The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-18
WILLIAMS BREAKS
 TIE NEWS TO DAVIS
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 however, was nothing but plain Vir- Einia planter, a sort of high-class farmer and, therefore, 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-thought-an possibly his secre- tary of state, Thomas Jefferson, had great deal to do with inspiring him to think-that our wisest and best and most patriotic foreign policy consisted in Rmicable relations with all the other for Rign nations of the world and entangling alliances with none of them, In other words, that our chief duty was to keep our own house Tn order with the notion In our stupid minds tn the sum total of the rightful purpose of all Just gov ernment is the freedom anu happiness of man. How wonderful 1t is that we pros pered with that sort of a foreign policy and maintained, withal, the respect and good will of the world-woaderful indeed when we consider what we now know to be accepted sound axioms of international policy We know now from our fellow citizen in the White house, that the peoples, who may expect our tolerance and friendship, are Lose who maintain order and prosperity those who govern themselves we'll. those who pay their financial obligations' and that it may be- cone a duty, which we cannot ignore. certainly in the western hemisphere, to Intervene, in some way more or less in definite, ir the domestic affairs of those who do not do all these things nor be- have with decency In political and indus trial matters whatever in the world that may mean, but who, by the omission of the doing of all these things, do loosen A. ,sa1, ind fner 0ix ynd society which ties of course, God has appointed us his mundane vie-regent- mechanics to tighten up again. With these new ideas of our duty as nation militant, it may not be very long before we are firing off cannon to celebrate the glorious use of the United States army and navy somewhere in South America, as q constabulary to collect debts due from South American governments, con eessionaries or traders. Let us live in the hope of that great day and, when we see it. let us close our eyes, gradually but triumphant1y cease to breathe and as our hearts grow weak sr and weaker. sur render our souls at last to the God who gave them, with the grateful exclamation; Now Lord; thy servant hath seen it.'
 A Childish Idea.
 'sWhat a queer. old time, childish idea was that of our ancestors, that the pres ident of the United States Is simply a chief executive and that his duty con- sists in executing the laws as they were written l need now tell you, sir, that if you should be elected vice president 1t would be one of your duties as sort of heir-apparent 10 the crown to train yourself and to influence your chief Judge Parker-in the way of usurping the other parts of the government. Your op- portunity will not be as great as that of the president himself, but, as president of the senate, you may have some oppor- tunity; the opportunity of changing the senate rules on your own motion, or doing some other revolutionary thing which, as a play to the galleries, will make your good old Welsh name famous, as that of one of the most spectacular and stren- uous of men. Men, Sir, are not responsi- ble for the size of their opportunities. They are responsible for taking advantage of them-sometimes for not making them --as in re Panama Republic, for instance,
 Tt will be your duty as part of the executiev branch of the government to look down with contempt upon the leg islative branch. You will soon learn that the cattle who inhabit the senate cham Der and the other wing of the capitol the lower house (which has been get ting constantly lower and lower every day TOT IndHN StHIS)=-dIt DlI llllle, II any, better than the other cattle who sent them there. the farmers and mechanics and doctors and preachers and merchants of the United States Influence the pres ident to feel as you do. He will be told perhaps, that an executive officer can go too far and finally outrage the feel ings of these cattle He may be told that any man who has such a profound contempt for the legislative branch of this government is unfit to be the head of its executive branch What stuff And yet this last sentence is an actual quo- tation from a member of congress. Tell your chief that the man who uttered the sentiment was only a southSher and not even a southerner of the right sort not an image of God in ebony--but just white man of that coarse and brutal strain, which turned loose upon the world George Washington Thomas Jeff ferson, John Marshall, Robert E. Lee. Abraham Lincoln, General George D. Thomas, Admiral Farragut, Sydney La nier and Thomas Nelson Page.
 As to the Common Herd.
 "As to the common herd, who send these cattle to Washington, all you need with them is 10 talk platitudes about civic Righteousness and the 'strenuousness .of fife, What they want to do Is to sit in the galleries and witness the play. Make
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