Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-11-15
The Future.


silver republican parties were defeat
ed in the election last Tuesday be-
cause the policies of the republican
party have not yet worked out enough
to let the masses of the people per-
ceive or appreciate their evil ten
dency.
The three great issues were money,
trusts and imperialism.
Under the head of money are in
Guided the fixing of the standard of
value and the question of whether
paper money shall be issued and con-
trolied by the government or by pri-
vetely owned institutions called
banks. The republican party holds
that all forms of property and labor
shall be measured by gold alone, and
that the paper currency should be
controlled by the banks
Under the heading of trusts is in
Guided the whole process of central
cation by which raw resources, man
ufacturiDg and the employment of
labor are passing each year into the
hands of smaller number of per-
sons. The republican party platform
| PROCESSES a desire to euro monopolies
out that the profession is pretense
n clear when we consider that every
monopoly belongs to the republican
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fund.
Under the heading of imperialism
comes tremendous departure from
the time-honored American policy of
upholdiDg liberty for all men. Since
the foundation of this country it has
stood for one great principle above
all others that ALL men are entitled
to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. The present policy in the
Philippines and Porto Rico pushes
aside the declaretiun of Independence
and the constitution and adopts the
doctrine that some men are entitled
only to the kind of government we
may see fit to give them Incidental
o imperialism is large increase in
the SIZE of the standing army, SO that
the president and the military author
tiles will have available for service
either abroad or at home large body
of trained soldiers
The News does not believe that q
mejority of the American people will
approve the money policy of the re-
publican party when that policy has
b en- tried long enough to show the
power which it places in the hands of
| centralized wealth
The N-ws does not believe that q
m jority of the American people will
a prove the trust policy of the repub-
Iican party when the trusts bave had
tim to fortify themselves in a posi-
tIol to raise prices and cut wages
without fear of competition either in
the sale of goods or in the employ
msnt of labor.
The News does not believe that the
maj ,rity of the American people will
approve imperialism and milltarism
when those policies have developed
the gross evils which they inevitably
will develop.
Tie men who direct the secret pol
lcies of the republican party believe
that they will have grown so strong
before the pnblic wakes up that vot-
ers will not have the courage to en-
force a change. They believe that
the threat to produce a panic will be
effcscious always, as it was in 1896
and this year.
But the News has confidence in the
people. The development of republi-
can policies will prepare the way for
a defeat of the republican party that
will wipe that party out of existence,
just as every other party which has
attempted to stand on the teachings
of Alexander Hamilton has been
wiped out of existence sooner or later.
The bulk of those who voted the re-
publican ticket last Tue sdsy are pa
triotic Americans, and when they i0d
that they must choose between the
existence of that party and the exis-
tence of a free republic they will
choose the republic. Rocky Noun
tain News.