The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-08

nopolies or combinations, whether exist
ing in the form of a corporation or other
wise. The several states may continue
to exercise such power in any manner
not in conflict with the avs Of the United
States"
Here was such an opportunity as the
Democracy had never had to demonstrate
the sincerity Of their declarations. The
amendment came to a vote. The Democ-
racy with one or two exceptions) voted
solidly against 1t. The Republicans (with
one or two e%xceptions) voted for 1t. Inc
Democrats could hav furnished the votes
necessary for the two-thirds vote re-
quired by the Constitution. They did not.
They voted against the proposition with
practical unanimity.
And upon what ground? Upon the
ground that the proposed amendment
would diminish the existing s04@seeignty
of the states upon this subject This IS
an assertion by them that it is a subject
of state jurisdiction under the Constltu-
ton as it is, except as to interstate ana
foreign m The supreme court
has defined the limitations of legislation,
as l have stated. The legislation which
the Democracy vaguely promises would
be void when tested by their own argu-
ments and votes upon the amendment. In
other words, the Democracy purpose and
nave voted to cave the power of legis-
lation just where it now is, while the
Republican party proposed to vest 1t IN
congress to the fullest extent necessary.
In such a situation thus produced
by them, how can they pretend that
1T is such a vital edera question
or that they, If in power, could give
any federal relief They leave the
remedy where 1T Is, and the utter
impOssibility of unanimfty of state
action demonstrates that the Kan
sas City platform upon this subject
In the merest "~sOunding brass"
But it is aid place the products of I'M
lawful combinations on the free list. This
would attack the protective system and
would not produce the desired result as
to the combinations. The result would
be to give business abroad to trusts
formed or to be formed for purpose of
manufacture there and expectation to this
country. The European laborer and ar
tisan would get the wages now paid to
the American, and the American public
would be under an uncomfortable dictation
of prices by foreign combinations.
The Democratic party is a artists
model, and will pose for any study. While
it Is declaiming against protection, trusts,
monopolies, special interests n the
tyranny of the dollar over the man, it Is
the champion and serf of the greatest
Of existing special unitary interests; that
Of the silver mine and of the hybrid,
the mulatto 16 to 1 dollar. It's declared
intention was four years ago, n now
Is. to a the people of the United
States the enforced purchaser, by the
United States, of all the silver that exists
or Ear be produced, at a price about
double It's present market value, payment
to be made by the government to the
owner of silver.
o A PARTY QUESTION.
L have said that trusts are not a party
question. Men of al parties promote and
otherwise engage in them. The late Gov.
Flower, ar eminent Democrat, asserted,
a short time before his death, that trusts
are %justiiable and beneficial to the pub
lie and advised every young man to get
into one as quickly as he could. Trusts
are not the offspring of protection. There
is no duty on petroleum., and yet the
Standard Oil company has grown to be
the most colossal monopoly the world has
ever seen. Mr.. Havemeyer of the sugar
trust Is, I believe, a faithful Democrat.
His raw material is unretined sugar, and
it is taxed by a tariff. He wants free
sugar for the profit of his trust, and ac-
cordingly proclaims the tariff to be the
mother of sfrusts-that Is, of all trusts
excepting his trust.
I There 10 mo- tariff ON ice, yet the
Democratic ice trust of New York ID
a .h0urishing concern. Mr.. a
WICK IL one Of its creators and In
In 1T deep.
He was a delegate to the Kansas City
convention, and, to prove that the great
! Democratic heart beat true to humanity,
oppressed by trusts, he was placed on the
committee on resolutions to express cor
rect p%ronciples pon a subject in which
he is so deeply interested and Of which
he knows so much.
And so the Tammany Tiger, with this
Kansas City declaration about his neck,
Is imbedded and visible in q transparent
block of Democratic trust ice.
THE REAL ISSUES OF THE CAM
.-f. .4-f PAIGN.
But Imperialism Is not the paramount
issue of the campaign and cannot be
made so. The adjustment Of any ques-
ton as to the Philippines is to be cpnsid-
cred after rebellion against the sover-
eighty and authority of the United States
has been put down.
The paramount Issues this year
are financial and economic. Shall
the multiplication party of 10 to 1
be put In power to its
principles by all the enormous pow
ers Of executive influence i'm CAGE
Mr.. Bryan IL elected, and win the
first engagement in q campaign the
next battle of which will be for the
control of both houses Of congress:
The question for the plain people is, do
they wish, with the instructions Of a bit
ter experience fresh and deep in their
memories, to change or to submit to the
chance Of change that Astounding pros
perity which came with the election of
President McKinley-a prosperity which
no Democratic platform or speaker de-
MES. nj dare not to rejoice in OF ever
allude to? Aguinaldo can wait until the
American people take "a bond Of fate
IL necessary by annihilating, for the pres
ervation of their own domestic interests,
the political combination which is at the
same time their enemy and the alder and
abettor Of the Tagal rebels?
INCONSISTENCIES OF DEMOCRATIC
POSITION.
The Democratic platform expressly ar
rays that party on the side of q rebellion
against the United States. It declares
that the United States is carrying on a
war of criminal aggression against the
Filipinos." This is the text Of that solemn
declaration of political principles, and 1t
means that the operations Of our troops
In the Philippines are wrongful, unlaw-
full m void.
It then demands that the United States,
first, give to the Filipinos a stable form