Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-26
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DENVER, Colo.-'The next presi'
dental election will see the return to
mower, Of the Republican party. And
IL will be the Republican party OF
Mark Hanna The party OF blind cap
italism; .unselfish and unseeing. After
that, in 1920, we may move forward
again. think we will-but the inter.
regnum Of reactionary dominion is in
eyitable. And the only thing diminish
ing the full effect of this step back.
wards Is the fact that, in economics
and education, this is not the America
OF 1896, Otherwise, with that one
qualification, It seems to me that IN
the next presidential election the old,
purblind Republican party will swing
back into power, the party OF Mark
Hanna, that counted dividends upon
everything a.. ..''i }a....,,f,sl
u At which announcement the speak,
er paused Then he siniked as some
great consultant who tells you that
science has said its last word in the
interests OF your beloved and that the
rest must be.ieft 70 nature.
The speaker. by the way, was also a
,cohst1t6flt5 or kinds tifo'1,sH SOL - e
f2.4Is name, Charles A! Beard His oe.1
cupation. professor Of historical and
contemporary politics In Columbia uni
yersity. His standing in scholarship
that OF q doctor OF philosophy, with a
reputation amongst scholars both here
and in Europe. !, - = {
People Believe Wilsof,
fias Not Made Good. I !. a
.a.,fv,rr oil fhic - 0r poo nd non,
tinued, having most conveniently
paused just long enough to present the
opportunity for the above few wdfds
of introduction, Il am not speaking as
q prophet Prophecy is not my func.
ton. But as a man whose special
business is that of studying contempt.
rary politics with their relation to
Whist has happened and what may
happen from any given set Of facts
and circumstances, am merely say.
ing that all the data / have at my
command points to "a swing back t9i
the Republican party IN 1916, and,
probably, the last appearance in MAJ
tionaI politics Of the principles of Mark
Hanna.
'My observations said DR.. Beard,
Z
of the country do not believe President
Wilson has made good And ! do not
think that public opinion, in reaching
that conclusion, has been much in
fluenced by the financial and CONNER.
eials depression resulting from the war.
The view of the people is based upon
other facts connected with the pres
ent administration and those facts are
integral with the actual character and
history Of the Democratic party in |
national politics. ...:... ..-
The Democratic party, considered
nationally, is the party of the South. |
In the South today they have not COM
pulsory education On the other hand,
they have a condition of child labor
that is an offense to modern civiliza.
ton. And, also, there are in the
South, still, those rotten boroughs'
which we're the scandal Of England |
back in the days of the Third George.
Nov, from party controlled by |
national factors of that kind you can. |
not get any real progress in the mod |
ern state. And President Wilson can
do nothing, while depending for back.
ing upon such party, to put through
any policy of legislation touching the
needs of the whole coun.
try. 49, |
'"of course. said DR.. Beard, there
was the New Freedom. But the New
Freedom was only Cobdenism written
politely, with its doctrine of laissez
faire, hidden under q lacery of GOLDEN
words. And there was in II nothing
in the way of philosophy or statesman.
ship that can be applied to our coun-
try today. II was pleasant reading
and 1t gave you vague thrills of dis.
tant, dim things; but that was all in
the end. and President Wilson has
quite failed to crystalline. It out into
any national program touching our ma
tional needs .....
And we have national needs" con-
tfnued DR.. Beard, national needs and
problems
Congress tried to solve some OF
those problems through the bill pro-
viding a literacy test for emigrants.
That was not a perfect scheme, but
Il was at least an effort to get a
gast question under control. But the
president vetoed that bill and now We