The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-03
PARKER SPEAKS
ON MILITARISM
Continued From First Page.

!ueais we inherited from the fathers to
the raise glitter of imperial greatness.
/ whlcn at all periods of human history
mas marked the decay and perdition
| Vi repuohcs; instead OF provoking the
olstrust of all mankind by the display
VI armed force on every possible oc-
| casion, which raises a suspicion of
! vague and hazardous schemes of rest
less ambition lurking in the back
/ ground-We should return to the prin-
| clples and ideals which during the first
century of our national existence have
| proved so just and beneficent. so that
| government of the people. by the peo-
PIE ana Tor the people may not per-
ish from the earth.
| Should we not devote our mate
rial as well as mental resources TO
the building up of our great country,
! Whfch is capable of infinitely greater
! development than it has so far at
| tanned and to the solution of the 10
lltlcal and social problems which surge
upon us? Should we not cultivate
peace and friendship with all nations,
scrupulously respecting their rights, as
/ Wen as their legitimate feelings.
spreading our commerce all over the
world, not at the lannon's mouth. but
by intelligent and Industrious striving
Tor superiority in friendly competition
as TO the quality and proportionate
price of our goods? BY so doing we
should present to the world the in
spring example of a truly free people.
| peaceable and orderly, self-respecting
and happy in their freedom and pros.
Gritty"
Spoke at Carnegie Hall.
Judge Parker was driven from,
Cooper Union to Carnegie Hall, where
he addressed meeting under the
auspices of the West Side Parker In
| dependent Club.
Judge Parker arrived at Carnegie
Hall at 9:46 o'clock and was most
heartily received. Amid a burst of
patriotic music and to the waving of
banners and handkerchiefs and shouts
of his name. Judge Parker bowed his
acknowledgements. He was cheered for
ten minutes, while he waited to speak
Paying tribute to the independent
voter, Judge Parker said that if elect
ed he would be President of no party,
but of all of the people. He then took
up the issues of the campaign dwelling
on the protective tariff and the monop-
olles arising therefrom. In this con-
nection he said:
Upon COrtelyOu Again.
IAN example is before us of how the
effort of the people to free themselves
from burden can be seized upon by
the INSCRIPTIONS and itself made the
agency whereby the burden is bound
more firmly upon their backs. The
clamor of the people against the trusts
rose to the point where recognition
was necessary. A new department of
the government was created-the De-
partment of Commerce. To that de-
partment was intrusted inquisrtorial
power over the great corporations. It's
| head, the Secretary of Commerce. was
made a cabinet officer. But lest the
honest business interests should suf-
fer, lest INSCRIPTIONS competitors
should take unfair advantage, it was
provided that the results of the de-
partments Investigations into the af-
fairs of any corporation should be con-
fidential. They were and are to be
placed in the first instance at the dis
position of the President and in his
discretion only are they to be made
public and become the common knowl-
edge of the people.
Extraordinary powers, these, and
marking an extraordinary faith of a
people in it's elected chief executive.
And how has this administration re-
sponded to this trust? 1t placed at
the head of this new department, as
the first Secretary of the Department
of Commerce of the United States, the
private secretary of the President.
What the departments researches
We're, we know not. OF the results at
tanned by such researches, we are not
informed.
when, however, the present cam
paign opened the Secretary of Com
merce resigned his Office and at the
request, and as the personal represen-
tative of the President, became chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, to bring about, If it might be
so, the election of his patron to the
presidency. And lest any should err, it
was at the time of his resignation au-
thoritatively announced that at the
termination of the campaign he would
be summoned again to the cabinet to
fill another cabinet office.
II leave it to you to say whether or
not in your estimation the vicious cir
Gle is complete.
Promises He Will Keep.
prosperity is not a necessary inci-
dent of national wrong doing. And If
elected by the people to be their Pres
ident, shall do all that lies in my
power to increase and not to subtract
from the prosperity of the country, and
to assist in our attainment of that
prosperity to which, by our unique po-
sition in the world. we are entitled.
Nor shall 1 abate one jot from the
principles which must be controlling
with us, if we would not lose our high
place in the ranks of the world of ma
lions and invite upon ourselves that
which must inevitably folloW-nation-
al degradation. if not disintegration.
81 shall do all that lies in my power
to see to it that we shall have peace
as well as prosperity. / shall join with
you in searching for and in finding not
prosperity secured at the expense Of
our good name. but that true wisdom
and understanding in whose left hand
is length of days and In whose right
hand are riches and honor"
Judge Parker was frequently inter-
rupted with applause. He made only
few attempts to emphasize his re-
marks and none at oratorical display.