The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-20

| history and results of the tariff legisla-
| ton of the present administration and
| then sketched more briefly the MEASURES
| relating to bankruptcy, Hawaii's annexa-
| ton and the closing up of Pacific rail-
| road transactions. claiming each as a
| triumph of Republican business meth
| DDS.
| The senator then touched upon trusts,
| as follows: whenever a Republican ad-
| niristration is in power there is con-
slant talk Of trusts. The reason isn't
| far to seek. Aggregations and combina-
| tons of capital find their only encourage
ment in prosperous days and widening
commerce. Democratic administration in
| this country has universally meant in
| dustrial stagnation and commercial de-
| preston, when capital seeks a hiding
| place instead of investment. The Repub-
lican party has always maintained that
| any combination having for its purpose
| the cornering Of market or the raising
or controlling of the necessaries of life
was unlawful and should be punished,
| and a commission appointed by the presi-
dent under act Of congress has made
careful investigation and will soon pre-
sent a full report Of the best method
We shall meet 1t in some efficient way
and, as party. shall have the courage
to protect every class Of our citizens
There was never a better time to deal
with it than now, when there isn't in
this broad land a man willing to work
who doesn't find employment at fair
wages, and when the clamor of the agi-
tator who seeks confiscation and not reg
ulation, falls on dead ears and finds no
response from the artisans IN our busy
workshops"
OF the financial issue Senator Wolcott
said, in part: 1.-THE campaign four years
ago was fought on, the currency ques-
ton. The Popuhstic Democracy insisted
that the United States alone should en-
bark on the free coinage of silver at the
ratio Of Is to l, without waiting the con-
currence Of any other nation. The Re-
publican party insisted that the question
of bimetallism was international, and
that until IL should be settled under
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world, gold should con-
tinue to be the standard of value in these
United States. Upon that issue we tri-
umphed. In accordance with the pledge
Of the party an honest effort was made
to reach some international solution Of
the question. The effort failed of accom-
plishment. The minis Of the countries
Of Europe were open for the coinage of
gold alone. The vast discoveries of Alas
ka, South Africa, and our own country,
have furnished steadily Increasing vol
Ume of gold, and, with the recent Euro
pean action, have demonstrated that the
question is one calling for international
action by all the great countries of the
world and, If ever entered into must be
by such Concurrent action Of the leading
commercial nations as shall secure per
manence Of relative value to the two
metals. Meanwhile we follow the path
Of safety. AS We grow year by year
more firmly established as a creditor ma
tion the question concerns us less and
other countries more. No impairment of
national credit can be contemplated by
an honorable nation. We have made adj
vances enough; this country can better
afford than any other to enter upon the
contest for commercial supremacy with
gold as its standard, and for US the time
has come to give fair notice to the world
that We too make gold our standard and
redeem our obligations in that metal.
=
MAY I, western man, add another
word? The passage of the currency bill,
which received the vote Of every western
Republican in congress, marked the ter
mination, forever final, of any sort Of
difference between Republicans of the
east and of the west, griwing out of cur
| rency problems. And the thousands Of
ID IN, ~ IpF II
years ago are returning home. They are
naturally expansionists, in the western
plains. and mountains, and when they
see great political party attacking the
integrity of the nation. end lending en-
| coura cement to insurrectinrists who are
shooting down our soldiers and resisting
the authority Of the government Of the
United States, all other questions fade
and are forgotten"
Touching upon insular questions, Sena-
tor Wolcott said of Cuba: 1.-THE circum-
stances associated with our possession of
Cuba are new and unparalleled in the
history Of conquests. The cruelues prac-
ticed upon its people induced the war.
Before we commenced hostile proceedings.
however, and that the world might know
that our hands were clean and that we
were not animated by lust for territory,
we solemnly disclaimed any disposition or
intention to exercise sovereignty, juris-
diction or control over the island except
for its pacification, and asserted our de-
termination, when that was accomplish
| ed, to leave the government and control
Of the island to its people. To this dec
! laration we still vigorously adhere
And on yesterday, the 18th Of June,
municipal elections were held all through
the island. as the first and preliminary
step towards the establishment Of a ma
tional government and the adoption Of a
| constitution.
And in this connection it is fitting TO
| say that the preculations and frauds COM
mitted in Cuba by subordinate officials
| have made every American blush with
! shame, and until the last Of the guilty
men is arrested and convicted and sent
enced that shame will know no abate-
ment. It is no moro to be charged to the
party than would q theft by a trusted
! employee be charged against the character
| OF the merchant who employed him. The
/ party that shields and protects dishonest
/ officials forfeits public confidence, not the