Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-07

turned around and proved to be a bear
with enormous tusks which it snapped
with great vigor. There was q violent
struggle for a minute and then he call
e. to his companion: Tom, come here,
double quick, and help me to let this
hog go!"
The republican party can't let go
the;- high tariff. There are too many
feeling at the hog trough. There are
too n.aEy contributors to the campaign
funds among them. But one party can
reform the tariff-the party that has
always believed that low tariffs were
the right tariffs, and that after the
rates were made ample to protect
Amer can labor the object was accom-
F.isheG and it was time to stop.
/ should like if there We're time, to
discuss the republican doctrine of
new nationalism' with you at greater
length than is possible tonight.
They propose, as we have begun by
exercising imperial power in the Phil
ippines, we should extend it to the
free soil of our sovereign states: to
this state. which every elector here
has sworn to support as a free and
independent state. The republicans
tell that the federal power must be
increased by executive action, by leg
islative action, by judicial construc-
ton. 1t does not seem to matter to
them that the constitution of the Unit
ed States has fixed strict limits to the
power of the nation, which cannot be
extended, except by amending the con-
stitution. That, however, has always
been the democratic doctrine, and it
is sound doctrine. 1t is q doctrine
all important to US of the small states.
If Jve want to keep home rule in Con-
necticut, there is but one way: to
stand firm on the reserved rights of
the states, each equal bef0re the con-
stitutfon, however small its territory
may be.
] suppose that one great reason why
the republican party has been allowed
to remain in power so long is their
name. To be truly republican in ones
views and sentiments is a good thing.
We live in a republic. Naturally we
like the name, republican.
But a name is not an ineXhaustible
capital.
/ have heard of county fair where
one of the side shows was tent with
the sign, Talking Seals" and a pic
ture of two seals facing each other
in a talking attitude. Some one paid
his ten cents and went in. There was
tank and two SEALS and the show
man was feeding him. After a while
the visitor observed. that he was rath-
er in a hurry and would like to hear
them talk now.
Stranger" was the reply, what are
you thinking of? Don't you know
that seals can't talk? That's just their
name-talking SEALS
The republicans have some tall talk
erS. but the trouble is that the leaders
of the party are not really, republican
not really friends of republican gov
eminent. That's just their name
republicans. They are really tories
or imperialists. They really want to
raise the powers of the United States
here, on the same lines in which they
have raised them in the Philippines.
The country fellow citizens, will not
on RI ion TI1fS xx-bi0hax-ar
party wins.
But the country will go to destruc-
ton eventually, if this steady inroad
by the federal power upon the field
reserved by the founders of our gov
eminent for the states is maintained,
as it is now being directed by the re-
publican party.
1t is the wonder of the world that
we have stood so long, with growing
wealth and population. The whole Sc
cret of our stability is that until the
civil war the exercise of the federal
power was kept within narrow bounds
The whole danger to our stability now
is that since the civil war the party
which has generally been in power has
tried to push and has pushed the ex-
ercise of the federal power farther and
farther into fields which Washington
and Jefferson and Hamilton and jack
son and Webster thought ought to be
kept purely under state control. The
republican party has found its inter-
est in forwarding this movement; the
interest, that is, of d party, not of the
country. 1t has used the tariff as one
instrument. 1t has used the cry of
new nationalism' as another.
1t is time to stop while the just
balance of power between the states
and the United States can still be
restored and preserved.
The place to put on the brakes is in
congress.
We are electing five congressman
this year. Let us elect men who are,
on this point, for the true interests of
the nation and Of the states alike
Vote as YOU please for governor-gov-
errors have little influence at Wash
ington-but vote for the democratic
congressman and let W have a solid
democratic delegation, to proclaim
true, sound. eternal principle of dem
ccr.atic dOctrina