The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-01-20

~ 20, 1900.
propositions: Are we to remain silent.
refraining even from ordinary criti-
cism as to the conduct of the war, for
fear that we are to be denounced as
allies of Aguinaldo and opposed to the
authority of our own country?"
But the republican majority, for
prudential reasons, desire to keep the
country in the dark, and so all infor-
nation asked for by Mr.. Pettigrew is
kept secret on the pretense that it
fought not to be made public at this
time" 1t will never be made public
until the Hanna-Davis-McKin par
ty is kicked out of power. The ad-
ministration is afraid to give the pub
lie any knowledge of it's occult pro-
ceedings. Some of it's organs are al
ready complaining that Secretary
Gage told too much in regard to the
relations of the treasury department
to the Standard Oil bank, and that
because Of the information he gave in
response to the democratic resolution
he put some ugly weapons in the
hands of the opposition. One of the
organs regretfully says that he has
injured his party and that che will
not be in the next cabinet if President
Mckinley should be reelected"
The Chicago Tribune declares that
Secretary Gage is not smart enough
to conceal the peculiar financial oper-
ations with the Rockefeller bank, and
suggests that the treasury department
employ censor, so that whenever any
correspondence is transmitted to eth
err house of congress it shall have been
"discreetly and discriminatory edit
ed" 1t says that "by his unsophis-
ticated, guileless and innocent trans
mission Of two letters to congress Mr..
Gage has convicted himself out Of his
own mouth and has established as
true some of the gravest accusations
made against the administration by
unfriendly critics."
The two letters referred to by the
Tribune and which, 1t says, "cannot
easily be explained away" were from
eX-Controller Hepburn and President
Stillman of the National City Bank,
in which millions of the public funds
were deposited without drawing one
cent of interest, out of gratitude for
contributions made for the republican
campaign. "Our list of directors will
show we have great political claims,
in view of what was done duning the
canvass of 1896" So says one of the
bank officials. 1t was all right for
Gage to make the bank depository
and 'fall into every pit dug for his
unwary feet by political and finan-
cial jobbers," but he was stupid don
key, in the opinion of the Tribune, to
give the cunning democrats the cor
respondence they asked from him to
use as campaign literature against
William Mckinley. They might also
use the correspondence between the
Emperor of Canton and his Paris COM
missioners for the same ign0ble pur-
pose, and so Cush. Davis kept it from
the senate and the country because
SIT ought not to be made public at
this time" The republicans in the
American house of barons are acting
as the masters and not as the serv-
ants of the people, and as they are
not indebted to the people, for their
election, they do not think it incum-
bent upon them to give the public any
knowledge of international treaties
that may be conducive to the defeat
of the plastic tool who now sits with
imperial airs in the executive chair
at Washington. The republic must be
guarded from the secret intrigues of
the imperialists. The time has come
for the people to demand that all clan
destfne negotiations shall see the light
of day. If an irresponsible body of
legislators shall conceal everything of
an international character on the film
sy pretext of Cush. Davis that it
Fought not to be made public at this
time," then it is high time for all low
ers of republican institutions to be on
the alert. Other nations have lost
their independence because of the cor
ruption Of their legislative representa-
tives. The United States senate to-
day is on par with the British house
of peers and merely represents the
plutocracy as the latter does the aris-
tocracy.
GEN. KITCHENER'S BARBARlTY.
In a letter to the Dublin Weekly
Freeman, Mr.. J. G.. Swift MacNeill,
NJ. P, comments on Lord Roberts
message to the American people in
which he said: '"Though we be at
war, can safely say that no unnec-