The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-19


 the army and navy alone show an in- crease of s120, 0,000,000 year over the appropriations of eleven years ago. What excuse can he given for the trebling of .he appropriations for the army and navy? No nation is un |. friendly to the United States; no ip- ternal causes justify the increase. No outside cause except aimperiausm can furnish an explanatioftzn tfiS due to outside causes, and ffs lt fs due fo inside causes there is no seAuseei xeept that the country has been under Eepubu-
 Two Reasons.
 There are two reasons why the Re. publican leaders are less careful of ex. penditures than the Democrats Tho nrst Is to be found in the fact that Republican leaders are more intimate- ly associated with the heK takers than with the tax payers' and being governI ed by public opfnionswith which they come into contact they naturally lean toward extrayaGance. f 70
 The second reRsoH Is to be found in l the fact that the. RepublfcAn leaders l have been representing taxation as n blessing and they naturafiy want to give the people as much Of the bless ing as possible Thex argue that we 1 should have d high tariff swhather we need the revenue or not. but recognize ing that there is some oppoeition to unnecessary taxaion. they try to make the appropriations high enough to com pei the extortionate tariff rates de- nanded by the protected intereSt;.
 The present campaign presents an- other tendency of the Republican Par ty. namely. to sdbstttuto A President ial successor for the k'emocratic plan of popular selection. The President felt 1t his duty to select a Republican nom- inee and having. rsashed the conclusion hA fo-laf %n a,.k .l. he brought the t.na,rereps of his great office to bear tnk behalk, of the candi- date of his personal choice and is now using his Influence to secure the elect l ion of the candidate whom he assisted in nominating. Our platform says: We condem as violation of the | spirit of our institutions, the action oe the pressat Chief ExecGteve in using the patronage of his high office to se- l cure the nomination for the Presidency l of one of his cabinet officers. A forced ] succession in the Presidency is scarce. l ly less repugnant to public sentiment l than is life tenure in that office No good intention on The part of the ex- | ecutive and no virtue in the one select ed can justify the establishment of q | dynasty. The right of the people to freely select their officials Is inalien- able and cannot hc delegated
 If MT. Roosevelt can pick out the Re-
 
 use the prestige of his office and the influence of the army of ofice holders | to elect him. may not Mir Taft pick out successor and elect him, and so on from administration to administra- tion? It is no defense of such an inter- ference with the popular will to say that the guilty party means well. Kings have often meant well when ever they suppressed free speech and representative government and in arfs- tocracies. the few have often meant well when they rode rough shod over the opinions of the multitude.
 4 Dangerous Tendency.
 The third dangerous tendency of the Republican Party is towards cen tralization. It's leaders are Inclined to overlook State lines and to advocate legislation and administrative methods which enlarge the power of the cen- tral government. The safety of the Union depends uupon the presentation of the distinction drawn in the Consti- tuition between State and Nation The Nation has it's delegated powers; the State it's reserved powers. Only by the recognition of this distinction can the balance between State and Nation be maintained.
 Fourth, in it's advocacy of imperial ism the Republican Party tends to ig- nore all Constitutional restraints for 1t administers government in the Philippine Islands without Constitu- tional Limitations. The ignoring of the Constitution in dealing with the Phil ippines tends to the weakening of the Constitution at home, and tends also to disregard Constitutional principles of government.
 The fifth Republican tendency to which I call your attention is the ten dency toward socialism. The Republi- can Party is loud In It's denunciateon of socialism, but it Is constantly feeding and augmenting the soclalistic spirit: it permits abuses which cast an odium upon individualism and furnish arRu- ment to the socialists. It cultivates the idea that he government must act as a wet nurse for favored industries in- stead of cultiVating industrial inde- pendence and a spirit of self-reliance. In its latest national platform 1t boldly declares that req asouable prodta should be guaranteed to the pro.sCted indus tries. It defends the prins sipie of mo opoly on the theory that competition is hurtful. In taking this position 1t supports the main contention of the socialists MT. Taft, the Republican candidate. In the spec h annouching his candidacy. advocatel such amend- ment of the anti--rust law as would make 1t apply olly to unrea sonablo re- straint of trade. This idea that reas- enable restraint of trade Is unobiect- ionabIe is the entering wcdge-it is the first step towards the annihilation of ths principle, of competition.
 Repubs Aid Socialists.