The age-herald., 1898-04-02
M'KINLEY HAS
 NO PATRIOTISM
BY JAY DURHAM.

yeonen, the real patriotic people, could for moment look in upon affairs at Wash fngton, and fairly understand how they are
 managed, am lead Do the belief that their | patriotism would take a drop in the mar ket. It Is well to imagine that for the | past four or five days the country has been | in state of eruption The public mind | has not been so infiamed for many years. The patriotic heart of every true Ameri- can has been warm in defense of his coun- | try's honor, and hls disposition to wipe out l the insults thrust upon this country by l Spain.
 l While the people are justly demanding some compensation from Spain, not neces- l sardly money, for the destruction of the | Maine, they are willing to fight and shed | their best blood for their country's honor. | The president of the United States Is sur | rounded by @ crowd of men whose only ann | bgtfon Is to make money out of the deal. | Mark Hanna Steve Ellxins and John J. l MoCook, who was McKinley's first choice | for attorney In his cabinet, have been the prime American factors dn the scheme The money end of the game was
 
 When it was first proposed he looked upon | it with favor. He has continued to regard | 1t as such. The men who surround nm | the most as his advisors, if they do not own Spanish bonds themselves they are the | hired and paid agents of Spanish pond- | holders. Wall street has kept it's emissaa1es
 within calling distance of the White | House No move has been made that they were not advised of it in advance.
 Mir. Mckinley has kept his moneyed l friends advised of every act he contempiat- l ed. His tips have gone Ito Wall street, and | his friends have made millions. There has l not been time since the pending crlsls l when Mr. Mckinley has not been the l guardian of the interest of the money | sharks Patriotism with him has become | a lost art. It has no place in his councils. While Secretary Alger, of the War port | folio, and Wilson, of the Agricultural De- | partment, have been the two pronounced | advocates of national integrity, honor ana | patriotism, every other cabinet minister | has been more or less under the dictates of Wall street. Recent developments nave | shown that Mckinley is a pretender or pa- | triotic sentiments; man whose strongest | characteristic Is his weakness of charac- | ter a man who postpones until tomorrow
 what he should have done yesterday. He | plays conservatism. Spain demands more time. He is glad to extend the honor. He | grants it. While Spain secures additional time, she puts fires under the boilers or l her warships and steams her war vessels l toward American shores.
 The presidents message upon the SuDJect | of the Maine report is regarded by all fair | thinking people as a disgrace to American | intelligence, dishonor to American mah- | hood and an outrage upon national prloe. | With 263 dead American seamen, the mur- l. der of which has practically been fixed by
 the board of inquiry and the responsibility | placed upon Spain, nothing in Mr. Mckan- l ley's message to congress upon the Maine | report was said that indicated that from | him came the least particle of sympathy | for the loss of that many American nves' | No word of rgret, no word that could go | to the families of the dead heroes that | would be comforting to the widows and or | phans; no syllable commndatory of thear l courage and valor for truth; nothing in
 the message more than detailing some facts
 already set forth in the report, and besides,
 the humblest apology to Spain.
 |
 No intelligent person-those who have a
 fair understanding of the English language can read the entire Maine report without fully believing that the Maine was not only
 blown up by Spain, but by the act and | authority of the Spanish government MT. | Mckinley practically admitted that he 1 knew the ship was blown up by Spain. He
 did this in saving he had referred the mat ter to her majesty, the queen regent, and
 he would not allow himself to believe that
 she would do other than what was honor
 able while one nation was treating with an-
 other. When the president wrote that he I knew Spain would do the correct thing, he wrote what he unquestionably believed
 was false. He did not believe it himself.
 He knew that the intelligence of the
 American people could do nothing else than
 characterize it as not only false but infa-
 nous. Spain acknowledges this is either
 fair or honest.
 What the future may bring forth, no man
 can tell. The president in asking congress | met with the desire to accommodate him.
 It is almost impossible to meet with sin
 gle republican member of the house of rep
 resentatives who is not emphatic in his
 declaration that Cuba must be free. As pre- | viously told in my telegraphic dispatches,
 every republican member has been upon
 the verge of most hostile acts towards the l president This was especially true on
 Monday and Tuesday last. That he had
 failed to meet the emergency was appar- | ent in every mans mind On Tuesday night l caucus of 1O7 republicans was held, and l every mothers son of them said they would | vote for the first resolution for the inde- penedence of Cuba, no matter who might l introduce it. That they would no longer
 be governed by the wish of the president
 That their constituents were demanding
 immediate action, and that they were not
 going to sacrifice their own political for tunes for supposed party fidelity. On l wednesdaY morning a committee from the