The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-05
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money question, they are not prepared to
meet the other issues. Mr.. Hanna says
there are no trusts. That settles that
question. He ought to ask his wife Every
wife knows there are trusts The only
trust that any Republican in this coun-
try seems to know about is the ice trust,
and the Republicans don't know much
about that, for If they did they would
know that every stakeholder is a Re-
publican Ii they knew more about the ice
trust they would know that it's harm was
confined to the people of New York and
If they know that they had for Governor
of the State of New York, man who
would not let any harm come to his peo-
pie, they would know that there would
be no ice trust there or the Governor
would kill It.
AND THERE ARE OTHERS.
"New York has a Republican Governor
and a Republican Legislature and you
Republicans who have been worrying so
much about the ice trust can just ease
your minds, for as long as the Governor
is out West making speeches you may be
sure nobody is being hurt in New York
Why is it that no Republican knows any
thing about the Standard Oil Trust or the
Sugar Trust, or the Salt Trust, or the
Cracker Trust, or the Window Glass
Trust, or the Envelope Trust, or the
Writing Paper Trust, or the Trust in Pa
per that Republican editors use to write
a defense of the trusts upon? Why don't
they know about these trusts? Is it dis
honesty or is it ignorance? Why is 1t
that no Republican speaks out against
any trust except the Ice Trust and why
is it that the Republicans in charge do
not destroy that, so you can believe Mr.
Hanna when he says there are no trusts?
WHY A GREAT ARMY IS DESIRED.
"The Republican party is not prepared
to defend itself on the trust question,
therefore they try to get it out of the
campaign. The Republican party is not
prepared to defend itself on the army
question. They say there is no question
of militarism and yet an army four times
as great as the standing army of 1896
IS demanded by the Presidents message
of December, 1898. How much do we
spend for education in the United
States? Less than 5000, 900 900 a year.
How much do the Republicans want to
spend on a military establishment? One
hundred million dollars a year. They
want to spend more than half as much
for military establishment as we spend
for the education of all the children in
the United States. Is that not a step to-
wards militarism? What reason can they
give for it? They can only give one. That
is the one they do not give. There are
two reasons which lead men in this coun
try to want a large standing army. One
is a domestic one, the other is connected
with our foreign affairs. What domestic
reason is there for large army? To pro-
tect us from the Indians? No, the less
Indians we have the more army the Re-
publican party wants. That is not the
cause. Why do they want it? So that
they can build fort near every large
city and use the army to suppress by
force the discomfort that ought to be
cured by remedial legislation.
The laboring man asks for a reason
and gets large army; he asks relief from
government by injunction and gets
large army; he asks protection from the
black list and his answer is large army;
he asks for shorter hours of labor in or
der that he may have more time with
his family and for the development of his
mind, and his answer is a large arr
He asks for representation in the Pres,-
dents Cabinet in order that labor may
be protected and his answer is large
army. That is the domestic reason which
is not given and yet it is reason en-
tertained by many. What is the reason
they give? They say we need it for our
foreign policy, but my friends, they ask
for the army before the American peo-
pie had ever decided upon n foreign policy
that made large army necessary.
I'm December, 1896, when the President
asked for his army, the treaty had not
been signed, but it's terms were under
stood. When the Republican Congress
voted to raise the army to 100000 the
treaty had been signed, and no arm was
raised against this nation anywhere in
the world. But the American people had
never voted for colonial policy; up to
this time the American people have never
voted for a colonial policy, and yet the
Republican party is pledged to large
army. What does it want with it? 1t
intends to exploit the Philippine Islands
and if you want to understand the reasons
for large army, read the prospectus
Issued by the Philippine Lumber and De-
velopment Company You will find that
at the head of the company, as presi
dent stands a Republican member of
Congress, who is chairman of the Army
Committee of the House of Representa-
tives, and another Republican Congress-
man is attorney for the company. What
do you want an army for? To hold the
while they are being developed
by syndicates headed by Republican poll
ticians.
MORE REPUBLICAN DODGING.
1.-THE American people have not yet de-
cided in favor of Imperialism. The Re-
publicans refuse to meet it. You do not
hear defenses of Imperialism from those
authorized to speak. You find that the
Republicans are trying to hide behind
first one subterfuge and then another.
They say now that the reason we are in
the Philippines, the reason our boys are
dying, the reason a large army is neces-
sary, the reason we cannot come home,
is because l helped to ratify the treaty.
my friends, l want you to go back a
few moments, and you will find that the
Republican party said we were in the
because of the act of God,
and it is a great come down from God to
me. If it is the hand of God that takes
us to the Philippine Islands, why do the
want to lay it to a Demo-
crat? If it is well to be there, if it is
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