The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-11-14
KINCAID ON
THE ELECTION
His Analysis of the Trusts
Tactics


Seaihlng Editorial from Veteran Ex.
Republican aud Hx-6eeretary Of State
Of oregon.
Mckinley is reelected by an over.
whelmining majority in nearly every
Northern and Western State and inclu-
ding some OF the Solid South. Even
Indiana, which was given to by Bryan,
voted for Mckinley, and New York,
Ohio, Michigan and Illinois gave Inn
mense majorities for Mckinley. The
issueswas clearly made in every State
between the policy Of Mckinley, as
dictated by Hanna and trusts, which is
to build up colonies and govern them
by military force and officers appointed
without their consent TO have a large
standing army; to create and perpetn.
ate vast national debt, like England,
to maintain the army and hold the col.
onies, like England; to make the gold
standard permanent and the power Of
the banks and capitalists permanent to
control the money of the people, by ex-
panding it at will when they. want a
boom to sell the lands they have taken
on their mortgages and the watered
stocks they have issued, and TO contract
it when they want to buy back the real
and personal property at one-half or
one forth the prices they sold them I;
to give the syndicates and extremely
wealthy people a chance to make from
$40 100000 like Carniegie, to sSO,00O,-
600, like Rockefeller a year, and to
give the working people "full dinner
pals" The people had fair chance
TO choose between these propositions
and the opposites, for which Bryan and
his supporters contended. The people
chose the empire with its colonies and
large standing army the heavy debts to
maintain the army and the colonies ;the
perpetual wars incident to q military
government with colonies; the gold
standard and the paper money to be ex-
panded and contracted at will by the
Rockefellers, Morgans and others who
own from one hundred to FIVE hundred
millions OF dollars each; the trusts and
syndicates with their profits Of 100000
600 to $50. .0O0,0 600 year, and the "full
dinner pail' for the working man. Per-
haps the saying Of eighteen hundred
years ago is true how that they did not
know what they were doing but they did
il all the same and must abide by the
consequence. Governments are what
the people make them-cruel, corrupt
and barbarous in China, because the
people are so ;despotic in Russia; oppres
sive ON account of armies in Turkey and
many other old countries, because the
people have not developed out OF those
conditions. In the United States the
conditions, barring slavery and the ter
rible sacrifice of blood and treasure to
get rid Of it, have been better for the
first one hundred years OF the new re-
public, but the wealthy clas 90, who
spend most Of their money in Europe,
have always hankered for an empire.
They saw their opportunity in weak,
vasclating Mckinley, the free sill
yer champion, who was willing TO sell
his conv ctions on that great ques-
ton TO the gold monopolists for
a presidential nomination, and him
self bodily TO the trusts for
some eighty thousand dollars TO pay
his debts. They have elected him aud
since owned him. They knew that
mankind has always been and is now
wildly in favor Of war at al times ev-
erywhere and forgets everything else
in the mad rush against an armed op.
ponent, whether at home or abroad.
They knew that the assassin or murder.
er OF one human being is loathed
and executed, while the slayer OF thou
sands, even il the justification or provo
cation is far less than in the case OF the
individual, is worshipped and exalted
far beyond the greatest and beet in the
paths of peace, by the great majority oil
the people. To divert the attention ol
the people from their own interests, the
bosses caused Mckinley 70 change bis
policy from peace and freedom for the
| Filipinos 10 "war OF criminal aggres'
sion, =" and have kept ii up for two years
at an expense Of thousands of lives and
hundreds OF millions Of dollars, for the
purpose Of re-electing Mckinley and
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