Democracy And Peace 1916

Author : Robert L. Owen
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ISBN 13 : 9781330913857
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Three Years of Democracy; Shall We Have Peace Or War? written by Robert L. Owen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Years of Democracy; Shall We Have Peace or War?: An Address Delivered Before the Democracy of New Hampshire on the Occasion of Their Annual Banquet Held in the City of Concord, N. H., On March 16, 1916 Gentlemen of the New Hampshire Democracy, fellow countrymen, it gratified me to yield to the invitation and the demand of my beloved colleague, Senator Hollis, to speak to you to-night as the representatives of the Democracy of New Hampshire. In the highest and truest sense, democracy is a religion, moving the hearts and souls of men toward justice, human brotherhood, and human betterment through self-government by the people. Its principles move many men of many parties, in many nations - from New Hampshire to California, and from the United States to France, from Persia to China, and from the republics of South Africa to those of Australasia. The Republican Party, when it was organized, in 1856, to fight slavery, showed a clearer conception of true democracy than did the old Democratic Party of that date, which condoned, and even defended, slavery. Only when the Republican Party was allured from its high ideals, through the decades following the Civil War, by the corrupting influences of corporate power and self interests, which seized possession of the party management and party control, did the Republican Party fall from its high estate and finally become the recognized champion of organized private greed. As this gradually took place there came a new birth of purer democracy within the ranks of those who still clung to the old Democratic Party and its best ideals. It may be fairly said that only with the advent of Woodrow Wilson, three short years ago, was the Democratic Party completely restored in the affections and confidence of the people of the United States, and then for the first time in 60 years was it able to give concrete expression to its desire to make effective its principles of human brotherhood and human betterment. We must now give an account to the people of our stewardship. What have we done and what do we propose? Have we been faithful to our pledges? Have we brought disaster or prosperity? My fellow countrymen, when the Democracy in November, 1912, received the mandate of the American people to assume the reins of government all the great powers of special privilege, who have regarded the Republican Party as an instrumentality through which the invisible government might control the Government of the people of the United States, joined in a chorus prophesying hard times, in the obvious hope by thus creating hard times to lay the foundation for the defeat of the party of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.