The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-04

vet the secretary Of the treasury has
found it necessa- " 70 put more than one
hundred millions Of the public money. COL
lected from the people. in the national
banks of the country, to be used by the
that must be boIstered up by the gov
eminent of the United States by deposits
OF its funds can naL oe a sat .id
use Of the public money by declaring that
such deposits must be made to sustain
prices and prevent a panic
Reference was made to the increase Of
taxes and Of general appropriations
"The Republicans boast" said the
speaker. THAT they have reduced the war
debt forty million dollars: they fail TO
the n9tio ina BOZ bonded debt two hundred
million dollars before they attempted to
reduce it. Nor did they mention the fact
that they are collecting an internal reve-
nue. from the people, nearly. II not quite,
& hundred and nifty million dollars a year
more than any other administration did
He contended that the present prosper
ity was not due TO the Republican admin
''The law making gold the. standard OF
can not have caused the prosperity that
the party has boosted Of for two years
IF the increased exports of 1898 and
1899 are the result OF tariff laws why IS
1t that under Rspuohean taTln laws rs al
1879 inclusive. there were only two years
when there was surplus OF exports over
was only about 40 0o0.0oo. while the aggre-
gate imports was one billion TWO hundred
million dollars in excess OF eXpOrtSE W ny
did they not mention the fact that the
net exports Of 1897 We're two hundred and
efghty-six million dollars and that this
occurred under the Wilson billy Why did
they not tell that in 1883 and 1889 under
a Republican tariff law. our imports ex-
ceeded our exports by over $4,000. oO02
Tt is a we'll known fact that our large
increase Of exports during the last three
years. arises from demand for food pro-
ducts caused by short crops in most Euro
pean countries. India and south America
md hat "a
less under the Wilson bill or under
Democratic administration It is possible
that under the Wilson bill We might have
bought more foreign products than under
the Dingley bill, but II is hardly probable
that buying less would enable US TO sell
more.
surely no one can pretend that our in
creased exports for the year 1858 and 1889
are due to the Dingley bill. or the enact
ment of a gold standard law three months
ago, or any other legislation under the
Mckinley administration"
Speaking OF trusts he said that labor is
at their mercy
When IL becomes necessary TO sustain
the prices he continued. they have
hxed, they close their factories reduce
their output and turn their labor into the
street to secure employment elsewhere
if they can, and if not able TO do that to
with a power more than imperial they
fix the price OF their product ana the
PIlcs o re lADOr S..as S 49, =. H .
demand without cnnsf,Iarat ton of the
rights or interests OF the Iaborer or con-
sumner Demanding for themselves the
full protection of the laws Of the land
they bid defiance to all and every law
enacted 10 compel them 10 deal justly
with their employees and consumers.
With United States statute for their
control declared by the highest court of
the land to be constitutional. the Repuo1-
can attorney general declares that the
great trusts are beyond the power OF the
courts and can not be restrained in their
work of spoliation of the public
These great trusts find their only de-
Tenders in the ranks of the Republican
party Many Republican officials do not
hesitate TO declare that trusts are the
natural evolution of trade, and are ma
tional blessing. and they resist all efforts
for their control as an unJustdable inter
ference with trade
with both branches of congress under
their CONTROL with considerable MAORI
ties. the only remedy proposed is a con-
sritutiOnaI amendment TO give congress
more complete powers over them, osten-
sibly for their better control. but ii real
fty TO release the trusts from the author
ity of the states to deal with them.
1t is we'll known that a constitutional
amendment can not be secured without
sgTeaf delay and there is no reason to sup
pose the states will ever surrender~ their
control over trusts and allow congress to
exercise exclusive jurisdiction over them
Hence. the constitutional amendment pro-
posed by the Republican members of the
house OF representa- tiVess appears 70 have
and not for their destruction or control.
1t is certain no honest effort has been
made by the party in power, to control
the trusts or in any way mitigate their
pernicfOuS influence. nor Will SUCH efIOrr
IDENTIFY trusts are secure while the Re
publican party is in power
Mr. Teller reviewed the war with Spain
and its results. concluding with reference
TO the Philippines, that there appeared
to be no way to protect the people OF these
islands. 70 maintain the peace. OF the
world, and our own honor, except to exer-
else sovereign power over the islands
until the people could form a government
Of their own believe he added, that
public sentiment and the interests of the
Inhabitants of the Philippines demand
that of US"
The Porto Rican legislation received
cOnsiderable attention -Whoever heard
citizen of the United States exports goods
to a country not part Of the United
states that me government Or me tne I l.l
States can put a duty on sucn goods whsn
they are received in such foreign land2
But if Porto Rico is a part Of the United
states, who viii point out the authority
for the laying OF a duty on goods going
from one part Of the United states TO
another II Porto Rico IS a part OF the
United States the duty on goods going
into Porto Rico is illegal tax. And it
IS equally Illegal if Porto Rico is for
eign land for 1t is in effect, an export
DUTY which congress has forbidden by the
Cons titution."
He had never doubted that it was our
duty to accord to the Filipinos the right
OF seif-g2qverlnnnssnt IN theiE doInestie az II
false to our traditions and to proclaim
by our acts, which speak louder than
words. that We admired and loved free
dom for ourselves. that our admira ton
and love for liberty were not sufficient
certainly was a singular spectacle to see
a nation whose greatest claim to the
consideration of mankind has been its
devotion 10 liberty and its love of free
DOM denying TO the inhabitants of the
Philippine islands the right of participa-
ton in the government under which they
were to live and proposing TO rule them
with imperial power.
The Porto Rican bill is now a law.
with a tariff on the goods coming here.
and an export duty on many of our goods
going there Is that treating the inter-
eSJS or TINS people as our own
If free trade was right in December,
when the president and secretary of war
recommended tiff right in January when
the chairman Of the committee on ways
and means Of the House introduced bill
for free trade with Porto Rico-it is right
now.
What caused the changer
1T looks to me as If the administration
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