Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-21

nationa government stands as an in
d0rSer OF the bank If the value Of
the bank note is dependent upon the
government. how can it be any better
than the governments own paper,
and why should the government pay
national banks bonus to induce them
to issue bank notes which are in no
respect superior, and in some respects
inferior, to the greenhacks issued 10y
the government and for which the
people pay no bonus?
"The trusts are now absorbing an
increasing share of public attention
because of their rapid growth during
the last two years. We had sugar
trust and an oil trust some years ago
We now have Il biscuit trust and a
match trust and meat trust-in
fact, trust in almost everything that
is used. The milk trust reaches the
infant rs he enters the world the
ice trust cools him in the summer, the
coal trust keeps him warm in the WIN
ter, while the coffin trust waits to re-
ccive him when life's titful dream is
over. The people are beginning to see
what the principle of monopoly really
means, and yet the principle of monop-
oily so plainly illustrated by the indus
trial trusts does not differ at all from
the principle of monopoly which un-
derlies both the gold standard and the
paper money trust.
"The Democratic party is prepared
to face the future and meet new Is
sues without abandoning the old.
The Republican party has demanded
that the standing army be increased
to 100000 men. Ii citizens born in
the United States are ignorant of the
burdens of standing army they can
receive instruction from those born in
European countries. Many Europe
ans who are now worthy citizens of
this great republic left their European
homes because OF the burdens imposed
by the enormous military establish
ments. A great army may be good
thing for the railroad companies
which will carry the men from place
to place and for the large contractors
who will furnish food and raiment
for the soldiers, but it is distressing
burden upon the laboring men and the
farmers, upon whom an unfair share
of the load has fallen. When l was a
boy remember visiting a wheat field
which had been attacked by the army
worms. 1t occurs to me that this ten
dency toward large army establish
ment-this new army worm-will
prove more destructive to the crops of
the farmer than the army worm with
which the farmers are now familiar.
upon the subject OF Imperialism l
need only add word. The idea of
forcible conquest and of colonization
after the plan adopted by European
countries cannot receive the support
of the people of this country when the
principles involved are clearly under
stood.
ain 1859, Abraham Lincoln was in
vited to attend a jefferson BANQUET
given by the Republicans of Boston
Those whose memories run back to
ante-bellum days remember that the
Declaration of Independence formed
large part of Republican speeches in
the early days. 1t WAS made a part of
the first platform Oh which Abraham
Lincoln ran. That Lincoln was we'd
ded to the fundamental doctrines set
forth in that declaration no one will
dispute. In expressing regret that he
could not attend the Boston banquet,
Mr.. Lincoln used these words in re-
gard to Jefferson: All honor to JET.
ferson to n man who, in the concrete
pressure OF a struggle for independence
by a single people, had the GOODNESS,
forecast and capacity to introduce
into merely revolutionary document
an abstract truth applicable to all
| men and all times, and SO to embalm
it there that to-day and in all coming
days, it shall be a rebuke and stumb-
ling block to the harbingers of tyr.
amy and oppression
"And yet the leaders of the Repub-
lican party are attempting to deny
these truths, written for all men and
for all time. They are attempting to
repudiate the doctrine of equal rights
and self-government given to us by
the forefathers. Not only are they
initiating the mOnarchies of the Old
World in their policies, but they are
copying the language of monarchies in
carrying out their policy. In the
proclamation recently issued to the
Filipinos we find these words: The
commission desires to assure the peo-
pie of the Philippines of the coSdial
good will and fraternal feeling which
is entertained for them by the Presi-
dent of the United States and by the
American people. The aim and OBJ
ject of the American. government,
apart from the fulfllment of the
obligation it has assumed toward the
family of nations by its acceptance of
sovereignty over the Philippine is
lands, is the we'll being, prosperity and
protection of the Philippine people
and their elevation and advancement
to a position among the civilized peo-