Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-28

rs criminal aggression" And by
shameful repudition of his own line o
demarcation that of a splain duty.
Mr. McKinley's new policy thus in
augurated without the consent of th'
people, now awaits the condemnation
of every American who believes that il
a republic, right must dominate
might and not vice versa.
"The line of battle has been drawn
by the Democratic National Conven
ton and with our banners unfurled and
| faces defiant, conscious of the justice o.
our cause and encouraged by the in
| justice and violence of our adversaries
we shall, as worthy followers of a great
and honest leader, stand by our an
nouncement principles without trim
ming and without intent to deceive
The success of political honors to any
individual amounts to nothing, the
perpetuation of our principles, every
thing.
IMPERIALISM, MILTTARIsM AND TRUSTS
SIN the foreground stand the great
questions of imperialism, militarism
and trusts. Questions that encompass
all other questions; issues which absorb
all other issues The democratic party
still cherishes the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; every syllable of which rep,
resents the tears of centuries past and
every sentence, the blood of millions OF
human beings, shed in defense of the
spirit it proclaims, and we are still
proud to look upon it, unchanged and
Interchangeable, as an inspiration divine,
intend to make man indeed a worthy
creature of his Maker.
''We insist that the constitution, con
strued in the spirit of the declaration
of independence, shall follow the flag
and not lot of looting carpetbaggers:
we prefer to see the flag stand upon the
American rock of humanity, freedom
and justice, where it stood at the be-
ginning of the Spanish war, and de-
nounce the criminal aggression of
William Mckinley, who hauled it down
and placed it upon the English sand
hills of conquest, plunder and subiu-
cation, protecting slavery and all its
iniquity.
1--WE know that trade does not follow
any flag in an imperialistic colonial
policy English trade has failed to
follow the fag of England to India,
Canada and other colonial possessions,
but franchise jobbers and mining sharks
have followed it into the Boer repnb-
lies. Spanish trade did not follow the
Spanish flag in its worldwide colonial
possessions, but murder and annihila-
ton followed in its wake; French trade
has failed to follow the French flag to
its rapid increasing territories. Amerl-
can trade has not followed the American
flag to the Philippines, because the
Manila imports for the year of 1899 were
q ,f hsaI "
$13, 600, 600 was from the United States.
Trade can and will follow the flag only
by the same means as trade goes every
better goods at preferable prices and
under friendly relations. But above all
honor should follow the flag and that
can follow only, when it is moved by
the Christian and American spirit of
''Whatever ye would that man shall do
to you, do ye even so again unto them"
That the republican party, If sue
eessful, would construe the consent OF
the governed to mean more conquest
and consequent large standing army,
is sure to be expected. Only with a
narrow margin did we escape an au-
thority given to Mr.. Mckinley to in
crease our standing army 100, 600 men.
Such an increase, if we are to take the
of other nations, would soon
mean standing army of many times
100, 900 men, and supremacy of the civil
over the military authority would be at
an end. Power is sweet and the mill
tary is always jealous of civil authority
"Those who believe that the republi
can party viii neutralize the viciousness
of trust combinations, should consider
that the trusts are now in power; that
they control the machinery of the
that their high priests are
now insisting that the trusts are p good
thing for the people; that they claim
it charity towards labor in paying scant
wages for honest toll, as the result of
the blessings ofthe trusts, for which
labor should be duly grateful; they
might also consider whether it is be-
cause the republican party is against
the trusts that the trusts are all in favor
of the reelection of the republican
party
STRIFE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR.
"The endorsement of McKinleyism
in the coming election means repudia-
ton of the declaration of Independence;
it means an increase in the line of inn
perialism, militarism and trust combi
nations; it means increased strife be-
tween capital and labor; between bank
ers, spectators, monopohsts, great
cad moneyed institutions
on the one hand and the bone and
sinew of the country, the producing
classes on the other; between craft,
tyranny and overreaching power
fostered and fortified on one side, and
freedom, justice and individual rights
dethorned on the other; 1t means to
bind upon ourselves and upon the gen
erations after US, burdens of militarism
and consequent high taxation; it means
that capital shall rest in the lap of
luxury and be within the control of
the few, while taxation, hopeless de-
pendence, suffering and degradion
shall pervade the homes of the many.
''ln presenting these great issues to
the American people, we need not APP
peal to the prejudices of original ma
tionality. The man who rather sing
God Save the Queen" than Hail
Columbia" is not the man to whom we
can speak; he whose heart quickens
more readily at the sound of the nation
al hymn of a former fatherland, than
when he hears the melody of the Star
Spangled Banner" cannot materially
assist our cause.
mo, it is the man who above all
things upon this earth loves America
and American institutions; the man
who is proud of his American citizen
ship and who is ready TO follow in the
spirit of Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln, to whom we shall appeal 1t
is upon the door of his conscience
where we shall boldly knock for a9-
mission and unless he is ready 10
the historic American hospi-
tality for righteousness .and liberty, he
cannot, and he will not, deny US a
hearty welcome.
SOME STUDIES IN HISTORY.
"As an abstract of the dangers that
confront US, we might say tn the Amer
lean of English extraction, that he
should reinvestigate English history.
He will find that the Magma Charta was
often attacked and ignored on the
ground that it had outiived its useful
ness and that one mar power was
better for the people: that it took the
blood and heroism Of thousands TO re.
establish the great Bill of Rights. We
might lead the Irish-American to con-
sideration IF the beauties and blessings
of Imperialism, as it is manifest in cen