The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-10
/ HALT CALLED ON
REPUBLICAN DEGENERACy
lanes C. Carter, New Works Most
distinguished Lawyer, Writes
an EIectritying Letter.
Principles, Not Personal Preferences,
Iuyolyed NOW.ROOseyelt Ar.
raigned For Bowling to
Protected Interests
and Abuses OF
Constitution.

NqrtpT.
formed Parker Constitutional Club"
and generally recognized as the leader
of the New York bar, in which Mr..
Carter makes known his views on the
issues of the pending campaign, was
made public by Frank NJ. Patterson,
Secretary of the College Mems Club, to
whom it was addressed.
The Parker Constitutional Club"
which elected Mr.. Carter President,
embraces within its membership the
most eminent lawyers practicing in
New York. His letter to Mr.. Patterson
is as follows:
MY Dear Nh Patterson: | have
YOUR letter of the 22d inst, communi-
eating to me a plan which you say is
in contemplation, of organizing a po-
Htical club which shall be distinctly
collegiate i'll its character for the pur-
pose of aiding the candidacy of Judge
Alton 3. Parker for President of the
United States
IF the object be to bring together
the eGicated young men, who are
inclined toward Democratic principles,
and encourage them to individual and
united action in support of those princi-
The time is suspicious for such an
effort. An episode in American poll
ties has been brought to q close. \
piece of vicious legislation designed
by Republican influences to secure Re-
publican supremacy by enlisting in its
support the powerful silver mining in
terests had brought the Government
and the country nearly to bankruptcy,
q result which was only escaped by
the courage and resolution of a Demo-
cratic President, but the vicious syS-
TEN had nourished dangerous heresy
among the masses of the people which
gained control of the Democratic Or
ganiZation, and forced a multitude of
Democrats in two successive PreSi-
Dental campaigns to abandon their
party as the only method by which
they could avert an overwhelming
peril
To-day the aspect is changed. The
party reverts to the principles and
policy which called it into life, and
summons to lead it man who it is
known will be true to them. There
is nothing more important than that
young men just entering upon a par
ticipation in the occupations and pur-
suits of life should have a clear under
standing of the various political poll
cies and tendencies, and espouse those
which point to the true glory and wei
fare of their country.
1T is difficult to see how any man
not living upon or profiting in some
form from public bounty can hesitate
in the coming contest upon which side
to throw the weight of his political in
fiuenCe. A mere glance at the respec-
tive attitudes of the parties would
seem sufficient to guide the decision.
The Republican party stands as vast
and organized combination Of pecun-
larry interests, whose only bond of
union is the receipt of prodig1ous sums
Of money levied by taxation, direct or
indirect, or the hope to receive them.
If any public measure good for other
purposes favors these combined in
terests 1t will be supported. Other
wise it will be opposed. If there
be any measure perniciouSin it's gen
eral effect, but favorable to>s1is com
bination, it will be likely to Ike sup
ported. This may seem harsh Tudg-
ment, but the history of the last thirty
years will fully confirm it.
This combined interest requires
two things of its Presidential candi-
dates, first, an unhesitating submis-
sion to the demand that the bounty
enforced by it shall not be reduced
second, that he shall possess popular
qualities calculated to aid in bringing
success. Mr.. Roosevelt was by no
means a fayorite with them, and there
is the best evidence for believing that
the policy of high Observation-Disclosures
1t should be called-was never accent
able to them. He could not have been
nominated unless he had submitted.
The completeness of his acuuies-
cence is manifest when it is announced
IN platform and by his trusted conf
dants that no change shall be made in
the public burdens imposed by the
tariff, except by those who have i'm
posed the burdens and who en-
Joyed their benefits, and not by them
until In their own good time they think
ut to make a change. This time. of
course, will never arrive until the ON
nous prospect of a sweeping political
defeat looms up before them. 1t must
De Illuminating to an independent man
to condeScend to this subserviency. but
1t is the absolute condition upon which
the honors of the Republican party are
bestowed.
The one great lesson which young
men from the universities should carry
with them into life and make the rule
OF their political action is that the only
Just function of government, and. in
deed the only just function of all
law, is to secure to each individual
the largest measure of natural liberty
which he can enjoy without encroach-
ing upon the equal liberty of every
other. This fundamental truth seems
to be forgotten, or the delusion
to have been embraced that the great
laws of human society are but empty
formulas which may be violated with
lmpunity.
A day of bitter reckoning awaits
that erroneous departure from the Just
theory of government displayed by
this policy of exacting tribute from
the many to distribute to the few;
nay, it has already come.
we see it in the unrepublican
schemes to conquer and hold in perma-
nent subsection foreign peoples, in the
abuses of executive power setting at
naught the international policy Of pru-
Il.