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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920
REPUBLICANISM AND THE CON
STRUCTIVE SOUTH
When it is said that the Republi
can party may win several electoral
votes in the South in 1920 it ought
to be said that Republicanism has
never, even in the days of reconstruc
tion or in the civil war period, failed
to appeal to the constructive South
Too often “the old South” is spoken
of as if it were the South of the dawn
ing republic. But the years from Polk
to Buchanan were not the years in
which the constitution was born, or
the period of its youth. The Repub
lican party has on the stump and in
the press borne generous testimony to
the older South— the South of the
early presidents, of Chief Justice Mar
shall. of John C. Calhoun in his best
days, of the Pinckneys, and of young
Alexander Stephens. All that was
best and broadest in the South now
finds its logical home in the Repub
lican party. The associations of later
days may nominally hold a large part
of the South in the Democratic ranks,
but one cannot go far without finding
the Southerner whose grandfather was
a Whig and whose great-grand-father
was a Federalist. Such a man, though
he may vote the Democratic ticket
Simply because he has formed the
lamentable habit of doing so, does not
and cannot think oy the lines of pres
ent day Democracy. Nor can *he
Democrat whose ancestors followed
Jefferson and Jackson sympathize
with those who would have undone
what those great leaders effected.
The master spirits of the older
South,—the post-colonial South,—the
South for nearly half a century after
Yorktown, were national in thought
and feeling. It gives only a peep at
the picture to say that George Wash
ington was a planter; he was i sur
veyor, he had gone out in to the wil
derness, like Abraham, not knowing
whither he went;—he longed to see
American tonnage go up and down tne
Mississippi. Natural was it for such
a man to esteem and trust Hamilton
of far-reaching mind, and Marshal to
whom the expanding of ideas of Ham
ilton seemed good seed that would
yield thirty, sixty or a hundredfold.
The country has listened to Webster’s
speeches for the Union; it has read
Lincoln’s papers on the consequences
of a divided housce, but it has never
known the case for « Union greater
than any section to be better stated
than in the farewell address of our
first president. From one Virginian
come the declaration of independence,
from another came the farewell ad
dress, from a third, James Madison,
came the first tariff act for the pro
tection of American industry. Has
the Republican party failed to honor
those proofs of the American spirit?
It is true that a Virginian college de
clined to receive pamphlets setting
forth the protective ideas so dear to
Washington, to Jefferson, to Madison
and to Monroe, but that college was
not under Republican management.
Every year Republican newspapers
tell how Jefferson, as Secretary of
State in Washington’s cabinet, urged
the country to provide a merchant
marine. We were, he declared, large
ly dependent on British carriers, and
Great Britain had for a century had
three years of war for every four
years of peace. Ships were needed to
bring us the supplies we needed, to
carry our breadstuffs abroad, to de
velop our industries, to train the sea
men who might some day defend our
coasts. There are large portions of
the South in which no Democratic
voice or pen ever mentions Jefferson’s
argument for American shipping In
fact, there are Democratic news
papers that would not reproduce his
paper unless they were paid advertis
ing rates for so doing. But where
in the Union is the Republican party
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I reluctant to acknowledge Jefferson’s
forceful words for busy shipyards
along the coast and for a line of work
shops running from the seashore to
the Western frontier?
Deadlocks are not new in politics.
There were days early in the last
century in which Democrats and Fed
eralists almost balanced each other
in congress. Three strong South Car
olinians, Calhoun, Chew and Lowndes,
voted now with the Federalists and
now with the Democrats, but always
for a navy, for a defensive measure,
for something constructive or nation
al. What South Carolina then repre
sented—the zeal for American indus
try, the forecasts of agricultural im
provement, the hope for gradual abol
ition of slavery, the projected methods
of transportation— this was so broad,
so progressive, so American in its
scope that it might well be blended
with the purchase of Louisana and
with Jefferson’s beloved plan of send
ing Lewis and Clark out to survey
the new lands. Years pass on, and
the Republican party tells how nobly
John C. Calhoun began public life.
It is among those who flattered him
loudest that every creditable part of
his career is generally suppressed.
There are speakers and writers in
the South who wish the country to
forget every act and word of Calhoun
that merits honor, and then pretend
that they honor him. His greatness,
—and at his best he was great,—is
generously proclaimed by those who
have condemned Lis worst, and his
noisy eulogists could hardly be paid
to say that a speech of Calhoun’s
was hung on the walls of old country
inns beside the farewell address.
They know it well enough, and they
well know what speech it was—Cal
houn’s noble argument for protection
to home industry.
What Democratic editor comes out
and tells what Calhoun did as Secre
tary of War under Monroe? It seem
ed as if Hamilton had come to life
again. The land roads, the water
ways. the development of our re
sources planned by Calhoun was
! when he was himself. There are
speakers and writers in the South
who would like to represent the Null
ifier. the Calhoun whom Jackson
threatened to hang, as the statesman
of his day. It is because of the Re
publican press that this has never
succeeded. Session after session of
congress has gone by. trade conven
tions have been held, industrial
gatherings have come and gone, and
there have always been Republicans
to point out on what a large mould
Calhoun was originally cast. They
have it to his flatters to pick up the
shriveled caricature of later years.
Great was the old constructive
South, but who would know it today
were it not for the Republican party?
Maybe the reason Admiral Doc
Grayson vetoed Wood’s Hole as a pres
idential summer resort was that the
sight of the ocean makes the Admiral
seasick.
It isn’t surprising that the price of
auto tires has gone up again. Look
at all the rubber it takes to keep
President Wilson’s cabinet supplied
with rubber stamps
Administration mouthpieces protest
against the United States “butting
in” in next door Mexico, where Amer
ican lives and property have been de
stroyed by wholesale, but they do
cry out for an American mandate In
Armenia and in favor of a scheme
to thrust the United States into every
European quarrel.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
says that President Wilson went
..ahead and negotiated a treaty and
constitution for a world government
without consulting the Senate and
“unwisely assumed that if he perform
ed his duty the senate would do its
duty and consent to ratification.”
Does Senator Hitchcock’s copy of the
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constitution say it is the duty of the
senate to ratify any treaty a Presi
den may submit without regard to
what is in it?
Democratic National Chairman
Cummings said at Chicago: “Republi
cna leaders have studiously built up
the fiction that they are peculiarly
qualified to deal with the great pub
lic affairs.” Democratic leaders have
successfully built up the certainty
during the present national adminis
tration that they are peculiarly qual
ified to mess up public affairs.
“Great Britain,” says that staunch
administration organ, the New York
World, “is able to report notable
progress in financial and fiscal re
habilitation from the great war. The
United States is not.” What’s the
matter then with the administration
proceeding to collect the interest on
what Great Britain owes us instead
of postponing the payment on the
ground that the great rehabilitator
isn’t in position to pay?
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SHORT-ARM
JOLTS
That Mexican who says he has dis
covered a typhus serum should now
Set to work trying to isolate the rev
olution bacillus.
There is some inquisitiveness as to
why anarchists who never labor
should desire to intrude themselves
into labor unions.
The clothier who speaks of a pop
ular priced suit selling for $60 might,
go a step farther and explain what Is
popular about the price.
Authorities are now investigating
the delicate question of when cider
ceases to be a soft drink and becomes
a hard character among beverages.
Some day that adulatory phrase, “a
good spender,” may become a term of
reproach. “Good spenders” are large
ly responsible for keeping prices high.
Roumania is having the best crops
in its history. It is refreshing to
have something in the way of op
ttlhism in the news from the other
side.
Sugar manufacturers say that it is
scarcity of railroad cars that prevents
enough sugar from being shipped.
Once more the railroads are called to
account.
Physicians are discussing learnedly
the hygiene phase of silk stockings.
Health, however, is a minor consider
ation ; it’s the price that keeps one
scratching.
Constantinople may think it is the
worst-governed city in the world, but
those out of power in many of our mu
nicipalities have their own ideas on
that subject.
King Alfonso kept his country out
of war, but he can’t keep himself out
of trouble with the political factions
who know so well how the counfry
should be conducted. 4
Some of those new nations in Eu
rope have been named so inexpertly
thni there must be general regret be
cause the man who provides names
tor Pullman cars was not intrusted
with the task.
BRONZE MEDAL FOR BOY SCOUT.
A bronze honor medal has been
awarded Scout Raymond S. Brinkman
of Alplaus, N. Y., by the National
Court of Honor of the Boy Scouts of
America for his act of saving the life
of Jeanette Rosenstock.
This is one of the highest awards
which any scout can receive for life
saving. Scout Brinkman is the first
scout under the Schenectady boy
scout council to receive this honor.
Miss Rosenstock was rescued by the
scout when she was skating on the
Mohawk river near her home at Al
plaus. She fell through the ice into
about 30 feet of water, and although
she was able to keep her head above
the water she was rapidly sinking
owing to the heavy woolen clothing
she had on. Through the prompt ac
tion of Scout Brinkman, the girl was
rescued and taken to her home.
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