The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-08

well endeayor to run away from it. as they
! are doing, but they cannot escape it. By
their fruits ye shall know them, was the
best philosophy nineteen hundred years
ago. and it is the best now.
1 Imperialism consists in ieyyins upon
! the people and collecting from them nm
| equal taxes. 1t consists IN ievying taxes
/ on one Territory of the United States and
not leEying the same On other portions
! thereof. Tine Constitution says that all
| taxes shall be uniform throughout the
I United States. The power TO tax is the
! power to destroy When those IN power
| proceed as they have done by recent acts
! of Congress to construct d tariff wall
| against one territory and thus exclude its
| products from other Territories and States
| of the Union, seek TO dodge as they may,
| they exercise imperial power.
| No king or emperor can do more. They
| cannot do the acts and deeds which can
/ only be done in a kingdom or an empire
| and say they are not imperialists, and
/ that there is No issue OF Imperialism. The
| platform declares that Imperialism means
| conquest abroad and oppression at home;
| TT means the strong arm OF the military
! and its coneotIitant, a great standing
| army, which llas ever been fatal To an
| free institutions.
p! 1T was this that drove from Europe to
our shores millions of our feliow-citizens,
| and which is a constant menace to the
| liberties OF the people. Large standing
armies have no place in republic. An
! imperial government can only be maintain
| ed by brute force, and without milftariSm
! imperialism cannot exist. The union or
mating of the TWO brings forth Caesarism,
whether under that or some other name
! Imperialism means death to democracy
hi dc
J and fewer plowshares. Mfiitarism means
| death 10 government, and more spears
and fewer pruning hooks.
I'm the great battle upon US we viii make
the fight thickest and hottest upon this
monster Imperialism, which always feeds
upon the life and blood of liberty. The
cause you represent, sir, is humanity. The
highest duty of lmanity is to help others
to be free. The just punishment of peo-
pie that enslaye nd rule over another, is
the loss of their own liberty, for deEoG-
racy cannot be an empire and remain
both.
Warfare the TRUSTS
s''The platform also declares unceasiug
warfare in nation. state and city against
trusts and private m0noplies in every form
This declaration means that the laws now
on the statute books against this growing
evil must be enforced by honest and com
petent officials. and that there shall be en-
acted other laws efficient enough to COM
pletely govern and control all trusts and
monopolies The haneful effects of these
organizations cannot be estimated or de-
scribed. They have grown up under the
fostering care of the party now in power,
which has completely controlled all the
law-making authority for nearly four
years. BY its enaction this party confess
es its inability or disinclination, either of
iTb Hrir ina II deal he frIIG
II the people therefore, would put a curb
ON trusts they must vote the Government
out of the hands of the trusts
We recently saw Republican Congress
surrender the combination of the Treasury
vaults 20 the Arnor Plate Trust one day,
and on q different day for the benefit of
another trust. withdraw the Constitution
from our newly acquired territory. The
trusts now count the United States as one
of their assets. They claim 10 own Con-
gress. .Self-oontrol is great attribute.
These trusts therefore are in favor of the
regulation Of trusts by a Congress con-
troiled by trusts. II other words, the
trusts Will trust the Congressional trust TO
control the trusts
The serious objection to trusts is that
by their methods they are rapidly acquir
ing ali the business Of the country. They
have driven out OF business by their meth
ods of tens of thousands Of heretofore pros
porous. establishments trading in COM
parativsIy small way. The prosperity
which they have created is Republican
prosperity and not the prosperity of the
masses of the people, OF of the vast body
known as the middle classes. They multi
ply the fortunes of few until they are
many times miIIionaires One of our trust
magnates boasts that he intends tU@aie q
Millionaire. Still the sweatshops increase
and the wage OF those in the rural dis
-tricts barely sustains life.
THE friends of the trusts and those who
are their immediate beneficiaries do not
hesitate 10 assert that the day of the in
diFiaual has passed. This being admitted,
then the day OF monopoly, the syndicate,
the combine and the mother of these, the
trusts. is come. The man full of true
American vim ana gigar. brains, skill, and
energy is to count as nothing in the eternal
fight for bread and the uufeeIing, soul
less, and heartless corporation is TO rule.
Financial Independence among the prosper
Gus middle classes and merchants of mod
crate means viii depart and they are to be
driven into financial ohscurity and ruin.
This is an alarmingly unhealthy condition.
unjust TO the -at majority Of the people,
and altogether n-AIuerican.
III this fashion continues, ere long only
a few masters will grasp the whole domain.
The weH-to-de and contented citizen Will
De GlSpOSSesSeQ- ana Iue pace OIL ndDpy
homes, unWieldly wealth and Curnbro.
pomp win repose. The rich mans wealth
will increase while the poor will decay,
and gu will realize how wide the limit
stands between a splendid and q happy
lanG.
Under the new policy of the ruling
party our country would go or dominated
by trusts, ard the widespread and almost
universal prosperity hitherto pervading
the middle classes. and which WIS pecu-
Iarly characteristic of America will be-
come an unhappy "Reminiscences The sim
pie government o. our fathers viii be sup
planted by the tTust-Tid6en empire, and all
will give way TO the new order of things
founded on gold. grandeur, greed, and
glory.
Republican EHtangIiaG Alliances.
''Our platform quotes, with hearty ap-
proval, the following words OF Thomas JEFF
ferson: Peace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations; entangting a L
anees with none These words were not
idle or meaningless when first uttered Tor
are they now. The RepuS lican party has
not kept and is not keeping peace with
other nations. It has Ell eered into an en-
tangling aIllnace which threatens to in
yolve us, and which viii in the end in
-evitably lead us to bloody wars
They have as a part of their policy mas
an alliance with Great Britain which at
present, for prudential reasons only, they
seek to conceal, but the fact is apparent |
1t may not have the solemnity of a formal
alliance, but it is a secret understanding
and agreement II this were not true why l
was it that the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |