The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-13
THE ISSUES
CONTINUED from last week..

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The banks are all full to oyerfowing
with money. If you want to borrow
few hundred dollars you never saw
the time when you could get it at
such low rate of interest.
Farmers are paying off the mort
cages and buying more land, and the
laboring men of the cities are buying
homes of THEFT own.
The Democratic orators told us that
a high tariff would destroy our for
eign markets, that we could not sell
abroad unless we admitted foreign
goods free. Were they right IN that:
We have only to note that our export
trade the past year was much the
largest the country has ever known,
and that the balance Of trade in our
favor was over 5000, O0O 600. And fur
ther, that the tariff not only did not
injure our foreign trade, but that 1t
greatly built up our home market 10y
giving employment to labor in the
factories, thereby giving the great
multitude of laborers the ability to
buy the products of the farm, thus
greatly increasing the demand and
thereby advancing the price.
The questions Of expansion and
trusts are the new issues that are to
figure this fall. This expansion Ques-
tion seems somewhat dead. EXpan-
sion is a settled fact and always has
been rather a ruling idea with this
country. We expanded when we pur-
chased Florida, likewise in the Louis
lana purchase, and also when we took
Texas from Mexico and had to lick
Mexico to do it; and by the way, il our
memory serves us right, that was a
Democratic war, and the critics Of the
times said it was d war of Conquest to
extend slave territory. We expanded
somewhat when we took in California,
and made a big expand when we pur
chased Alaska. Expansion again took
place when we settled with Spain and
took in the Philippine islands, paying
Spain a trife Of 500, 900, 900 for her i'm
provements.
We have little rebellion over there
by one Of the many tribes that inhab-
it the islands that must be put down,
as we would quell an insurrection
among tribe Of Indians on our west
ern frontier. True, it has been lit
tie more formidable job than was ex-
pected, but surely no patriotic citizen
of Kansas would have our armies
withdrawn in disgrace from the fields
they have so covered with glory. 1t
might do for some down East crank
tu declaim against the war in the
Philippines and want our army
brought back before the Tagals are
subdued, but Kansas men are not
built that way. Even Bryan says we
must lick 'em now. Our Pop and
Democratic friends might figure as to
the ultimate disposition of these is
lands when we have once thoroughly
established order there, but this kick
against expansion, as though it were
aquestien of the future. is all out of
place. We have already expanded.
Our good friends, the pops, are
great on trusts and they will work
that racket this fall for all it is worth
and good deal more. They seem to
A,
have become rather surfeited un helO-
puses, dragons, ETC., and have taken
up the trust question with about the
same vim they used to use when tho
octopus was the favonte terror.
There will be but little division OF
this question about the only differenc,
will be the democrats and pops will
make a senseless howl against trust.
or combinations Of ali kinds whether