Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-08
MORE LOSS THAN PROFIT.
People OF the United
States.

The treasury statement of receipts
and expenditures of the government
for the month of October, 1899, and
the four months of the current fiscal
year, shows that the people of the
United States, at present, are paying
at the rate of 100000 year for
keeping up a foreign establishment.
In other words, we are throwing away
on sentiment to save the Individual
William Mckinley the pain and morti-
fication of having to acknowledge mis-
takes dangerous to the nation, made
by him as president. Mr.. Mckinley
has personally thanked the soldiers,
and the widows and orphans of an I'M
necessary war, for their sacrifices to
the grand old flag, all of which is
fudge and bumcombe, and he has even
declared it an act of heroism for one
or any number of men to lay down
their lives upon the altar of their
country for the benefit of others, the
survivors. But Mr.. Mckinley has not
made any sacrifices, is not willing to
make the slightest sacrifice, he even
demands that American citizens fall
down and worship his policy; he in
sists upon his personality being the
test of patriotism, and wrapped in the
flag which is not his property, but the
emblem of the nation, poses as man
who is leading the nation to greatness
and prosperity.
Mr.. Mckinley, as a man, an individ-
uaI, is not entitled to any more re-
spect or consideration than the hum
blest American citizen. The high Of
flee he fills merits both. As an indi-
viduaI and as an official, the servant of
the people, what has he done, what is
he doing that he is bound to do under
the constitution which he accepted
and ratified when he took upon him
self the office of chief executive?
When he shall give information of the
state of the union to congress in his
annual message, as he must do, how
| can he limit himself to the state of
the union? His whole message be-
yond numerous platitudes concerning
prosperity, which he has repeated so
! often that he actually believes them,
| must specify matters not of, OR con-
corning the union; matters not in any
manner connected with the union, but
| entirely foreign to the union. He will
say that he has wrung from the peck
cts of the people of the union the gil
SanCiC sum OF PiS0,UOO,OUO per dHAIOAi,
which will be doubled if his policy is
pursued. For the first time in the his
tory of the nation, its president will
| be compelled to travel outside of the
nation and place before the congress
of the people a foreign policy which
| has increased the burdens of the peo-
| pie in the direction of an eXtrava-
| gance not contemplated by the instru-
ment which made him president. Per
| haps he will call his policy business
enterprise" if so, whose is the profit,
whose the loss? Upon whom does the
| loss fall when millions of cheap, Grass
| laborers are added to our already few
| opportunities for American citizens to
| gain their daily bread? Who gains in
sugar, tobacco, rice, fruits and other
| products when competition is on with
| millions of cheap products? Who pays
| the taxes on all this stupendous de
| parture from our national eXistencef
| How shall we be rewarded for our sac
rifices, our blood, our treasure poured
| out to rectify the mistakes Mr.. Me
| Kinley is too shamefaced to rectify
| himself? The only answer is: A sec
| ond term of Mckinley. Is the game
| he