The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-11-09

Points ON which the Party WIN Make Ix
right.

Fight.
On the tariff the democrats enter
the next campaign handicapped by the
fact that they repudiate their own
hnndiwork. All Of their leaders who
are entitled 10 receive respectful at
tention denouncc the Wilson-Gorman
bill, and promise 20 supplant il by an
other. They cannot take any otherpo-
sition. They are traitors to their own
principles unless they pronounce as
treachery 10 these principles the work
of their own hands. All they can
promise is further agitation. further
change and unrest. with all the attcnd-
ant misfortunes OF such change and
unrest to the business community and
to the world OF workingmen. The re.
publicans, on the other hand, stand for
n policy of commercial rest. They
wish 10 continue the protective policy.
They have no desire To carry the prin-
ciple 10 unreasonable extremes. All
they intend 70 do, II they have the
power, is TO remodel the present law
wherever IL is absolutely necessary to
do 50 in the interest of impartial JUS
tries shall be treated alike.
At tho present, however. the fnnn-
cial question bids fair to overtop the
tariff in interest. II business had con-
tinued i'm its depressed condition, and
IL there had been failure OF crops in
the west, the financial question would
have been nll-important, and the fight
would undoubtedly have resolved itself
into straight-out contest for and
against free silver, the democrats cham
pioning and the republicans opposing
unlimited coinage of the deprecated
metal. The partial return of prosperity,
however, has checked the free silver
craze. The republicans have always been
overwhelmingly against any form OF
cheap" currency, whether under he
guise of fiat money or short-weit at
silver. All of the presidential candi-
dates ON the republican side are and
have been against it--Recd, Morton,
Mckinley, Harrison, Allison. The free
silver republicans are important only
because they are concentrated i'm anum-
Der of the Rocky mountain states
These states are sparsely populated.
They count for little i'm a party conven-
ton or in national election. but they
count for n great deal in the senate;
and 10 is this disproportionate repre-
sentation i'm the senate that has given
the free silver people any weight at all
in the republican party.
IL Is earnestly TO be hoped that the re-
publican party will also make an ag-
Cressive fight on the question OF Ameri-
cas- foreign policy. A policy OF bum
combc and spread-engleism in foreign
affairs would be sincerely 10 be deprc
Gated; but n policy OF tame submission
90 insult is even worse. In it's foreign
policy the present democratic admins
tration has offered n most unpleasant
contrast TO the preceding republican
The very democrats
who have stood stoutest in warning
against the great majority of their own
party for sound finance have also been
conspicuous in forcing
their party 10 adopt thoroughly inn
proper and un-American tone in for
eign affairs. Unfortunately, very many
decent men in the country, and espe-
cially in the northeast, are too timid, or
too unpatriotic, to wish the United
States to play the part it should among
the nations of the earth. America
must never play the part of n bully; but
even less must she play the part of "a
coward; and IL is this last most unpleas-
ant part which. during the last two
years OF democratic administration, she
has once or twice come near playing.
We should build tirst-class fighting
n0vy--a navy, not of mere swift COM
mercc dcstroycrs, but of powerful bat
tie ships. We should annex Hawaii inn
IL was u crime against the
United States. IL was n crime against
white civilization not 10 annex il two
years and half ago. The delay did
damage that is perhaps irreparable; for
IL meant that at the critical period OF
the islands growth the influx of popu-
lation consisted not of white Ameri-
cans, but of low-caste laborers drawn
from the yellow races. We should
build the isthmian canal, and IL
should be built either by the United
states government or under it's protec-
ton. We should inform Great Britain,
with equal frmness and courtesy, that
The Monroe doctrine Is very much alive,
and that the United States cannot toll
rate the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF "A Euro
pcan power ON American soil, especial
" when such ACKNOWLEDGEMENT takes the
form OF an attempt 20 seize the mouths
Of the Orinoco.
This does not mean n policy OF blus-
Ter. No American president or secrc-
-ary OF state. no American legislative
body should ever make n threat which
Is not, IL necessary, TO be backed by
force OF arms. Honorable peace is Ill
ways desirable. but under no circum-
should permit ourselves to be
iefrauded of our just rights by any fear
" war. no amount of material pros
pcrity can atone for lack of national
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