The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

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 grant that is not confined within the well defined authority and limitations of the instrument. In obedience to the con- stitution 1 would then unequivocally de- clare for the supremacy of the states. and not yield the smallest portion of their sovereign rights over matters of i local and domestic concern that lie clear ly within their province and their juris- , diction- l would then explicitly announce that the democratic party is in favor of the strict and impartial enforcement of every federal enactment upon the statute book. and that the greater and the more powerful the criminal who vio- lates it, the more severe should be the penalties that ought to be visited upon him.
 Territorial Expansion. l would then announce that the party is not in favor of territorial expansion; that our arms should be stacked and halt should be called in our march of aggrandzement; and that while we do not object to this government becoming world-power upon the field of com merce and of enterprise and of civliza- tion, upon the field of war we do not propose to unite with other robber gov ernments in the despoiing of foreign ter ritory and in the conquest of helpless races.
 "If the democratic party will take stand for principles substantially like these, in my humble Judgment, and rid itself of the delusion that it can attain success by simply becoming an annex of the republican party then I believe there is a chance for victory; and if we are defeated again, then at least we will have the comfort and the consolation O hat 6Unt 1 for a principle'
 Mir. Hearst Speaks. The Independence league dinner drew 425 persons. John Temple Graves of At lanta was one of the guests.
 l Mir Hearst devoted most of his address to the Independence league. He said in part:
 Neither one of the old parties stands today for any particular principle. There are trust democrats and antitrust dem ocrats; there are trust republicans and antitrust republicans; there are high tariff republicans and tariff reform re- . publicans, and there are democrats scat tered all along the way from protection to free trade. In fact there are in both parties those who profit by class dstinc- tion and special privileges and those who stand for popular rights and equal oppor- tunities. Political battles today are not louSnt on the real issues or the uay, and these issues will never be decided until some party Is formed that will stand boldly for definite principles; that will collect within it's ranks all those commt- ted to those principles. and that will rise or fall according to the verdict of the people on those principles. The motto of the democratic party is anything to get in,' the motto of the republican party is anything to stay n.'
 hn n sr,iN ously before the country. the principle of control of public utilities and the princi- pie of public ownership of public utilities Both are good, both are practicable but | both are dependent upon the honesty and efficiency of the administration that operates them. It has proven possible for corrupt or incompetent men to so mis- manage the postal service of this country, as to almost dlscredit the whole system l of public ownership. The postoffice pre- sents a deficit of Sl0.OO000O a year. when l it should produce a profit of at least that amount.
 Corruption In Postoffice. 'I say this condition of postoffce finances is as much corruption as it is incompetency The fraduent weighing of the malls is thievery. The corrupt ex- penditure of the peoples money in po- | litical subsidies is robbery, and the cam
 
 | porations are bribery
 Tn 1904 Mir. Perkins contributed s5OOO0 of the money of widows and orphans to MT. Cortelyou, campaign collector of the republican party. In 1895 Mir Cortelyou, as postmaster general, paid back to Per kins the party debt with public funds ] He awarded Perkins contract for his steamship lines, which pays him $500 GOO year more than other steamship lines are paid for similar service 50, it seems, that Mir Roosevelt and Mir. Hartman are not the only practical men in this particular administration. Mir. Cortelyou and MT. Perkins appear to ] be about as practical as men can be, and remain at large.
 | ''No public control or public ownership will successfully elect faithful public of l ficials and you will not elect faithful and competent men to office until you choose the managers of your government with more consideration for their worth than their party affiliations" George Harvey Speaks. | George Harvey said: My text will be | found in Ecclesiastes, tenth chapter thir- teenth and sixteenth verses
 Woe to thee. O land. when thy king is a child The beginning of the words of his month is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness The preacher had in mind a ruler, not  necessarily young in years, but hoyish in mind, in temperament, in impetuosity in love of excitement in passion for noto- riety in a needless disregard of consid- eratons born of sobriety and calmness; daring leader though an unsafe guide; a possessor of talents. but not of knowl- edge noisy. confused, contradictory, in- consistent, Illogical, irrational yet so emphatic and insstent in expression as in effect to pose as the discoverer of all thruths while. in fact only an enuncia- tor of the psnciples or fallacies of oth- CTS: maintaining each tenet with uncom- promising arrogance until compelled to abandon it and then shrouding retreat in impregnable ambiguity; constructive statesman by profession, destructive politician in practice; in seeming, chiv- alric Orlando: in fact, Bombastes Flu rioso. Such the kind whom the preacher de-