Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-15
Foxey RI ekinley.

mere Is little or nothlng IN Mr.. Nc
Kinley's annual me ssage to Congress,
(Which the billie FIN last week gave
its readers). long as that document is,
that indicates with any degree of GER
tainty, what policy he intends to fol- |
low towards the Phil pines. This in |
dictates that he has not decided upon
policy, or il he has, that he IS afraid
TO make 1T public yet, and confirm the
belief of those who think that he in
tends playing foxey on the Philippine
question until after he gets that treaty
OF Peace ratified by the Senate, and
the $4,000, 600 " hich we are to paw
Spain, appropriated by Congress. An
announcement of q positive policy be-
fore then might result in making too
many votes against both treaty and
appropriation.
President McKinleys handling of
the war and matters relating thereto
in his message, contained no surprises
The message follows just about the
lines 1t was expected to follow-lines
plainly indicated for months past by
official and sem official carnations
from the administration. The mes
sage also indicates very plainly that
Mckinley isn't as anxious to push
| along financial legislation as some OF
, the members of bis party would like
D him to be.
Senator Hale is the most rabid Re-
publican anti-expansionist who has yet
numbered rapid fire-tongue bat
terry and sent hot shot into the peace
! treaty, which he says he will fight to
, the last. He predicts that if the treaty
e is carried into effect it will add many
J, millions, on accou MT of increased army
= and navy, to the yearly expenses oi
~ Of this government, without bringing
the slightest benefit to our people a.
: large; that our country will in time
:, become overrun by inferior races, anC
), numerous other minor evils will fol-
low. 10 addition to his predictions
n he charges McKihley's foreign polio,
e to have been ins PRED by the British
foreign office, apd asks the Irish
$. Americans to join him in opposing thu
q ratification of the treaty. Pie ase r,
5, member that Senator Hale is not
IL Democrat, talking for political effect
- He is Republican of standing in th
s councils of his party, and no longe
Z. ago than the last session of Congress
just after the Maine was destroyed, h,
acted as the mouth piece of McKinle,
- on the floor of the senate, although
4 his pronounced Spanish view
. were at that time well known. Their
o is no probability sufficient humble
!; of senators will act with Mr.. Hale /,
Is reject the treaty. but it may not b
n ratified before the end of this Congress
); making an extra session of the Senat
" necessary.
- In closing its review OF the messag
= the Boise Capital says 1--WE have re
4 served the juciest morsel OF the mes
sage for editorial dessert. In a wor
it is PROSPERITY" How his eS
70 cellency scintilates and sparkles as l.
touches the harp of single string an
: attempts Orphean music. Certainly
re Prosperity is abroad in the land
n Rockefeller, as he nears the billion.
dollar high-water mark sees its da
% and is glad; J. Pierpont Morgan re
] joices; New England manufacturer
h mark up the price OF their goods an
a. cut down the wages of their laborer
= and piously give thanks. Why. in
40 single year under a republican admin
istration, trusts have been formed az
gregating S744,0p0, 600 OF cours
J. prosperity is here. The republica
sc party is great.
v But apropos of prosperity: A fe'
v weeks ago Mckinley sat down wit
, some bloats Of New York to a Lucu
II Ian feast. The papers report that owe
e 800 starving wrftches jostled eac
- other on the sidewalk outside to get
IL glimse of AL this luxury and a SINE
4 of the delicious vIands served on tn
) OCCASION stood there in the cold 70
n hours and Strove tor look In lieu of
lie crumb from the groaning tables-a
j. the dead and damned in Inferno, q
Il pictured by Dante strive for glanc
4 OF eternal gloriek within the City {
God. And these are only IA sma
fraction of that vast army of tn
~ wretehed, the poverty tn
p hopeless, that biFouac in garnet an
IN howell in pinching cold and mercile.
te rain, from ocean to ocean of this fai
rs land. What say you of these, NJ
y President? Or are they totally out
side of your thought and care?
rs