The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-02

abandon the principles of self govern
ment and descend 10 the plane of
brute force.
Said the speaker: "A year ago the
newspapers and the men who spoke
for the administration talked of the
early partition of China. England has
already taken a harbor; Germany has
taken a harbor and Russia has taken
a harbor. We were told that we must
keep the Philippines because they con-
stituted a nearby tree behind which we
could hide until the hold-up took place,
when we could quickly rush out and
get our share of the plumber.
Now that the trouble in China has
Unexpectedly arisen, England has her
hands full in Africa. She is not in a
position to demand the lions share of
the spOils; therefore, she does not want
a partition to take place at present, and
instantly the Mckinley administration
issues an edict that China must not be
partitioned.
Whether the edict was right or not
is immateriaL 1t was issued to protect
English interests. 1t is time this
toadyism should end 1t is time we
had an American administration at
Washington.
Touches Up Roosevelt.
After speaking of the Spanish war,
which he said YVES a war of humanity,
but was changed to a war of conquest
he said:
Recently a gentleman in New York
who had become famous for having
been alone in Cuba-a gentleman who
has adopted as his life motto or coat
of arms two 'P's' and a double s.
which four letters signify pOmpOuS
posing and strenuous strutting
the capital of New York and went 10
st. Paul and delivered a speech to the
Association of Republican clubs. The
speech has not, from beginning to end,
a single argument or a single accurate
historical reference: a speech that is
made up of invective, misrepresenta-
ton and vituperation.
Referring to the Democrats, he said:
They stand for laWlessneSs and dis
order, for dishonesty and dishonOr, for
license and disaster at home, and cow
Srdly shrinking from duty abroad
This is a reflection on the intelli-
gence and patriotism and the honor Of
every Democrat in the country. 1t is
a personal insult to the $500, 900 of men
who supported Mr.. Bryan in 1896, and
to the 11,000, 900 of free men who are
going to support him in 1900.
He gives no facts and advances no
arguments in support of this charge.
1t is simply an assertion. He puts him
self in evidence. Aside from truthful
ness il involves his sincerity and dis
erection.
Speaks One Way, Votes Another.
who, then is this man, and what
is his history?
I find it recorded that years ago
he was member of the New York
legislature and on one occasion he
reused the hopes of the country by
making 4 speech against a class which
he called the criminal rich. But he at
once dashed these hopes by turning
around and voting with and for these
very criminal rich whom he had de-
In the years 1878 he held federal
Office in Washington, and in order TO
escape paying his taxes in New York
he signed an affidavit and swOre be-
fore the everything God that he was
not a citizen of New York If this was
true, then, under the constitution of
New York he would not have been
eligible for the gOveTnOrship of that
state By subsequently accepting a
nomination and election to that office
he showed that he did not believe his
own affidavit. This being so, may it
not be that he does not believe the
charge which he has made against
us?
TT is next recorded that he entered
the Spanish war in Cuba, and. al
though his regiment was commanded
by another man. he succeeded by
means of that modern weapon of war
fare known as a newspaper bureau, in
winning more renown in a week than
IL
fighting, and he seems TO be the only
man on this continent who boasts of
having with his own hand shot down
and killed q SDaniard that was fleeing
from the battlefield.
Does Corruption's Bidding.
1.-THE records at Albany show that
the governor got the legislature to pass
a law taxing the franchises Of corpora
tions-a most righteous law But the
records also show that at the demands
of Tom Platt and the corporations he
reconvened the legislature in extra
session and had it change this law as
the corporation dictated.
1.-The canal fund OF New York has
been robbed of about 50 ,000. goo by Re
publican politicians and. although he
talked loudly Of prosecution, the gov
ernor has not brought one of these
men TO justice"
Mr. Altgeld said that when the vast
territory from which the western states
were made was acquired, it came in as
an integral part of the republic and its
inhabitants were citizens of the re-
public. This, he said, was expansion.
The attitude of the administration in
acquiring the Philippine islands and
Porto Rico was for imperialism.
1T is not a question of expansion at
all 1t is solely and simply a question
of Imperialism and militarism They