The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-22

these adherents should suffer for lack OF
their protection. To the Chinese Chris
tians many foreigners owe their lives. Yet
| Mr. Mckinley calmly contemplates their
massacre and torture 1t is not a pretty
picture from any point of view.
The Question of Hanna's Health.
| If there should be a sudden question
regarding the health of the other Empress
| Dowager we presume that Prince Tuan
, and her associates of the Chinese Ma
tional Committee would experience a
sense of alarm which we are sure would
be shared by Mr. Mckinley and his ally.
the Car of Russia. In exactly the same
way, any doubt cast upon the vigor-
physical or mental-of our own Empress
| Dowager, who is Hanna, must necessarily
occasion pain and panic in the camp of
the trusts and monopolies.
| We are more than exercised to read in
! the columns of a perfectly reliable Ad-
ministration trust organ that Hannas
committee associates are pressing him TO
abandon, his desire and intention to make
/ some more campaign speeches on account
! OF his failing health and faculties. We
/ hope and believe that he will meet such
suggestions. and the inslnuations they
carry. with all the force of resentment that
usually ne -devotes to- Davenport car
toon Really. Hanna cannot be spared
from the canvass. He is Indispensable. We
do not wish to be understood as speaking
inxidiously --when-we say that no man
now upon the stump is more necessary
| than he to the future of the Republic;
because che RepsbHcans-except possibly
his intimates-think that he is doing
them good, while the Democrats know
| that he Is making votes for Mr.. Bryan.
Sc. everybody. is pleased and the popular
verdict is that he should stand TO his guns
and fire away.
So far, he is doing it in manner which
completely dwarfs every attempt of the
Cowboy 6anditiate ito smoke his pipe in
the political powder magazine. In the
widest flights of an excited Imagination
Roosevelt never thought of declaring that
there is not trust in the United
States" or CT asserting that, in his story
of San Juan Hill. he had paid the highest
tribute ever paid to the colored troops
With all his erratieism there are uIti-
mate limits to liberties that the Rough
Rider allows himself in dealing with
facts. Hanna. on the contrary, has taken
the limit off, and is free to handle the
issues and questions Of the day without
the least reference to anything except the
practical objects he has in view.
In speech, delivered in Chicago on
Thursday. to select audience OF alleged
German-Americans, largely composed of
postofice and other Government employees.
Hanna said in his original and inimitable
English:
'ewhen they paint William Mckinley as an
emperor they will get the same answer from
every audience that Is gathered together who are
patriots. Why tie only iuPcri1liet per and
purpose that know Of in tie United States is
Dick Croker He can issue orders and they
are obcyed He can levy tribute and it is paid"
There is something filling about the idea
of an "imperialist per Sc and purpose"
a ID the phrase is worthy to be remem-
bered and encysted in history in Mr. Nc
Kinley's farewell address. We are much
beholden, also. TO the Republican National
Chairman for the assertion that Dick
Croker is the only man in the United
States who can levy tribute and it is
paid" According to popular belief Hanna
himself can do that. It Is even a matter
of public understanding that, not long ago.
he called the representative trust mag
mates of the East together in the Office of
the New York Life Insurance Company and
held them up for an enormous donation to
his corruption fund; also that he repeated
the adventure in Philadelphia with golden
results. Let it be granted that the emul-
eating power of the grand sachem of
Tammany is all that his critics claim! It
cannot be regarded as more than a mole |
hill to the mountain of Hanna's road
agency ability.
In the Chicago effort above referred to !
Hanna endeavored to discuss the detection !
from the trust party Of such Influential cit |
liens as ex-senator Schurz and the Hon. !
Bourlse Cochran, and said that the organi-
cation Of the people had got a few others |
that we're with US in 1896 to plead their |
cause under the flimsy guise of Imperial |
ism" Then he asked: What has that |
got to do with fnance?" This question reA
minds US of the explosive and irrelevant
observation of Mr.. F.'s aunt in Little |
Dorrit:" There's mile stones on the Dover ,
road,'
What. indeed, has imperialism to do with /
finance? Why a great deal. 1t has war
taxes and a great and constantly increas
ing national debt to do with finance. But /
It is impossible longer to take Hanna Sc
He Is the funny man of the cam
paign. without him it would be without |
mirth or humor. More power to his cap,
bells. and bladderl
Under desperate pressure from the Re
publican campaign managers some Of the