El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-06

When | was in New York just af-
| Ter the election. a thoughtful man said
| to me:
| We'll. We've saved the country again
| but | tremble for the future. Sooner
or later we are going to have n ire
mendous struggle in this country be-
| tween the forces of conservatism on
one side and socialism on the other
and | am afraid socialism may carry
the day.
| 81 am not a bit afraid of that !
replied. and will tell you why. There
are two things that will prevent it,
One is the American school system;
the other the Roman Catholic church
| That great church is just as much
against socialism as the protestant
churches. as / happen to know. and in
the last campaign appeals to class
hatred were frowned upon by the
highest dignitaries and most influential
men of the Catholic organization. AS
ues to operate you need have no fear
of socialism dominating America
Ship Subsidy Bill
And you think the republican party
| ought to use it's power by passing the
shipping subsidy bill?'
Yes, 1 do. And / believe it will
pass it before March 4. and without
any cloture rule in the senate. Our
opponents may cry steal and fraud
all they like. We are not afraid of
that. The solid and sensible people of
this country have made up their minds
that they want the American shipping
trade built up. and they are going to
have it.
The progressive men, not the kick
ers, are running this country today.
That is what the republican victory
last month meant-the country put
the reinS of power into the hands of
party that does things. and refused to
give it's confidence to a party that new
er did anything in the last forty years
but sit around and expectorate and
calculate"
You intend to make a fight for the
ship subsidy?'
Yes. it is to be a fight all along the
line. I am tired of trifiing. | make
no threats. but this is too big coun-
try to have any little men get in the
way OF large movements for the benfit
of all the people. | serve notice that
If anyone gets in my way / shall do
my best to shove him aside. I am in a
fighting mood and | don't care who
knows it. Some people thought I was
making mistake when ! went into
the campaign making speeches. But
knew what | was about. The AL
mighty hates coward. and whatever
my faults may be | don't intend to let
cowardice be one of,them.
The United States can now produce
one third more of manufactured goods
than it can consume. At the same time
they tell me that immigration for this
year is the second largest in the his
tory of the country. How are we
going to find work for all these peo-
pie? Simply by keeping up our COM
mercial expansion. We must have
markets. We must build ships and
sail them. The shipping bill will lead
to great revival of shipbuilding and
give employment to many thousands
of men all over the country. Let the
critics howl all they please-I'm for
the full dinner pals and no empty
ones
Pettigrew.
The critics in the senate are likely
to get after you-Pettigrew for in
stance. was suggested.
IF Pettigrew wants trouble with me
all he has to do is to sail in. I'm ready
for him. | suppose he is feeling pref
ty ugly Last winter | said | was
going after his hide. and his friends
took il up and said: See. Mark Han |
ma is going to try to buy up the state |
Of South Dakota in order to beat Pet |
tigrew.'
Some OF my friends here thought |
was cunning for pretty small game. |
but | wanted that hide-and / got it. |
What makes Pettigrew most angry.
probably. is that when Senator Frye
and | went into his state We never |
his name. We had an
agreement that none of us was to |
speak the word 'Pettigrew', and We
kept it. That hurt him worse than
anything we could have said about |
him.
so he intends TO get after me. does
he? Well. | shall be disappointed if |
he does not. I am loaded for bear
I've heard some things about Petit |
grew that III tell out III meeting if he |,