Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-23

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sentiments that were natural to these
men.
Hamilton made one great speech in
the constitutional convention, and
then he disappears; but the rom
ancers-one of whom makes him a
compound of Aristides, Cincinnatus,
and Seipio Africanus-says that
Hamilton wrought more etteetually
for the Constitution in the back
ground. True, his writing secured
the adoption of the Constitution af-
ter Madison, Ellsworth. Sherman and
company had made it; but it was
not that he believed in the Constitu-
ton or loved it; but that he thought
it better than the Articles of Confed-
Grafton, because it lodged more
power in the Federal establishment.
AS the Secretary of Treasury in
Washington's Cabinet, he was at his
greatest. He had the gift of organ
ization and he brought order out of
chaos; but he had too much mental
integrity, or mental pride. to pre-
tend that the protective system was
not hardship on the people. And
Mr.. Stanley quoted from him some
language that sounds marvelously
Democratic on the tariff question.
DR.. Dalzell made this declaration:
HE certainly is bold man, who
in the face of history, contends to-
day that the permanent policies
which have entered into the statutes
and character of our nation are not
the policies dictated by Hamilton
and his followers"
And to that Mr.. Stanley retorted:
iHere my temerity may argue more
than my judgment, but / deny it.
There never was a deduction more
absolutely unfounded hurled defiant
ly into the teeth of history.
What were the policies Of Alexan-
der Hamilton?
He would have had a President
for life-he is elected every four
years.
He would have Senators during
good behavior-they serve a fixed
and definite term of six years.
He would have the Executive
armed with an absolute veto-you
can by two-thirds majority annul
that veto.
He would have muzzled free
speech-Jefferson opened the DELHI
erations in this House to the naked
view and candid criticism Of a free
and untrammeled press.
He defended the alien and sedition
laws-they are repealed.
He founded national bank-it is
demolished.
All his cherished and Wanted
schemes are "gone glimmering in
the dream of things that were," ex-
ploded fallacies, they litter the de-
bris of history.
/ challenge the gentleman from
Pennsylvania to give me one single
solitary policy of Hamilton which
was ever crystalized into law that
lived. His policies are gone, his
followers are dead. There are only
left his apologists and his eulogists.
If Jefferson had not come back
from France when he did it is more
than possible that the colonies would
have sought the protection of Eng
land, and that would have resulted
IN return OF allegiance to the Brit
ish flag. When the French revolu-
ton came it was hailed with approx
al by the best of the intellectual
world, including Edmund Burke,
Charles James Fox, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Thomas Paine. 1t was the
revolt of liberty against despotism,
the long-delayed triumph of light
over darkness; but in the compensa
tions of human affairs the atrocities
of Terror were commensurate with
the centuries of enmities that privi-
lege had perpetuated in France, and
there was a revulsion of public
opinion Even Burke became the