The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-13


you by the towering figures OF men
who held closely and firmly together
in order to dominate the situation.
But now their lines are broken, a
little bit of the horizon can be
glimpsed, and bcyong these towering
figures you see the great resurgent
mass of the American people; and
you see certain gentlemen, | hope
modest gentlemen, trying to speak for
them, saying:
1--WE have been waiting for your
attention for a long time; now will
you be kind enough to listen. Will
you be kind enough to open you eyes
TO the vision which has led US on
through dark days for a whole genera
tion?
For we would not have carried
this burden of exile if we had not
seen vision. We could have traded;
we could have got into the game; we
could have played the role of patrons
to the men who wanted to dominate
the interest of the country-apd here
and there gentlemen who pretended
to be democrats did make those ar
rangements. | could mention some
of them; | have known them. They
couldn't stand the privation. There
was too little in it, And you never
can stand it unless you have some
imperishable food within you upon
which to sustain life and courage the
food of those visions of the spirit
where a table is set before you load
ed with palatable fruits, the fruits OF
hope, the fruits of observation-disclosures
invisible things of the spirit which
are the only things upon which we
can carry ourselves through this
weary world without fainting.
" / want to introduce you to the
present democratic party" he con-
tinued, "a party that has come
through fire, has been purified, has
been shown such errors as it has
committed in past years, and is now
absolutely adm enthusiastically uni
ted upon a progressive program,
platform such as the whole country
now desires to see carried out. That
is the new democratic party, new
because it never grows old; new be-
cause the principles in which it is
rooted and grounded never can grow
old. This is the party which is now
being questioned with regard to its
purposes by the leaders Of parties
which are either breaking up or
have not yet attained to the bone
and sinew of manhood.
These gentlemen are saying,
If YOU give power to the democrats
you will run into evil days. For one
thing you will have free trade. An
that ancient bogy. How long will
they continue to dress this thing OF
their imagination in the old clothes
of the antiquated stump orators!
There can not be free trade in the
United States so long as the estab-
lished fiscal policy Of the federal
government is maintained. The fed
eral government has chosen through
out all the generations that have pre-
ceded us to maintain itself chiefly
on indirect interest of direct taxa
ton. I dare say we shall never see
a time when it can alter that policy
in any substantial degree; and there
is no democrat Of prudence or
thoughtfulness that | have met who
contemplates a program of free trade
But what we have been doing, and
what We intend to do, what the house
of representatives has been attempt
ing to do and will attempt to do again
and succeed. is to weed this garden OF
industry that we have been cuitlvat-
ing If we have been laying at the
roots of our industrial enterprises TINS
fertilization of protection, we have
found that the stimulation was not
equal in respect of all the grcwths IN
the garden, and that there are some
which every man can dis
ting1lish with the naked eve, which
have 90 overtopped the rest, which |