The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-27
SCUTTLE and PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been a Believer In Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

Mr.. Richard Olney has done a public
service to the entire country by forcing
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryan's election means scuttle.
Mr. Olney was one of an administra-
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. MIR. Olney de-
n0unces it's acts as the acts. Of the
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 ME-. Bryan's election. be-
cause 80 far as the injurious conse-
qliences OF past courses can be averted
w. hAhtA5ASO9 oOdttUuluS Mdy De uOpeu
IRON, those not primarily responsible for
them.''
Prom their official authors and justi-
6ers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected"
says ME-. Olney. He is right. Ef re-
sistance to- American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
Kinley will suppress it. Where the flag
has been hauled. down, as in Hawaii,
he will replace it, and the American peo-
pie will 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, of
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary of State,
President Mckinley will insist on pay
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 u policy of
scuttte. 70 him this "outweighs'' 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..
Oiney can be induced to
MIR. Bryan on his platform campaign to
urge scuttle with a vigor and plainness
OF speech his chief. his leader and his
guide lodges. MIR. Bryan talks of a
stable government" in the Philippines.
Mr.. Olney objects because we ''forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. Olney returned the Ha-
wailan Islands to one tyrant. He Is
ready to return the Philippines to an
other.
The American people is not, Mr..
Olney is a lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty 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 %denounces 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 DER credit on
Il : per cent basis and British bonds
seeking a market in New York he per-
haps hopes to persuade the country that
those were better and more prosperous
days when Mr.. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
their terms at the White House, when
our bonds had to he sold in London at
usurious 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 He-
publican party. He has recalled to the
public those dire days Of a Democratic
administration Of which he was a part
when our railroads were in the hands OF
receivers, our factories closed, our treas.
ury empty, our credit gone and our flag
dlsgraced. He demands again DAYS Of
panic, OF a free trade tariff, OF crash and
failure. OF breaking banks and bankr,lpt
hrms. These "culaulitous possibilities"
winch were calamitOus ccrtainiicS under
the Cleveland-Olney administration, are
"outweighed.' says Mr.. Olney, by the
certainty OF a policy of "scuttle'' from
Mr. Bryan. Under him citizens will no
longer, in peril. see the flag coming with
salvation in it's folds. brought to Pekin
by the weakest and silliest of admins
~trations;" the Gag will come down in the
philippines, and it will be withdra wn. as
MIR. Olncy withdrew it in Hawaii. though
IN Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being allen territory Trust n
Sproslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, as he does, that it must be-
come an Integral part OF the U,Hted
States" which the Republican party did
not accept as to annexed territory when
urged for slavery and will not when ure-
ed for scuttle.
Mr.. Olney is a Democrat. He needs
q party. He has no other. It would he
strange II ne did not support q Demo-
cratic candidate unless he were n public
peru. 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
all men that MIR. Bryan not only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad. a
policy Of scuttle. surrender and retreat,
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapprovcs or Mckinley.
1t appears that President McIxinley's
letter Of acceptance has met with a very
frosty reception in France. President
McKinley's ground with respect to the
philippines does not meet the approval
of the French press. All the better rea-
son for sustaining the President.
Frances attitude during the Spanish war
has not yet faded from memory