Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-01-04
A FAITHLESS PARTY.
REPUBLICANS FLAY THE AD-
MINISTRATlON.
The Recent Indictment Returned by
the Honest Thinking Republicans of
Nebraska-rhe Worthy Allies of the
New Democracy.

voters just before the close of the late
campaign, is one of the strongest in
dictments of the present national ad-
ministration that we have seen, aside
from Bryan's thirteen-inch speeches.
In part it says:
The Republican state platform,
adopted at Omaha, Sept 81, 1899, says:
I'VE adhere unequivocally to the
gold standard, and We are unalterably
opposed to the free coinage OF sill
ver'
1T further says: After more than
twenty years of harmful agitation the
people of the United States, by ma
jority of more than 100000, decided in
favor of that standard
Now, is not that fine statement
for honest men to make, In face of the
fact that the national Republican plat
form of 1896 promised to promote the
free coinage of silver through interna-
tional bimetallism and that congress
appropriated 100000 for the purpose
Of trying to rid this country of the gold
standard?
1T Is true that the Republican party
for more than twenty years has been
promising the people to return to the
free coinage Of gold and silver and it
is further true that their promises have
been kept after the same fashion as
the promises of 1896. They have sim
ply proven false.
AT the election of 1896 over 13,000.-
100 of people voted for bimetallism
md only about 100000 (the gold Dem
0crats) for the gold standard.
The present Republican platform
e'so upholds the administration-not
the government, for that is the people
in its imperialistic ideas, which
means, If carried out, great standing
army for the people to support, the un-
necessary destruction of thousands of
lives and the downfall of the republic.
The fact cannot be disguised that
widespread alarm now exists in the
minds of many thoughtful citizens lest
our government shall be destroyed.
This feeling is not confined to any
particular party or locality, but is
found in all parties and everywhere.
Such stalwart Republicans as Senator
Hoar, ex-Gov. Boutwell,, Senator Ed
munds, John Sherman of Ohio and
thousands of others are greatly exer-
cised over the precarious and unenvia-
Bile situation in which the administra-
tion has placed us in the Philippine is
lands and elsewhere through the influ-
ence of scheming, constituencies men.
Under the influence of commercial
ism and Imperialism Mr.. Mckinley has
been led to abandon the Monroe doc
trine so long held sacred by Ameri-
cans, by making war upon a people
upon the other side of the globe; to vi
olate all those principles which have
distinguished America from the gov
ernments Of the old world.
THAT heaven-born document which
declares that all men are created
equal; that all men are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among them are life, lib
erty and pursuit of happiness, is the
base upon which the entire fabric of
human liberty rests; this and the
further doctrine that all just govern
ments derive their powers from the
consent of the governed is the founda-
tion upon which this great republic
has been built.
These are great eternal truths, ap-
plicable everywhere and for all time
in harmony with the laws of God;
all of which doctrines are evolved
from the sublime law of Christ:
" Do unto Others as you would have
them do unto you
There is no question but that we can
conquer and crush the Filipinos, but
because we are strong, we have no
those who may be our interiors. That
is despotism, that is militarism.
"The same spirit is behind VIM. Nc
Kinley now which was behind Jeffer-
son Davis in 1861, the spirit of greed !;
more territory for slaves then, more
territory for subjects and vassals now
Abraham Lincoln in 1858, referring
to the Declaration of Independence and
its authors, said
Wise statesmen as they were
they knew the tendency of prosperity
to breed tyrants and so they estab-
lished these great self-evident truths
that when in the distant future some
man, some faction, some interest
should set up doctrine that none but
rich men, or none but Anglo-Saxon
white men were entitled to life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness, their pos
terity might look up again to the Dec
laration of Independence and take
courage to renew the battle which their
fathers began, so that truth and ius-
tice and mercy, and all the human and
Christian virtues, might not be ex-
tinguished from the land, so that nc
man would hereafter dare to limit OIL
circumscribe the great principles on
which the temple of liberty was built
Now, my countrymen, If you have
been taught doctrines conflicting
with the great landmarks of the Dec
laration of Independence; if you have
listened to suggestions which would
take away from it's grandeur and mutt