Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-06

mentary principles of civil service reform
Is scandal as notorious as ii is indefens-
tble.
Eighth 1t will means that the American
people indorse the policy by which the
United States OF America sets UP in bust
ness as an Asiatic power, and welcome the
large standing armies the increased naval
forces, the new administrative agencies. the
enlarged and more costly diplomatic serv-
Ice. the onerous taxes, the international
complications and the entangling alliances
which, and all of which, are the inevitable
incidents and consequences of the oriental
role to which Mckinleyism has undertaken
to pledge us.
Money influence In Politics.
Ninth. 1t will mean that the American
people either do not see or, seeing, approve
the great and growing, il not already over
whelming, influence of money In our pol
itics. Our government was not conceived
or framed as a money making machine even
for the profit of all the governed-much
less for the profit of particular classes or
portions of the governed. It's vital princi-
pie and its browning merit that II
STANDS for equal opportunities to all; that
Dy the maintenance Of order and the admin
istration of justice 1t is designed to give
every man free hand in the struggle for
the prizes of life. The theory of the true
functions of government McKineyism di-
rectiy antagonizes-by protective tariffs, by.
the most intimate relations between the
United States treasury and the general
money market, by subsidies to particular
industries, by an aggressive colonial policy,
and In other ways 1t practically holds out
the government as an engine for use in the
acquisition of private wealth. The natural.
the inevitable result Is that the money Of
the country holly pursues the control of the
government as the source of more money,
that the flag figures as a sort of CONNER
clal asset, rep'ete with possibilities of pc
cuniary profit for its fortunate custodians.
That under the influence of McKinleyism
"a IF
IN this country at the present day giving
TO the best devised policy of all times some
what the aspect of stock-jobbing democ-
racy Is only too apparent. Should McKin-
leyism now again prevail, for example. it
will not be because 1t is not cordially dis
trusted and disliked by the great body of
American electors. 1t will be because of the
influence of the purse and of the felicitous
Application of an enormous campaign fund
because of an investment scare" which,
IL In some measure genuine, will be in much
larger measure artfully worked up for cleo
ton ends. To excite the alarm Of voters
for their immediate pecunary interests is
easy; to evoke patriotism courage and I'M
selfishness required to effect serious politi-
cal changes and indispensable to dislodge
party which, comparatively short intervals
excepted, has been intrenching itself in the
government for nearly forty years, is in
fnitely more difficult
PanicS Made to Order.
If the success of the republican party next
November means al that / have stated
and how can it mean anything less?-but
one conclusion seems possible The caami-
tous possibilities said to inhere in demo-
cratic success In the ensuing election,
aggerated as they are by partisan zeal and
subsidized ingenuity, are outweighed by
certainties of mischief involved in four
years more of McKinleyism. Stock ex-
change panics. often made to order, gen.
orally irrational and now freely predicted
by those who know how to make their pre-
dictions good and are sure to profit by
whatever capriees the market may indulge
in, are as dust in the balance compared
with the enduring evils to result from the
vicious national policies which the Ameri-
can people now desired to impress with
the seal OF their favor and to thus perpet-
uate indefinitely. In the defeat of the re-
publican party In the coming election lies
the only hope of the reversal of those poll
cies and of the beginning of return to
more wholesome conditions Such defeat
would be all the more significant and en-
phatic because obviously due to the CO.
operation of citizens in many things quite
at odds with the democratic party and its
leadership. And it is a defeat that should
come now and not later, because not to re-
ject Mckfnleyfsm at once tends to fasten
1t permanently upon the vitals OF the coun-
try.
For myself, therefore. 1 find it tolerab.y
clear that a citizens duty in connection
with the coming presidential election not
only permits but requires him to desire the
success of the democratic party.
Yours very truly, RICHARD OLNE4.