Show BAYARD ON DEMOCRACY As has been previously stated in I 1 our telegrams a banquet was given at the palmer house chica chicago go ou on friday the to celebrate the anniversary of the bi birtle rth of thomas Thomaa jefferson by the iroquois club one of the I leading cading 0 politico social organizations of the country these annual gatherings have an opportunity far above and aud beyond any other political demonstrations of the kind as the speakers on these occasions arc are tho the recognized leaders I 1 of the democratic party and their utterances arc are generally abc acc accepted opted as I 1 the key keynote note years political I 1 concert at the recent banquet senator thomas F bayard a statesman U who can justly claiman claim as his motto that of his illustrious F french rench name sa kethe chevalier er without fear and reproach made the following speech in answer to the toast our country standing upon the highlands of vision and realizing the material forces placed in our care how important por tant how dignified become the dutie duties of each american citizen how bow vast the interests committed to liis his charge for we cannot disguise the presence nor lessen the weight upon this democratic republic of individual as well as collective responsibilities to administer well and wisely the affairs of so grand an empi reso vast a body of human interests and souls our country is the spirit of justice and liberty finding expression under i e ual laws for the preservation of t ekich the written constitution olour union was ordained and the free institution ution of our government founded Left free and unfettered to proclaim and exert themselves the intelligence and faculties of mankind have bava vindicated I 1 by their results in this country the wisdom of non interference by the government either lo 10 assist or obstruct the exercise of individual effort and faculty under the regulation of equal laws in just euch such mode and direction as the possession of conscious powers and inclination by the individual sowers ual should instruct hence we have seen in america the children ol 01 adversity and poverty growing strong in their contests with circumstances which elsewhere would have proved an insuperable bar but under the equity of our american system become guides and instructors to success a test for growing abilities and encourage encouragements men to to high and honorable aspirations the enduring greatness of our country is founded upon what is really elevated and great in the minds and hearts of our people let us never forgot forget that we have nave embarked our hopes hops upon trust and not upon distrust in in human nature upon what it c contains of strength and worth and not upon its weakness and dea dc upon the belief that the I 1 instinct of self preservation left free to recoil from natural and necessary errors and mistakes will not repeat them and that with free and recurrent opportunities for popular elections misconduct in rulers and mistakes in public policies can and will be corrected and remedied under peaceful orderly and effective forms of law and can we be mistaken in the present indications so manifest and abundant that we are soon to be witnesses in the election of 1884 of a splendid and potential proof of the I 1 po popular pular wisdom and power to redress grievances to reform unwise policies to rebuke corruption and purify and strengthen popular institutions by driving out of tho the temple of our liberties mercenary and machine politicians who have betrayed the po popular ar trust and disgraced and de degraded graTed the administration of our government gentlemen tho the era em which includes our lifetime is one of remarkable almost incredible combinations hio rho results of invention in the production of material wealth and the rapid and facile fadle distribution of that wealth bring the whole world into such close and intimate relations that all tho the former conditions of human intercourse are changed and problems be wilderine in number and importance are presented to our view time and se space ace are no longer obstructions to t the e worlds intercourse the telephone has already brought thelius the lips of nw now york close against tho the oar ear of chicago and to engird lo the earth in forty minutes would bean be an unpardonable waste of time never in human history was the creation of material wealth BO so easy and so marvelously abundant its consolidation under the forms of incorporation creating vast units unita of power which result in monopolies and absorb and withdraw individual and independent rivalries herein are dangers it will behoove us to gravely contemplate and consider what forces shall bo be summoned to counteract them the great ques tion which attends this creation of wealth is what will you do with it are we to be content with m making k n g this land of ours one great wealth ea i I 1 th factory la Is that to be alland all and end al all I 1 are we to travel over the game same lowlands of luxury effeminacy corruption and decay as the nations and ments that have nave risen and fallen before us on the plains of history on what do we build and for what do we build what greatness db we seek to achieve to what do our institutions tend Is it tha the creation of mere wealth or Is it the advancement and elevation of the human race shall we not light up our pathway of progress as a people with moro more justice more benevolence more of the higher attributes attribute a that stir within our hearts and dignify our manhood strong fortresses for treese chains of moun iao rugged frontiers and deep seas do not of themselves prot protect e acts a country it is the living lying wall of bravo hearts and willing arms that constitute its siire sure and cheap defense the tile strongest fortress hi in the known world is the tile rock of G for nearly two centuries it has been held by if t alio lo 10 mailed band of an alien and a stranger a menace and an abiding reproach to the kingdom and people who surround it because a brav erand bolder hand than its natural owners has taken and withheld it from them an essential integer of our country a seminal principle of the american government a germ of our greatness as a people is the independent fears fear less individual man founder and head odthe family whose social and political influence enlarges itself from froin the family into the state for the family is the birthplace and nursery of the fi real d 0 vi virtues etues aiom homebred eared and barnat bornat born at home bome honor lionor truthfulness and courage self denial denial and modesty charity and honesty these are the qualities which enlarge their influence from home to neighborhood until they permeate the community and pervade the state and public benti senti ment at last becomes imbued with the spirit of personal worth and anti integrity in III the ultimate settlement of the gravest affairs of nations these arc are the qualities upon which men must rely for safety and lind good order and under the form of government we have adopted the need for their cultivation and ascendancy seems greater greate even reven than they must bo be represented somewhere in our government therefore whether you on call it local self government or koine homo rule I 1 am doe deeply I 1 y impressed with the necessity for afta ita restoration in full fall force in the broad union as w well ell as of those these pillars of state stat of which that union is composed and u upon whose integrity it depends aad and this agn I 1 isane 8 ul 0 of the most important duties 0 of f fb e political loli party to which we are attached A proper regulation of two opposing forces centrifugal and centripetal maintains true equilibrium and for the last lost twenty years th alio latter force lias bas been over exercised a and nd the former weakened by disuse the cen power and action I 1 18 ia an obvious result of the invention of steam and telegraphy the safety of our popular institutions demands the decentralization and distribution of power and its exercise for local self government overn ment by those whose dally daily fives lives and interests are to be affected by it blome rule or local self gov ern ment mento it is a right and a necessity of american citizens and the intent and meaning of ortho the written constitution odthe of the union the strength of the state rests upon the number of upright independent self reliant and self respecting individuals it contains and under our democratic theories of government all invasions of individual freedom and all action not essential for the preservation of social order and the protection of individual and public rights are aro unwise and unwarranted all the tendencies of legislation which ignoring individual responsibility substitute governmental control in matters social and personal tends to weaken the powers of the individual and enfeebling them by disuse lessen tb their air agency in good government in this mischievous substitution of governmental power in matters social and personal lies the objection to sumptuary lars lairs interference with conscience in social and religious affairs invasion of the domain of private opinion and personal liberty which seeks to impose penalties for anticipated acts and offenses yet uncommitted this spirit of unwise and unjust interference ter by government is the objection to laws which under the name of taxation favor certain classes and occupations at the cost of others and abridge that freedom of commercial intercourse which an enlightened and enlarged ed sense of self interest should control it is in fact the principle of socialism and communism paternal oversight by the government substituted for individual endeavor guided by intelli intelligent zent self interest and restrained by indi ind vidual conscience it is to promote a healthy sentiment and habit of self reliant manhood that the democratic party throughout the united states insists upon the fullest degree of individual liberty of conscience and action consistent with public safety and the rights of others other and for that reason wo we deprecate all unnecessary interference ter ference with the ri right of local self government and all el class s legislation by the general government which assur assumes oes guardianship and protection over the business of private citizens and control over matters of domestic and local interest we fiust carefully and jealously insist that the true germ and real basis of the greatness estness 4 of our country should not ve be obscured and overlooked and public control allowed over matters properly belonga belonging to private jurisdiction wo we need jn this as a check upon centralizing influences the consolidation solida soli dation tiou of wealth and power and the tyranny of party organization all of which tend to wither individual manhood and conscience and to absolve men from a sense of 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