Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
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chattels, there for Mark Hanna; be-
cause they eat the political grub set
before them, and ask no questions
for conscience sake or any other
sake.
Partisan Fraud.
Now, l ask, which of these two
utterly inconsistent and irreconcili-
able planks of the Ohio Republican
platform will Mr.. Roosevelt and his
fellow refOrmers stand upon? They
cannot advocate both, nor either
without denouncing the other. The
two are distinctive of each other
they eat each other up. And their
adoption in the same declaration of
sO-called principles" is a monumen-
tai exhibition of partisan juggerly,
hypocrisy and fraud.
''These are only to little segments
cut out from the Republican policy,
ass demonstrated and the rest are
like unto them. l am for anything
else. There are others equally in
consistent, equally betraying the
rights of the people-the masses of
the American citizens. Our great
grievance has been, and it is to be
imputed in some measure to both
political parties in the past, that
ever since our Civil war the trend of
legislation, the drift of legislation,
has been in the interests of the few
and against the welfare of the many.
Most laws that were passed were for
the benefit of those who had property
rights, unless they occasionally
passed a law for the sake of bun
combe or something of that kind.
The Declaration of Independence is
what L stand upon, and what, am
glad to say, the Democratic party of
Ohio and through the United States
today stand upon, and it is for the
people of the United States to say
they will have that to stand upon in
1900, and from that on.
Three Distinct Purposes.
Now, to what end are all short
comings of the Republican party
the present administration? There
are three distinct purposes in my
Judgment which it proposes to itself.
The first and main one is the renom-
ination and reelection of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. Everything will be made to
bend to that. Every appointment is
made with ii view to that. Every
policy is adopted and carried out
with reference to that. Subsidiary
to that, there is the object of allow
ing the trusts and the people who
have the ear of the administration,
the so-called people of influence, to
exploit the resources of the Philip
pine islands in our possession for
their own profit. They will introduce
trusts there, as they introduce them
here, and will industrially Cypress
the people there in the outstanding
of their resources, as they have done
here. An the next is that they may
enter into an alliance
with Great Britain. And the last is
that by SO augmenting our national
debt by increased expenditures and
issues of bonds we shall
at last become people of bond
holders and bond-payers,-a leisure
class and producing class. This
means industrial slavery. L do not
have time and do not need to dis
cuss these questions with you,
but they are, each and all,
purposes which every patriot ought
to oppose to the best of his ability,
by heart and vote and influence so
far as he can extend it and make it |
operative.
Trusts Only Are Prosperous.
.'There is, it is said by our adver-
saries, a complete answer to all we |
said in 1896, in the abounding pros
oerity which we see around us. The |
time was not a great while ago when
Ill prosperity-tbe rising and the
setting of the sun, the falling of the
gentle dews of heaven, the earlier
md the latter rains, and the harvests
which the Good Father sent upon
jhe earth, were attributed to high
;ariff. And 1 don't know of anyone
except Mr.. Frank Myers who attri-
,utes everything to the tariff, and
believes that even tin plate can
spring out of the ground if we have
he right sort of taxes saddled upon
is. But now, all these blessings of
,ur Heavenly Father are attributed
o Mark Hanna, or his man, his
liter ego, the present occupant of the
White House. call you to witness
hat the people of the United States
re under obligations to their Father
which is in. Heaven, in the course of