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the people, the congress which has just
adjourned passed a gold standard bill.


adjourned passed gold standard bill.
On the pretense that the party would
strive to get bimetalism by internation-
al agreement thousands of honest Re-
publicans voted for Mckinley in 1896
They will not do so in 1900
In its platform of 1896 the party re-
asserted the Monroe doctrine in its full
extent, but by his imperialistic policy
in the Philippines and the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, the president would trample
that time-honored American doctrine
under foot. Though opposed in its
platform to the extension of European
possessions on this continent, the Re-
publican party has grabbed islands in
the eastern hemisphere against the con-
sent OF the inhabitants and is despotic-
ally ruling them after the manner OF
Great Britain and killing thousands of
the people for desiring self-government
The Republican party in its platform
promised to enforce civil service reform,
thoroughly and honestly, but the presi-
dent violated the promise in the most
shameful manner at the demand OF
Mark Hanna. He has thousands of po-
sitions at his disposal for political pur-
poses and is giving them away to de-
bauch the voters for the sake of a Sec
ond term.
The Republican party pretended to be
against the trusts but did nothing to
regulate them. The house passed bill
for their repression, but the senate
stood by them to the end. The house
defended the armor plate combination,
while the senate protested hostility to
it, but finally the latter surrendered
everything it wanted. The manufacture
ers OF armor plate, by vote of the Re-
publicans, receive some $2o,ooo,ooo out
of the pockets OF the American people.
The Porto Rican affair showed Nc
Kinley and his Republican congress In
their true colors. In his message Will
liam OF Canton said it was our "plain
duty" to give the people of the,adjacent
island free access to American markets.
He undoubtedly meant what he said,
but the sugar and tobacco trusts made
him change his mind. The little Porto
Ricans are now treated like aliens and
afflicted with crowd of American car
pet-baggers. Mckinley is governing
them in the same way that George Ill.
governed the colonists in the eighteenth
century, and well may they exclaim in
the words of Jefferson: "He has erected
multitude of new offices, and sent
hither swarms OF officers to harass our
people and eat out their substance"
Congress for the first time refused to
express sympathy with republic strug-
Cling against an empire. The Repub-
lican party is pro-British to, the core
and secret alliance exists between the
Mckinley cabinet and the Salisbury
ministry. Republicans objected to CIV
ing the Boer ENJOYS the privileges of
the floor and voted down resolutions of
sympathy for the cause of republicanism
in South Africa. The majority in both
houses of the congress just adjourned
did not represent more than one-tenth
OF the American people in its attitude
on the Anglo Boer war, and next No
vember the people will emphatical1y de-
clare that Mckinley and his imperialists
are unworthy of their confidence in d.
recting the affairs of this country any
longer.