The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-30
Circulation Statement.
.sTrust McKinley!r

.sTrust McKinleyp,
In a speech delivered in the New York
dry goods district on Friday Mr.. Hanna
declared that all he had to say in regard
to the trust issue was trust Mckinley"
Mr. Hanna evidently meant to be taken as
declaring that MIR. Mckinley, measured by
what he has accomplished in his present
Administration, is worthy to be trusted
with another four years in the White
House. We do not believe that ma
jority of American voters will be found
in agreement with that proposition at the
polls in November.
However, Mr.. Hanna practically makes
McKinleyism his paramount issue, al
though he sometimes calls it by another
name. In its last analysis it really is the
all comprehending issue. II we trust
Mckinley we must, of course, include his
keeper and trust him also; and. when we
trust Hanna and Mckinley together, We
must likewise give our faith and conf
dence to the brood OF trusts which thct
have helped to bring into being and by
which they are owned and operated.
The American people trusted William
Mckinley in 1896. and what did they set
for it? They quickly discovered that he
was mortgaged in advance to the most
corrupt combination of political with in
dustriaI adventurers outside of the peni
Tertiary. The people expected Elm to
take up the cause of stricken and tor
tured Cuba at once. Instead he entered
into practical alliance with Spain against
Cuba, and it took the whole strength of
the Democratic party TO shake him loose
from that alliance. Then the war became
certain, and Congress showed its willing
ness to trust Mckinley by placing fifty
million dollars unreservedly in Ills hands.
to be used for the national defence. Mr..
mark of confidence, and at once gave or
ders that separate set of books should
be opened in the Treasury Department.
SO that unborn generations might see how
their greatest of latter day leaders had
expended the money, and accounted for
every cent of 1t TO an admiring people.
He has twice been asked by the United
States Senate for an accounting but has
ignored these requests. Why. nobody ap-
Administration say it is because to com
ply with them might disclose matters of
yachts, transports, rotten beef contracts,
whitewashing commissions, official junk
cts. and a lot of things which. If venti-
lated, might create trouble in advance of
the Presidential election.
The voting masses trusted Mckinley and
were treated TO Hannaisin, Alger, Eagan.
Sampson, Crowninshield. AbDer. and the
like in return They trusted Mckinley and
as a result they put an Administration in
power which has groveled at the feet of
the trusts and done their bidding servilely
and corruptly; has filed the office of Attor
ney General with two lawyers in success
sion appointed by trust influence; has con-
Quoted the Government in the interest Ct
trusts and monopolies; for their benefit
and at their command has violated ''plain
duty and the Constitution in Porto Rico;
has conspired With Great Britain to defeat
construction OF an American canal across
Central America; has supinely surrendered
American territory TO the British Govern
ment; and has waged a foreign war of in
vasion without authority from Congress.
These are only few Of the things visited
upon the country for its foolish Willingness
to trust McKinley,'
Do the people want four more years of
the same kind Of corruption. defiance of
fundamental law, and trust oppression?
They must answer that question with their
ballots five weeks hence 1t is their oppor-
tunity, and in all probability their last op-
portunity. to check the march of privilege
and monopoly. Another quadrennate, of
Mckinley would give the trusts Just the
chance they need TO riyet the shackles Of
economic slavery upon farmer, artisan, and
every man in the Union who earns his
bread with his hands. Exposure OF condi-
tions in the anthracite coal field of Penn
sylvania, under the unbridIed rule of one
Of the great trusts. warns all Americans
Of what conditions everywhere will be If
the trusts are given q little more time TO |
perfect legislation and to enlarge and pack |
the Supreme Court in their interests We |
cannot believe that the American people |
are again ready to trust Mckinley"