Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-05

~ the trusts Deprive certain men OF port
OF their earnings. or throw 4 certain body
offrhen out Of employment, this shall BE-
remedied by decreelng that the men who
stih have employment shall be paid AZ
cents on the dollar for the work they do.
Dishonor OF Americas Arms.
Our opponents through the nation, and
in particular here in Ohio, propose as q
method OF attacking trusts to NEEDLE with
the tariff, which would mean economic
disaster to the masses, and to debase the
coinage, which In addition to even more
| frightful economic disaster would mean
national dishonor. When they come to
the second plank In their platform, the
question of expansion, they advocate the
dishonor OF the American arms and the
trailing Of the American flag In the dust.
They place themselves outside the rank
of proper party opponents, and make
themselves merely the enemies of the
nation as a whole, as already by their
action on the currency they have shown
themselves to be the enemies Of honesty
within the nation. The other day Ohio
sent to New York prophet Of Mr.. Bry-
ans new dispensation In the shape of ex-
| Congressman Lentx, who divided his time
between fervent hopes for the success Of
| Aguinaldo and. therefore, for the ruin of
the American army in the Philippines.
and the firmly expressed conviction that
the mantle Of Washington and Of Lin
coin had fallen upon the shoulders Of ex-
| Gov. Altgeld.
Make no mistake. In the Philippines
we are at open war with an enemy who
must be put down. 1t Is absolutely i'm
possible to save our honor except through
victory; and 1t is equally impossible to
win peace, to restore order In the islands,
or to prepare the way for self-govern-
ment there, save through victory. Peo-
| pie tell you that the Filipinos are fight
ing for independence. This was exactly
what the copperheads of 1851 said OF the
| Confederates. Here In Ohio the Val
landigham ran on the issue that the
war was a failure, and that the indepen-
| dence Of the Southern States should be
acknowledged. The feeble Vallandig-
hams of to-day take the same position,
and il Ohio Is true to the great memories
of her past she will give the same answer
now that she gave then. No man can
hesitate in this struggle and ever after
ward call himself true American and
true patriot. He must stand by the flag.
He must uphold the honor and the inter-
est of the nation, and the only way in
which he can stand by the one and uphold
the other is to overwhelm the party that
assails both.
Must Put Down Armed Resistance.
Two facts must be emphasized. First,
that out Of the present situation the only
honorable and humane way is to put
down armed resistance in the Philippines,
and to establish government of orderly
in, nj hot fhi
situation inevitably arose out Of the war,
and could not have been avoided save by
shameful conduct on our part. You will
meet short-sighted people who say that
Dewey, after sinking the Spanish fleet,
should have sailed away from Manila
bay. or course, such conduct was impos-
sible. 1t is not too much to say that
such conduct would have been Infamous.
Either the islands would have been left
to their own fate, had such a course been
followed, in which case a series Of bloody
massacres would have taken place, and
the war between the Spaniards and the
Filipinos would have dragged along its
wretched length until some outside inter-
ference took place, or else, what is far
more probable, rs Dewey's fleet sailed
out the fleet Of some European power
would have sailed in, and we would have
had the keen modification Of seeing the
task which we shrank from begun by
some nation which did not distrust its
own powers, which had the courage to
dare to be great. Dewey had to stay and
we had to finish the job we had begun.
A weak nation can be pardoned for Civ
ing up work which it does badly; but a
strong nation cannot be pardoned for
hinching from n great work because, for
| sooth, there are attendant difficulties and
hardships. The century which Is just
closing has seen what the century which
is opening will surely also see-vast
strides In civilization, the result of the
conquest Of the worlds waste places, the
| result Of the expansion of the great mas
terful, ruling races Of the world.
Democratic Attitude Destructive.
Gov. Roosevelt summed up as follows:
Our opponents seek to make their
points by denouncing trusts and expan-
sion. In both cases they occupy a purely
destructive attitude. They advocate moth
ing constructive. The Democratic party,
with that fatal facility it has shown for
many years in appearing at every recur-
ring presidential election as the enemy
of the business man, and, above all, Of
the workingman, now once more comes to
the front as the champion of the forces
that tell for economic destruction. They
denounce the trusts, but the measures
they propose against them are purely po-
litical, are not economic, not remedial.
They strive to win by inhamng ignorant
passion, and trust that the passion thus
infamed will overcome sound judgment.
They propose either no remedy or else
they propose remedies so absurd and so
vicious that they would ten-fold aggra-
vate all existing evils. Mr.. Bryan has
developed visionary scheme Of national
supervision, a scheme of extreme central
ization, which would be unavoidable at
present and which might cause great
havoc to industry, il so much as the at
tempt was made to put it into effect. We
propose to meet the problem in the only
way in which il can be met, by cool and
careful study, by finding out what the
facts are, and then by exhausting every
legitimate power, legislative, administra-
tive and judicial, to regulate the indus
trial movement and to cut out all abuses.
Corporations (for what we commonly call
trusts are generally merely big corpora
tions) render great services. and are in
dispensable instruments in industry in
our modern life but their growth has
been accompanied by the growth of evils
which we can but remedy by common
sense and common honesty-not dema-
gogic cutlery. Our opponents say we have
no plan. We have; and the plan Is, as a