The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

great men. two great statesmen and
these statesmen differed widely on
fundamental principles. We must ex-
pect differences. Formerly | was &C
cused Of not having as much respect
for harmony as I ought 10 have. Well.
| believe in harmony. II you want ab-
solute harmony. there Is only one way
TO get ii. II you have but one per
son you may have harmony. provided
he votes at once. for he may change
his mind in a little while. If there
are two in a party, be absolutely sure
there will be a radical and a conserva-
tive. II you talk to a radical about
his party, he viii tell you there are
about so, 900. 600 conservatives who
are not willing to make any
progress and If YOU ak TO q conserva-
tive he Will tell you there are about
$4,000, 600 men who do not know what
they are doing. When was in
japan, ] saw a Korean lion on one
side of the to the temple.
There was another one On the other
side. One of them had his mouth
open and the other one had his mouth
shut. They illustrate the eternal con-
fict-the positive and negative. the
radical and Conservative. When
l came back home, | brought
them with me, and have set
them both in front of my door. They
represent the distance between the
positive and the negative, /
go in and out of home / am abso-
lutely safe to walk right in the center
between them. Now we had these
two great statesmen in our beginning.
Jefferson and Hamilton. jefferson
said, let the people rule" Jeffer-
son trusted the people, Hamilton did
not. Jefferson said let the people
control their representatives; Hamil~
ton said that to have a safe govern
ment you must protect the representa-
tives. Jefferson said let us have our
elections often: Hamilton said let's
don't have too many elections and let
them be far between. Ham
ilton proposed a plan Of
government. Which is now a
matter Of record, and he urged that
plan upo the people with all his elo-
quence. That plan was to let the
president serve for life; let the sena-
tors srve for life and be appointed by
The Federal government. The people
voted that plan down, and it has been
growing more unpopular ever since.
A permanent president. Why, my
friends, the popular sentiment is so
held office for more than two terms.
and when one president wanted to
hold for three terms, the people help-
ed him to get out of that idea be-
fore he got as far as a nomination our
present president has recognized the
force Oh the ODJtCllOH " II &c tcI III
n in order that he might not be
embarrassed by requests from his
Office holders to keep them in a little
longer, said the night of the election
that he regarded this as his second
term, and would n again be a can
didate. This is the sentiment in this
country, and yet Hamilton
wanted a permanent president.
If any Republican would be willing
to have a permanent President, let
him remember that that was at
tempted in Hamilton's plan. 1T
would not work in our day for we
would not have a President Roose-
Welt, as Grover Cleveland still lives.
Relics of Hamiltonism.
NO, l don't like the Hamilton
plan and the great common people do
not like it. When it comes to elect
ing their officers, they don't want the
elections too far apart. They do not
want an officer to forget that he is a
servant and assume to be the master
Of the people. How about the Senate.
Would you like a lifelong Senator?
Why, my friend, our objection now
to the Senate is that is too much like
Hamilton's plan and the most promi-
nent reform in this ountry today is
the objection to electing the Senators
other han by a direct vote of the
people. Whenever you n a man who
is not willing to trust the people, you
may be sure he is an a~ristocrat. The
man who wants to build up a system
between the people and their repre-
sentative SO that the will of the peo-
pie cannot reach him, is at heart a
dangerous man. Still. some under
take to build up a system between
the representative and his people.
This reminds me of a story that
heard when ] was passing through
St. Louis on my way to college. It
was about a peddler. He had a large
pack of goods and he went UP into a
six-story building to show his wares.
He went up to the second floor and
up to the third floor. Then he
started to open up his pack on that
floor and the floor walker sens him
up to the fourth story. He started
to open up his pack and the floor
walker sent him up to the fifth story
When he got up there the floor walker
him up to the sixth story. The
floor walkers sent him down the stairs
with a kick and he and his mack
landed out in the street. He
got up and said :Oh, but what a sys-
tenn they have in this building
Republican Freaks.
My friends, the average nan be-
lieves in a democracy / rec
ognize that when YOU talk to the
people about the word republic they
like to hear it. This is true with some
the people in Europe. / never
knew until a few years ago what the
average man thought of the word.
This reminds me Of a convention held
II, Minnesota in which there was a
SWede. A Republican read from the
constitution about the republican
form of government and he accused
Democrats of being in violation
Of the constitution. Three and one
half years 6 | was in France.
Went ont in the country to see a
peasant. l asked him several
questions and he answered them. He
asked the interpreter, as I was ready
to leave, and he told him I had come
to sec them from where had
been under a republican govern
ment. He said # he had not known
was a Republican he would not have
talked with me. But the worst
IS vet to be given.
4 man called my attention
about three years & to a New