POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE NOT ISOLATION INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE BY PERRY BELMONT n G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press J TO THE MEMORY OF SENATOR THOMAS F. BAYARD OF DELAWARE (1828-1898) ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PRESS BY THE PRESENT SENATOR THOMAS FRANCIS "I believe that the fundamental principles of the Democratic party have undergone no change and will be just as enduring as ever. "I believe the time has come when we must swing back to first principles and refuse to be a party to the many 'isms' advanced for the most part for purely local conditions or for the advancement of some personal equation. "In principle, the Democratic party is the party of all the people, and therefore should represent no one class or section to the exclusion of, or preferment to, any other class or section. If this principle be adhered to, blocs, factions, and personalities would disappear, and a united party based upon the old line Democratic doctrine could and would go forward to success." 569.12 PREFACE THIS Volume has been written to maintain the contention that the United States has never been isolated, and that there has been no break in the interdependence of the United States and Europe; that the Democratic party, created at the birth of our democratic Republic, preponderant when our foreign policy was formulated, disrupted when the country was rent asunder by civil war, surviving and reuniting at the restoration of the Union, derives its indestructible vitality from the principles upon which it was instituted-principles which lie at the foundation of the Government of the Republic. In the defense of these fundamental principles against destructive influences the Democrat and the Republican who upholds our democratic Republic should be equally engaged. New York, December 8, 1924. P. B. |
