The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-06

without excuse either from demands OF ma
| tional honor or in consideration or tho
| national interest, have saddied ourselves
with the gravest responsibilities for some
| 900 600 or 10000 900 of the savage, or. al
best, half-clvilized brown people o. tht
tropics.
people approve the tactless md brutal
policy pursued since the Philippine acqui'
| sitlon was made, whereby what was
Iepressed upon the country as treaty Of
! peace was I'm fact but signal for anoth-
\ er more costly bloody and prolonged war
Fifth--It will mean that the American
people approve the extraordinarily fatu-
| GUS policy or impolicy, or no policy at all,
/ by which the Philippine archipelago, many
| thousands of miles from our shores, be-
| came an integral part OF the United
| States. while Cuba, the cause and inspira-
\ ton OF the war, lying right at our door,
| the key TO the gulf of Mexico, and abso-
mtely essential To our defence against
foreign attack. Is declared alien territory.
and entitled to all the rights OF an inde-
pendent sovereignty.
Sixth-It will mean that the American
people approve an abdication OF it's func-
tions by the national legislature. whSh
leaves millions OF human beings outside
the pale OF any recognized code OF law.
and signifies for our new possessions for
an indefinite period militarism OF the
most unadulterated sort.
BLOW AT MKINLEY.
Seventb-It will mean that the Ameri-
can people, having in thsi: president TIE
sole representative of the nation, as
whole approve OF "A national executive who
fails to uphold the dignity and the inde-
pendence OF his great office; who exer-
cises its functions In subservience both to
other branches OF the government and to
the clamor of special pccuniary interests;
who condemning the acquisition OF terri
tory by force as criminal aggression"
wrests her possessions from foreign
state by the menace of continued war;
who finds the plain duty OF the govern
ment TO be one thing today and exactly
the opposite thing tomorrow. and whose
disregard of the elementary principles OF
civil service reform is a scandal as noto-
rious as IL is indefensible.
Eighth-lt will mean that the American
people indorse the policy by which the
United States of America sets up in busi-
ness as an Asiatic power. and welcomes
the large standing armies, the increased
agencies, the enlarged and more costly
diplomatic service. the onerous taxes. the
internal complications, and the entan-
Cling alliances. all of which are the inevi-
table incidents and consequences OF the
Oriental role TO which McKinleyism has
TO pledge us.
Ninth-It will mean that-the Ameri-
can people either do not see, or. seeing,
approve the great and growing, III not al
ready overwhelming influence OF mones
in our politics. Our government was not
conceived or framed as a money making
machine. even for the profit of all the
much less for the profit of par
ticular classes or portions OF
the governed. Its vital prin-
ciple and its crowning merit are
that II stands for equal opport mites to
all-that by the maintenance OF oidcr and
the administration OF justice ii is designed
to give every man a free hand in the
struggle for the prizes of life.
TRUE FUNCTIONS ANTAGoNIZED
This theory OF the true functions of
government Mcl<inleyism directly am
tagonizes-by protective tariffs, by the
most intimate relations betwe IN the Uni
ted States treasury and. the general mon
ey market by subsidies to particular in
dustries, py an aggressive colonial policy,
and in other ways IL practically holds out
the government as an engine for use III
the acquisition of private wealth.
The natural, the inevitable result Is
that the money OF the country >hotly
pursues the control of the government
as the source of more .noney-that tho
flag figures as sort OF com ler ciai asset,
replete with possibilities OF pccuniary
profit for its unfortunate custodians.
That, under the influence OF Mckinley
ism. such Is the unmis dktbc trend of
things in this country at the present
day, giving 20 the best devised policy OF
all times somewhat the aspcel OF stock
n IaypneraQV iS oplV
Should McI<inleyism now again Ire
Ss:l tor example, II will not be because
1t is not cordially distrusted and dis
liked by the great body of American
electors. 1t will be because of the In
fiuence Of the purse and the felicitous ap-
plication of an enormous campaign fund
because OF an investment scare" which,
II I'm some measure genuine, will be In
much larger measure artfully worked up
for election ends.
To excite the alarm of voters for their
immediate pecunlary interests Is easy;
TO evoke the patriotism, courage and un-
selhshness required to effect serious po-
litical changes indispensable TO dislodge
a party which. comparatively short in
tervals excepted. has been intrenching it.
self in the government for nearly =
years, is infinitely more difficult.
MISCHIEF OF MeKINLEYIsM.
If the success of the Republican party
next November means all that ] have
stated-and, how can IL mean anything
else ?--but one conclusion seems possible.
The calamitous possibilities said TO in
here I'm Democratic success in the ensu-
ing election, exaggerated as they are by
partisan zeal and subsidized ingenuity,
are outweighed by certainties OF mischief
involved in four years more of Mckinley
ism.
Stock exchange panics. often made to
order. generally irrational. and now freely
predicted by thgse who know how to
make their predictions good and are sure
TO profit by whatever caprices the mar
ket may indulge In. are as dust In the
balance compared with the enduring evils
to result from the vicious national politics
which the American people are now Dr.
sired 10 impress with the seal OF their
favor. and 10 thus perpetuate indefinitely.
In the defeat OF the Republican party in
the coming election lies the only hope OF
the reversal OF those policies and of the
beginning OF n return 10 more wholesome
conditions. Such defeat would be all
the more significant and emphatic because
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