The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-06-17
THE OHIO FARCE.

IHE OHIO FARCE.
Satan quoting Scripture or rebnkine
| sin is often suggested as an illustra
tion of the refinement of hypocrisy
and the perfection of all confidence
games, but his Satanic Majesty will
henceforth have to take back sea-
and allow Mckinley and Hanna frs
place.
| If Mckinley were not seeking re
| election, the action of the Ohio con
vention in denouncing trusts as un
lawful combinations, inimical to the
interests of the people, congratulating
the republican party of the state upon
putting an antitrust law upon the
statute books, demanding the en-
| forcement of the law and then turning
down the present attorney-general o
the state because he attempted to en-
force that law, we would be forced tt
conclude that the performance was
done as a joke for the purpose of sat
irizing the ANTITRUST professions o
the republican party. But the fac
that President Mckinley under whose
| administration the Il ust boom devel
| oped, and who has used the power o
the government in every way to foster
trusts, and who not only expects the
continued support of every trust in the
land, hut depends upon money contri
buttons from them to buy his election
removes all suspicion that the action
of the Ohio convention was desig nee
to be joke, and clothes it in all the
| seriousness of confidence game oi
| such un nblushing effrontery that we dc
| not believe Satan will dispute the
claim of the writer's OF the Ohio plat.
form to first place among confidence
men.
Senator Foraker was in that con-
vention. 1t is we'll known that Sena-
tor Foraker is a Forakerman and
writhes under being obliged to play
second fiddle to the Hanna-McKinley
mbine in the politics of the Buckeye
state. But the senator is bound to be
close se:ond to Mckinley and Hanna
in rendering service to the trusts. In
the senate of the Unised States ne is
the father, wet nurse and chief pro-
moter of what is known az the Foraker
pooling bill, designed to create a
gigantic railroad trust as big as
all other trusts combined, except
the money trust, for which Mckinley.
Hanna and Foraker pull together.
Hanna secured an Endorsement for
his infamous ship subsidy bill which
contemplates an ocean transportation
trust, backed by the United States
treasury.
So the Ohio republicans are against
trusts, Mckinley, Hanna. Foraker and
all-dead against trusts. Well, why
don't they crush them then?. What
are they waiting for? What excuse
have they for complaining? They are
in power in both state and nation. All
branches of the federal government
and all branches of the Ohio state
government are in the hands of
Mckinley, Hanna and Foraker. If
they are opposed to trusts, who don't
they crush them?
These questions are given added
force when we realize that Mckinley,
Hanna & Co. do not consider the
United States large enough to exhaust
their energies ir providing good gov
ernment for the people. So they have
assumed the responsibility of cont uct-
ing war of conquest in the Philip.
pine islands and spurn to ask advice
from Congress in the matter.
The Ohio Republicans in conven-
tion, under the guidance of Hanna,
Mckinley and Foraker declaring
against trusts is sight for gods and
men. Mckinley, the trust president,
Hanna with bill before congress to
open the United States Treasury to
create and sustain a monster ocean
transportation trust. so ingeniously
contrived that it will rob the people
and destroy competitors at the same
time, and Foraker the author of
bill to organize the railroads of the
United States into one huge trust,
these combined lead an Ohio conven-
tion and denGunce trusts. If the
republican party did not have so much
gall. the action If the Ohio convention
would have created gall famine in
the party.-National Watchman.
There never before was greater need
for a firm man of will in the White
House than at present. What is re.
quired Is man who, since he has
determined upon a policy of holding
tho Philippines, will either enlist
enough soldiers to wipe out the insur
Filipinos for an honorable settlement.
rhe war at present is run in the in
terest of contractors who furnish
government supplies, and it is to their
interest to prolong it indefinitely. |
This seems possible under the vacil- |
lting policy of the president, for he
will neither crush out the insurrec- 1
ion by pouring in 100000 men nor
will he treat with the insurgents for
on terms they will accept
Che war could be closed in week by
reaty with the Filipinos on lines of
eason, or the insurrection could be
rushed in two months by an army of
ufficient magnitude. If our president
7ere not too deeply interested in the
Or if we had president
nth the back bone of Lincoln or
cleveland. he would adopt one of the
wo policies and bring hostilities to a
udden termination.
The recent military campaign in the
philippines is the monumental blunder
the age viewed from a military
Our troops were safe in
of the city of Manila under
over of the guns of our fleet, AID
here was no occasion to press the
ghting until sufficiently large army
as provid ed to move in such force
lat the insurgents could be crushed
ithout unnecessary loss of life on
lr part. But for some unaccountable
JASON our volunteers were rushed to {
he front REGARDLESS of consequences | :