Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-25

Foraker to the Senate-stick pin In
that, as the nominal editor would say.
For the first time since they en-
tered public life, Senators Alexander
and Sanford seem to think ard feel
alike. Col. Sanford feels and talks
Just like Senator Alexander has felt
and talked since the Painesville
convention.
THE Republican convention OF
Pennsylvania Thursday approved
the appointment of Boss Quay to the
Senate, aud advocated the mainten-
ance of the single gold standard.
Instead of condemning the trusts, it
endorsed them. The convention
knew that the Republican Admins
tration has been and is hand in glove
with the trusts, so as a loyal men,
Der of the Republican family it did
not want to embarrass the Admins
tration by denouncing its patrons.
Pennsylvania is in the control of a
boss, but there is no hypocrisy about
his platform declarations.
For the past two months the army
has cost the American people more
than $31 100000. The appropriation
of $50, 900, 900 made by the last Con-
hnr
Congress estimated that the army
ought not to cost more than Sc, SOC, 900
a month, but the expenditures have
exceeded s15,O00,O00 monthly. The
next Congress will increase the war
taxes enormously to overcome the
deficit and to stave off bond issue
until after the 1900 election. Accord
ing to authoritative estimates the
business of subjugating and govern
ing the Filipinos will cost the people
of this nation in the neigborhood of
100000, 900 year. "War is game
which, were their subjects wise,
kings should not play at"
GEN. OTIS act excluding Chinese
from the Philippines has threatened
to bring about international compli-
cations, so the State department has
tens to explain that the act of exclu-
sion came about through the adoption
of military regulations and not by
the detailed enforcement of United
States laws applying to Chinese ex-
clusion. American consistency
seemed to be put to a pretty severe
strain when the Administration sent
a messenger to carry backsheesh to
the Sultan of the Sulu islands, with
the promise that his institutions of
polygamy and slavery should not be
interfered with, as an inducement to
him to recognize American sover-
eighty in the Philippines. But what
shall now be said of the practical abb
rogation of the Chinese exclusion act
by the Administration, in order to
escape the peril of international COM
plications due to its enforcement?
And with Chinese labor tolerated in
the Philippines, what becomes of the
boast that the conquest of those
islands will afford unlimited oppor-
tunities for the employment of
American labor?
AN announcement, purporting to
have the sanction of President Nc
Kinley, has just been made to the
effect that Sin the near future" the
obnoxious rules established by PEN
sion Commissioner HI. Clay Evans,
preventing many old soldiers from
obtaining pensions, will be mate
rally modified" The qualifying
clause, ''in the near future" is too
indefinite to prove very satisfactory
to the old soldiers. 1t means that if
they will stand by the president for a
second term, they have the promise
of better treatment for the future.
This is the same bait that is being
held up to the currency reformers
who voted for the President in the
expectation that something would be
done in their interests. The abso-
lutte failure of the Administration tc
act during the first four years of it's
lease of power has caused thousands
of Gold Democrats to return to the
Democratic party. What the old
soldiers need is not the promise of
action lin the near future" but i'm
mediate and decisive action for the
present. All too many of them may
not live to see the near future as that |
term is defined by the Administra-
tion. But tomorrow, and tomorrow,
and tomorrow" seems TO be the favor
ite policy with the powers that be at
Washington.