Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-10-04

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Of their earnings, or throw a certain body
CT men out Of employment, this shall be
remedied by decreeing that the men who
still have employment shall he paid AS
cents on the dollar for the work they do.
Dishonor Of American Arms.
Gun opponents through the nation, and
ia palticular here IN Ohio, propose as a
method Of attacking trusts to NEEDLE With
the tariff, which would mean economic
disaster to the masses, and To debase the
coinage, which ii addition to even more
frightful economic disaster would mean
national disllonor. When they come to
the second plank in their platform. the
question of expansion, they advocate the
dishonor of the American arms, and the
trailing of the American flag in the dust.
They place themselves outside the rank
of proper party opponents, and make
themselves merely the enemies Of the
nation as a whole, as already by their
action on the currency they have shown
themselves TO be the enemies of honesty
within the nation. The other day Ohio
sent TO New York a prophet of Mr.. Bry-
ans new dispensation in the shape of ex-
Congressman Lentz, who divided his time
sctween fervent hopes for the success of
.1a dinaldo and, therefore, for the ruin Of
the American army in the Philippines.
and the firmly expressed conviction that
the mantle of Washington and of LIN
coin had fallen upon the shoulders of ex-
Gov. Aitgeld.
Make no mistake. In the Philippines
we are at open war with an enemy who
must be put down. 1t is absolutely inn
possible to save our honor except through
victory; and it is equally impossible to
win peace, to restore order in the islands,
Oh to prepare the WAY Tor ~seif-govefn-
ment there, save through victory. Peo-
pie tell you that the ~lfilip;nos are fight
ing for independence. This was exactly
what the copperheaLs of 1861 said of the
Confederates. Here III Ohio the Val
landigham ran on the issue that the
war was a failure, and that the indepen-
dence of the Southern States should be
acknowledged. The feeble Nallandig-
hams q. to-day take the same position,
and il Ohio is true to the great memories
of her past she will give the same answer
now that she CAV then. No man can
hesitate in this struggle and ever after
ward call himself a true American and
true patriot. He must stand by the flag.
He must uphold the honor and the inter-
est of the nation, and the only way in
which he can stand by the one and uphold
the other is to overwhelm the party that
assails both.
Must Put Down Armed Resistance.
Two f. cts IN be emphasized. First,
that out Of the present situation the only
honorable and humane way is tc put
down armed resistance in the Philippines,
and to establish a government of orderly
Justice; and, in the second place, that this
situation inevitably arose out of the war,
and could not have been avoided save by
shameful conduct Oh our part. You will
meet short-sighted people who say that
Dewey, after sinking the Spanish feet,
should have sailed away from Manila
bay. OF course, such conduct was ilnpos-
sible. 1t is not too much to say that
such conduct would have been infamous.
Either the islands would have been left
to their own fate, had such a course been
followed, in which case a series of bloody
massacres would have taken place, and
he war between the Spaniards and the
Eihpinos would have dragged along it's
swretched length until some outside inter-
ference took place, or else, what is far
more probable, as Dewey's feet sailed
out the fleet of some European power
would have sailed in, and we would have
had the keen modification of seeing the
task which we shrank from begun by
some nation which did not distrust its
own powers, which had the courage to
dare to be great. Dewey had to stay and
we had to finish the job we had begun.
A weak nation can be ~pardoned for Civ
ing up a work which it does badly; but a
strong nation cannot be pardoned for
finching from a great work because, for
sooth, there are attendant difficulties and
hardships. The century which is just
closing has seen what the century which
is opening will surely also see-vast
strides in civilization, the result of the
conquest of the worlds waste places, the
result of the expansion of the great mas
terful, ruling races of the world.
Democratic Attitude Destructive.
Gov. Roosevelt summed up as follows:
Our opponents seek to make their
points by %denouncing trusts and cXpan-
sion. In both cases they occupy a purely
destructive attitude. They advocate moth
ing constructive. The Democratic party,
with that fatal facility it has shown for
many years i'll appearing at every recllr-
ring presidential election as the enemy
Of the business man, and, above all, of
the w~orkingman, now once more comes to
the front as the champion of the forces
that tell for economic destruction. They
denounce the trusts, but the measures
they propose against them are purely po-
litical, are not economic, not remedial.
They strive to win by in1aming ignorant
passion. and trust that the passion thus
infamed will overcome sound judgment.
They propose either no remedy or else
they propose remedies so absurd and so
vicious that they would ten-fold aggra-
vate all existing evils. Mr.. Bryan has
developed a visionary scheme of national
supervision, 4 scheme of extreme central
~:zation. which would be unavoidable at
present and which night cause great
havoc to industry, if so much as the at
tempt was made to put it into effect. We
propose to meet the problem in the only
way in which it can be met, by cool and
careful study, by finding out what the
facts are, and then by exhausting every
legitimate power legislative, admiDistra-
tive and judicial, to regulate the indus
trial movement and to cut out all abuses.
Corporations flor what we co nmonly call
trusts are generally merely big corpora
tions) render great services, and are in
dispensable instruments in industry in
our modern life: but their growth has
been accompanied by the growth of evils
which we can but remedy by common
sense and common honesty-not dema-
gogic cutlery. Our opponents say we have
no plan. We have: and the plan is. as a
first step, to try the effect of publicity,
and then to supplement publicity by tax
alton, and then by licensing or whatever
measure experience shows to be effective.
Before hitting we must know exactly
what we are hitting at, and whether tae
blow will hurt more than it helps.
Juggie of Words.
So again, when they come to deal with
expansion, they juggle words. They state
insincerely what they know is not true,
and strive to bring shame and dishonor Oh
the country for their own political adj
vantage. They say they are against i'm
perialism. So are we. Not an American
in the land favors imperialism, and they
know this. They profess TO fear the evils
of a great standing army and a grand
navy. They know that no one proposes
for a moment to make the army and
navy larger relatively to our needs Of the
moment than they nave been to our needs
of the past. We are not imperialists;
we are expansionists, and that we have
got TO be whether we wish to or not. The
work of expansion is going on all about
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