The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-10-22
Speech OF HON.
LAWREN CE SHERMAN
United States Senator from Hi.
nois, Before Home Market
Club at Boston. Mass.

ing now and hereAiiCt. j. rises
above party aud politics aud race
aud creed. It dwells in a region
bounded only BY our fag.
It calls for the allegiance IF very
Sol OF the republic. native or, -lien
hc-n. II is found on that higher
level where only patriots walk. II
lives only in The deathless spirit Of
81 so 0ho made Us free. It calls
rom Concord and Lexington and
from every name and event on let
tered tablet aut memorial stone near
J- tonight II brOods above the
nument on Bunker Hin, where
vas written the genesis of free gov
eminent in the New World. It spoke
OF :ree seas and neutral rights moro
tt.u a hundred years ago. 1t made
the sacrifice from the river banks of
si.,on 20 the red hiilsides OF Gettys-
aaa that the Union might be saved
.-rL dismambcrme.t. its institution,
re- seated It's laws supreme
3. 4e tne spirit o. Americanisn re-
generated redeemed and red.ficat-
Cd 20 crr republic by ell VINO are
ea .-r,I ui,b5u i', -he'.erirg folds
-... the world is at war. None
may ask tho IL ties %. nativity Dee
..'Eeu. We ask only ,hs' they De-
sr'9rdjnatod TO the welfare %. our
...l.ry.
This country is what ,Le people
r,ac il. If it tail it will be our
failure. ID IL succeed, It Will be- our
success. It would proclaim 70
CROWNS and scep-erei might that the
people cannot rule. II would write
in the worlds history our dishono-
az shame
We are Of many races. Il was 50 /
frrm the beginning The founders
buit for ali and shall not all now
sus-iin with loyal. will what they
did: # must not be a republic OF rae
al hate, or aiien iealousies, OF peo-
-.e eAtangjei in The ancient feuds OF
Earope. The wars OF the Old World
n lst not be waged in our country.
The foreign and the native born
mast fuse in an uncomfortable pa
triotism of America first and loyalty
to our republic forever. Let us
make it American. seif-restrained.
dienified, pow srful, pesceable, but
adequately prepared and capable of
~ f-defense against either foreign or
Gullestic enemies.
our nation is sovereign and rules
It's territory. It's people and it's instf-
tutiOus. 1t is neutral. Amidst the
perils of a worid coefiict it has held
the course charted by the law Of ma
tons. This republic cannot be the
,heater of alien plots and murder
Us strife d
The Republican party knows that
. production OF wealth precedes its :
Its adver5aries do not
the simple truth that the :
( "a ericau peOpie cannot distribute t
.ither wages or wealth they do not 7
nave. With this maxim as a cor |
d. rssnus Of IT'S party edifcc. it strives !
'te adfastly that all may share in sup I
plying each others wants. 1t de- I
Zines to see the wisdom of buying t
anything elsewhere if We can produce
( at home. c
In 1916 must be told again the /
story of American Protection. 1t c
viii not now fall on needless ears.
Experience has taught the time-hon- (
red expensive lesson of Democracy S
'ictory. II will not be forgotten or a
lulearned by listening 10 strange d
g q, 81 tariff rciOrmers or visionar
e. riding their theories into indus g
rial ruin. The protective periods /
1f the Republican party write the I
Industrial activity. living wages and t
prices. with steady employment and S
constant markets. naturally follow a
administration
President Wilson in his message /
10 Congress, April s, 1913, speaking
.o,~rho Democratic party, said;
p The object Of the tariu duties !
nenceforth laid must be effective Z
the whetting of Ameri-
can wits by contest with the wits OF ;
the rest Of the world"
The American people have now
1ad TWO years of effective compe-
,itior." So effective has it been no
lpe has escaped its devastation. Dis
rust was substituted for confidence.
Enterprise halted. The paralysis OF
idleness fell upon the industry OF
the country The rising tide OF in
creased imports and decrease of eX-
ports lost our home market and de-
nied, until mitigated by the temper