Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-27
SCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
ne Always Has Been a Believer in Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Striking
Responsibilities Falling to
the C0gn ry.

N"N hNA ANAbAiA W lOlNllA
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryans election means scutile.
Mr.. OiEey 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 McNinley's admins
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China. MIR. Olney de-
nonnces its acts as the acts of the
weakest and s~iliiest of ~administra-
tons. The administration has demand
ed the open door in China. and when
Manchu reaction and massacre threat
ened 10 close and bolt the door Presi-
dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
OF 1000 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 Mr.. Bryan's election. be-
cause so far as the Injurious conse-
queRccs of past courses can be averted
or mitigated something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible FOR
them" ...
From their official authors and justi-
fers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected"
says Mr.. Olney. He is right. If re-
sistance TO American authority comes
on American territory President Me-
Kinley will suppress it. Where the flag
has been hauled down, as in Hawaii,
he win replace il, and the American peo-
pie will vote TO keep il 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 il. That New England
State stands for the flag and all it pro-
tects. Mr.. Olney demands a policy OF
scuttle. To 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..
Olupy can be induced to accompany
Mr.. Bryan on his platform campaign to
urge scuttle with a vigor and %plainneSs
Of speech his chief. his leader and his
guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks Of a
stable government in the Philippines.
Mr.. OlnPy objects because we "forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. Olney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands to one tyrant. He is
ready TO return the Philippines to an
other. +
The American people is not. Mr..
Oiney Is a lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lazy between Spanish soy
ercignty and oars. lie prefers Spanish;
| American voters 10 not. Mr., Olney
/ talks Of much else. Int his heart is in
a policy Of scuttle. lie ~denounces the
Dtusipy tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer thr tariff his chief signed ana
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 our credit on
u . per cent basis and British bonds
: seeking a market in New York he per-
: hats 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.. Oincy has done well Tor the Re
publican party. He has recalled TO the
public those dire days OF a Democratic
administration Of which he was a part
vrhen our railroads were in the han0s OF
| receivers, our factories closed. orr treas
ury empty. our credit gone aud our ias
disgraced. He demands again days of
manic. Of a free trade tariff, of crash ana
failure. of breaking banks ahd hanRrnpt
firms These ,calamitous possibilities,
which were calamltous ccrtaintcs under
the Cleveland-Olney administration. are
.outweighed,' says MIR. Olley. ny the
certainty OF a policy OF "scnttle from
Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens VIII no
longer. in peril. see the iiag coming with
salvation in its folds. brought 10 Pekin
hy ..the weakest and silliest OF admins
tr,tions:p the flag will come down in the
phiinnines. and IL will be Withdrawn, as
Mr.. Olney withdrew II IN HaWai though
in Cuba Mr.. 0lney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being ''alien territory" Trust u
proslayery Democrat to grab Cuba n
70 insist. as he does. that II must be-
come an Integral part Of the United
states" which the Rcpuhlican party aid
not accent as to mncSrsl territory when
,,rged for slavery aud will not when urg-
ed for semitic.
Mr.. Olney Is a Democrat. Tie needs
. marty. He has no other. 1t would be
strange IL he did not support a Demo
cratic candidate unless he were q public
peril. A public peril he admits Mr..
prvan Is. but since Mr.. Olney must sup
oort him. in spite OF this. IL is Of grave
nnblie service thar he has made plain to
ali men that Mr.. Bryan not only means
disaster at home hut disgrace abroad, a
policy OF seuttle. surrender aud retreat.
philadelphia Press.
France Disapproves Of Mckinley.
IL appears that President Mckinley's
letter OF acceptance has met with q very
erasty reception in France. President
! nt.f,i,tex,A ground with respect 10 the