New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
TRIED TO FAsTEN 1T TO THE ELEPHANTS TAI-AND FAILED!

as England does-some say she is paying a million
poTpdsaand pound you vii! see what militarism means"
IT Mckinley and Roosevelt are elected the flood
did they put up Roosevelt @ cit for S why S fG for the mill
Iary Hurrah! To appeal 10 the physical element TO
IN front Of the citizens on the principle that the
The Republicans in this enterprise pay very poor
compliment con @ to our citizens They are desperate
sons to hide their bad record"
IMPERIALISM EXPLAINED
How does imperialism come in?"
1T comes in in here. We are millions Of working
children 81 d5fI They eannot support wife and family
against Chinese immigration, but imperialism
makes a mockery of these laws. We take in ten
ippines; China has Ave hundred million Within a
perIa Administration estabshes Steamship s our ines
and with the alleged commerce will bring us
Of pgos rolling in under
49,, That m i'm might suit NE trusts How would 1t suit
the millions of workingmen whose homes would
pc be desoated and families trodden down to starva
publican coterie?"
ofa That t. is & an object lesson that ought to make
on the cards. and England tells the Administration
that when il comes TO cutting up the melon Amer
Chinese fellow citizens and they need not even
go around by the Philippines TO get here OF course
We have had sixty-five thousand s6IS9sfs 1f5r a
year or two in the Philippines; we mp4t haSe two
hundred thousand in China. That is Imperialism:
that is what the election Of Mckinley and Roosevelt
There IS nothing that England demands that
Hay from London to put he State @
in his hands to suit England; they send Hays son
through Downing Street for his final Instructions.
What has the State Department at Washington
been all through but annex to the British For
eign Office? Chamberlain seems to run it, and
comes over once in while to see that his adjutants
The Boer delegates, who are leaving our shores
official word of moral frendliness from Washing
have stopped it at any time and they feel. not
unnaturally that the guilt for the bloodshed and
of their republics does not rest altogether in Lon
What concerns us, however is the subserviency
shown by our Administration to Engand's policy.
That is a grave danger. There, is no doubt that
us into her Eastern schemes by hook or by crook.
would think, not without some reason that she had
tools ready at her hand The Jingo policy means
But must We not protect our missionaries and
why certainly, every one knows that. And
here comes T,1 reflection England knows it as well
drop here there to induce some mis-
arouse native fanaticism. situation can at any
I time and in thousand ways be created to leave
land to fight even as our soldiers are now, under
English officers and admirals'
Of them calculated to relieve the edium of the long
upon the platform and spoke inaudibly in favor of
Mr.. Bryan. She was loudly cheered, because she
was a woman and had wavy hair. My chewing
gum neighbor said that the husband Of the Utah
At any rate here was woman delegate. Cohen
by name. for the first time in history ascending
of a candidate for Presidency.
When Bryan was finally nominated, no one was
surprised, but every one acted as though he had
triumphed over obstinate resistance and conse-
M wgKed mad te WSo 6Sdg Of
delegates moved in circles round and round sing
they could hear In the midst of 1t the Utah
delegate. Mrs. Cohen, flushed and excited her
hair which resembles that Of Mrs Brown Potter,
in imminent danger of being trodden She did
embodied the mad spirit Of the movement-it was a
cake walk in heaven to her-a heaven of silver
People pointed to her from the galleries. Look
| at the woman; but she laughed and shouted ana
trotted along with the music happy as a schooi
| What's the matter with the new woman?"
Shes all right" yelled Mrs. Cohen, in reply. and
and yelled herself tired perched the edge of
the platform and re remarked happily to delegae
hot stuff!" Then, while adjusting hairpins. she
| Say, are you for Bryan?
snake And the bond was sealed
Woman lovely woman-when you appear on the
floor of Democratic convention your skirts be-
come stained with more than merely tobacco juice,
The most interesting plank was, OF course @ the
demanding IAN American financial system made
! by the American people for themselves. PROPOSE
q
mand for a system of tides which should make
the rise and fall in New York independent of the
waters which bathe the shores of England We In
the great Republic still preserve the outward forms
of popular government; we still read the Declara-
tion Of independence. and insist that all men are
| free and equal still meet in Congress and Con
vention and apparently submit all questions TO the
vote of enlightened citizens. In reality: however.
the choice of the voter is limited to d few names
submitted to him by a political committee whose
! head is virtual ruler.
! We glory in the thought that our President is
the direct representative of free people gathered
| together in representative capacity from every
state OF the Union we revel in the forms of free
| dom We like TO read in the papers that the
| Kansas city National Convention was opened with
PRAYER that il deliberated several days, and that
| from this sage gathering went forth name des-
tined to he peoples chief servant for the next
! four wears We do not care TO be reminded that
! everything cOnsummated at this gathering was
rehearsed by a committee of men who make politics
their main, il not their only source of livelihood