Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-18

thems in Reply to Goldbugs.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March IL, 1898.
Al last the administration and Con.
gress have caught up with the people
on the Spanish question. Congress
has been all right all the time; it has
only been waiting for Mr.. Mckinley
to indicate what he wanted. This
week he broke silence. and the result
was that in As hours bill appropriating
$50, OOO, 900, to be expended at his dis
erection, had been unanimously passed
by the House and Senate and carried
to him for his signature. 1t does not
matter whether it was the request of
Spain for Fitz Lees recall, which was
so promptly refused by Mr.. Mckinley,
or the certainty that the Court Of
Inquiry will report that the Maine
was blown up from the outside, that
has aroused the administration to the
necessity OF preparing to lick Spain
1t il enough to know that it has been
aroused, and that it is now pushing
war preparations in dead earnest
Having given him all the money that
will be needed, unhampered as to how 1t
shall be spent, Congress is proceeding
with its routine business, and holding
itself ready for any further action that
may be considered necessary. The
only thing to be regretted is that Mr..
Mckinley had not asked for this ap-
preparation month or two ago. A
month ago fighting ships might have
been purchased in Europe that can
not now be had, owing to European
war clouds and other reasons. We
have got navy enough, however, even
il the naval officer sent to Europe
doesn't buy a single vessel, to lick any
thing and everything that dies the
Spanish flag. Us will be proven in
short order after the shooting starts.
The National Association OF Demo-
cratic Clubs, which has made arrange
ments to celebrate the 155th birthday
anniversary of Thomas Jefferson, by q
subscription dinner, on Wednesday,
April Ii, at which Hon. William ].
Bryan and Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of Democratic National Com
mittee. will be guests OF honor, has is
sued a circular letter urging all Demo-
cratic clubs to celebrate in some way
by joining with the National Associa-
ton ain q common homage to the
memory of the great apostle of Ameri-
can liberty, the author of the Declara-
ton OF Independence, and the founder
Of the Democratic party, and in fresh
expression OF our unalterable de-
termination to preserve the heritage
Of freedom as it came to us from our
fOrefathers, and to resist by every law.
full means in our power the enroach.
ments Of organized wealth and monop-
oily upon the constitutional rights Of
the people"
Senator Allen offered resolution
this week, which the Senator adopted,
calling on the Attorney General to in
form the ena te how many wriis of
injunction we're granted during 1897
'9S by the U. S. Courts. against labor
leaders and labor organizations, and TO
furnish it with certified copies of such
writs, the affidavits upon which appli-
cation for them were made, and OF
other papers connected with them.
Unless Mr.. Mckinley takes notion
to veto the bill appropriating $28S, 600
to reimburse the publishing house of
the Southern Methodist Church for
war damages to its property, which
was this week passed by the Senate,
the Methodists breathen will soon get
the money.
There may have been worse viola.
tons of the canons Of good taste than
that of the Providence, (R. ~ Board
of Trade. in sending a circular letter
to each Senator and Representative,
in which the attempt is made to use
the destruction of the Maine and the
probability OF war with Spain as an
argument for the gold legislation asked
for by the indianapolis bankers con-
vention. but none such is recalled
just now. Representative Freeman
Knowles, of South Dakota, who is
serving his first term in the House. is
SO far as known, the only man in Con-
gress who has answered this extra
ordinary circular letter, but the answer
of Mr.. Knowles was a very warm
document, as may be judged from the
following quotations thereirom: Il
can find no language to express my
adherence Of men who will seek to
take advantage of the patriotism of
the people to force financial system
upon them which means their enslave-
ment." You are the same class as
those who took advantage of the peo-
ple's patriotism in 186l-'65, to fasten
upon the tOiling masses system OF
bondage by which you have absorbed
to entire product of labor since the
war;" This class would not hesitate
| to sell Onr country FIR GOLD and would