Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-18
n. Y. JOURNAL RIcpE;S'
Tho Leading Bryan rE;.l. \, -
Z, HowlinK FOR Expansion and 1
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Great Navy and Perme-
+, nent Possession OF TIN ,.2
Philippines.
!, The utter insincerity Of the Demo
cratic press on the issue Of imperialism
Is manifested in q thousand ways, but
nowhere 10 1t more marked than in the
course Of the syndicate Of papers owned
by w. r.. Hearst. the millionaire
owner of the, New York Journal,
San Francisco Examiner and Chicago
American.
These three papers are the bone and
sinew and substance Of the Democratic
campaign, furnishing the only avenue
through which the campaign managers
reach the class of readers among
which the Police Gazette and kindred
publications find circulation. If there
u scandalous campaign lie to be put
IN currency about Republican candi-
dates, an immoral story to be told
about the administration or q piece Of
false testimony to be given concerning
q Republican official, it is to be found
In the Journal, the Examiner or the
American. They are sensational papers
Of the "yellowest" type, and. though
totally discredited by the intelligent
and well informed reading public, have
q wide circulation among certain
class. To this class the demogogic ap-
peal il made that the policy Of the
present administration Ia toward "im-
perial1sm," whatever that may be. and
the reader is frantically appealed to
and pleaded with to vote against a
party that forces government upon an
unwilling people in the Philippines and
which is accomplishing expansion be-
yond the seas.
It 20 happens that the files of the
Journal, the parent Of all this yellow
brood, are still In existence, and those
who have read the Journals latest at
tacks on the administrations expan-
sion policy are invited to peruse and
consider an editorial in the Journal
printed Nov. Is, 1888, and signed by w.
r. Hearst in person. The article in
question was run clear across the edi-
torial page of the paper, and was adj
vertised throughout the land as the
Journals policy" The article was as
follows:
we nave 0em102000 1kO" INC AE3k
the annexation OF Hawa1lD We de-
manded the war; we demanded the
acquisition of territory in the West
Indies and the retention OF ALL the
Philippines. We now demand the
government Of our new territories
~ intergral parts Of this country,
aeeorAing to the American idsa,
without any DFogra4a.ae of naili-
tarisn or impsrialisn foreign to
the fundamental principles Of our
republic. We demand the oonstruc-
ton Of the Nicaragua canal, not only
In order that the most widely sep
arated sections Of our domain may
have free and direct eommuAice-
tion with each other. We demand
the erection Of great national uni
versities at West Point and Annap-
the expense Of the government shall
receive such military training -
will make them encient omeers In
time of war, to tho end that this
nation may be placed upon = proper
military footing without the necss-
sity of that undemocratic institu-
tion, a large standing army. We
demand the building of the finest
navy In the world and the total sep
aration of the army and navy frsm
politics.
What the Journal then demanded"
was what it foresaw would be the in
evitable result Of the war with Spain,
and, within certain bounds, what all
Intelligent people then conceded would
be adopted as the administrative policy.
It was what the nation wanted, and
the Journal cunningly hypothecated the
future and played to the galleries by
demanding" what It foresaw would be
accomplished in order that when it
was done the paper might point to the
result and claim the credit for 1t. The
annexation Of Hawaii had already been
accomplished when the demand was
made. and the "acquisition Of territory
In the West Indies" was then well
under way; "the government Of our
new territory as integral parts Of this
country was then admitted to be
among the plans of the administration,
and the construction of an Isthmian
canal had already been Endorsed; the
building Of an imperial navy. which
was the Journals loudest and most
persistent demand, was met only in
part. and it's demands" as to the army
were in large measure forestalled by q
all before it in Cuba and the Philip
pines. 49, ="
It would be supposed that paper
which had made such demands" at
4 time, and which had declared for ex-
pansion on a scale that would have
fairly dazed the most ultra Republican
Of that time, would be somewhat con-
sistent and stand by what it had ad-
vertised, but the Journal, like it's mas
tiers, has Topped to anti-expansion, and
has joined Bryan in opposition to ma
tional growth and the widening Of our
commercial field. r. ~ ! -
Whoever reads the Journal Of to-day
and considers its attitude on the great
questions should consider also its atti-
tude of less than two years ago, when
these questions were really alive and
when they had to be acted upon
especially when they have been de-
cided IL the very way which the Jour-
nal then demanded they should be, it is
q confession Of rank inconsistency and
hypocrjti,:;. p:irtisanship for the Jour-
nal to cune;a:nn the work It had for
merly commended and reverse itself
between two presidential campaigns.
There has been no change in the Re
publican policy and no change in the
ownership of the Journal. The change"
II 81, pnlfed by the national Democratic