The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-09

j ADOPTED, and not demand made by the
| Chicago platform on the money question
| has been enacted into law. The gold
| standard has been more permanently
| fixed upon this country, and yet the Dem
ocratic party, while 1t did not have the
courage TO leave 16 TO out of the plat
| form, yet declared that imperialism was
| the paramount issue of this campaign. 1t
has ceased to attack our tariff policy,
and by abandoning the money question
as the paramount issue. has practically
admitted that our position on that ques-
ton is for the best interests of the coun-
try"
During the closing days of congress
an event happened that took the trust
| question out OF this campaign. Under
the decisions of the supreme court only
corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce are under the jurisdiction of con-
gress. The constitution does not give
congress the power to deal with or con-
troll corporations engaged in production
or manufacture The great trusts of the
/ country, those that have created monop-
| olies and raised prices of products, are
those engaged in the production or man
|
plants of the people have been against
| these combinations of capital. AS the
! supreme court had decided that con-
| gress,, Ender the constitution, had no
| power to restrict or control corporations
| engaged in manufacture or production,
| it was deemed wise and proper to give
| congress such authority. An amendment
| to the constitution was proposed. 1t re-
| quired tWo-thirds of the house to adopt
| this amendment. The Republicans had
| only a bare majority, so in order to Sc
cure its passage, it required the votes Of
ffty-four Democrats and Populists
| There are los Democrats from the south
and e2 from the north in the house.
These 60 Democrats from the north were
| almost solidly in favor of the amend
ment ut they went to the caucus with
the 100 from the south and a majority Of
the caucus, true to the doctrine of states
rights, declared against the amendment.
Not a Populist voted for the amendment.
With the defeat of this amendment, all
present hope of having congress control
or regulate trusts and monopoIies ex-
cept those engaged in interstate COM
merce, ended, and the Democrats at
Kansas City wisely RETAINED from MAX
ing the trusts the paramount issue of
this campaign"
1.-THE Kansas City platform declares
that the burning issue of imperialism
growing out of the Spanish war involves
the very existence of the republic and
the destruction of our free Institutions
In another plac the platform says. That
to impose upon any people a govern
ment of force is to substitute the meth
DDS OF imperialism for those of a re-
public
what is the question of imperialism
Let us examine this new issue in the
light of recent events and ascertain if IL
is of such transcendant Importance that
it should be made the paramount issue
Of the campaign, while the crucihxion of
mankind upon a cross OF gold is per-
mitted to continue.
~ witnessed the Kansas iCty conven-
ton, and it was indeed gratifying to OBJ
serve the delegates there from eleven
states which are in this Union against
their will and without their consent be-
cause Abraham Lincoln fanted them to
stay in and Ulysses s. Grant insisted
upon It, Every effort was made to make
The convention was held on the 4th OF
July. That was to indicate that there
was some party, somewhere, that was
against the Fourth of July. The Dec
laration of Independence was read as a
part of the proceedings of the conven-
ton. That was to show that there was
some party in this country that was not
in favor of that sacred document. At
an opportune time in the proceedings Of
the convention 10000 flags were unfurled,
to demonstrate that there was another
party, not represented in that convention,
that was against the flag.
''All of these elaorate preparations for
the springing of the new ISSUE all of
the alarms that have been sounded, have
come because of what the administra-
ton has done IN the Philippine Islands"
1.-THE kind Of expansion the modern
Democratic party favors is designated in
this expression in the platform: we are
not opposed to territorial expansion
when it takes in desirale territory which
can be erected into states of the Union
and whose people are willing and fit to
become citizens
Lie QAtSbloI dS ~ hlACLiC4 AlAC bCt4A-
tory was desirable for states has never
been considered when territory was aout
to be acquired. We acquired Louisiana
because we deemed it. necessary to COM
troll the navigation of the Mississippi
river. and because we were harassed and
annoyed by unnecessary restrictions in
regard TO the admission of goods into the
port Of New Orleans. We Acquired New
Mexico. California and the territory to
the west Of US as the result of the war
with Mexico and because We deemed it
advisable to have the country to the
Pacific ocean under our sovereignty and
control"
"Aguinaldo proclaimed himself dc
tator and declared himself chief Of a
revolutionary government. He never was
elected and there was no claim that he
was the choice of any considerable num-
Der Of the inhabitants OF the islands,
and was recognized only by part Of
one tribe. There are over sixty different /
tribes in the Islands. speaking as many
different languages. Fifty-nine OF them [,
are at peace with the United States and 4
have never rebeIledb against our au-
thority or control One tribe. under the +
leadership Of Aguinaldo, has been op- i
oosfnr our authority and shooting our