The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-01-09
Oluey's Address.

Inc |ueuOcIdtio phItyS VIII VI
course, bow 10 the logic of accomplish
ed facts. Yet, while using the irrevoca-
HE past as guide and warning for the
future, it will and must. stand for cer-
tain things of vital consequence which
the republican party tried by its re-
cord, past and recent, cannot CLAIM to
stand for aud cannot be trusted to
stand for.
"In matters of foreign policy the
democratic party will stand for inter-
national morality aud decent internal
conduct; for observances Of treaties
End obedience to International law;
for respect for the rights Of every ma
ii on, however small for refusal to take
by stealth or by robbery what we have
no right to get except by consent Of
the owners; for continuing our tradi-
tional role as the defender Of the weak.
or states Of this hemisphere instead Of
becoming their spectator; for minding
our own business generally, without
meddllug with the internal affairs Of
foreign countries, and without making
rumors and trivial events the pretexts
for military demonstrations in foreign
ports.
''In matters domestic, the democra-
tic party will repudiate the stand
pat policy and will advocate both
economy in expenditures and such
tariff reform and revision as Industrial
conditions and the interests of the
country at large demand. In that
view, it will stand for a reasonable re-
latiou between governmental revenues
end governmental requrments; for
clean administration and official con-
duct, free from every suspicion Of
'grafs' for amendments Of existing
tariff schedules in the interest Of the
country at large and not in that of
special syndieates or favored industries;
for such access to foreign markets by
tariff adjustment or reciprocity
treaties as win enable American pro-
ducers to dispose of their surplus pro-
ducts; for taking from the so called
trusts that kind and degree of pro-
lection which enables them both 70
monopollze the home market and to
sell to the foreign sum at prices
greatly below those made TO the do
nestle consumer.
"Iu other matters vitality affecting
both our foreign and domestic affairs,
the democratic party will first of all
stand for a pacific instead Of q MILL
tant republic; for appeal to the last
resort of kings only in legitimate self
defense and not for criminal aggres-
sion, for an army and fleet common
surate with actual needs but not used
either as plsytbings or to bully the
weak or provoke the strong, in short,
tor toe things that make for peace and
not for war.
The democratic party will also
stand for the supremacy Of law, for
law for nations no less than for indivi-
4 duals, for law for the greatest as not
exempted rom its power, and for the
e very least as feeling its care, for law
= for capitalists and law for wage earners,
e for | aw for presidents and cabinets as
t well as for the humblest of private
t citizens.
e "Every season of feverish stress and
e sto rm, has its limit. Returning rea-
son and sobriety inevitably re-assert
themselves, and all the signs are that
h the change is now at hand and is most
welcome.
+ awe have bad a surfeit of sensa.
tons aud Of sp%ectacles, aud need 8
lie rest. We need it to recover our equil.
q ibrium, to assimilate our undigested
de dependencies, to get used to exploiting
inferior races for their good and to ouI
= own great cost, to hibituate ourselve:
e generally to strange conditions, aud
above all, to renew and re-lnvigorate
IN us that respect for law and hat love
Of Il berry and Of peace which the ex.
q eroise OF military domination in any
9 form or for any purpose inevitably
weakens and too often destroys.
y 'In this direction lies the opportu.
: nifty Of the democratic party. 1t could
ask no worthier mission than to be
q instrumental in restoring to the nation.
;. al life the sane and normal conditions
,e upon which its health anc stability
depends.