilized society,"
which ties, of course, God has APP
pointed us his mundane vice-regent-
mechanics to tighten up again. With
these new ideas of our duty as ma
ton militant, it may not be very long
before we are firing off cannon to eel
citrate the glorious use of the Unit
ed States army and navy somewhere
in South America, as a constabulary
to collect debts due from South Amer
lean governments, or individuals, to
European governments, concessionar-
les or traders. Let us live in the hope
IF that great day and, when We see
it., let us close our eyes, gradually
out triumphantly cease to breathe and
as our hearts grow weaker and weak
ar, surrender our souls at last to. the
God who gave them, with the grateful
Now, Lord, thy Servant
hath seen it.
1t will be your duty. as part
Of the executive board of the govern
ment to look down with contempt
upon the legislative branch. You will