The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-09-08

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ly on their arrival.
This appears to be the whole truth
regarding the awful tragedy which
was ayerted by the courage and skill
of the detectives in the secret service
of our government.
There was Il time when John Hay,
the present premier Of the Mckinley
government, believed what would be
rank treason in one of the latter-day
Republicans In his book, "Castillian
Days." he says:
'"There are those who think the
Spaniards are not fit for freedom. L
believe that no people are fit for any
thing else''
Charles Sumner, one of the greatest
of Republicans in his time, said in a
speech on the acquisition of Alaska:
Il cannot disguise my anxiety that
every stage in our presidential future
shall be by natural process, without
war, and, l may add, even without
purchase. There is no territorial ag-
grandiZement which is worth the price
of blood.'
Another old-fashioned Republican,
John Sherman, said in a speech at a
soldiers reunion in Mansfield, Ohio,
Aug. 26, 1899:
Il am and always have been op-
posed to war in the Philippines. We
have no business there, and 1 hope
they will soon be left alone to govern
themselves. l shall be glad to well
come the day when the soldier boys
shall be called home from the Philip
pines. We shall then again be the
same great family as we have been
heretofore. The war is not only an
expensive VAR, but it is also unneces-
sary, uncallcd for, and unjust"
Republicans everywhere appear to
be casting about for some plausible
explanation which they may offer
when their fears have been realized in
November. They are saying that they
will win if they only succeed in get
ting out their full vote. But they fear
the result because of over-confidence.
There is, they say, general apathy in
their ranks. Several of the leaders
have sounded note of warning
against ovcr-confdence. OF course,
this simply means that Republicans
are troubled with apathy, not because
they are confident of McKinley's cleo
ton, but because they don't care
whether he is elected or not.
Lyman Gage, secretary of the treas
ury, says that if Bryan should become
president che could order his secretary
of the treasury to make payable in sill
Yer all the public debt payable in coin
and all current disbursement, as WELL"
If this were true it would prove the
Observation-Disclosures of the Republican
legislation for the firm establishment
of the geld standard.
Nothing, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, affords more convincing proof Of
the plutocratic tendencies of the Re-
publican'party than the frank conf
dence with which Chairman Hanna
fgocs from city to city making his levies
for campaign funds upon rich men
and Office-holders who have obtained
| wealth and preferment through partl-
san fayoritism. He told the Philadel-
phia magnates who on Saturday last
| were gathered to see him that Phila>
delphia would be drawn upon for $780,
600. This is an immense sum. If the
size Of the draft be any criterion Of
| the real exigencies of the Mckinley
campaign it is an evidence of despera.
ton.
Edward Scofield, governor of Wis
consin, is a Republican who refuses to
take his views ready-made from the
headquarters of his party. At the
banquet of the Iron Brigade in Chi
cago some days ago the governor made
a speech and raised his voice in warn
ing against the growing spirit of mill
tarism. He used this language:
'The most highly trained army, all
the authorities to the. contrary not
withstanding, can never subdue Who'll
ly an army of intelligent men fighting
| for their homes. This fact becomes
more true every year and our nation
will do well to heed it. We have had
| q taste of, war recently. which 11n
| questionably has awakened q military
spirit, and what we now have to guard
| ourselves against is a too great and
dangerous growth of this spirit We
prefer peace and we are nation
whose glory is that when it does en-
gage in war it is not for conquest, but
for righteousness sake"
lie declared that "our path to glory
in an honorable future does not lie
through bloody seas"
Says the Goodhue County News:
"Other governors have appointed their
boards and then gone off and left
them. Governor Lind never fails, if
he can help it, to attend the meetings
of the prison board, the charities and
corrections, and so on. There is not
an institution with whose workings he
is not familiar. There is not problem
he has not studied. There is not an
interest of the state upon which he is
not informed. There is not an interest