The evening times., 1900-09-10

President himself and his party who are
reopening the question and declaring that
ii is the issue of the issues. If the dis
cussion of an economic question affecting
the welfare OF the masses disturbs legitt-
mate business interests, why l believe
that those business interests ought to be
disturbed rather than legitimate discus
sion be suspended. But if what the Presi-
dent says be true, that bsiness is being
disturbed at present, he is the principal
disturber
in the matter of civil service reform
Mr. Mckinley says: Practical civil serv-
ice reform has always had the support ane
encouragement of the Republican party.
The ature OF the merit system is safe in
its lands
This is probably best answered briefly
by Representative Richardson in his cons
vention speech when he said: They declar-
ed in their platform that their party was
responsible for the merit system; that it
was their creature; and that the CiviI
Service law should be protected and It's OPP
Grafton extended.
Their protection of this law has been
such as the wolf gives the babe. They did
not dare openly repeal the law nor to mod
fy j. by an act of Congress, but they have
irsidlously, by an order from the President,
extorred from him to aid them to obtain
and hold political power, greatly impair
ed the efficiency of the law.
BY the Presidents order many thou
sand lucrative Offices regularly covered by
the Civil Service law were taken from IN
der the protection, and these places turned
over to his partisan followers in a vain ef-
fort to satisfy their political greed
Mr.. McKinleys eYasive and uncertain
paragraph concerning some canal of some
kind between the Atlantic and Pacific is
of about the same kind of rant which Mr..
Mckinley has been indulSing in ever since
he began to date his epistIes at the White
House The Republican party has
before pledged itself to construct
an 1sthmian waterway between the
two great oceans, but it has
repudiated the promise. This Administra-
tion negotiated the Hay-Pauncefote tTea-
ty which, while it virtually abrogGtes the
Monroe Doctrine, renders It Impossible to
build an American canal. Under the terms
and provisions OF this treaty, which is
English and not American, tie canal can
never be constructed.
The people of the country viii recog-
nize how Mr. Mckinley di5misses the An
gIo- -B0Cr war. Not one word of sympathy
for two Republics that have been de-
stToyed by an Empire-not a word of re
gret that the people Of two nations have
lost their liberty. And this, too, while he
IS under charges by the American people
of having secret alliance with that En-
pire which has crushed the Boer Repub-
lies.
Alliance With England.
The Constitution does not permit the
President of the United States to eede
territory to foreign government; yet IN
der the form of Il temporary agreement,
in a 'modus Yivendi such cesaion of ter
ritory has been made to Great Britain in
Alaska, the tile being made temporary
"a l4l On m Ha vii =,
a treaty of cession. But the cession
passes to Great Britain with the tempo
rary title, and The only thing necessary
to render it permanent is for Great Brit
ain never to negotiate a treaty for its ces-
sion back to the United States.
There is abundant evidence cf an aIli-
ance, not between the United States and
Great Britain, but between the Mckinley
Administration and the British Foreign
Office. Such an alliance, implied and not
legally ratified, is a double offence, since
ii not only violates our traditional policy
but, through a system OF avoidance adopt
ed by the administration, usUrps the pow
er vested conformity in the Executive and
the Senate and evades the Constitution
Our fundamental law presCribes a method
by which an underslEQ Qding may be reach
ed between this GOV ernment and foreign
power. 1t is d serious thing for an official
o. the Government TO nave an understand
ing with a foreign power arrived at by
any other than a legal method. The Presi-
dent VIII not confess TO the existence of
such an alliance To aVOw il would be to
invite Impeachment. From unguaTded Ut
terances and from fragrant acts it must
be discovered Both the utteTances and
the acts are in evidence and their testi-
rlOny is overwhelming
1t was publicly aFoTcd by British Off
cials and by the British press that the
sympathy Of Great Britain with the United
States in the Spanish war WAS not alto
gethCr sentimental but was expected to be
TeciprOcaJ5d by this Government as OC>
c2sions, which were anticipated should
arise. And on the very first occasion
thereafter. President Mckinley did Tecip-
rccatc. This was in the Chinese open
door negotiations. competed without TsTer-
ence TO the Senate, and in q policy of sym
pathy for Great Britain in q war against
the TTansvaal Republic. provoked for the
purpose Of oyerthIowing that Republic and
establishing British monarchical rule
Great Britain pEofessed to stand between
the United States and foreign Intervention
at the outbreak of the Spanish war, and
the Mckinley Administration stood be
tween Great Britain and intervention by
the powers in the South African affair
Mckinley also stood between Great Britain
and our own Congress in an expression OF
sympathy for the BoeT Republic
'Mr Mckinley seeks TO justify his
course II the Philippines by extracts from
the reports of commissioners appointed by
him and who thoroughly understood the
character of the reports which the Presi-