The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-04

power, was very distinctly pledged TO
take up Cuba's cause. There Is no
doubt on that score--if you question the
administration obligation, read the
Mckinley platform; IL asserted that
SPANS attempt to subdue the island
had proved to be a failure and IL de-
manded independence for Cuba. The
last state of the case is worse than the
first. The Maine catastrophe has COM
plicated the situation a hundred fold.
A ship was wrecked and more than
hundred lives lost. An aroused nation
waits ne~vousIy to know whether this
loss is due to causes outside the ship.
That is proving to be "A tedious inquiry.
When il is ended. if il is concluded that
the cause was outside the ship. there
must be another wait and n longer one
while the administration finds out,
through the complex processes Of di-
plomacy whether an indemnity may
Justly be demanded from Spain. Then
if it appears that the demand is war
ranted, there will be another vexing
pause while diplomacy finds out
whether Spain is disposed TO pay or
not. How much better it would have
been it, not in the name Of a warship
and a few score men but in the name
of hundreds of thousands Of sick. starV-
ing, dying human beings who live al
most within speaking distance OF this
nations doors-how much better 1T
would have been If President Mckin-
ley had thrown the shelter OF the
American dag over the island and given
notice to all the world that within
twenty-four hours, in the name of hu-
mainly, war in cuba must cease. The
administration apologists are always
saying that an opposing senate thwarts
it's plans and prevents the performance
| of promises. Well, before the admins
| tration was seventy-five days old, by a
! vote of forty-one to fourteen, the SEN
| ate passed joint resolution recog-
| nizing Cuban belligerency What did
the administrations house managers do
] with it?
The politics of the first year of Nc
Kinleyism was interesting. 1t started
off with the republican loss of several
! cities like Chicago, before the national
! administration was organized, as the
outcome of spring elections. 1t Wit
messed the utter rout of the republicans
in Greater New York, in spite of the
| administrations aggressive help. IT
| saw the presidents party in his owr
state saved by the skin of it's teeth
| and Hanna. the man who made the
| Mckinley administration and runs it
| compelled to buy his seat in the SEN
ate. The year killed off the interna-
| tional bimetailc dodge, buried 1t ano
placed monument over it's grave. A
few days ago the senate put all its
administration forces on record against
the Teller resolution which. respecting
silver as a metal for the lawful pay
ment OF all public debt, renewed th'
declaration made in the Matthews reso
luton. for which MIR. Mckinley himsel
voted when he was a member of thu
house of representatives
1t has been a negative year-th
president is negative man. He wa
weak enough to let himself be loade'
with a shadow of a man in the offc
of secretary of state while a countr.
lawyer from Ohio does the real work
lie placed at the head of the treasur.
a mild gentleman who has been aptl
described as "a man who has lived TO
thirty years in the atmosphere of frigh
that surrounds the president OF bi
bank These are the two importan
cabinet places With one hand tn
+ president has been pushing MIR. Gag
, into the precincts of the house Of repre-
sentatives, to demand goldbug legis
, lation. With the other hand he ha
, hung on tight to Speaker Reed, pray
ing him not on any account to let cur
, rency legislation get before the hous
for discussion. He sent Senator Wo
q colt abroad To see what could be don
for silver; Wolcott had hardly sale
: when the president sent an urgent rt
, quest to congress for the appointmei
of the commission which the single gol
, standard advocates demanded.
or course. the administration is nj
!, to be judged by results in it's first yea
!, If il is satisfied with itself, we'll an
good. If those who voted it into pow,
are satisfied that should furnish cau'
4 for eongratulation. As for the sevt
!, million and some hundreds of thor
sands of citizens who did not vote f
. the Mckinley administration, hecau
:. they believe its cornerstone IL be
wicked and dangerous money fallacy
as for them. they, too, are Statistic
They accord to the gold idolate
-, another year.