Show PARTY L all A J Y IS A PARTNER OF DT CALAMITY extracted prom from remarks of lion william E humphrey of washington in congressional record april 23 1904 it there is one thing that charac teries derises the democratic party it Is its overwhelming dealie deatte to advise and its eternal falli allure lre to perform As I 1 have sat la in tuis house day after day and listened to the ever ready never ending advice coming from the other side of the tile house I 1 have hae wondered on dered what has given birth to this assurance this self asserted wl wisdom doni hy are gentlemen so con confluent flient that they I know all things achy hy should a party that brought upun upon us the horrors of the last democratic administration tra tion that went ment bys hysterical terica I 1 over tree silver sliver a party that has learned nothing in forty yearb u a party that haa has forgotten nothing in forty eara ears a 0 party that his has not kept a prociso in forty year years a party that has not been right in forty years why should this party assume that with it wisdom shall perish from the earth applause the people of thin country only once in forty deais have listened to democratic promised and followed democratic advice and placed that party in power then that party revised the tariff it enacted the N allson law that the gentleman from front new now lork ork cockran lips su so eloquently condemned and that law withered our prosperity as do the hot winds of the desert the blos harvests that party applied plied to the land that doctrine they now advocate for the sea during agat democratic administration our national debt increased a hal nill million dollars each day each dry wo we lost a half million dollars in foreign trade during that administration the value of farm products decreased more than thu the business of this nation in two tro months after the enactment of the wilson law decreased dc 6 per cent immediately upon the passage of that law tear fear distrust dist luel lust and panic paralyzed the great industrial system of our country banks closed their doors business housea houses as st signed ned the balance of trade evaa as against ua us bonds were issued c capital ap withdrew with from the fields of ot I 1 li gitl siti maie mate enterprise into secret secre I 1 t places labor was as forced into unwilling Idle idleness nees we bad had deserted milam smokeless factories silent machinery ne e had tramps and beggars and industrial armies starving women and children in the midst of plenty with bountiful crops rotting in the field at a million hearthstones sat famine pitiless and cruel two million men were out ot of employment and begging for work begging for an opportunity to earn bread to feed the starving lips of those hose they loved william mckenley was elected tha system of protection was restored and in eight montha time thae a million idle men had gone to work what has the democratic party done to command confidence confide ace that gives it the right to assume to advise the american people the democratic party asks always to be judged by the future and not by tho the I 1 last abt it at always ays asks to he 40 judged bj li its promises and not by its performances for mances that party in fifty years has added nothing to progress nothing to the sum of human happiness nothing to the cause of ll liber bert tv nothing to freedom nothing to tho the glory of its country it always goes into partnership with calamity it feeds oa on disaster and fattens on despair the only time it had control of this country during this generation it shut the doors of industry and clothed labor in rags it opposed keeping our flag in the orient and advocated that it bo be lowered in la retreat and trailed in the dust of dishonor the democratic part party almaa has its face to the past and its back to tho the future it never sees an opportunity port unity ritty until it Is past ami nad never gets on the right side of on an issue until ot t la is settled |