The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-14
Doherty's Speech.

MT. Doherty spoke in part as follows:
 Tn the application of Jeffersonian prin- ciples l believe lies the real hope for the success of this republic. False ideas may thrive for time. The intervention of political accident may give an undeserv- ing party limited lease of power, but just as sure as this government will con- tiEue to live just so sure will the people finally assert themselves. Let us not entertain the false notion that the triumph of democracy means the triumph of the poor as against the rlch.s It is natural that such false ideas should pre- vail. Forty years of republican ascend ency. 40 years of high tariff. 40 years of legislation for favored interests, 40 years of millionaire making, with all the ac- companying evils of monoplies, pools and trusts, has naturally brought to the sup port of the republican party the organized forces of predatory wealth, while it has also has just as naturally brought forth from democracy, both in platforms and on the hustings, bitter arraignment of the money power But we must not forget that the democratlcs principle of equality does not mean equality in wealth, equal ity in social standing, equality in brain power equality in energy-that cannot be. It means equality of opportunity and the limitation bears upon. the poor as well as the rich. Jefferson himself was a rich man, and he countenanced no principle that would array class against class, rich against poor. employer against em- ployed.
 First Demand.
 First and foremost, the democratic party should go before the people in the approaching campaign and demand a re- vision of the present tariff Republican legislatures have petitioned, republican leaders pleaded and republican newspa- pers have appealed for a revision of the tariff but those sacred schedules still remain. And they will remain until an outraged public opinion shall again place the democracy in power. Then will the full dinner pail somewhat dented and marred, but filled to overfiowing by soup from the panic of 1907, be consigned to its last resting place, In the graveyard of party slogans. It will be buried under the auspices of the ancient order of standpatters and the uniformed rank will march with muffled drums and measured step to the tomb. There it will lie among the almost forgotten creations of the past On one side of the weatherbeaten slab in letters faded and obscure we may read the foreigner pays the tax further up the slope, or OCT new made mound in characters still bright and undimmed, will be the melancholy words the tariff should be revised by its friends While wonder where the willow droops, as if still weeping for the dead. we will see dim outlines of what was once free trade, free soup but the free trade is gone, and nothing but free soup remains. There alongside of it's fellows the full dinner pail will be consigned to eternal rest 'unwept, unhonored and unsung.'
 While l believe trusts would exist in certain products without a protective tariff, the protective tariff coupled with favored railroad rates have been the twin agents which have brought about the industrial combinations.
 'The democratic party must go into this campaign with protest against policy of militarism and war"