Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
SCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard OIney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been-a Believer in Hanl-
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

service TO the entire country by forcing
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryan's election means scuttie.
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 Mckinleys admins
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China. Mr.. Olney de-
nounces its acts as the. acts of the
weakest and siliiest of administra-
tions." The administration has demand
ed the open door in China, and when
Manchu reaction and massacre threat
ened to close and bolt the door Pres-
dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
of 5,OOO 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 the injurious conse-
quences Of past courses can be ayerted
or mitigated something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible for
them"
From their official authors and justi-
hers 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 il 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 a previous administration, of
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary of State,
President Mckinley will Insist on pay
meat.
Mr.. Olney objects to this policy. The
American people approves. Vermont
demonstrates it. That New England
State stands for the flag and all it pro-
tects. Mr.. Olney demands policy of
scuttle. To him this "outweighs" all
else. He admits that panic will come
with Bryan; but better, he says, in
substance. "Seuttle 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" III the Philippines.
Mr.. OlHey objects because we ''forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. Olney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands to one tyrant. He is
ready to return the Philippines to an
other.
The American people is not Mr..
Oney is a 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, but his heart is in
a policy of scuttle. He dcnounces the
Dingiey 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 at our credit Oh
Il per cent basis and british bonds
seeking a market in New York he per-
haps hopes TO persuade the country that,
those were better and more prosperous.
days when Mr.. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
their terms at the White House. when
our honds had to be sold in 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.
Nix. Oiney has done well for the Re-
publican party. He has recalled 10 the
public those dire days of Democratic
administration Of which he was part
when our railroads were in the hands Of
receivers, our factories closed, our treas
ury empty, our credit gone and our Tag
disgraced. He demands again days Of
pauic, of free trade tariff, of crash and
failure, of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These 'calamitous possibilities"
which were calamitous certainties under
the Cleveland -Olney administration. are
''outweighed,' says Mr. Olney. by the
certainty of a, policy of ''scuttle" from
Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens will ne
longer, in peril, see the flag coming with
salvation in its folds, brought to Pekin
by 'the weakest and siIliest Of admins
trations;" the flag viii, come down in the
Philippines, and it will be withdrawn. az
Mr.. OIney withdrew it in Hawaii. though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being "alien territory" Trust
proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, as he does, that it must be-
come an Integral part of the United
Sta.es," which the Republican party did
not accept as to annexed territory when
urged for slavery and will not when urg-
cd for scuttle.
Mr.. OIney is Democrat. He needs
n party. He has no other. 1t would he
strange if he did not support a Demo
cratic candidate unless he were Il public
peril A public peril he aiinits 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 ;broa.,.
policy of scuttle, surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapproses of Mckinley
1t appears that President Mckinley's
letter Of acceptance has met with very
frosty reception in France. President
McKiney's ground with respect to the
Philippines does not meet the approval
of the French press. All the better rra-
son for sustaining the President.