The evening times., 1900-10-19

The Democratic National Committee re-
Gently issued through Willis ]. Abbott.
the following reply to the proposition
enunciated by Senator Beveridge and GER
tain other Republicans that the United
States needs the Philippines as a market
for its produce:
Senator Beveridge declared with much
JUNCTION at the Chicago Auditorium that
we are Producing more than we can con-
sume.' and. therefore. need the Philip
pines as an outlet for our surplus. He
elaborated the idea at length. showing
that especially in the midst of the pres
ent Mckinley prosperity and with burst
ing dinner pail. we are overwhelmed with
good things we don't know what to 90
with and that we must ind some way to
get rid CT them or our prosperity Will be
menaoed. Fer why should We run the mills
when they have already turned out more
stun than we can eat. wear or otherwise
consume? And if we don't keep the mills
gcing how shall we keep the workingmen
employed? And if we don't keep them en-
pioyed how will the dinner pail be kept
full? We must rush the stuff, the Senator
tells US, to the antipodes, and with the aid
OF Gatling guns and other engines OF
benevolent assimilation make the little
brown men eat, wear, occupy, and get
away Win the excess our IOllefS are tuIu-
Ing out. For when we can't do this we
can't keep the mills open, and We can't
keep the workingmea employed and the
dinner pail full. The only way 10 do this,
he emphatiCally stated, was to keep the
Republican party in power. All this he
eIinched with an aphorism, Republican,
econumic golden text newly coined Tor the
occasion and now triumphantly launch
ed. 1t ran thus: Prosperity depends
upon wages and profits; wages and profits
depend upon foreign markets, and foreign
markets depend upon the Republican par
ty.
There you have it; the keystone in the
arch OF Tie new Republican colonial po-
litiCal economy.
Prosperity accordingly to Republicans
Of an earlier day, used to depend upon the
home market but let that pass Times
change, but principles never. The priEcI-
pie then was as it now is that the market
depends upon the Republican party then
the country needed the Republican party
to keep up the tariff fence to protect the
home market; now the country needs the
Republican Larty to hold the Philippine
Islands where our surplus must be con-
suned. Like the sharp white man divid-
ing the products of the chase with poor
Lo the Republican party never says tur-
key to the Democrats.
stop ard think. Look this Republican
proposition squarely in the eye We are
producing mere than we can consume
We must get the alleged heather and saw
ages on the other side of the globe to help
us consume il. If they won't do it will
ingiy we must shoot them until they will
- Producing more than we can con-
sume!' Readers have been told about the
condition of the Pennsylvania miners
employed by the Coal Trust in which, by
the way, Hanna, Cousin Osborne and
President Mckinley are stockholders,
American citizens under the Stars and
Stripes eating dog meat and slowly star
ing TO death. Producing more than we
can consume.
Years ago a voice. like a fire bell in
the night, pierced to the heart OF SNUG,
conventional self-satisfed London. 1t was
The bitter cry Of outcast London Some
hearkened to the cry, sought the source
from which it came and on finding out,
wondered that it stopped with cry; Won
dered that London was permitted to sit
on its foundations while such conditions
existed. Shelley said, He'll is city
much like London Charles Booth with
corps OF specialists and an abundant
supply Of money has studied London as
Huxley studied the cray-fsh. He mapped
its misery; showed here the submerged
tenth, there the classes just on the edge
CT the social slough and so on up to the
classes which ride in carriages, occupy
vote the English Republican ticket,
Here are Just a few hints as TO Eng
hsh poverty:
- The infantile death rate at Bethnal
Green Ia laboring section Of Londonl is
twice that of Belgrayia.'
In London one person in every five
will die in the workhouse, hospital, or
lunatic asylum
" 1t is probable that one in every three
London adults will be driven into work
house or workhouse infirmary TO die,
and the proposition in the case OF the
manual labor class must OF course be still
larger.
" DR.. Playfair says that is per cent OF
the children of the upper class. Sc per
cent of those of the tradesmen class, and
b5 per cent of those of the workmen die
before they reach 5 years of age
a. The average age of death among the
nobility, gentry, and professional classes
in England and Wales is ffty-ffve years,
but among the artisan classes of Lam
beth it amounted to only twenty-nine
years
e In some rural districts every aged
laborer is d pauper.
Yet England has long been convinced
that she was producing more than she
could consume and has been systematf-
cally subjugating foreign peoples shoot
ing East Indians from the mouths of can
non crushing out South African repub-
lies, and aping Rome generally in the role