Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-12


ernor and - Republican Legislature,
and you Republicans who have been
worrying so much about the ice trust
can ease your minds, so long as the
governor is out West making speech
es you may be sure nobody in New
York rs being heard. Why is it that
do Republican knows anything about
the StaLdird Oil trust, or the trust
OF crackers, or the trust of window
glass trust, or the envelope trust, or
the writing paper trust, or the trust
IN paper? In the paper that the Re
publican editors use TO write de
Tense of the trust upon? Why don't
thep know about these trustsa Is it
dishonesty, or is it ignorrnce? Why
IS is that no Republican speaks out
against any trust except the ice
trust, and why IS it that the Republi-
cans in charge do not destroy that
so that you can believe MIR. Hanna
when he says there arc no trusts3
TIKI ARMY QUESTION.
The Republican party is not pre-
pared to defend itself on the trust
question; therefore, they try to get
1T ont of the campaign. The Repub
licau party is not prepared to defend
itself on the army question They
say there is no question of militar-
Ism aud yet an amy four times as
great as the standing army of 1896
is demanded 10y the Presidents Mes
sage of December 1898. How much
do we spend for education in the
United statess Less than 5000, 900, :
0G0. How much do the Republicans
want 10 spend on military estab
lishn;tnt? One hundred million do,
lar' year. They want to spend
more than Ia { rs much for n militia
ry establishments as we spend for the
education of all the children in the
United States. Is that not a step
tow1rds militarisml What reason
can they give for it? They can only
give one. That is the one they do
not give. There are two reasons
which lead men in this country to
want to enlarge the standing army.
One is a domestic one; the other is
connected with our foreign affairs,
What domestic reason is there for q
large arInys To protect us from the
Indians? No, the less Indians we
have the more army the Republican
party wants. That is not the cause.
Who do they want it? So that they
can build fort near every large city
and use the army to suppress by foi ce
the disconted that ought to be cured
by remedial legislation.
The laborihg man asks for arbi-
tration and he gets a large army: he
asks FOR shorter hours In order that
he may have more time with his fam
lily and for the developement of his
mind and his answer is large army.
He asks for representation in the
Presidents cabinet in order that la
Dor may be protected, and his answer
is large army. That is the domes =
tic reason which is not given and vet
is the reason entertained by many.
What is the reason they give? They
say we need it f.r our foreign policy:
but, my friends, they asked for the
army before the American people
had ever dscided upon foreign pol
that made large army necessary.
THE PHILIPPINE POLICY.
"In December, 1898, when the
President asked for his army, the
treaty had not been signed, but it's
terms were understood. When the
Republican Congress voted to raise
the army to 100000 the treaty had
been signed and DO arm was raised
against this nation anywhere in the
world. But the American people
had never voted for q colonial policy:
up to this time the American people
had never voted for colonial policy,
and yet the Republican party is
pledged to large army. What does
it want with it? 1t intends to exploit
the Philippine Islands, and if you
want to understand the reason for a
large army, read the prospectus is
sued by the Philippine Lumber and
Development Company. You find
that at the head of the company as
president, stand Republican mem
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