The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-11
SCUTTlE and PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard OIney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer In Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking n
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

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service to the entire country by forcing
| every voter to face the fact that Mr.,
Bryan's election means scuttle.
Mr.. Olney was one 6f an administra-T
! ton which withdrew from the Hawaiian
Islands. He would repeat the act. We
are in the Philippines. Mr.. Olney would
| leave. President McKinley's admins,
tration has protected American citizens
| from massacre and American women
| from outrage in China. Mr.. Olney de-.
nounces its acts as the acts OF the
l.'weakest and silliest Of administra-
| tons The administration has demand
ed the open door in China, and when
| Manchu reaction and massacre threat
ened to close and bolt the door Presi-
dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
of 5000; victorious American troops to
keep the door open from Chinese intol-
erance or European aggression But this
| is a part Of that policy on which Mr..
Olney urges Mr.. Bryan's election. be-
cause $50 far as the injurious conse-
| quences Of past courses can be ayerted
or mitigated something may be hoped
| from those not primarily responsible TOR
| them" "a
from their official authors and justts
/ fers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected,
says Mr.. Olney. He is right. II re-
sistance to American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
Kinley will suppress it. Where the tag
has been hauled down, as in Hawaii,
he will replace it, and the American peo-
pie win vote to keep it there. Where
citizens are in peril President Mckinley
will protect them, in all lands. Where
their claims to just indemnity, as In
Turkey, have been Systematically neg
lected by a previous administration, ct
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary Of State,
ment.
Mr.. Olney objects to this policy. The
American people approves. Vermont
demonstrates it. That New England
State stands for the flag and all it pro-
tects. Mr.. Olney demands a policy Of
scuttle. To him this ''ontweighs" all
else. He admits that panic will come
with Bryan; but better, he says, In
substance, 'Scuttle and Panic" than
Sovereignty and Security"
We accept the issue. We trust Mr..
Olney can be. induced to accompa4F
MIR. Bryan on his platform campaign tx
urge scuttle with yigor and plainness
Of speech his chief, his leader, and his
guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks Of
stable government & lin the r hilippineS.
/ Mr.. Olney objects because we forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr. Olney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands to one tyrant He is
ready to return the Philippines to am
other. ~. 81 85 III
The American people is not. Mr.
Olney is lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty9 and ours. He prefers Spanish;
American voters do not. Mr.. Olney
talks Of much else, but his heart is in
a policy Of scuttle. He dcnounces the
Dingley tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer the tariff his chief signed and
which brought depression, desolation
and deficits. He complains of "the
most intimate relations between the
United States treasury and the money
market As he looks at our credit on
q 2 per cent basis and british bonds
seeking market in New York he per-
haps hopes to persuade the country that
those were better ana more prosperous
days when Mr.. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
their terms at the White House, when
our bonds had to be sold in London Mt
usurous rates to buy gold and prop the
sinking credit OF the treasury, which
covered before bankers who to-day have
no word in its policy.
Mr. Oiney has done well for the Re-
| publican party. He has recalled to. the
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administration Of which. he was d part
when our railroads were in the hands Of
| receivers. our factories closed. our treas.
ury empty, our credit gone and our flag
disgraccd. He demands again days OF
panic. Of 4 free trade tariff, of crash and
failure of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These "calamitous possibilities"
which were calanlitous certainties under
the Cleveland-0lney administration, are
| ''o,ltweghed,' says Mr.. Olney. by the
| certaints. of 4 policy of '.scuttie' from
Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens VIII no
longer in peril, see the flag canning with
salvation in its folds, brought to Pekin
by ''the weakest and sillicst Of admins
trations:' the flag will come down in the
Philippines, and it will be withdrawn, as
Mr.. Oiney withdrew it in Hawaii. though
III Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being "alien territory Trust
prosiavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, rs he does, that it must be-
come an Integral part Of the United
States" which the Republican party did
not accept as to annexed territory when
urged for slavery and will not when urg-
cd for scuttte
Mr.. 0lney is a Democrat. He needs
party. He has no other. 1t would ba
strange il he did not support Demo-
cratic candidate unless he were a public
peril A public peril he admits Mr..
Bryan is, but since Mr.. Olney must sup
port him. in spite of this, it is of grave
public service that he has made plain to
allEmen that MIR. Bryan not only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad,
policy Of scuttie, surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapproves of Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKinley's
letter of acceptance has net with ycry
frosty reception in France. President
! MciSinley's ground with respect to the
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