Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-29

by treaty with the sultan, when you know
that the only reference to either of those
subjects in the agreement was a provision
By which slaves might purchase their free
dom. You also know from public records
that the President on receipt of the agree
ment Immediately instructed its trainers to
notify the SULTAN that it must not be con-
sidered as giving consent to slavery, which
would be impossible under the Constitution,
and that. steps were Immediately taken
looking to a recommendation to Congress
for obtaining their freedom.
You are constantly talking about the So
called trusts as contributors to the repub-
lican campaign fund when you know that
the sworn testimony submitted to Congress
shows that the sugar trust was heavy
contributor to the democratic campaign
fund and that the chairman of your own
national committee is the head of the most
complete monopoly in the United States,
the round cotton bale trust, while Mr.. Gro
ker and other leading democratic managers,
who are now supplying your party with
funds, organized the most oppressive trust
known to the people, the Tammany Ice
trust.
You sheer at the full dinner pail and
say that the republican party thinks the
workingman is all stomach; yet you know
that under the low tariff law which you
helped TO enact the Workingmen Of the
country were reduced to greater suffering
and want and reliance upon charity than
at any other time In the remembrance or
this generation, and that in a short three
wears under republican protection they have
been given more general employment and at
higher wages than ever before, as shown
by the official figures of the department of
labor.
Talk on Militarism.
At Kansas City you said: To-day the
government can take the son from his
mother or the husband from his wife and
stand them up before a gun, while in time
oF re hand
wealth and make it bear its share Of the
expenses" You know that every man who
enters the military service of the govern
ment does so voluntarily and that in the
late war with Spain and that in the Philip
pines the volunteers were vastly more than
were required: while if you will examine
the receipts of the government under the
war tax you will see that the largest items
of the tax collected are from the business
classes.
At Indianapolis and Minneapolis you said
that the republican party wants a standing
army of 100000 men for the purpose of es-
tablshing fort near every large city and
suppressing by force the discomfort that
ought to be cured by legislation. Yet you
know that the act increasing the army to
100 900 men, which was passed by repub-
lican Congress and signed by repuplcain1
President, provides that the army shall
drop back to less than 10000 men on July 1
of next year, while you also know that
republican legislation in behalf of labor
has ended the discomfort which existed as
result of the tariff legislation Of your own
party in which you actively participated.
You had q good deal to say to the people
of Indiana and to the farmers everywhere
about the wire nail trust and the iron and
steel trust and the Standard oil trust and
the copper trust and the tin plate trust
and asserted that they were controlling
prices of the articles which the farmer
must have. Yet how is it that if they are
all-powerful there has been a drop in the
past wear of from 10 to 35 per cent IN the
prices of iron and steel and wire nails aid
lumber and leather and tin plates and
glass, and many other articles manufac-
tured by trusts, as shown by Bradstreet's
of October 13?
Statement as to Army.
At Mansfield, Ohio, you said that when
the republican House passed the bill in
creasing the army to 100000 there was not
an arm raised against the United States.
You know perfectly we'll from published Of
fetal reports that active preparations for
hostilities against our soldiers in the Phil
ippines had been in progress for months
when the bill was passed, and that the few
American troops there were known to he in
imminent danger, and at that very moment
you were yourself urging the ratification of
the treaty with Spain which would neces-
sarily require a temporary force in the
Philippines largely In excess of the regular
army which, under the provisions of the
former act, was restored to it's original size
of 1900 at the termination of the war with
Spain.
You meet every reference to the Tam
many ice trust with the evasive and mac
curate statement that the republican gov
ernor Of New York and candidate Of his