The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-20

law? When the ballot box does no longer
represent the will of the people the RICH,
of self-government is lost. Trusts were
born in the corruption of the great civil
war. l remember when / was child that
at every cross roads, every village, every
hamlet there was an American citizen
employing his own laborson the product
OF leather, making shoes. Then there was
a shoemaker or ten shoemakers employed
in every town and earning a livelihood.
This is the condition necessary to re-
publican institutions. The great power
necessary is of middle class of people
In whose occupation is combined in enc
man labor and capital. If he had honesty
and the sterling qualities of energy and
perseverance he would gain competence
for himself by the end Of his life. This
class has passed away. 1t does not ex-
list. II is extinct Why? 1t is due to The
growth of the great labor trusts of the
United States. who have taken away his
occupation, and who, on the other hand,
employ band of servants who must obey
their will. How have trusts injured the
country? By taking away the independent
manhood Of the people.
Hanna and the Trusts.
"The great and good Marcus Aurelius
Hanna has declared there are no trusts.
This man is the head and front of more
than one OF the great trusts Of the State
of Ohio. When he is asked why the trusts
have put up the prices of all commodities
he has said that it depended on the de-
mand and supply. II is not so. These
men have been so conducting business in
every department that they have been
able to control every article of manufac-
ture They go to the coal mine opera
tor and say to him:
81 demand of you that you reduce the
production of coal When the other re-
plies that he does not want to reduce
production, that he desires to continue
production and give work to labor, the
trust says, I care nothing about the la
Dor. / intend to put up prices of coal 100
per cent When the operator refuses he
is threatened With destruction. Why is
it that the products Of all great manu-
facturers and trusts have advanced 40 to
100 per cent? They tell you that 50 per
cent is human labor. This is truly the
case. II il were necessary that coal be
advanced 100 per cent YVES it mol proper
that labor should advance 80 Per cent?
They speak of the full dinner pail. 1t
is the Illustration Of the great and good
Marcus Aurelius Hanna. / ask if the din
ner pail is not much the same as it was
four years ago. The only thing that has
not advanced during the Administration
of William Mckinley is human labor.
Let us refer TO something else that
has increased-the increase Of executive
power during this Administration 20 the
detriment of legsla, re power. This is the
increase that viii take the Republic prin-
ciples from US. and leads to absolutism,
oligarchy. and finally TO monarchy.
Militarism-what IS it, 1t is the most
necessary of all tie agencies that are be-
ing employed in the transformation of the
country. First, in the striking down OF
independent manhood; second. in the
growth of the money power; third. in the
increase OF executive power. And hand
in hand with all this goes the building up
OF a military organization in the United
States Of America 1t has been said that
there is no danger from the soldiery of
the country Hitherto we have employed
volunteers in tie conduct of our wars.
There is q great difference between vol
unteers and the soldiers who are reSu-
larry hired to make trade of war. The
Revolution was fought by minute men. by
rif1enen Of the Alleghenies, rangers of the
South.
These men were patriots They fought
because of a desire for liberty and indi-
jackson led the militia OF Tennessee TO
battle and defeated the Wanted lagions @;
Packenhsm at New Orleans In the Msxi-
can war it was volunteers who marched to
victory where Mcrtezuma's towers once
had stood. The civil war came and the
country was tern asunder, North ard
South. Every regiment in the South and
almost every regiment in the North were
volunteers. fcu are not satisfied with vol
untec-s now. After the civil war 25,ec0
troops were sufficient 10 police the coun-
try. An army Of 100000 regulars now. not
volunteers. are required in the Philip
pines. The President as Commander-in-
Chief has ii in his power without consent
OF Congress 10 begin a war, as he has in
the Philippines. That war was not begun
by consent of Congress. The President has
more power in the Philippines than the
Car of Russia in Siberia or tie Queen OF
England In India. GIVE him this power
and we will see the death kneil OF repub-
1can Institutions.
why is ii that this army is cent la.oG9
miles away for the purpose Of robbtng a
Seaker peopls-of their right to saif-eoY-
ernhent! There is danger 4urEtlns evsIy-
where. but the greatest Of all the Iinis in
the chain of infamy is the fereizu p1Iily
OF the Administration Running through
the events since the close CT the Spanish
war there is evidence of a foreign infu-
ence which guides and directs the policy
OF the Administration. | assert that
there is a secret understanding between
the Administration Of Mckinley and the
Government of the Queen of Great
Britain. Why should we select ENGLAND?
Great Britain is the natural enemy Of the
United States. / do not speak of the
great mass of the people, the Anglo-S Sax
on people. but Of the Norman rulers, who
dictate their policy and who have always
been the enemy Of the United States.
When the Revolution was fought, did
Great Britain not seek to strangle the lib
critics of the colonies? Then came the war
OF 1872. She laid embargo upon our ports,
she approached our Capital, and the torch
was applied. Again unsuccessful in war.
her hand was seen in secret machination.
From 1s40 to 1860 every writer of note in
England. every Minister, every periodical!
denounced this nation because of slavery.
They were eternaliy inveighing against
slavery. Yet when the great rebellion
came she gave to the South arms. mu-
nitions. and money. No: because she loved
the South. but because she hoped that. like
In the story Of the Kilkenny cats. one side
would eat up the other.
United Nation.
''No longer is there the division OF
"ofen anu oouth. we stand together i've
and forty States. without division. Even
an Administration like McKinley's can
not throttle the individual rights Of the
people. Liberty shall not only dwell here
today. but to the end OF the earth. and
wherever there dwells a man who seeks
liberty. our sympathy ought and shall 20
out and help that man
England has effected strange results
with our diplomats who have represented
Is at St James. Do you remember James
RUSSELL Lowell, an American poet and