The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-09-13
RICHARD OLNEY OF THE BAY STATE
COMES OUT FOR WILLIAM J. BRYAN
AND SCORES MCKINLEY ADMINISTRATION

trative agencies, the enlarged and more
costly diplomatic service, 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
1t will mean that the American people
either do not see, or seeing, approve,
the great and growing if not already
overwhelming influence of money in
our politics. Our government was not
conceived or framed as money making
machine even for the profit of all the
governed, much less for the profit of
particular classes or portions of the gov
erned. It's vital principle and it's crown
ing merit are that it stands for equal op-
portunities to al1-that by the mainten-
ance of order and the administration of
! justice it is designed to give every man
free hand in the struggle for the prizes
OF life. This theory of the true func-
lions OF government McKlnleyism di
rectly antagonizes. BY protective tar
IFS by the most intimate relations be-
tween the United States treasury and
the general money market by subsidies
to particular industries, by an agrees
i've colonial policy and in other ways it
practically holds ont 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 hotly pur-
sues the control of the government us
the source of more money-that the flag
figures as sort of commercial asset, re-
plete with possibilities of pecuniary prof
it for its fortunate custodians. That
under the influence of McKinleyism
such Is the unmistakable trend of things
In this country at the present day, Civ
ing to the best devised policy of all times
something the aspect of stock -iobbing
Democracy is only too apparent Should
Mcklnleylsm now again prevail. for ex-
ample 1t will not be because it is not
cordially distrusted 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, if in
some measure genuine will be III much
larger measure artfully worked up for
election ends To excite the alarm Of
voters for their immediate pecuniary
interests Is easy; to evoke patriotism,
courage and nnselhshness required to eff
feet serious political changes and indis-
pensable to dislodge Il party which. com
paratlyely short intervals excepted, has
been intrenching itself in the govern
ment for nearly forty years, is infinitely
more difficult
II the success of the Republican party
next November means all that | have
stated-and how can it mean ANYTHING
else?-but one conclusion seems possible.
The calamltous possibilities said to in
here III Democratic success in the en-
suing election, exaggerated as they are
by partisan zeal and subsidized ingenu-
lty, are outweighed by certainties oe
mischief involved in four years more of
Mchlnleyism. Stock exchange panics,
often made to order, generally irrational
and now freely predicted by those who
know how to make their predictions
good, are sure to profit by whatever ca
prices the market may indulge in. are as
dust i'll the balance compared with the
enduring evils to result from the vicious
national policies which the American
people are now desired to impress with
the zeal of their fayor and to thus per
petuate indefinitely.
In the defeat of the Republican party
III the coming election lies the only hope
of the reversal of those policies and of
the beginning Of Il return to more whole
some conditions Such defeat would
be all the more significant and emphatic
because obviously due to the co-opera-
ton of citizens in many things quite at
odds with the Democratic party and its
leadership And it is defeat that
should come now and not later, because
not TO reject McKinleyism at once tends
to fasten it permanently upon the v1tals
of the country.
For myself, therefore. | find it toler-
ably clear that a citizens duty in con
nection with the coming presidential
election not only permits but requires
him to desire the success of the Demo
cratic party. Yours very truly.