The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-04-20

JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON.
The Great Gulf There is Between
Their Two Policies.

The national Democracy has gath.
cred momentous impetus in the last
year or two and the greatly increased
vote for Democratic candidates for
| congress and the election of Demo
cratic governors at the last election Is
the proof OF it's increasing favor with
the people. Ten years ago they call.
ed our ideas insanity" said Mr.. Bry-
an, speaking at Boston, yet on no
question that we ever discussed hive
we been more indicated than on our
idea that more money would make
higher prices and better times. The
Republican party has been in power
for ten years, with undisputed rule.
|'If it hasn't done anything that ought
to have been done, it is it's own fault.
What is the result? We find the Re-
publican party not 81 popular to-day.
The party has gone on the toboggan
slide, so that now 1t has just n man
whom it regards as popular enough
to be the candidate for president.
Why is it that the president alone
has escaped the paralysis that has
fallen upon all the rest? There is
only one explanation, and that is that
his popularity is due to his follow
ing the Democratic doctrines" This
may be true of some things that Presi.
dent Roosevelt has done, but he still
falls far short of being a Democrat,
or doing all he could have lone for
the people. He has allowed the influ-
ence of the protected interests over
the Republican politicians to prevent
him from recommending tariff reform.
Thus he has protected the trusts in
being able to continue to charge enor-
mous profits and keep up the present
high cost Of living. He favored tie
s~hip-subsidy bill although one-fourth
Of his own party in congress voted
with the Democrats to defeat it and
those Republican members who voted
against his recommendation were the
most ardent supporters of some of bis
other policies. He fayors and has
done more to centraliZe power in the
federal government than any of his
predecessors, which is not only I'M
democratic bat unconstitutional, and
his efforts in that direction can be
used as a precedent for further execu-
tive encroachment. In the hands. Of
some president in the near futcre,
whose ambition may overtop his pa
triotism, this action of President
Roosevelt may lead to wOrse ends and
consequences than at this time.
e It is well for Democrats to remem-
Der the great gulf between the pollti-
cal creeds OF Hamilton and Jefferson.
The Hamilton policy was, and is to-
day, hat the great mass of the peo-
pie are unfit for self-government and
require a strong central government
to II them. That is why bosses
develop like weeds in the Republican
party. The Democratic policy has al
ways been the rule Of the majority
and local self-government in the
states and minor political divisions
that is, home rule and states rights,
for the least government is the best
government for the self-governing
Anglo-SaXon race. The lowest taxa
ton possible to keep order for the
protection of the individual in his
rightss and property is the Demo
cratic ideal.
The Republicans seem to like to be
so bossed, but it would be impossible
to find a true Democrat that would
peacefully submit to it. The gulf,
therefore, between Democracy and
this modern Republicanism is as great
and impossible as that between Fa;
Their Abraham and Dives.