Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-05-25

| acClOn. In Iulnllment OF This ple0ge
Mark Hanna offers a bill for subsidiz
ing the. ships belonging to the large
steamship companies, and which is de
signed to crush out competition anC
ruin all those not in the trust. The
bill is so palpably unjust that Hanns
has not dared to force it through Con
gress.
They enacted tariff law that failed
to produce sufficient revenue to pay
the expenses of the government, ant
which was successful only in aiding
the promotion and maintenance OF
trusts and combines.
They promised economy in govern.
mental affairs, but they have increased
the Understanding debt of the United
States in the sum of $4,000, 600 and
the aggregate Indebtedness in the sum
of 1852 100000.
They have increased the annual ex.
penses of the government from 1865,
TIA, l59 for the year ending June 80
1897, to $685., O72, l79 for the year end
ing June 80, 1899. Excluding the
amounts received from the sale OF
Pacific railroad bonds, the expenses OF
the government during the two years
referred to exceeded the receipts by
sos, 70S,343
They promised to uphold the Monroe
doctrine, but their whole foreign pol
icy has been in violation of the spirit
and the letter of that great paper. In
concluding our treaty of peace with
Spain, in forming entangling alliances
with foreign countries, in attempting
to hold distant lands and to subjugate
the unwilling inhabitants thereof, the
course of the administration has been
in open disregard of the teachings of
the founders of this Republic and of
the immutable truths of the Declare
ton of Independence. Nay, more !;
that course has been subversive of the
plain provisions of the constitution it.
self, destructive of our cherished
ideals, and has lowered us in the eyes
of the nations of the world. But
what are all these cherished land
marks; what are all our high and in.
spring hopes and aspirations as COM
pared to the Unsuitable greed and ava
rice of the leaders of the Republican
party?
Beneath their outward show OF
maintaining the honor of our flag,
underlying their ostentatious demands
for a widened commerce, you will find
the damnable purposes of the imperi-
alistic leaders Of the party in power.
These purposes are:
First-To go augment the expenses
of government as to require an in
crease in the bonded Indebtedness of
the nation, and thus make our inter-
est-bearing debt perpetual. This they
have already done in the financial bill
l have described. The bondholders
know that, if demand were made, not
one nation in all Europe could meet
its obligations, and they look upon
the United States as the most fruitful
field in all the world for furnishing a
permanent interest income. Hence
the increase in our bonded indebted
ness and the issuance of longtime
| bonds.
Second-To have an excuse for
maintaining a large standing army,
which, according to the teachings Of
the fathers, is the first weapon of ty-
rants and the chief menace to demo-
cratic institutions.
Third-To attract the attention of
the American people from q study of
our social and economic questions
upon the proper solution of which de-.
ponds the perpetuity of constitutional
government. Hence they raised the
question of false patriotism to dis
tract our attention, while they force
us not only to endure the ills we have,
but fly to those we knew not of.
1t is impossible to escape the con-
clusion that these are the ends the
moneyed and trust influences now in
control Of the Republican party had
in view when they planned the ad-
ministration's Philippine policy.
That policy has already demoralized
the public conscience at home, les.
sened our influence and tied our
hands as great moral power in the
politics of the world. 1t was that pol
icy that made the Illinois Republican
convention drown, in q storm of
misses, resolutions of sympathy for the
heroic farmers OF South Africa, and
for that indomitable Cincinnatus of
the Transvaal, gallant old Paul
Kruger. [Great applause.1 1t was
that policy that made us enter into
an unholy alliance with the polyga-
nous and slave-holding Sultan of
Sulu. 1t was that policy that caused
thousands OF our brave boys to lose
their lives for an unjust cause; others
to be invaded for life, and still others
to become inmates of asylums.
"Thers not to make reply.
| Theirs not to reason why,
| Theirs but to do and die"
That policy has made widows and
orphans, has made fathers and
mothers childless, throughout the
length and breadth of this fair land.
With all the intensity of my being
denounce this policy as unjust and
unjustifiable, and before God I believe
the blood of every soldier sleeping his
last sleep in those distant lands is on
the hands of this administration, and,
like the blood stains on the lily hands
OF the demented Lady Macbeth, it
will not wash out. Great applause. !:
The Democracy of this nation, true
to our treasured traditions, convinced
of the righteousness of our cause and
the rectitude of our conduct, appeal
ing to the lessons of the past and the
hopes of the unborn future, will never
consent to have the Stars and Stripes
become a symbol of oppression to any
people under the sun, whether that
people be white or black or yellow.
For a hundred and twenty-five years
that flag has been an inspiration and
a hope to the oppressed of all the
earth, and Democracy will not permit
its hallowed folds to become an instru-
ment in the hands of the Republican
leaders to further their schemes of av-
arice, greed and gain.
My friends, upon these issues which
the people, not the politicians, are
making, we are going to win a glori.
Gus victory. We are going to win be-