The Irish standard., 1900-07-07
Perils from mperialism..to the
American Republic.
THREE DIFFERENT KINDS Of TRUSTS
That Operated by Mark Hanna ID
the Worst of All.

In his address at the recent conven-
ton Of the Ohio Democracy at Colum-
bus, Chairman Webster P. Huntington
said:
"You arc assembled at time most
| critical for the nation and for the Demo-
cratic party. We shall take no step
backward, but we shall take long strides
forward. The time has come when every
| American citizen must determine for
| himself whether this nation shall con-
tinuc to be in fact as we'll as name
republic, or shall pattern after Great
Britain and become colonial empire.
We believe that if we arc to have a
| democracy it cannot be too democratic,
if we are to have a republic, it cannot
be too republican. To remain
dcmocracy-to remain republics to
preserve union. 1t was true in 1860
that this nation could not long endure
half slave and half free and it is true
now that it cannot long endure half
republic and half empire. Therefore the
paramount question which must be an
swered By the American people before
the idcs OF November is: Shall the
Union be preserved?
1--WE invite an adjustment of differ
cnccs-or at least of cessation OF fac
tional strifc-bctwccn those who are
agreed that the Union must be pre-
served. There are those who would
preserve the Union and at the same time
maintain the gold standard; and there
arc those that would preserve the
Union and at the same time restore the
bimctallic currency that has always been
and always will be the only basis OF per-
mancnt prosperity in this country. But
what good will either OF these accom-
plish even from his own point Of view,
if we have bimctalism or tile single
gold standard and the Union is de-
stroycd? What shall it profit a man,
| il he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?' What shall it profit nation
like ours, if it gain the whole world and
lose its own character? Whatever
mans convictions on the money ques-
| ton, il he believes that the republic
must remain, he is fool If he trade the
! greater principle for the lesser; he is
| blind if he does not unite with others
to achieve the main object, no matter
how he may disagree with them in re-
spcct to the lesser object. Democrats,
get together. And not Democrats only,
but all you OF every political faith who
would first save the Union from the
threat Of imperialism, from the curse
OF militarism and from the blight of
monopoly, and after that is done would
agree to disagree while determining
other questions. Our appeal is not the
| appeal OF the Democratic party as
political organization. 1t is an appeal
to the honor and the interest of our
land, from all those who believe that
George Washington was right and
George III. wrong.
I'VE must have long pull, strong
! pull and pull altogether. And that will
| be the end Of Mark Hannas pull with
this government.
when we point to signs of empire
| and their dangers, which have appeared
on every hand, multiplying every day
since the hour when William Mckinley
took oath before God and his country
men that he would support the consti-
tuition OF the United States, we are told
that there is no imperialism. But they
who say there is no imperialism are the
very ones aiming to destroy the repub-
lie and create the empire. Their own
teachings, their own conduct, their own
purposes are startling evidences that
they lie ignorantly or viciousy, when
they say there is no imperialism. AS
matter OF fact the empire is at hand to-
day, both in our dealings with our own
people, and our policy toward other
peoples. The present administration has
established and fostered an industrial
imperialism abroad. An army of SOL
diers is not more imperialistic than an
army OF trusts. The waters of Asiatic
seas are not more treacherous to our
welfare than the water in millions of
watered stock. A military and an in
dustrial dictatorship go hand in hand.
The men who would rule others against
their will by the bayonet, and the men
who would rule others against their will
by the power Of monopoly deserve but