The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-08
NJ KlNLEYS FAILURE;
BRYAN'S PROMISE.
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stufhng the returns. Localitons in the
State of Ohio the home State of their
champion, were shown to have cast one
vote for each 2ia of her population. In
disputable proof of dishonesty or bitter
sarcasm upon the provocative powers of
her people. Whole voting districts in
Kentucky purchased outright and showing
larger total vote than the whole num-
Der of inhabitants-men, women and
children, and these but samples of the
should stand by the incarnation of politi-
cal righteousness.
REPUBLICAN FRAUDS.
"The industries of the country stag
mated by Republican mismanagement and
misrule, the finances of the country Grip
pied by policy based upon pledge of
dollar redeemable at par with only %
cents in the treasury for it's security,
the laboring classes driven to soup houses,
penury and want by system of Republic
can tariff taxation which had turned the
balance of foreign trade against us, i'm
poverished our treasury and struck down
the markets for our foreign products, all
were promised relief and restoration OF
PROSPEROUS conditions the moment that
Republican success was assured. The
Mckinley policy once known to be estab-
lished should be guarantee that the
vault doors would swing outward ana
that the millions of boarded capital would
at once be emptied into the channels OF
trade Egis was pledge, Launched from
every pulpit, sung by every campaigner,
reiterated from every rostrum and pro-
claimed in the columns of every subsidized
newspaper throughout the length and
breadth of the land.
HOW THE PLEDGES WERE KEPT.
"Behold the pledge redeemed. For
sixteen months the recipients of that
pledge watched with longing eyes. blanch-
ed cheeks and eager lips to welcome the
advance agent of prosperity, whose COM
ing had been announced but whose ar
rival was long delayed. Mckinley pros
perity was scoffed. derided. ieered and
Knocked until it became by-word OF
reproach. Commercial failures multiplied
additional banks suspended, ashes fouted
the flames that had been promised the
forge, the saw rusted on the work bench
and the people almost with one accord
arose en- masse to hurl anathemas and
imprecations at the falsifiers and charla-
tans who had deceived them.
THE WAR AN AVENUE OF ESCAPE.
"Propitiously, there came up from off
the southern shore cry from an oppress-
ed people pleading for interference in
humanity'S name. With the avidity OF
starved animal held in confinement and
discovering an avenue of escape, the ad-
ministration grasped the opportunity and
blessed it as a divine interposition to lead
them from the darkness into one which
they had been drawn by their own dis
honorable practices.
"A declaration of war would necessi-
tate preparation for war. With treasury
at low ebb 1t would afford excuse for the
sale of war bonds from which that treas
ury could be replenished and new lease
of life obtained. Hanna, Lord Chancellor
of the Exchequer and Chief Advisor to
His Highne6s, fully awake to the
possibilities so gloriously unfolding, advis-
ed tho sale of $500, 100000 of bonds which
would stand. in popular judgment, as JUS
titled by the exigency.
'Oh, gracious power! Here was indeed
a remedy for the disease inoculated from
broken promises that had been gnawing
at the vitals of the Republican party for
10. these many months, and threatening
fatal termination.
Bonds Sold army contracts. ma
val equipment, transports, provisions,
arms. ammunition and soldiers wages all
served as channels in which to float the
yellow current into the arteries and veins
of commerce, business and manufacture.
Internal revenue taxes were imposed cum
ningly devised to place the burden upon
those least able to carry it and to exempt
the capitalists and monopolists from the
severity of the imposition and by this
medium millions of treasure were ex-
acted and collected from the commercial
business and manufacturing and agri-
cultural institutions of our country, not
only to defray the expenses added by new
undertakings, but to restore hungry
treasury to financial equilibrium. These
taxes are still with us and the end Is
not in sight.
CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
1.-THE conduct of the war wildly illus
trates the character OF the party that
inaugurated and prosecuted it. Old hulks
of vessels that dared not face an honest
market were purchased at fabulous prices.
Impure and unwholesome provisions were
purchased with which to feed our sol
diers. Taken from homes of comfort
and plenty, from every walk of bust
ness and professional life and commits
stoned officers we're selected without re-
gard to merit experience or qualification.
The young men of the land who had de-
voted years of study and practice to ac
quire proficiency and experience in mill
tary tactics and manoeuvers in the splen-
did school of the National Guard we're left
in the ranks and ignored, while the eff
fete worthless and irresponsible devotees
of society were given shoulder straps,
epaulets and insignia of military superior
ity through the influence of partisan
strength or financial contributions to Re
publican corruption funds Unsanitary
camps presided over by horse doctors were
made breeding places of pestlence and
contagion and disease reared the head
stones at thousands of graves of the
patriotic sons of the nation. Are the hor-
rors of Montauk Point 50 soon forgotten?
There lay our boys on the naked sands,
wasted by the ravages of typhoid and
malaria, their burning fever famed by
the breezes that fioated past the dome
of the national capital at the threshold
of magnificent civilization. at the door
way of Unreasonable plenty, separated
only by narrow channel from the loving
embrace and sympathetic hearts of 20
millions of people, anxious to nourish and
cherish and minister and console Law I'M