The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-25
FOR HANNA TO CRACK.
Nuts Presented by Populist Chairman
Edmisten.

Populist Chairman Edmisten will ask
Republican Chairman Hanna, in case the
two shall meet in joint debate:
do you believe that all men are
created politically free and equal?
2-Are the rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness natural or &C
quired rights?
sDo you hold with trainers of
the Declaration of Independence, that
liberty is a right conferred by the Gre
ator on all men. or do you hold with
trainers of the Philadelphia Republican
platform, that it is right conferred up
on some men by the administrative
powers Of human government?
4-Do you believe that the spirit OF
the Golden Rule prevails in the dealings
of the present administration with the
F'iliptnos and the Porto Ricans2
5-Do you believe that forcible annex
alton is criminal aggression?
6-Do you believe in taxation without
representation
If so, what was the Justification of
| the Revolutionary war and the course
of our forefathers against George III?
| S-If you do not, why did you support
/ the Porto Rican tariff billy
! 9-Did you do 1t simply to please the
| PRESIDENT
10-Do you regard the treaty which
| the president through General Bates,
negotiated with the sultan of Sulu, just
and American in its spirit? If so, do you
| believe in refusing a congressional seat
| to an Occidental polygamist and paying
salary out of the American treasury
to an Oriental polygamist to keep up
| his harem?
Ills it not a fact that under the
| terms of the aforementioned treaty
slave can buy his freedom for the mar
ket value, now about $40?
1z-How long do you think it will take
man working for nothing to save up
$50 to buy his freedom?
hr~ n xrfar rrr1<1. - u g.
commissioner of Porto Rico the same
privilege on the floor of congress that
delegate from a territory has there to
plead the cause of his people?
ibid not the Porto Ricans, under
Spanish rule, have twenty representa-
tiveS in the Spanish cortes or congress2
15-Are they not under American rule
denied all representation in the Ameri-
can congress?
16-As far as a voice in legislative
matters is concerned are the Porto Ri
cans better off now than under Spanish
rule?
17-When you helped vote a tariff on
the Porto Ricans without them having
voice or recourse in the matter, did you
think You were .scOnferring the bless
ings of liberty on them?
1s-Did not the president say In his
last annual message it was s.our plain
duty" to establish free trade between
this country and Porto Rico?
19-Do you agree with the president?
2V-Does not the law deny to the Porto
Rieans the control of their own tax
levy?
21-Does it not deny them control over
the expenditure of their own treasury?
zz-Does IT not deny them the control
Of their public works?
z3-Does it not deny to them the con-
troll of their own educational matters?
4-DoeS IL not place the appointment
OF the judiciary, and hence its control.
absolutely in the hands of the president.
and the appointment of the president?
Is not this deSDOtic pOvver1
z5-Are not franchise values the result
OF the presence and productive Industry
of the whole people?
26-Does not the Porto Rican law ali
soiuteiy deny to the people of Porto
RICO any control over their own fran
chises?
(which in your ownA judgment, is
the more generous, the treatment ac-
corded the Porto Ricans by this admin
1stratlon or that accorded the Massa-
chusetts colony from 1853 to 1775. by
George III and his ministers?
28-Did not the Paris treaty provide
Tor the government of the Philippines
by congress?
2s-Did not sixteen months eIapse be-
tween the signing of the treaty and the
adjournment of congress in June Iast2
Se-What did congress do toward
complying with the terms of the treaty?
5I-das II not left the FIlipinos to be
viii of the president?
Sz-What did you do to remedy this
ana comply with the treaty require
ments?
S3-Can you explain to the satisfaction
OF the miners who are now out of en-
ployment by forced conditions. why If Is
that you could receive of the govern
ment $3.50 per ton for coal under gov
eminent contract and they have starva-
tion prices and forced out of employ
ment?
S4-WiH you state what in your 1udg-
ment, should be the policy Of the Re
puoncan administration in the settle
ment OF the Porto Rican question:
S9-Should they be given their free
dom and Independence as was provided
IN the resolutions passed by congress7
36-How long should the present con-
ditlons IN the Philippine islands be car
rled on IN order to enforce the policies
of the president?
SI-Are you in favor of the policy Of
increasing the standing army at the
great expense of this government with
no hope or prospect of support for the
same coming from any other source?