Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-09-13

ness as an ASlatle, power, and welcome the
large standing armies, the increased naval
forces the new administrative agencies, the
enlarged and more costly diplomatic service,
the onerous taxes the international compli-l
cations and the entangling alliance which,
and all Of which, are the inevitable inci-|
dents and consequences Of the Oriental role
to which MoKinleyism has undertaken to
pledge US.
THE TRIUMPH OF CORRUPTION.
Ninth-It viii mean that the American
people either do not see, or seeing, approve
the great and growing, if not already over
whelming, influence OF money in our poll
tics.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES WAS.
Our government was not conceived or
framed as a money -making machine even
for the profit of all the governed -much less
for the profit Of particular classes or portions
Of the governed.
Its vital principle and its browning merit
are that it stands for equal opportunities to
alI-that by the maintenance of order and
the administration Of justice it is designed
to give every man free hand in the strug
gle for the prize of life.
WHAT M'KINLEY HAS MADE IT.
This theory Of the true functions Of
Government McKinleyism directly an
tagonizes-by protective tariffs, by the
most intimate relations between the United
States Treasury and the general money
market, by subsidies to particular indus
tries by an aggressive colonial policy, and
in other ways it practically holds out the
Government as an engine for use in the
acquisition of private wealth.
The natural, the inevitable result is that
the money of the country holly pursues the
control of the Government as the source OF
more money-that the flag figures as sort
of commercial asset, replete with possible
ties Of pecuniary profit for its fortunate
cust0dians That under the influence of
McKinleyism such is the unmistakable
trend of things in this country at the pres
emit day, giving to the best devised policy
of all times somewhat the aspect Of stock
j0bbing democracy is only too apparent
Should McKinleyism now again prevail,
for example, it will not be because it is not
cordially distrusted and disliked by the
great body of American electors. 1t viii
be because of the influence of the purse and
Of the feIicitous application of an enormous
campaign fund-because Of an investment
scare, y which, if in some measure genuine,
will be in much larger measure artfully
worked up for election ends. To excite the
alarm of voters for their immediate pecun-
larry interests is easy; to evoke patriotism,
courage and unselfshness required to effect
serious political changes and indispensable
to dislodge a party which, comparatively
short intervals excepted has been intrench-
ing itself in the Government for nearly
forty years, is infinitely more difficult.
PANIcs MADE TO ORDER.
If the success of the Republican party
next November means all that / have
stated-and how can it mean anything less?
but one conclusion seems possible The
calamitous possibilities said to inhere in
Democratic success in the ensuing election,
exaggerated as they are by party zeal and
subsidized ingenuity, are outweighed by
certainties Of mischief involved in four years
more OF McKin1eyism. Stock exchange
panies often made to order, generally ir-
rational, and now freely predicted by those
who know how to make their predictions
good and are sure to profit by whatever
caprices the market may indulge in, are as
dust in the balance compared with the en-
during evils to result from the vicious
national policies which the American peo-
pic art ltOH QConCQ " lillBlCco WAtlt tttC
seal of their favor and to thus perpetuate
indefinitely. In the defeat of the Republi-
can party in the coming election lies the
only hope of the reversal of those policies
and of the beginning Of return to more
wholesome conditions. Such defeat would
be all the more obviously due to the Co
operation Of citizens in many things quite
at odds with the Democratic party and its
leadership. And it is defeat that should
come now and not later, because not to
reject McKinleyism at once tends to fasten
it permanently upon the vitals OF the
country.
For myself, therefore, find it tolerably
clear that citizens duty in connection
with the coming Presidential election not
only permits but requires him to desire the
success of the Democratic party.
Yours very truly
RICHARD OLSEY.