Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-13
on securing national legislation in aid
OF their narticular interests.

on securing national legislation in aid
OF their particular interests.
"2. 1t will mean that the AmeYi.
can people approve the legislation
thus obtained and Justify such legis-
lation as the Dingley tariff bill, with
all it's devices for taxing consumers
and wage earners-that is, the great
mass of the people--in generation of
accumulated wealth.
"3. 1t will mean that the American
people uphold the policy of greed and
contempt for alien peoples whose
retributive consequences are seen in
recent events in China; approve of
our joining the ranks of international
land grabbers and sanction the rapac-
ity as we'll as folly by which, while
pretending TO buy, we in fact forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine
possessions and without excuse either
in the demands of national honor or
i'll considerations of the national III
terest have sndtllcd ourselves with the
gravcst responsibilities for some
100000 or 100000 of the savage or
at best half-civilized brown people of
the tropics.
~. 1t will mean that the American
people approve the tactless and brutal
| policy pursued since the Philippine
acquisition was made, whereby what
was pressed upon the country as q
\ treaty of peace was, iil fact, but the
signal for another more costly, bloody
and prolonged war.
IS. 1t will mean that the American
people approve the extraordinarily
fatuous policy br impolicy, or no pol
icy at all, by which the Philippine
archipelago, many thousands of miles
| from our shores, becomes all integral
part of the United States, while Cuba
/ the cause and inspiration OF the war
lying right at our door, the key to
| the gulf of Mexico and absolutely es.
sential to our defense against foreign
| attack, is declared alien territory and
entitled to all the rights of an indie.
pendent sovereignty.
IS. 1t will mean that the American
! people approve ah abdication of it,
| functions by the national legislature
which leaves millions of human beings
outside the pale of any recognized
code of law and signifies for our new
| possessions for an indefinite period
militafism of the most unadulterated
sort.
". 1t will mean that the American
people, having i'm their president the
sole representative of the nation as 8
whole, approve of Il national executive
who fails to uphold the dignity and
the independence of his great office
who exercises it's functions in sub.
servience both to other branches OF
the government and to the clamor OF
| special pecuniary interests: who con.
dcmning the acquisition of territory
by force as "criminal aggression
wrests her possessions from !; foreign
state by the menace of continued war;
who finds the plain duty" of the gov
eminent to be one thing today and
exactly the opposite thing tomorrow.
and whose disregard of the element.
ary principles of civil service reform
| is Il scandal as notorious as it is indie.
| fensiblle
IS. 1t will mean that the American
people ihdorse the policy by which the
| United States of America sets up in
business as ain Asiatic power and wei.
come the large standing armies, the
I increased naval forces, the new adj.
ministrative agencies, the enlarged
and more costly diplomatic service
the ohcrous taxes, the international,
Complications and the cntangling ALI.
ances which, and all of which, are the
Inevitable incidents and consequences
of the oriental role to which McKin.
lcyism has undertaken to pledge us.
Tic Rule of Money.
80. 1t will mean that the American
people either do not see, or, seeing.
approve, the great and growing if not
already overwhelming influence oil
money in our politics. Our govern.
ment was not conceived or framed as
a money making machine even for the
profit of all the governed, much less
for the profit OF particular classes OF
portions of the governed. Its vital
principle and its GROWING merit are
that it stands for equal opportunities
to all--tllat by the maintenance OF
order and the administration of jus.
tice it is designed to give every man
a free hand in the struggle for the
prizes of life. This theory of the true
functions of government McKinleyism
directly antagonizcs by protective
tariffs, by the most intimate relations
between the United States treasury
and the general money market by
subsidies to particular industries, by
an aggressive colonial policy and ir
other ways it practically holds out the
government as an engine for use in
the acquisition of private wealth.
1.-The natural the inevitable result is
that the money of the country holly pur-
sues the control of the government as the
source of more money-that the flag fig
ures as a sort Of commercial asset, re-
plete with possibilities Of pecuniary prof,
for Its fortunate custodians. That under
the influence of McEinleyism such is the
best devised policy Of all times somewhat
the aspect of a stock jobbing democracy,
Is only too apparent. Should Mckin-
leyism now again prevail. for example, it
trusted and dislilked by the great body of
American electors. 1t will be because OF
the influence of the purse and of the
felicitous application of an enormous
ment scare which, If in some measure
genuine, will be in much larger measure
artfully worked up for election ends. To
excite the alarm of voters for their inn
mediate pccunlary interests Is easy; to
ness required to effect serious political
changes and indispensable to dislodge
party which, comparatively short inter-
walls excepted, has been intrenchlng itself
IN the government for nearly forty years,
Is Infinitely more difficult"
Isus is Moncntous.
II the success of the republican party
stated.-and how can 1t mean anything
less?-but one conclusion seems possible.
The calamitous possibilities said to in
here In democratic success in the ensuing
tizan zeal and subsidized ingenuity, are
outweighed by certainties of mischief IN