Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-03-14
REPUBLIC An PROMISES NOT
FULFILLED.


results Ut tie DIST two year of Me-
knley's administration. After re-
viewing the results of the Dingley
law aud it's failure as q revenue pro-
Queer Mr.. De Almond says:
1t was " do much toward reforming
the huan ,es, according to it's pro-
fessed views. ll either has had no
confidence in it's the oriee, or it has
lacked the honesty or the courage
or both, to spIly its RENE dies.
It has turned war for humanity
into war against humanity. 1t has
made u determined effort to increase
the regular army far beyond all need
or reasonable excuse for increase. 1t
has plar he to hold on to Cuba
against our solemn de clarations and
at the peril of our national houor and
good faith. 1t has given the country
scandals growing out of the war,
nauselting beyond precedent. 1t
has yelled its purposes in the Philli.
pines until war with the natives.
lately our allies. is upon us.
1t contemplates colonial empir-, but
lacks the courage to proclaim it, pre-
ferinR to shape events 70 that they
shall bring in their train the mani.
fold evils inseparable from an ab md
onment Of our traditional policy of
attending to our own business IN
safety at home. instead nf apinQ the
empires OF the old world in conquer
ing and tyraniz'nR over alien peoples.
1t has devised new means Of taxing
poverty and toll that wealth and idle
ness may be exempt. 1t has made
Necessity its victim, while exempt.
ing ability from bearing ita just
share OF the burdens OF government.
Asa reckless squanderer Of the
substance Of the people, the Repub-
ican party IN the past two years has
gone far bevond the most prufiigate
OF preceding adminst rations. Its
expenditures have eclipsed the most
extravagant performances heretofore
known in the hist DRY Of this country.
Even in war time, with expenditures
ont OF all reason, and with the masses
OF the people paying far more taxes
than should be exacted Of them, this
Repnblican party has stubbornly and
wilfully refused to lay light in.
come tax to raise revenue to meet it's
wastefullness, and equalizp, to
some extent, the burdens placed upon
the people. 1t cannot shelter itself
behind the decision Of the supreme
court against the income tax to raise
means to carry on war.
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In its two years reign the Repub-
hcan party has been one Of exped-
ienry. rather than principle. It has
shifted with every breeze. 1t has no
policy hut cxpediency, M it's leaders
scent expediency from time 10 time.
1t has done nothing toward the re.
demption OF its pledges, except to
pnss the tariff law, to which. without
reason, it has attributed satisr actorv
results wrought by other agencies,
1t has fattened the trusts and monop.
olies and made leaper the PLAIN peo.
pie. 1t has made bonded debt
without excuse has prepared the way
for adding to it soon and largely.
1t has enter ID upon foreign policy
without sincerity and reckless OF the
consequence. 1t has begun the cru.
snde OF the tyrant at the expense of
d. the patriot. 1t has sown far and
wide the seeds Of decentralization, and
the harvest Of evi. cannot be far of.
F!avoritism rather than merit las
marked its appointments to Office,
and some Of it's scandals are a stencil
In the public nostrils.
Judging the future OF the Repub.
ican party by the two years last past,
1t is some comfort, though a sorry