The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-09-13

From their official authors and justifi
ers nothing but persistence in them Cal
reasonably be expected and should Mo
Kinleyism prevail in the pending cleo.
ton, who shall say-in view of the ad
ministration's proved capacity for re-
yersing itself-that we shall not soon
| find ourselves in the tolls of Chinese
| problem even more costly menacing and
| insoluble than the Philippine problem
itself? Surely every argument urged in
defense of our seizure of the Philippines
can be used second time with even
greater force to justify our appreciation
of slice of China.
To support the conclusion to which l
have come it is only necessary to consid-
er what McKinleyism stands for--what
is the necessary effect of endorsing it
what it will mean if the American peo-
pie now solemnly record themselves as
approving the Mckinley administration
and all its works.
1. 1t will mean that the American
people sanction syndicated presidency
"a presidency got for the Republican
party by the money of a combination of
capitalists intent upon securing national
legislation in aid of their particular in
terests.
2. 1t will mean that the American
people approve the legislation thus OBJ
tanned and Justify such legislation as
the Dingley tariff bill, with all its de-
vices for taxing consumers and wage
earners that is, the great mass of the
people-in exoneration of accumulated
wealth
B. 1t will mean that the American
people uphold the policy of greed and
contempt for alien peoples whose retri-
butiye consequences are seen in recent
events in China: approve of our joining
the ranks of information land grabhers
and sanction the rapacity as well as fol-
ly by which, while pretending to buy,
we in fact forcibly expelled Spain from
her Philippine possessions and without
excuse either in the demands of nation
al honor or in considerations of the ma
tional interest have saddled ourselves
with the gravest responsibilities for
some 5000, 600 or 10, 600, 900 of the saw
age, or at best half-civilized brown peo-
pie of the tropics
4. 1t will mean that the American
people approve of the tactless and brutal
policy pursued since the Philippine ac
QUESTION was made, whereby what was
pressed upon the country as a treaty of
peace was, in fact. but the signal for
another more costly. bloody and pro-
longed war.
). 1t Will mean that the American
people approve the extraordinary fatu-
Gus policy or impolicy, or no policy at
all, by which the Philippine archipelago,
many thousands of miles from our shores,
becomes an integral part of the United
States while Cuba, the cause and in
spiration of the war, lying right at our
door the key to the Gulf OF Mexico and
absolutely essential to our defense
against foreign attack, is declared alien
territory and entitled to all the rights of
an independent sovereignty.
6. 1t will mean that the American
people approve an abdication of its func
tions by the national legislature which
leaves millions of human beings outside
the pale of any recognized code OF law
and signifies for orr new possessions for
an indefinite period militarism of the
most unadulterated sort.
T. 1t will mean that the American
people, having in their president the sole
representative of the nation as a whole,
approve of "A national executive who
fails to uphold the dignity and the in
dependence of his great office. who ex-
ercises its functions in subservience both
to other branches of the government and
to the clamor of special pecuniary inter
ests; who condemning the acquisition of
territory by force as criminal aggres-
sion, wrests her possessions from "a for
eign state by the menace of continued
war; who finds the plain duty of the
government to be one thing today and
exactly the opposite thing tomorrow,
and whose disregard of the elementary
principles of civil service reform is
scandal as notorious as it is indefensible.
s. 1t will mean that the American
people endorse the policy by which the
United States of America sets up in
business as an Asiatic power and well
come the large standing armies, the in
creased naval forces. the new admins