But  we  ave  told  it  is  too  late.  We  are  told  again  and  again  that
the  majority  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  have  approved  the
policy  of  the  President.  Mr.  President,  I  do  not  know  how  that
is.  Neither  do  the  men  know  who  make  the  assertion.  I  believe
that  if  to-day  a  vote  should  be  taken  on  these  resolutions,  discon-
nected from  party  politics,  removed  from  all  the  great  questions
which  divide  the  two  political  parties,  if  it  could  be  submitted
fairly  to  the  country,  an  overwhelming  majority  would  declare  in
favor  of  the  resolution  of  the  Senator  from  Georgia.  We  know
that  an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  Democrats  in  the  country
are  in  favor  of  it.  We  know  that  the  great  body  of  our  German
and  Irish  American  citizens  are  in  favor  of  it.  We  know  that  the
laboring  people  from  one  end  of  this  country  to  the  other  indorse
it  and  favor  it,  and  that  the  great  organization  known  as  the  Fed-
eration of  Labor,  said  to  represent  800,000  workingmen,  but  re-
cently unanimously  indorsed  it.
