Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-03
Keynote Speech OF Claude Bowers
Delivered At The Democratic
National Convention.
PART I'LL
payment Or War DERrs

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Do they offer us their claim of the pay
ment of eight billions of the public debt
up TO July Of last year = Our answer is
that six and third billion of this amount
was paid with money or the cash assets
OF the Wilson administration.
DO they offer us their record of economy Z?
Dur answer is that with the elimination
OF the interest on war debts the last three
years of this regime has cost the. people
more than four and quarter billion more
than the last three peace years of the
Wilson administration.
Mythical prosperity. mythical economy,
mythical facts, mythical figures, and myth
zeal men. the last eight years may we'll be
treated by the historian of the far future
as the mythical age of American history.
And mythical, too. their virile foreign
policy that was promised. We hear about
1t but we see ii not. Ii is an anaemic
outcast stumbling blindly in the darkness
OF No Mans Land. They dare not face
the world made over by the war and meet
new duties called for by new occasions.
They found us enjoying the moral leader
ship of all mankind. and they have made
us the most distrusted and unpopular
Nation on the globe
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY CHIDED.
Thus through the stupidity of their dollar
diplomacy we have stumbled into petty
war with Nicaragua that is taking daily
toll of American lives. Just why we have
the war no one seems to know; just how
we came TO have the war no one cares 70
tell Do they tel us that we are there to
guarantee an honest election? Why not
long ago we were unable to guarantee an
honest election in the City Of Philadelphia.
do they say that we are there TO prevent
rioting in the election? Why, at the same
time we were sending the Marines to Mica
raeua we were campaigning with bombs
in the City of Chicago.
Now we propose to end the dollar diplo-
macy in Latin America in the interest of
Justice; but we propose it, too, in the in
terest Of American business We do not
propose TO sacrifice the future markets of
our manufacturers and merchants to serve
the interest of little groups Of fnanciers
and concessionaires. There within a GEN
Grafton, loom our richest markets; and we
are sowing the seed from which our rivals
across the sea will reap the harvest in
trade. We cannot submit bin OF fading
Al The point of bayonet and make the
Latin Americans take it, We cannot write
a bill of sale with a mailed fist. We can
NOT match a Marine with musket against
a British or German salesman with smile
We can serve the ultimate ends of business
better through the noble spirit of the
Mobile speech of Woodrow Wilson than
they have done with their dollar dlplo-
macy. backed by the myskets of the
Marines, who are dying heedlessly today
in the swamps of Nicaragua
FAITH Or FATHERS LAUDED.
Never in century has there been such
a call 10 us TO battle for the faith Of OUT
fathers as there 10 today and never has
she control of government been so com.
pletely concentrated in the hands of a
ruling caste as now. The dreams Of the
Hamiltonians have literally come true
while the people slept They wanted or,
ganized wealth in possession of the gov.
ernment-and we have II They wanted
the sovereign rights of States denied 49, and
we have il. They wanted bureaucratic
agents swarming over the land like the
locusts Of Egypt and we have it, They
wanted government made profitable to the
powerful and we have it, They wanted
through administration. to make a mock.
cry of democracy-and we have il. The
Hamiltonian state is necessarily a temple
Of gold resting on the bowed backs oil
peasants in other peoples fields-and We
almost have that now. They would defy
dollars and minimize men, limit self gov.
eminent and centralize power. cripple de
mocracy. empower bureaucracy. welcome
plutocracy and we will soon have that
too.
more of such governmental cooperation
and combination of power companie.
will put few men in control of the public
utilities Of a mighty empire Make nc
mistake about it-that is the great Jack
sonian struggle of tomorrow. And with
that sinister possibility upon us, the people
must determine whether they will intrus,
their interest to those who believe tina,
governments are strong in proportion as
they are made profitable to the powerful
or to the Jeffersonians, who believe that
governments are created for the service
Of mankind Once in possession and in
trenched, the plunderbund of the power
monopoly cannot be dislodeed by the fight
ing force Of a dozen Andrew Jacksons.
BACK To 0LD LANDMARKS.
And SO we are going Blackjack to the
old landmarhsUof liberty and justice in this
campaign. Let me suggest text for peo.
pie grown cynical and confused, Saith the
Lord, stand ye in the ways and see, and
ash for the old paths. which is the good
way, and walk therein. and ye shall find
rest for your souls"
We are modified to lead the people
back to the old paths Of constitutional
liberty aud to the good way We are 60.
ing blackjack to the old landmarks of
liberty and equality when ordinary men
had rights that even power respected
when justice. not privilege, was the watch.
word Of the slate; when the preamble OF
the Declaration snd.the Bill Of RIGHTS. had