The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05
STIRRING UP

There are signs of trouble for Nc
kinley's policy of expansion ana alb
sorption. Some of his party are not
enraptured or enamored of ms foreign
policy Of conquest and war. Some do
not like his sudden change from ex-
treme protec tiCn ITO free trade with
conquered outlying province. The a
Francisco Call is o~utspoken in censure
and ~denounces the movement Of Nc
Kinley to hurt the interests Of Califor-
mia to benefit the east. II says that tie
new senator to be elected VIII have
ito say to the administration that he
cannot support it's reciprocity policy,
and if he fail to oppose it with his
might, he will be recreant to Califor-
MIA and bebrayer of the people he rep
resents."
Plain talk that. The Charleston News
| and Courier says that 1.-THE present sem
| ator and representatives from Califor-
mia, it is noted, are being implofei by
it's horticulturists to oppose h treaties
by all means in their power. They have
| been asked to request the president to
| withdraw them from the senate and 20
| refrain from negotiation of others like
them"
The Call is an able, Influential repub-
lican paper, and very much in earnest
in its a~ntagonism of the Mckinley poll
| cy. We turn to the News and Cour-
Ter for the quotation, which says:
But it is not only to the pending
and proposed reciprocity treaties with
Jamaica and South American states
tina the opposition is directed. We
want a SENATOR the Call adds, to op-
pose the free entry of the products OF
Porto Rico, Cuba n the Philippines,
and to fight the administration if ii
free entry as is contemplated in the
insists in the recommendation of such
presidents message. The policy it
! says, finally, may be agreeable to
eastern manufacturers, but it is disa-
greeable to western producers. 1t may
suit Chicago. but is is disliked in San
Francisco"
Another sign OF disapproval is found
in New York city. That severely earn
est republican daily, The Press, de-
nounces the policy as highly hurtful,
| and makes bold threats if it is persist
ed in. 1t says it will Openly sacri-
flee important agricultural interests of
the country to make foreign markets
for the manufacturing interests" and
declares that a dozen states will have
to be reckoned as opposing the bad
policy proclaimed. No free entry" for
The Press. 1t pleases eastern manu-
~facturers, but it is injurious to the in
terests of many states. The News and
Courier says:
California and Florida, it is noted,
have common cause in the matter of
the Importation of West Indian fruits,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York,
Ohio and Indiana, regard with no more
favor than Virginia, Kentucky and tine
CarolinaS and other southern states
the promise of the free or nearly free
importation of tobacco. Six or eight
western and northwestern states, which
are growing sugar beets OF a large and
ever increasing scale, are as little dis
posed as louisiana to regard practical
free trade" with Hawaii, the Philip
pines, Porto Rico and perhaps Cuba,
with complacency."
1t reminds the public that recently,
as was given also by The Messenger at
the time, the convention of Federation
of Labor that met at Detroit, Mich,
representing a million and a half of
working men n voters, by an man
imous vote, protested against the Nc
Kinley craze for "expansion."