The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-25

forth lying interview and works the
stock market. Step by step the Re
publicans fought against war Wrrh
Spain They did this to protect tne
Spanish bondholders. American honor
and American lives We're nothing. Span
ish bonds were all in AL 1t was
Democrats (Turpie) resolution that de-
clared the war. Then came the crimes
OF contracts. Railroads were fraud-fat-
tened. The Merrimac was bought ag
three prices and sunk to hide the sin.
The beef ring and every other ring rioted
in evil profits. AS a result, 5000 sol
diers died Of camp pest and beef pest,
while only 800 We're killed on the field.
These are but specimen foul deeds. AL
ger is cast out; Eagan is cast out Ton
full pay; the startled sheep of the pub
lie, uneasy of fraud-smells and odors of
war-rottenness, are Gained and driven
on to fresh feecings. We win the war.
We pay three millions to Cuba and no
one knows why? We pay twenty mil
lions to Spain and none knows why? The
rings riot ON with their contracts. We
are for open door in the East, what
ever that may be, and prosecute fake
war in the Philippines. We fight year
commerce of the Philippines is II mil
lions. st the years end, Lawton, as if to
mark our progress towards conquest is
killed within / / miles Of Man la, the city
Dewey took two years before. And the
rings wax rolling fat off the profits of
that war which still is. The American
heart swells over Manila and Santiago.
The Mckinley gang take advantage to
project billion dollar navy. That's
where the Cramps come in. And Car
negie with armor plates at $500 ton,
when $40 would be we'll up to their
worth. With Root and Long to their
elbows in the public money, and Nc
Kinley (Hanna) overseeing it all, such
as Griggs and Gage are not idle. Griggs,
the Trust selection, muzzles the law, and
puts Right in check and irons. Griggs
bucklers the Trusts in their outlawry
and the department he betrays becomes.
net the Department of Justice, but In
Justice. Gage negotiates, on his spiral
part. with Standard Oh, the vast hog
Trust by comparison with which all
other Trusts are piglings. Gage sells
the Standard Oil bank the Custom House
for half price. The bank keeps the
money The nation keeps the title, So
that the taXgatherer may be cheated.
The nation pays the Standard Oil rent
for the Custom House. The whole be-
ing Il fOur-angled swindle, which, in one
of its phases at least, makes the crime
Of embezzlement. Gage loans the Stand
ard Oil bank 40 millions a year, and
other banks 2G0 millions more. and all
without interest. The moneys worth
per cent. Who gets the Is millions!
Do you suppose the Mckinley ring lets
it fall unnotced TO the ground? 1t
would be insult to Brother Abner' to
say So
with multiplication of Trusts to
over eight billions of capital in two
years twater) "a standing army of 100000
is asked for. The Trusts, owning us, are
TO control (by connivance of McNin-
ley) OUT money and our commerce i'm
every form. Since they are TO pay less
for labor while the laborer pays more
for goods and wares, trouble is looked
for. Therefore, the 100000 standing
army is craved by the Trusts 1t will
be a good thing twice 1t Will quad
ripple contracts. And it will act excel
lently to hold Labor helpless, as in the
recent Occur d'Alene, while Standard
Oil or some other Trust robs it of all it
has-eyen its very hopes The above isn't
the record of the Mckinley Administra-
ton. 1t is but a handful of specimens,
Clipped from that great, dark mountain
of public crime, and left with the people
for assay: 1t will show 10000 ounces
of villainy to the ton. If the people are
a spiritless crew to fatter the hand that
robs them and cringe before Money
turned-pirate, then Wen have four years
more of Mckinley. If even half-spirit
of Americanism survives. public resent
ment will consume Mckinley and Bryan
will be put in his place. 1t is all in the
peoples hands. They are the govern
ment, make the government. If they are
fit for Bryan and Freedom. they will
have both. If they are only fit for Me
kInley and a Money-slavery, they VIII
yield to both. Thus do | read the future.
Thus Go | finish. as | began, by urging
that government is the natural harvest
of a popular sowing. Men will be gov
erned like men. dogs will be ruled like
dogs. and Might will be Right to the
last"