The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-15
NO SECRET COMBINE
WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
STATE SECRETARY HAY DE-
MES AN ALLIANCE.
Americas Programme Is Friendship
and Justice for All Nations Which
Behave Themselves-Pointe Com
ment by the Secretary of State
Upon the Political Issues of the
DnU


Day.
Columbus. o., Sept. 14-Thc secre- |
| tary of state, Hon. John Hay in let
ter to Chairman Dick of the Republi-
can state executive committee, express
| ing personal inability to speak at the
| opening rally of the Ohio campaign,
gives at length his views upon cur
rent political issues, among other
| things saying:
Our opponents this year are in an IN
fortunate position. They have lest. for
all practical purposes their political
stock in trade of recent years. Their
money hobby has collapsed under
them. Their orators still shout 16 to |
! from time to time, from the force or
habit, but they are like wisdom crying
! i'm the streets. in one respect at least,
because "no man regardoth them"
| With our vaults full Of gold, with a
sufliCiency Of money to meet the Go-
mands OF volume of business unpre-
+ cedontedly vast and profitable; with
labor generally employed at fair
| wages: with our commerce ovorspread-
ing the world with every dollar thn
| government issues as good as any
other dollar: with orr finances as firm
as rock, and our credit the best ever
known ii is no time for financial
mOuntebanks to cry their nostrums in
the market place, with any chance of
being heard.
The Dingley Tariff.
1t is equally hopeless to try to resus-
itatc the corpse Of free trade. The
Dinglcy tariff. the legitimate successor
Of the Mckinley bill-that name q
good auCury-haS justified itself by Its
WnrlIg II iS only that do
mastic trade has reached proportion
never before attained, but the AmeIi-
can policy Of prOtection--the policy OF
al our most ilustrious statesmen. OF
Washington and Hamilton, Lincoln,
, Grant. and NcKinley--has been tri-
umphantly vinGCated by the proof that
il is as cffiCacious in extending GU"
foreign commerce as ir fostering and
stimulating our home industries. Pu'
exports of domestic manufactures
reached in this fiscal year the uneN-
ampled total If $3.50 600 900 an amount
more than two hundred millions 'eX-
cess Of our exports ten years ago.
| These figures ring the ltnell Of thos"
specious arguments which have been
the reliance uf our opponents for 50
many years. and which are only fruit
full i'm times of leanness and disaster.
What is left then, in the way Of
plltform' The reign of trusts, which
the Republicans can themselves man
age, having all the requisite experience
both Of legislation and business, and
finally the war which. ii seems. was too
efficiently carried on. and has heou too
beneficial to the nation to suit thh
| Democratic leaders We have been
able 10 give I'm our time some novel
ideas to the rest of the world. and none
more novel than this. that a great par
ty should complain that the results OF
war We're too advantageous. Hard
il will be to convince the bulk Of orr
people that we are the worse off he
cause our flag has gained great honor,
our possessions have been extended,
our position in the world increased, ana
our opportunity for work and useful-
ness enormously widened, through the
fortunes Of war and the valor of our
soldiers and sailors,
Alliance Story q Fiction:
Being in this desperate need of arGu-
ment2, ii is not strange that thew
should have recourse to fiction. An at
tempt will be made in the Ohio DemO-
| cratic platform to excite the prcjudice
Of certain classes OF voters against the
present administration by accusing II
Of an alliance with ENGLAND. The poo
J pie who make this, charge know il e.
be untrue; their making it is an insult
| to the Intelligence Of those votes they
seek by this gross misrepresentation
! nut az bllt VI ll'fll ldN'ill' Hl+ll'lVN VI
campaign is to invent a fiction too fan
tastic to contradict and then assume II
to be true because ii has not been con-
tradicted, you NAV permit me to take
one moment 10 dispose of this ghost
| story, as ii refers to the department
with which am connected There is
no alliance with England, nor with
any other power under heaven. except
those knowV and published 10 the
world-the treaties Of ordinary inter-
national friendship for purposes Of
business and commerce. No treaty
. other than these exists: none has been
suggested on either side; none is i'm
contemplation. 1t has never entered
into the mind of the president or =
any member 0f the government IN fore
sake under any inducement the wise
precopt and example Of the fathers,
which forbade entangling alliances
with European powers.
need not dwell upon this fact. Even
the men who wrote the Ohio platf rm
know there Is no alliance. But thev
seek to make captal i'm this campaign
out Of the undeniable fact that our Pc
lations with England are more friendly
and satisfactory than they have over
charge seriously; and If It is token
seriously, how can II be treated with
patience?
Friendly Relations.
In the name Of common-sense let m a
ask what f. the ddty Of the govern .
ment, If not to cultivate. wherever nos
sihle, agreeable and profitable relations
with other nations? And II with other
nations, why not with tGat great kin
dred power which stands amonG the
7 greatest powers of the world? What
harm, what menace to othor countries
Is there I'm this natural and beneficent
friendship? Only narrow and pur-
blind spirit could see in II anything eX-
clusively II Is a poor starved heart
that has room for only ore friend. "
is not with England alone that our re-