The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
THE POLICY OF IMPERIALISM
AS A POLITICAL ISSUE
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
The pain and amaZement of the Nc
kinleyites at the fact that anybody
should be base enough to desire to
make party capital out of their gigan-
tic laundering in the Philippines, is
getting to be such that they can no
longer contain themselves. They are
beginning to explode with indignation
and horror. What! trying to win votes
for you fellows out of the mistakes
that we fellows have made! Merciful
heavens. was ever such political tur-
pitude heard of before? Colonel Hay
was aghast at the thought, in his let
ter to the Ohio republicans. 1t is true
that his horror and disgust were a
trifle too plainly theatric; his starts
and gasps and stares were clearly
STACEY; you all along saw that he
would be perfectly willing to go off
and take drink with the villains when
the play was over; but he already has
many imitators, and we shall hear
much more Of the unspeakable con-
duct Of party opponents in holding a
republican administration to account
for the colossal failure of its Philip
pine policy.
Bear in mind, however, that the OBJ
lection is not to making party capital
out of the Philippines, as such. 1t Is
only to making democratic party cap
ital. The truth is, Mckinley and Han
ma had intended all the political capital
that could be made out of the Phil
ippines strictly for themselves. For the
democrats to interfere and claim any
of it is pure 'perversion of sacred
fund, and the courts should intervene.
An injunction would we think, be
granted by any federal Judge, restrain
ing Bryan and other democratic ora
tors from so much as mentioning the
word Philippines. The president has
an exclusive property right to all the
party capital which the Philippines can
be made to yield, and what are we COM
| ing to if outsiders can break in and
take it away from him? We know
what his adulators would have said
| if his plans had not gone so grievously
wrong If Aguinaldo had groveled at
| his feet; If the Filipinos had fastened
| to submit to his usurping and Illegal
| proclamation, what a powerful argu-
| ment the republicans would have seen
| in it for re-electing the great, strong.
| inflexible, far-seeing, infallible man,
| who spake and it was done. who COM
manded and it stood fast! To demand
votes for success in foreign complica-
| lions is legitimate; but to say that
votes should be withheld on account
| of humiliating failure-why, that Is
| simply monstrous Men who would do
| that would botanic upon a mothers
| grave. and traffic in their country's
| shame. This is q, republican, a Nc
| Kinley war if it succeeds, but If it goes
| on from one disgrace to another, 1t is
a national war, for which all are re-
sponsible, and to- support which all cit
! liens are bound to stand together
This is the advice which our comic,
| new-found friends Of the English press
! have been giving us. above ALL they
solemnly say, after patting us on our
| imperial head-"above all. you must
learn from England the necessity of
keeping politics out of questions of
| foreign policy, and must initiate En-
| glishmen in being absolutely united
when the country's honor abroad is in
volved." Now, of course, we in our UNI
| tutored condition know nothing of En-
| glish politics; though we do seem to
have been told that Mr.. Gladstone
fought and won the general election OF
1880 almost purely on the question OF
England's, or, rather, Disrael's. mis-
taken Turkish policy. But we can at
least read the daily papers, and in them