The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1899-08-10
borer and wealth producer.


her bonds, but our American free
men in bondage pay the interest to-
gether with all incidental expenses.
Before Imperialism obtained con-
trolling voice in our country our la
borers aud wealth producers owned
and controlled five-sixths of the
wealth of the United States. Mill
ionaires and failures were few and
tramps unknown.
As result of imperial goldbug
ideas twenty-five thousand men now
own and control one half of the en-
tire wealth of the United States. BY
virtue of these same conditions the
number of millionaires is increasing
by thousands and the number of
paupers and tramps is increasing by
millions. Business failures are num-
bered by tens of thousands and busi-
ness losses by hundreds of millions
of dollars. While imperialism rolls
in splendor and boasts of restored
confidence and glorious good times
the vast volume of debt for labor to
pay constantly increases while all
property values, from which pay
ment must come, have been caused
to shrink more than one half.
Debts in the United States which
nothing but money will pay, now
amount to over thirty billions of
dollars, or $4,000 for every man,
woman and child; while money of
all kinds only amounts to $23.0O per
capita.
The Spanish war is ended. The
Philippine war never should have
been begun; we should promptly end
it and make our proclamation good
that our object was not conquest.
Let the PHILIPPINES establish re-
public deriving its powers from the
consent of the governed. Spanish
war-taX measures should be repeal
ed. General taxation should be re-
duced and more equitably distri-
buted.
Our splendid navy should be main
tained, but our regular army should
be reduced to the old standard.
The volunteers should be promptly
discharged. The Cubans should
also be permitted to Immediately es-
tablish an Independent republic.
Let democratic republicanism go
into all the world and preach the
gospel of liberty to every creature
he that believeth ard acts according
ly will be blest and rest in peace un-
der liberty's tree; he that believeth
not shall be damned and continue in
bondage under the yoke of imperial
ism. Encourage the expansion of
republicanism but not the expansion
of the republic, except upon proper
invitation of parties interested and
attended by proper conditions. En-
courage the multiplication of 1nde-
pendent republics until imperialism
shall fade away as dissolving view
and relegate its great standing
armies to the walks of peaceful life.
Let us breathe the political atmos-
phere of Patrick Henry and Thomas
Jefferson and honestly endeavor to
understand and defend the sacred
rights of man. Be not misled by the
imperial dogma that legislature
can create an artificial person with
more enduring and sacred attributes
than the laboring man who was
created in the image of God. God in
his infinite wisdom made his creatur-
es to die and surrender their spirits
back to Him. The state should be
wise enough to endow corpora tions
with an element of mortality SO that
after reasonably long race they
should return, soul and body, to their
creator for the general good.
We know the causes that have pro-
duced such disastrous results. We
know that like causes produce like
effects. We know that goldbug i'm
perialists in their st. Louis platform
three years ago p )inted with pride to
their thirty years of financial con-
troll in this country and they boldly
promised to further pursue the same
methods along with the aid of the
modern single gold standard infamy.
We know that the power of imperl-
alism is expanding and that the
sands are slipping from beneath the
feet of republicanism in the house of
its friends here in the United States.
Something must be done. Let us
call the halt And friends of free
dom everywhere should cry in con-
cert: what must we do to be
saved?"
Renounce Imperialism, the devil
and all his angels. Get together on
the Chicago platform with its anti
trust, anti-eXpansion improvements.
Exhort gold bugs to renounce the
error of their ways and join us upon
the broad bedrock of democracy as
recognized by Jefferson, Jackson,
Lincoln and Bryan. If a man per-
sists in being gold bug, compel
him to march where he belongs, un-
der the flag of imperialiim. Let us
give more prayerful consideration to
our political faith and creed than to
the question of who shall lead in
Ohio. Columbia struggles in the
clutch of an imperial giant; let us