Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-27
.SCuTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer in Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country. -

Mr.. Richard: Olney has done a public
service to the entire country by forcing
every voter to face the fact that MIR.
Bryan's election means scuttle.
MIR. Olney was one of an administra-
ton which withdrew from the Hawaiian
Islands. He would repeat the act. We
are in the Philippines. Mr.. Olney would
leave. President McKinley's admins.
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China: MIR. Olney de-
nounces its acts as the acts of the
weakest and silliest of administra-
TONS The administration has demand
ed the open door in China, and when
Manchu reaction and massacre threat
ened to close and bolt the door Presi-
dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
of 5000 victorious American troops to
keep the door open from Chinese intol-
erance or European aggression. But this
is part of that policy on which Mr..
Olney urges Mr.. Bryan's election. be-
cause 80 far as the injurious conse-
quences of past courses can be averted
or mitigated something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible for
them
From their official authors and justi-
6ers nothing but persistence in these
| courses can reasonably be expected"
says Mr.. Olney He is right. If re-
sistance to American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
kinley will suppress it. Where the flag
has been hauled down, as in Hawaii,
he will replace it, and the American peo-
pie will vote to keep it there. Where
citizens are in peril President Mckinley
will protect them, in all lands. Where
their claims to just indemnity, as in
Turkey, have been Systematically neg
lected by previous administration, of
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary of State,
president Mckinley will insist on pay
ment
Mr.. Olney objects to this policy. The
Americans people approves. Vermont
demonstrates it. That New England
State stands for the flag and all it pro-
tects. Mr.. Olney demands a policy of
scuttle. To him this "outweighs" all
else. He admits that panic will come
with Bryan; but better, he says, in
substance, ''Scuttle and Panic" than
Sovereignty and Security"
We accept the issue. We trust Mr..
Olney can be induced to accompany.
Mr.. Bryan on his platform campaign to
urge scuttle with a vigor and plainness
of speech his chief. his leader and his
guide lodges, Mr.. Bryan talks of
stable government in the Philippines.
Mr.. Olney objects because we ''torcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. Oney returned the Ha-
| waiian Islands to one tyTant He is
ready to return the Philippines to an
other.
| The American people is not. Mr..
Olney is lawyer. He knows that the
| legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
! American voters do not. Mr.. Oiney
! talks of much else. hut his heart is in
a policy of scuttle. He denounces the
| Dingley tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer the tariff his chief signed and
which brought depression, desolation
| and deficits. He complains of the
most intimate relations between the
United States treasury and the money
market AS he looks Sht our credit on
2 per cent basis and british bonds
; seeking a market in New York he per-
haps hopes to persuade the country that
|
days when Mr.. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
their terms at the White House, when
our bonds had to he sold III London at
usurious rates to buy gold and prop the
sinking credit of the treasury. which
covered before bankers who to-day have
no word in its policy.
Mr.. Oiney has done we'll for the Re-
publican party. He has recalled to the
public those dire days Of Democratic
administration of which he was Il part
when our railroads were in the hands of
| receivers, our factories closed. our treas
ury empty, our credit gone and our flag
disgraced. He demands again days, of
panic, of free trade tariff, of crash and
failure, of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These 'calamitous possibilities"
which were calamitous ccrtainties under
the Cleveland-Olney administration. are
| "outweighed,' says Mr.. Olney. by the
certainty of policy of "scuttle" from
| Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens will no
! longer, in peril, see the flag, coming with
| salvation in it's folds. brought to Pekin
| by ''the weakest and siliest OF admins
| trations;' the flag will come down in the
| Philippines, and it will be withdrawn. as
Mr.. Olney withdrew it in Hawaii, though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
| NATIONAL faith and protests against this
island being 'alien territory Trust a
| proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
| to insist. as he does, that it must be-
come an integral part OF the United
States, which the Republican party did
not accept as to annexed territory when
| urged for slavery and will not when urg-
| ed for scuttle.
| Mr.. Olney is Democrat. He needs
a party. He has no other. It would be
strange if he did not support a Demo-.
cratic candidate unless he were a public
peril. A public peril he admits Mr..
Bryan is, but since Mr.. Olney must sup
port him, in spite OF this it is OF grave
public service that he has made plain to
| all men that Mr. Bryan not only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad.
policy Of scuttle. surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapprnves Of Mckinley.
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