Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-08-17
DEATH, WAR AND TAXES.
The Three Things That The Mckinley
Administration Is Piling Up.

Are the American people weary of
war? Have they had enough yet of
the extra penny on the telegram and
the express receipt, the two cents on
the bank check, multitudinous ex-
actions-falling not at all on the corr
porations, lightly on the very rich,
and most GENEROUSLY on the people of
slender means-which go TO make up
the war tax?
Are they sick OF the daily bulletins
of the dead and crazed sacrificed In
Luzon to keep down an insurrection
officially reported as Suppressed d
year ago? Do they count the cost of
the Philippine exper ment and con>
sldee what 800, OOO,0 900 year could
ID here at home, expended in irriga.
ton to make the Western deserts
blossom like the rose, employed to
establish government telegraphs,
parcels post, a great national univer.
sity. ship canal from the lakes to
the sea, government railroad which
would act as a check to the extortions
of the privately owned monopolies?
If the people have become thus
weary, if they are thus questioning.
they are ready to consider the yelled
menace in this utterance by Colonel
Dick, Hanna's campaign manager,
and one of the men who is growing
rich from the pickiBgs of the Nc
Kinley administration:
s'The status in China is very threat.
ening, and events there may change
the whole political situation here. I
suppose no one denies that this gov
eminent ought to protect Americans
in China, and if In doing SO We
should be brought into war with
China or any other power there
would be but one party in this coun-
try as long as the trouble lasted, and
that would be the administration
party"
There stands Out ii'o wish that is
father to the thought. With what
zeal will Hanna and Dick anu Broth
err Abner and Neeley and the rest of
the vultures that fatten on the fruits
of McKinleyism rush to the defense of
Americans in China if by SO doing
they will hold the profitable control
of government for years to come.
Protect Americans in China? OF
course, and Americans every where
else as we'll. But President who
has rushed US into long, costly and
bloody war in the Philippines with
out the consent and scarcely with the
knowledge of congress cannot be
trusted to cope with this Chinese sit
uation alone, when his own close ad .
visers admit that his personal political
interests would be greatly advanced
By war.
The country stands to-day at a
point more critical than any it has
occupied since 1861. A lingering
war in the Philippines saps its
strength. Its soldiers and sailors are
enveloped in the storm and the in
trigue of the colossal Chinese field of
battle. At Washington Is mer-
cenary, imperialistic government,
which has profited vastly already,
politically and financially, by one
war, and which sees in a second and
greater one hope of indefoite con-
tinuance in power. With true i'm
perialistic self assertion, the President
refuses to call congress together, and
any day Americans may find that the
intrigues or the incompetence of a
gang of schemiDg politicians have
dragged this ne ton into a war with
half of Europe
What is the defense of the people?
First, compel the President to call
congress in extra session.
Second, drive an administration
which cap't be trusted from power 10
November
Ed. WEsTGATE, candidate for