Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-21

and so divided up equally among all of
the people; or whether the enormous
sum represented here shall be surren-
dered to a comparatively few individuals,
known as bankers. 1t is in dealing with
Just such problems as this that the nation
must decide either to favor the aggrega-
tion of the wealth of the country in few
hands or its distribution among the rank
and file of the people. Government man
agement of public franchises for the
benefit of all, or cooperative manage
ment for the benefit of few, comes in
the same category. Whether trusts
shall be permitted to collect enormous
profits for few individuals, or these
profits be divided up among the many by
fair competition, is a part of the same
question. And whether the wealth of
the country included in personal property
shall contribute at least the part of the
taxes that aroused for its protection, or
whether this personal property of the
wealthy shall be protected, as it very
largely is now, by taxes paid by those
who have but little wealth, is also a part
of the politics Immediately before us.
TheQuestion of whether the country will
sustain a sufficient currency to MAINTAIN
prices, so that producers can get just
reward for their labor, enters and must
future, and the party that sustains one
of these issues in behalf of the people is
practically certain to maintain them all.
Such party is distinctively an AMERI-
CAN party, and is distinctively opposed
to gold standard party such as Mr..
Cleveland attempted to folst upon the
country.
Thus far the Mckinley administration
and that part oil the republican party
which it represents has stood with the
people on these issues, at least so far as
it has acted at all, and we suppose the
Tribune in its course largely represents
the administration.
OF course, any party, paper or indi-
vidual that represents genuine American
sentiments is unalterably opposed to the
| horrible condition of cruelty and injustice
resulting from Spanish rule in Cuba.
Look through all the eannals of history and
we know of no darker pages than those
recently made by the Turks in their mas
sacre of Christians and by the Spanish in
the intoerable cruelties and butcheries
perpetrated by them in Cuba. That the
Christian nations of Europe have per-
mitted the first is past all comprehen-
sion. But that Americans should permit
the last, when by simply acknowledging
the belligerent rights of the Cubans they
could prevent it, is not only far more dis
graceful, but also would seem to be far
more inexplicable. The explanation,
however, is clear. Our country has been
under the management of the money
interest, as illustrated in the Cleveland
administration. This power, like a cor
poration, has no soul. Human rights,
life, liberty, are alike secondary, and
therefore entirely neglected by those
whose only thought and effort is to gain
money. 1t is another illustration of the
fact mentioned in scripture, that the love
of money is the root of all evil
But the Cleveland administration, with
all its pigheadedness and imbeclity, i:
over. So, too, the party that it repre-
sented has been destroy ed. Now the
question is, what will the present admin
tions by its management of which Mr.
Clevelands party has been hopelessly
wrecked? Will the same malgn inhu
ences capture and control the administra
ton of Mr.. Mckinley, who so gallantly
fought in the war for the preservation Of
our Union? We hope not. And thi;
article from the Tribune points in the
direction of a manly American policy
towards Cuba by the administration.
A new chapter in our history is being
rapidly written. We will hope on this
issue, as on others, it will be writer
right by the powers that be. But moth
ing less than the immediate recognition
of the belllgeIent rights of the Cuban!
will be accepted by the American people
And if this recognition is not at once &C
corded to them the mighty force of the
American nation is sure to be heard from
at their first opportunity, placing IL
power an administration that will prop
erly represent the sentiments of the peo
pie of the United States on this matter a
set forth in the last national republican
platform.
All foreign rule will sooner or late
come to an end in America. Let that o
Spain be terminated at this time.