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'APEIL, 1914
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upon the president which ho is sworn
to discharge, and, . truth to toll,
President Wilson shows no reluct
ance in discharging his duties and ex
ercising his powers to the utmost.
When he was elected governor of
New Jersey he declared that he had
been elected leader of the people of
that state. When he was elected
president ha declared that ho had
become, ipso facto, leader of the peo
ple of the Unite4 States. In both
declarations he was correct, but even
leadership has its limitations.
I am willing to follow where he
leads so long as. he is in the White
House and so long as he does not ask
us to repudiate a plain platform declaration.
Under our system a national con
vention is, the grand inquest of a
political party,, tho highest, authority
for he declaration of party prin
ciples, higher than president or con
gressional caucuses; indeed, higher
than president' and congressional
caucuses combined.
The fathers " also devolved upon
congress Certain 'duties whjch we are
swoyn to ' discharge faithfully ajnd
well, duties which ,we cannot shirk
or fall to1' discharge without self
stultificatidn' arid the condemnation
of, (the people, and of (our own con
sciences. . . ; , , ,
. A QUESTION OF DUTIES
The presidentdischarges his duties.
The question? isi -Have we the wis
dom,' the courage .and the -patriotism
to discharge ourks? ,-Ifinot, we should
makai.w.ay for men imbued with, the
spirdtkot'76-,i,tosthe end'that we may
transmit .our priceless heritage, of;
liberty, to our.. children and our chilr.
dren's children unimpaired.
The .declaration in favor of free
tolls for.,our coastwise trade was writ
large in the Baltimore platform. It
is in. these words; . ; . . .
."We fav.QEvthe exemption frAmntqll
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. with rost Toasties.
And why not, when
the famous ntfastie" ' .
flavor begins opera- ;
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There's a tfeal of skill
required in cooking and
toasting. these'-thin bits of ,
corn, so that every one of
the millions' of crinkly
flakes, .has .tide .delicious
Toasties taste that invites
.one. to calljfor more.
Post Toasties come in"
sealed packages fresh,
crisp and appetizing.
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or gob4 - niilk, and a.
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of American ships engaged in coast
wise trade passing through the canal.
"Wo also favor legislation forbid
ding the use of the Panama canal by
ships owndd or controlled by railroad
carriers engaged in transportation
competitive with tho canal."
The proponents of the repeal at
first, with far more zeal than discre
tion, asserted that that plank was in
serted in tho platform surreptitious
ly and without any consideration.
But that would have blasted so many
reputations that the men who were
on the platform committee partic
ularly the eleven men on tho sub
committee which reported the tolls
plank to tho full committee refused
to rest under that false and foolish
charge and told the truth about it in
self-defense, a.id the truth is the
tolls plank was introduced in the
usual way and was fully discussed
not only discussed, but amended and
agreed tc in its amended form by
the full committee and then by the
whole convention.
We went to tho people on that
platform containing the . free .tolls
plank; .Jieaded by President Wilson
himself-we all indorsed it; standing
on it wo appealed to tho voters of
the land for their support, and they,
responding to our. Macedonian cry
'for help, enabled- us to sweep the
land from sea to sea by mazing ma
-jarlties in the electpral college. And
now it b proposed that we reward
their faith in us and their support
iof us by repudiating one of the
planks of that platform on which we
achieved that astounding victory, a
plank so 4clea,rt tht there could ,be
no., piisunderstanding. .about it, no
possible misconstruction of.it. I re
fuse .absolutely to be a party to any
sucn performance. Tell it not in
Gath. .proclaim it not in the streets
tof'Ashalon 'that the democratic party
Win not- Keep" laitn witn a connumg
public.
"PEACE WITH honor' ONLY
. We must earnestly desire peace
with all nations; we' will buy peace
from'nbne; In the memorable words
of the immortal Pinckney, "Millions'
for defense, but not one cent for
tribute' When we were a feeble
folk, with emit five or six millions
of people and with very little wealth,
the high-souled Jefferson scornfully
refused to- pay tribute to the pirates
of the Barbary coast, and, though a
life-long lover of peace, sent Ameri
can men-of-war to shell them out of
their 'holes.
Now, beirj the richest and most
powerful nation on tho globe, with a
population of 100,000,000 souls the
very flower of the human race we
are asked to giant to Great Britain,
whom we defied and defeated in our
infancy, and whom wo defied again
and defeated again in our early
youth in the war of 1812 properly
'called "our' second' war ' of inde
pendence" concessions grounded in
injustice and humiliating in char
acter claims for which concessions
had been abandoned by Great Britain
until Senator Blihu Root taade a
speech upholding th contentions of
that foreign power contentions
Which had been flatly rejected by a"
president of the United States and
his secretary of state.
"There is no tale in the Arabian
Nights or even in Munchausen so
utterly incrediT'e as that historic
fact. Why should we grant Great
Britain a demand which' she had
abandoned prior to that widely
bruited senatorial speech? No suffi
cient reason has ever been vouch
safed to us, and none ever will be,
because it iff- an impossibility in na
ture. Yes, we desire peace with all
nations; but it is the sort of peace
which Disraeli boasted he returned
with from tho congress of Berlin to
London, "peace with honor," for se
curing which he was made an earl
and further distinguished by the
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