The Winslow mail., 1900-10-11
NOTES FROM Washington
Affairs Of National Interest Now
Uppermost at the
Capital.
GRAVE CONFERENCES AT WHITE HOUSE.
The President Adheres to His Nom
cOmmittaI COurse-Industrinl De-
preston Becoming More Marked
Forbidden Topics Among Repub-
Iicans-StiII the War Tax.
Especial Correspondence ]

| from Europe and voices the hope of
the capitalistic class that Mckinley
will be reelected
The masses of the people, especially
those working for daily wages, know
that they have no interests in COM
mon with~the Vanderbilts and Rookie
| fellers. Because the latter want Nc
Kinley retained in power, the COM
mon, everyday people are pinning
their faith the more steadily to Bry-
| an.
Depew with great rhetorical -four
ish tells what world power the
| United States has become and how
the European nations now speculate
on its policy, where they formerly ig-
nored it.
Depew is wrong. The United States
has always been world power since
it won its independence from the
mother country. If European nations
are now paying more attention to its
foreign policy it is because this ad-
ministration has placed it in the class
of nations who keep standing armies
and subjugate weaker people for the
sake of holding colonial possessions.
Each one wonders how it can use the
United States to further it's own
| schemes.
The president is staying at the
white house very steadily of late. He
concluded that it would not be good
politics for him to attend the G. A. r.
reunion at Chicago. The old soldiers
were offended They wanted Com
rade Mckinley to explain to them his
new policy of Imperialism and mil
itarism. Bryan told them he was
willing to trust the fortunes of the
country to brave volunteer citizens
who would always be as ready for
duty in time of danger as the veter
ans were from 1860 to 1865.
A Sarcasm Upon Fact.
"The full dinner pail'' might be an
attractive compaign slogan for the
republicans, if it were not such a
sarcasm upon fact.
The industrial depression that has
been creeping upon the country for
months is becoming more marked
every day. Through Pennsylvania
and Ohio especially, there is a grow
ing record of big manufacturing
plants shut down '"indefinitely.'
Only the man dependent upon daily
wages for a living understands the
full force of that menace. 1t means
an empty dinner pail to thousands.
Then, too, even the tin of which the
dinner pail is composed costs more
than it did four years ago on account
of trust prices. Hardly an article of
| food that goes into the dinner pail
but what is affected by trust prices.
The sugar. coffee, meat. crackers,
| salt and even cakes are all bought at
| trust prices, and instead of a full
dinner pail, many wage worker
carries a very light one. The adj
vances in wages in some trades by
no means compensates for the adj
vance in prices which seems necessary
| for trust prosperity.
The administration keeps pretty
fully informed of industrial condi-
tions and grave conferences are held
at the white house daily to decide
|
be a better campaign argument than
that of prosperity.
If the administration desires it the
trusts can easily manage a general
closing down of their plants for a
month or six weeks before election
| They can declare that the mere pos
sibility of Bryan's election has par
alyzed trade.
The trusts are the more willing to
do this because nearly all have large
stocks of manufactured goods un-
sold. Prices have been put so high
that consumption has fallen off. A
few weeks idleness would serve to
unload the accumulated stocks and
it would be an. economy to dispense
with the weekly pay roll while the
workmen were being starved into vot-
ing for another four years of trust
control,
There is-and with good reason
some doubt whether the wage work
ers will not hold out against such a
plan and vote for Bryan all the more
stubbornly, believing that unless he
is elected now their chances of re-
sisting the trusts will be still less in
the future than at present
Keeping the People Guessing
Mckinley's letter of acceptance still
tarries. If prosperity" and impe-
rialism are both forbidden topics and
the free silver bogy fails to scare
anybody, it is difficult to see upon
what ground the republicans can ask
the votes of the people.
Affairs in China are causing anx.
iety. 1t looks a bit peculiar for a
week to pass without a word from
the American commander at Peking.
| The latest rumor is not encourag-
| ing. 1t indicates that the Chinese
have gathered in force and are be
sieging the foreign troops in Peking.
| This is an extremely dangerous state
of affairs. 1t is said also that the
European nations have fatty in
| formed the United States that they
intend to grab territory in China and
that this country is expected to be
with them
The stories of our troops looting
the treasures of PeIling and attack
! ing the natives in the streets sound
very much like warfare in its most
repulsivc form. The administration
seems to have no idea except to drift
along and keep the people in ignor-
ance just as it did in the Philippine
campaign.
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