The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-06-15

rency" was met by the passage of .
law which practically hands the con-
stitutional function of uttering money
over to the bankers and trust com.
panies whose millions contributed SO
largely to Mckinley's election.
A solemn promise to admit Porto
Rico into the republic upon terms Of
full fellowship was wantonly broken,
in The face of a popular protest such
as has seldom been heard in this or
any other country. The passage Of
the Porto Rican act was scene Of in
fanny which no American will ever re-
call without a blush.
The oft reiterated promise to pass
laws for the restriction of trusts was
of course not fulfilled. Only the most
thoughtIess had expected o Mckin-
ley administration to tie the hands Of
organized wealth; bat few perhaps
were prepared for such a display of
cyniciem and contempt for the people
as attended the shelving of antitrust
enactment this week.
The extravaganza manifested in the
numerous appropriation bills rushed
through the Congress constitutes an
other record OF infamy. The waste of
the peoples money is a necessary part
of piutocracy's programme.
The bill for the construction of the
Nicaraguan canal was, with other
measures of great public Importance,
lost in the ingnoble stress of private
interests.
For sins of omission, no less than
for sins of commission, the Fifty six b
Congress has indeed made record"
"a record of infamy.
AMERICAN LABOR THREATENED.
Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court, from his calm judicial
position, psrceives menace in the
policy of President Mckinley, which
labor will accept as a warming. Give
those people their independence is the
only solution Of the question. Hear
Mr.. Justice Brewer on the labor
problem and consider well his vision
of imperialism:
How can the great body of the
people make fair and comfortable
living? The right to work is again
aid again insisted upon as more i'm
fha rinhf To
1.-The problem is a serious one. We
have ten million or twelve million of
unskilled colored laborers. south of
the Mason and Dixon line; and we find
the governor of great Northern
State threatened to stand at its Dor.
ders with Gatling guns and shoot
down those laborers if they attempt
to enter to compete with its white la
borers.
"Are we likely to aid in solving this
problem by bringing into our nation
al life ten million or twelve million of
unskilled Malay laborers.
1--WE have shut the doors against
the Chinese. Are they any worse than
the Malay Shall we introduce in
this nation more cheap laborf For
labor is cheap where the cost OF living
is cheap, and the Malay needs but a
little rice within his body and little
cotton cloth outside, and very little
rice and very little cotton are su fl
cient. do not wonder at the action
of the Federation of Labor in protest
ing against new competition Of cheap
labor SIS we'll as an increase of the
army, with its consequent increase of
burden and taxation on the employed
lahorer.
Two visions rise before me. One
of nation growing in population,
riches and strength; reaching out the
strong hand to bring within it's do.
minion weaker and distant races and
lands; holding them by force for the
rapid wealth they may bring with
perhaps, the occasional glory, success
and sacrifice of war; wondrously
luxurious life into which the fortunate
few shall enter; an accumulation of
charm and dazzle, and then the
shadow of the awful question,
whether human nature has changed,
and the old law, that history repeats
itself, has lost its force, whe ther the
ascending splendor of imperial power
is to be followed by the descending
gloom Of luxury, decay and ruin.
"The other, nation, where the
spirit of the pilgrim and the Huguenot
remains the living and controlling
force, affirming that the Declaration
Of Independence, the Farewell Ad-
dress of the Father of his Country and
the Monroe Doctrine shall never pass
into inocuous desuetude."
President Mckinley has occupied
the White House a little more than
three years. For the same period Of
time the government has been run by
the millionaire plutocrats ofthe White
House Syndicate. The hump backed
taxpayer-b brother to the man with
the hoe-can now take stock and as
certain his condition. Three years of
McKinleyism have given this patient
man with hump a government that
costs about $3.50, 900 an hour nearly
81, 100000 day more than $40, 600, 900
a week almost $3.50, 100000 a month;
in the neighborhood of S., 1000, 900, 900 a
year-and yet the patient man with
eyes like an OK is not wholly satisfied |
Nea1 York Terdict.