The Winslow mail., 1900-08-09
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Record of Misdeeds Committed by
the Party of Greed and
Oppression.

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Oppression.
There will be no more cackling in the
congressional hen roost until next WIN
| ter. For this the country should rem
der thanks
Congress has adjourned principally
because the henchmen of Hanna can
levy no further tribute on the trusts
in the way of republican campaign
funds.
For every dollar of money already
obtained Hanna has given or promised
a profitable return in the way of a be-
trayal of the people and breaking of
solemn pledges.
Yet this congress is not blamed so
much for what it has done as for what
it has deliberately left undone.
Hark back to the republican national
| platform adopted at ST. Louis. Note
few of the promises it contains and
mark how these promises have been
| broken.
We quote from the platform:
Sympathy for Cuba.
"We believe that the government of
the United States should avtively use
| the United States should actively use
its influence and good offices to restore
peace and give independence to the is
| land''
Through the unanimous vote of both
parties this country used it's good Of
fees" and peace was restored. 1t has
been restored for almost two years.
But where is the "independence" prom
ised? The Cubans are and have been
amply able to care for themselves for
year or more.
But no! The republican party holds
the island for the purpose of loot.
There are thefts in the post office by
Hanna's friends, thefts in the railroads,
thefts in the custom house, and Cuba is
to be held as long as there is dishon-
est dollar to be gained.
Protection of Sugar Growers.
''The republican party favors such
protection as will lead to the produc-
ton on American soil of all the sugar
which the American people USE
This protection" meant in plain lam
guage the protection of the sugar trust.
We admitted Hawaii as territory and
! covered it with our constitution. We
gave it the privileges enjoyed by Ari-
zona and other territories.
| But when Porto Rico threw herself
into our arms we sent our soldiers to
govern her and kept our constitution at
home.
About this time the worthy Mr.. Nc
Kinley madea peculiar mistake. Speak
ing from his heart he said: Human
ity dictates our plain duty in the inn
mediate establishment of free trade
with suffering Porto Rico"
The president had forgotten the
''plain duty of the party to the sugar
trust and the tobacco trust. Mr. NC
Kinley was forced to crawl and the
Porto Rican tariff was established by
Hanna's congress atHanna's dictation.
The Monroe Doctrine.
"We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
its full extent"
The republican party was content
with the mere reassertion. The Hay
Pauncefote treaty was concluded, by
the terms of which England was given
the absolute control of an unfortified
isthmian cana in spite of the Monroe
doctrine.
In addition to this brief record of
broken pledges the republican party
has refused to pass the Nicaragua ca
ral bill al he bchsst of vast trans
continental railroad lobby.
Through blind and bulldozing tactics
it brought about war in the Philip
pines in which thousands of our sol
diers have unnecessarily per;shed
These are a few C the things "ac-
complshed" by congress. The things
left unaccomplished are in the nature
OF gigantic government subsidies for
private corporations. which were not
put through owing to their probable et-
feet upon the voters of the country.
Along with the Nicaragua canal bill,
the Pacific cable subsidy bill, involving
the gift of a cable to Manila to pri-
vate corporation. was "ieft over"
The Hanna-Payne ship subsidy bill,
providing for gift Of over S7OoO'OOO
a year to the Standard Oil corporation
as reward for running their ships to
Europe, was also ''left over" They are
tt be passed next winter.
Let every voter with an eye to his
personal welfare ponder over these
thngs.-N. Y. Journal.
There is a well-defned imperial
istic tendency in this country at the