Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-03-17
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leGEzS lie r~sltx - TIE DTasley.
az sINi IT, t1ilzrs s. 4 revenue pro
sGeer M. De AuSood says:
lrsr1 d. aceh toEAri reforming
se Su&a ~ ~cNr ling to its pHn-
4 : SD yieS< IL either has hAd no
opSdeaN n its ID. o.ies Or II has
lacked the boEsiy or the COURAGE
~ htb. to sFlE n< pns6e-
Ii has turned uxr for humanity
! uio = zx- against humanity. IL has
/ made a determined effort tn increase
..e regular army far beyond all need
/ or reasonable excuse FOR increase. Ii
/ las plar mel to bold on to Cuba
ra,rsf our ssleun declarations and
Il the peaI Of our national houor and
ypoi faith. II has given the country
-clnIals growing ont OF the war.
uauSering beyond precedent. IL
uas yelled its purposes in the Philh
! pines until uar with the natives.
lately our allies, IS upon US.
II cont4mpls;es colonial empir-. but
lacks the courage tn proclaim it. pre-
fering to shape events 20 riiat they
shall bring in their train the mani
lid evils in~separab!e from an ab Iud-
nnmeut Of our traditional policy OF
attending to onr own business n
-afaiy At home. instead oi aping the
empires OF the old world IN conquer
'nr and t,raniz'ug over alien peoples.
II has de-ised new mean Of taxing
pnverty aud toll that wealth and IDLE
ness may lie > mpt. II has made
Necessity its victim, while exempt
ing abilif, from bearing its ,st
hare of the burdens OF government.
ASA reckless squlnderer OF the
substance " the people, the RepIb
liran party in the past two years has
gone far be,ond the most prufigate
NJ proceeding adminstr atiOns. Its
expenditures have eclipSed the most
eStraragant performances heretofore
known in the history NJ this country.
Even in war time, with expenditures
ont ri all reason. and with the masses
OF the people paying far more taxes
thin .hould be exacted Of them. this
R.nmb!ican party has stuhbnrnly and
,r.fT,n1 1ag,Ea1 q. 1... L. Ia -
some tax To raise reveuu to meet its
wast+fullness. and equaliza. to
some extent, the hur.lens placed upon
the people. II cannot shelter itself
behind the decision oi the supreme
ont against the in ome tax to raise
means TO carry on Har.
In its tro Years reign the Repub-
licsn party has been II OF rIped-
iency. rather than principle. 1t has
-hit;ei with every breeze. II has no
policy but expediency. as its leaders
scent eIpediency from time Ia time.
Ii has done nothing tow ard the re
demp'ion Of its pledges, except to
pass the tariff law. To which. without
reas N, II has attributed satisfactory
rssults wrought by other agencies.
II has fs;tened the trusts and monop-
iii ; and male leaper the plam PEG.
pie. II has male a bonded debt
without "Ic1se has prepared the WAY
'nr al ling to il soon and largely.
|; las enter i up N a foreign policy
IitEnnt sincerity and reckless OF the
consequence. II has Begun the cru
: nle Of the tyrant at the expense OF
he patiot. IL has rogn far and
vide the seeds OF demoraliz4 alton, and
'he harvest Of evi. cannot be far of.
Fayuritism ratht than merit has
marked its appointments to Office.
and some 81 it's scandals are a stencil
in the public nnsirils.
JuigInR the future Of the Rapub.
lican party BY the two years last past.
It is some ccmfoIt, though a CORY
ono, TO indulge the hope that the
coming two years hardly can be
worse, End, for lack OF substance
upon which TO prey. may he better.
II is mora comfort to cherish the be-
lief that tour years Of Mckinley mud
Hanna will be mora than enough. and
that IN ar rsed and outraged people
will he fully convinced by 1900 that
4 change cannot be for worse, but
must be Tor the better. and being so
con 'inced by the hard logic ~ bitter
experience. will make the change.
" Unfair and excessive taxation.
unparalleled e1traY gance. broken
pledges, growing anil multiplying
trusts. triumphant monopolies. hard
ship Tor the poor and benriactlnr 3
FOR the rich. at their rxpense-it
'hese and many o.her things oi i'll.
omen which Rspublicansm has RI.
plotted in the first two ear Of the
reigE ~ Mckinley snd those with
whom ne hls surrounded hin,eeli be
not enough I" nauseate the public
and determine it Ia make a change at
the next opportunity, we shall be
warranted in dnubtipg whether
lie son learned in the school ~ er-
nc fence are "a v,'u ,ble as We have
be n taught TO bplierr tbem TO be.