The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-06-28

ministration has not only failed to raise
the necessary revenue, but has been
the primary means of establishment of
the trusts which are now burdensome
to the people. The surplus in the
revenues has been obtained through |
the imposition of odi0us internal taxes,
tolerable in war times, but obstinately
maintained after the necessity for them
has passed.
The currency law is delivery to the
banks and capitalists of the control
over the volume of money 1t grants
to the few the privilege of issuing pa
per promises that they do not have to
redeem over their counters in gold.
This discrimination between bank
money issued directly by the United
States is favoritism that must arouse
the Indignation of those who are not
among the favored classes themselves.
The question of free silver is said to
have been eliminated from politics for
the present. Whether it has been or
not the general question of finance is
warmer issue than it was even four
years ago. Congress and the presi
dent have not taken a step on the mon
ey question that has not been covertly
or overtly in the interests of the capi-
talists and money monopolists, and
against the people.
The boast that ten millions of the
human race have been given new
birth of freedom through the war with
Spain is idle and impudent. 1t is
falsehood of the most glaring descrip-
tion when considered in the light of the
obstinate holding onto Cuba in contra
vention OF the solemn promise in our
declaration of war; of our treatment of
| the people OF Porto Rico as subjects
and mendicants rather than as citizens,
and Of our adoption of the British
policy of conquest over colonies in our
relations to the Philippine Islands.
TIE praises bestowed ON President
Mckinley are fulsome and nauseating
to the last degree, and would be repu-
dated by any president who had be-
coming sense of the dignity of the
office and who did not regard the chief
magistracy simply as an instrumental
ty to confer spectacular honor on him.
The cheap talk of cross roads dough
faces about menace to prosperity hav-
ing always resided in democratic prin-
ciples, and about the incapacity of the
democratic party to conduct public af-
fairs, is contemplate and unfit to be
introduced i'll national declaration of
principles OF great party. 1t is the
blatherskite performance of politicians
who are driven to artifciality by their
own abominable record. It hurts the
administration more than it does the
democrats.
The paragraph on trusts is straddle.
1t "favors" legislation in restraint Of
abuses, thus acknowledging that the
correction of the trust evil is within the
scope of Legislation, but neglecting tc
refer to the fact that no honest and
candid movement was made against
the trusts during the last session Of
congress just closed.
Under the pretense of protecting la
i. Dor there is warm commentator of the
! tariff policy which now, as in the past
is chiefly notable for the enrichment O.
the tariff barons and the establishment
of trusts.
There is a lot of stock phraseology
- about merchant marine, pensions fo
soldiers, roads and highways and pub
! lie domain, and to hoodwink the work
;. ing people there is a paragraph favor
It ing the establishment of new cabine
, office-that of commerce aud industry
There is no thought of taking any sucl
: step. This is only campaign sop. /
may be said of this proposition, as O
many others in the resolutions, tina
the whole machinery of legislation ha
been in the hands of the headministratio
party for many months and not whee
n has been turned.
The declaration of the civil service
cowardly and evasive. ''We commen
the policy Of the republican party i
maintaining the efficiency of the civ
service. That's all. Not a word abor
several thousand Offices having bee
X taken ont of the classified list SO th;
'ls Mr.. Hanna might use them in his wor
"a of o'itical degradation, Not syllab