Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-12-14
aoKlNLEYs MESSAGE.
a Long Story Cut Short Great Blessings
VIII Come TO Guba---NIt. & .tS

a Long Story Cut short-!7Greata Blessings
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The message of President McKin-
ley was formally presented to Con-
gress last Tuesday, although a gene
raj outline of it had been given out
weeks ago.
There is nothing remarkable about
the message except its length. It is
an up-to-date high tariff, imperialist
document with what is to be an at
tack on trusts. He speaks in vague
sort of a way of extending the pres
ent laws to control trusts and the
failure of States to do it, but, with an
Attorney General who is known to
be the friend of all combinations, and
Mark Hanna, who unblnshingly up
holds them, as presidential censor
nothing can be expected of this ad-
ministration that will reli We tho
people of the trust evil which is sap
ping the very life of the body COM
mercial, closing factories, throwing
skilled mechanics out of situations;
and leaving commercial travellers,
who have toured up and down the
country for years, out in the cold
and at the same time raising the
prices OF all the leading commodities
of trade. His finely rounded SEN
tences condemning trusts have no
terror for the trust kings, for they
know that, it is idle talk, and if Nc
Kinley should be reelected, trusts
will rule every avenue of trade and
competition becomes an illusion.
The situation in the new foreign
dependencies is reviewed at great
length. Talk of what great bless
ings will come to Cuba through the
restoration of agricultural and cont
mercial prosperity is indulged in ;
but no mention is made of the fact
that a people who fought for their
freedom for years against the most
cruel monarchy on earth are now in
the thraldom of the greatest republic
on earth-pleading-but for freedom
and that denied. Special medals are
asked for the sailors and soldiers
who fought in the Philippines, but
no reference to the stricken homes
of Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ne
braska, Kansas and Dakota, whose
sons died in. the rice fields of the
Oriont, not for great principle, but
that the government of Mckinley,
Hanna &c Company might be ex-
tended.
The message contains reference to
the situation of the United Staten
citizens in Turkey, which, it is
stated, is very unsatisfactory. But
an administration that is using it's
power to crush liberty in two hemi-
spheres has no time to look after its
citizens in other countries.
A judiciary is asked for the Ha-
@aiian Islan''s, and, if the imperial
istic policy of Mckinley continues
for five years more, thousands of
offices. could be provided for his
faithful henchmen, and he would not
be compelled to fill Southern post
offices with negroes. This is, at
least, consolation. Summarized
the message means, That trusts shall
be protect,.l; the foreign posses
sions retained and governed with a
rod of iron; oil attempts at inde-
pendent government by the people
of these islands to be crushed if it
costs thousands of the flower of our
army and millions of our treasury.
These are the colors under which
Mckinley expects to fight the next
campaign, disguise them as he may.
Of course there will be the gold
question, currency, tariff, canal and
lot of gloss to cover it over, but
this is plainly the issuo as shown by
McKinloy's message.-Spartanburg
Evening Telegram.