The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-16

} | am on too low a plane; that m
r ideals are wrong and that if woul
] wear the mantle of a Senator
/ must breathe malice and bitterness
| into the human souls and greet tn
! common people with frowns; but
fellow citizens, | would rather Civ
! up my hopes and aspirations to-da
and walk out from this campaign
, into obscurity and oblivion than t
choke this fountain of sympath,
for the common people that bubbles
in my heart like spring. Take
sentiment away from humanity anC
what have you done? You hay,
blown ont the light of hope and
love in every heart and in every
home you have quenched the spirit
of the church and of civilization
and left mankind in eternal dark
ness and eternal death. There is
not enough of sentiment in this
world; there is not enough of it in
the Capitol of the nation; there is
not enough of that pure and holy
sentiment of patriotism in the bo-
SONS of our statesmen which diff
fuses the blessings of liberty to all
alike with special privileges to none
and which alone can link the nation
together in the comman brother
hood of man. Ii there were more
of it in the heart of the Senior
Senator he would not be sneering
at those who have it and curling
his lip with scorn at the songs and
dialect of the old.time darkey OF
the South, which are woven like
threads of silver into the history
of the grandest civilization that
ever fiourished in this world.
In my lectures have told stories
in the negro dialect, but they were
stories of a generation that has
passed away. They were stories
of the faithful old man servants of
Dixie who worked in the fields by
day and slept by the door at night
and guarded old Misses and the
children while his master was far
away on the battlefield fighting to
perpetuate his slavery. They we're
not stories of this worthless gener-
alton OF negroes who, as soon as
they leave the brickyard and plow-
handles and begin to learn hic, hec,
hoe, it's goodbye gee, whoa, haw,
buck.
In the year 1904 we sold to for
eign countries $3.50, 600, 900 of Ameri-
can manufactured products. The
steel bridges that span the African
rivers on the Cape-De-Cairo Rail-
way are American made bridges.
They were sold at a cheaper cost
than our English competitors could
sell them. The steel rails of the
great Trans-Siberian Railway were
made at Plttsburg. We are selling
;alico and hats and shoes and hard
ware to every country in Europe
Ind we have the astounding spec
acle of Joseph Chamberlain lead
ng the fight in England for pro-
ective tariff against cheap Amer1-
AN goods which he declares are
threatening to destroy the English
lone market and her monopoly of
rade in her colonies. If we can
lndersell the foreigner in his own
market where is the ground of fear
hat the foreigner can undersell us
n ours?
Governor w. l.. Douglas, of Mas.
achusetts tells us that the shoes
c sells for So so he could sell for So
,ere it not for the tariff-that on
urchase of S550,000 worth of leath-
r the duty is $55,000. We must =
ay so cents extra on every pair of
hoes he says imposed as a tribute
y the tariff. What is the trouble?
hide and leather trust under the
care of protection. The
anne quality of steel rails they sell
ere for $28 per ton they sell abroad
'r SIS and at profit. What is
lie trouble? A billion dollar steel
ust which reaps its annual har.
,st of $l18,000,000. And vet we
e told we must stand pat on high
objection and that the trusts are
essing sent down from Heaven.
,lieve the time has come for Amer
ans to rise up in their majesty and
year in their hearts that liberty
all not be crucifed on a cross of
Id and that this shall be a gov
nment for the people and by the