The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-13
Denounces the Report of An Alliance
With England.
IS DEMOCRATIC THUNDER
ELABORATE DOCUMENT FOR
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Declares That the United States Owns
the Philippines and Porto Rico
and Intends to Hold Them-Pros-
perity. Of the Country Under the
Republican Administration.

Columbus, D, Sept.11-In a letter to
Chairman Dick of the Republican state
executive committee, the Hon. John
Hay. secretary of state, makes this en-
phatic statement regarding the alleged
secret alliance between England and
the United States:
There is no alliance with England
nor with any power under the heaven
except those known and published to
the world, the treaties of ordinary in
rernatiorai friendship Tor the purpose
OF business and commerce. No treaty
other than these that exist; none has
been suggested on the other side; none
is in contemplation. 1t has never. en-
tered into the mind of the president
nor any of the government to forsale.
under any inducement, the wise pre-
cept and example Of the fathers. which
forbade entangling alliances with Eu-
ropean powers"
The foregoing statement was made
by Secretary Hay in a letter expressing
regret at his inability TO take part in
The opening of the Republican cam
paign in Ohio. Touching upon the is
sue Of the campaign the secretary
says;
Democrats Are Unfortunate.
"Our opponents this year are in an
unfortunate position. They have lost,
for all practical purposes, their political
stock in trade of recent years. Their
money hobby has collapsed under them.
Their orators still shout 16 to l from
time to time from the force of habit,
hut they are like wisdom crying in the
streets in one respect at least, because
NO man regardeth them
with our vaults full of gold; with
n sufficiensy of money to meet the de-
rnands of a volume of business UMPIRE
reden1edly vast and profitable; with
labor generally employed at fair wages;
with our commerce overShadowing the
world; with every dollar the govern
nient issues as good as any dollar;
with our finances as firm as a rock,
and our credit the best ever known, it
is no time for financial mountehanks
to cry their nostrums in the market
places with any chance of being heard.
ii is hopeless TO try resuscitate the
corpse of free trade. The Dingley tar
If, the legitimate successor of the Nc
Kinley bib. that name of good augury,
has justified itself by it's works. 1t is
not only true that our domestic trade
has reached proportions never before
attained but the American policy of
protection. the policy of all our most il
lustrious statesmen, of Washington and
Hamilton, Lincoln, Grant and McKin-
ley, has been triumphantly indicated
b. the proof that it is as efficacious in
extending our foreign commerce as in
fostering and stimulating our home in
1ustries.
What's Their PlatformP
What is left, them in the way of
a platform? The reign of trusts which
the Republicans can themselves man
age, having all the requisite experience
both of legislation and business; that
infamy, the war, which it seems was
TOO efficiently carried on and has been
too beneficial to the nation to suit the
Democratic leaders. We have been able
TO give in our time some novel ideas
10 the rest of the world, and none more
novel than this, that a great party
nlould complain that the results of a
f'ar were too advantageous. 1t viii be
ard, however, to convince the bulk of
ur people that we are the worse off
ecause our flag has gained great hon
or, cur possessions have been extended,
CUR position in the world increased and
Aur opportunity for work and useful
ess enormously widened through the
ortunes Of war and the valor of our
-ailors and soldiers
Being in this desperate need of ar
raments, it is not strange that they
Should have recourse to fiction. An at
tempt is made in the Ohio Democratic
platform TO excite the prejudice of GER
tain classes of voters against the pres
ent administration, by accusing it of
entering an alliance with England The
people who make this charge know it
to be untrue: their making lit is an in
suit to the intelligence of those whose
votes they seek by this gross misrepre-
sentation. But as one of their favorite
methods of campaign is to invent a
fiction too fantastic to contradict, and
then to assume it to be true because
1t has not been contradicted, you may
-, 4saf-
pose of this ghost story, as it refers to
the department with which / am con-
Tectec"
VIII Keep New Possessions.
Continuing, the secretary makes the
positive denial quoted in the foregoing,
and says:
Porto Rico and the Philippines are
ours, and the destinies of Cuba are for
the moment infrusted to our care. 1t
is not permitted us to shirk the vast
responsibilities thus imposed upon us
without exhibiting a neryeless pusil-
la1lmity which would bring upon us
not only the sc0rn of the world, but
what Is Tar worse, our OWN Self-con-
tempt But as we did not seek these
acduisitions-whichc came to US through
the irresistible logic of war-we are not
striving anywhere to acquire territory
or extend our power by conquest
THE whole world knows that we are
not covetous Of land: not a chancery in
Europe sees in US an interested lival
10 their scheme of acquisition. What
Is ours. we shall hold what is not ours.
we do not seek But in the field OF
trade and commerce, we shall be the
Keen competitors of the richest and
greatest powers. and they need no
Warning To be assured that in that
Struggle we shall bring the sweat to
heir brows."