The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-09-27
EVILS OF M'KINLEYISM.
THREATENS EVERY IMPORTANT ELE.
- MENT OF OUR INSTITUTIONS.


Cardinal Principles of the American
Notwithstanding Texts For Bryan.
The following remarkable article is
taken from the Trenton True Ameri-
8 can:
If Mr.. Bryan comes into New Jer-
sey to speak during the present cam
palgn he will appear under totally diff
ferent auspices from those of 1896.
Then his election was a menace;
now it is a promise of deliverance
from greater ills than were then
dreamed possible of even contempla-
ton.
Then the currency question was a
novelty full of menace. Now the cur
rency question has settled itself, just
as all financial questions settle them
selves under the insuperable rule of
necessary supply and demand.
But under the Administration of
president Mckinley new evils have
arisen which are full Of destruction
to every important element of our in
Stitutions.
There are just four great principles
of government which distinguish the
United States from other national in
stitutions, and it is to their control
ling influence that our phenomenal
progress and development have been
attributed.
First-The dependence of an honest
Administration seeking the good of
all the people upon the good will of
Hsh natt
Second-The maintenance in integ-
rity of our republican institutions;
Third-The absolute subordination
of the military to the civil power;
Fourth-The refusal to imperil our
own liberties by interference in for
eign complications.
1t is to the debit of the Mckinley
Administration that it has seriously
attacked, if it has not overturned
each and every one of these four car
dinal principles of the American Re
public
a. The Mckinley tariff bill was
but the forerunner Of the Mckinley
Administration in that it set up classes
of a few to be benefited at the expense
OF the many, and that principle has
been carried into every ramification
of the Administration. Every public
question has been approached from
the standpoint of productiveness in
political power, and every attribute of
government has been used, not for tht
benefit of all the people, but as a
means of placating particular inter
ests or producing money with which
to corrupt the franchise. This pollti-
cal corruption has progressed more
under the three years of the Hanna
Mckinley Administration thal in all
the 100 years of our existence as Il
republic; it has risen to such condition
that it may be said with entire fair
ness that every governmental favor
has it's price The evident and newt
able result of this is that the Admin
istration seeks it's reelection by the
same means - the self-interest aud
compatibility of the people. To this
end everything is being turned and
fiagrantly turned. How different
from the methods and means by and
through which the election of every
American President, from Washington
to Garfield, was sought!
(2.) The foundation of republican
institutions in this country is that all
government shall be for all our peo-
pie and that wherever our dominion
exists there does our republic main
tain itself. But how different under
the Mckinley Administration, which
sets up an empire in the Philippines;
territory in the Sandwich Islands;
province in Porto Rico, and military
protectorate in Cuba-and all managed
by the same clique at Washington ac-
cording, not to law, but to the personal
ambition or desire of the Administra-
ton, or of those who have a pull on
it.
o. In every preceding Administra-
ton it has been the aim of President
and Congress to depend wholly upon
the militia of the States for any emer-
gency, and to maintain as small
Ftanding army as was necessary to
curb the Indians, watch our frontiers
and occupy the forts erected as pro-
vision against attack. But now the
president must have an army of a
Mundred thousand men, and must
Have power to use them at his will.
And we find that to-day Cuba is be-
ing held and controlled by military
rule and by an armed force without
any authority in Congress and without
any right in the President except such
as followed a warlike occupation of
the island. Our own territory of Porto
Rico is held under a military regime
rendered necessary by the unpopular
ity of the civil government set up
there. In the Philippines the civil
government is mockery and a pre-
tence, and the military government
makes the law, CONSTITUTES the law and
executes the law. And yet we turn
up our noses at the Central American
republics.
a. The position of affairs in China