New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-09-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.

i success IN aQQreSSlng the carefully drilled
Iaudiences which were hauled 10 his front
porch in Canton 2uriing the cam paipn
IofE 1896. He had then only to make
promises. But his recent attempts at
speechmaking at Pittsburg and else
where, have been such Eat failures. SO.
| filed with absolute false statements Of
fact that they have reacted on himself
| and he has been forced to LET his rntler-
lings speak for him, with no more satis-5
factory result.
The latest disaster Of this sort is the.
long letter Nhich Secretary fState Hay,
addressed to Chairman Dick of the Re-
publican State Executive Committee of.
Ohio. tits long and windy. One Of the
main points is, Secretary Hays adapta--
ton OF the old Republican cry that tsThe.
tariff must be amended by its friends" !"
He sets up the theory that the Republic
ans must manage the trusts, they "having
all the requisite experience both OF leg.
lslatlon and business. lnasmuch as
every trust has been made possible by
Republican legislation; inasmuch as the
kepubllcan party ls the party OF 1s1 trusts;
lnasmuch much as mckinley owed his election
TO trust Contributions, Secretary HAYS
suggestion should De re1e rreo DacK 70
tha1 oldef proVerp, ''oet q thleI 20 calch
a tnleI ME
But the main purpose OF Secretary
nays letter was 70 deny the existence OF.
purpose on the part OF the Admlnlstra-
tlon to enter into an Anglo q American al
lance. It is VIGOROUSLY a fact that the
cornerstone OF modern diplomacy rests
upon the lgnoble art Ct lying. Secretary
Hays main weakness IS that he is not
skllful at his trade. lie lies clums1ly.
1t is perhaps miscalled an "alliance."
An alliance ls carries with, IN 1t the idea OF
equal advantages. In the case OF Great
Britain the enlargement is based on the
entire subserviency OF every Amer lean
interest to the interest OF Great Britain.
At the Peace Conference at the Hague
the American delegates were inst, ucted
to slavishly follow the lead OF the Brit
ish delegation, and they did it, even to
the advocacy of the use of the dun dun
bullet, Great Brltaln's substitute for ex-
plosiye bullets, though every other dele
cation represented declared against their
use as inhuman and contrary to the us
ages OF civilized warfare.
When the facts regarding the Alaska
boundary come out, it will be learned
that Great Britain will have been al
lowed to reach the sea coast with free
port without concedlng anything Of val
ue to the Western country, whose com. IN
merce with the Klondlke has been sacri-
iced to the Canadian greed; and that
this concession against the interests of
the West IS offset by an almost value
less concession IN the way of bait
privilege for the New England fisheries.
These are merely two instances In the
near future other instances will be Civ
en- OF the disgraceful surrender OF Nc
KinleY to Great Britain.
That CHICAGO TRUST CONFERENCE.
If the Civic Federation OF Chicago
thought It was going to side track the
Trust issue or neutralize the effect Of
the Antitrust conference to be held la
ter, it was hoisted with its own pctard.
The one remarkabl and important thing
to be noted in IN regard to the Civic. Fed
Grafton Trust Conference is that it en-
phasized in the most unmistakable way
that the people as q whole are thorough
ly arOi1set1 aS fO the dancers of tr,1afa