The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-29
Is Not, Nor Does He Expect to Be, Candidate
for the United States Senate
Any Course but to Fill the Office to Which He
Is Elected Would Be Political
Dishonesty.

gold for peace" and yet they have pr&
the. sultan of Sulu upon a salary and
guaranteed that he may practice polyga-
my and possess slaves in peace.
In his speech at Chicago on September.
18th Mr.. Hanna said: IT would like Mr.
Bryan or any other Democrat to tell me
2. trust In the United States = Trust, I"
Mr.. Hanna, Is word used to describe
tnose huge combinations or amalgama-
tlons OF capital. which are today sitting
compet etltlon and unWarrantly increasing
the price of every article of manufad.
ture consumed by our people. A trust
OF capital, and what Mr.. Bryan calls
monopoly. A trust" is one of those
{ honest cooperative corporations which
IN the aggregate are capitalized for soma
$S,OVO 00,O00, that is fifteen times as much
as the valuation for taxation of the eII-
TIRE State of Minnesota for the year
1888. Which have resulted in arbitrarily
enhancing prices to such an extent that
farm products, salaries and laborers' q A.
ges Will now purchase only three-fourtns
as much of manufactured articles aa
they would at the beginning of Mr.. Me-
IA1nley's term. Which have enabled the
Standard 81 1a6G Oh company to earn SS9,O0O,O 600
IN IN 1879 and the Ue, American Steel and Wire
company S15,OO0,00 during the same year,
Wnlch is more than the entire wheat
OF this state. The trusts are those or
el3lll7.a gaml7zauons which are absorbing all the
people and gradually reducing the people
themselves into mere employees
Honest republicans until now have
hoped and believed that their party
would give them relief, but Mr.. llama
says lnefe are no trusts, and this frank
statement explains what the Republican
PLATFORM means when it says 1--WE rec
osHlze the necessity and propriety of the
honest cooperation of capital to meet
new business needs, especially to extead
our rapidly increasing foreign trade"
Here, then, is the Republican arzu-
ment, imperialism, Militarism and
iirtsts irte are al bad, and we deny their ex-
Heet at Manila, hence we must subject.
mold and govern the entire Philippine
ariGcnlpelago, for such is the evident
not M3t imneria| OF Sod |ieS3 I'VE We say this Is
and therefore we must have large
sstandlng army; We deny that this is MIL
fedrlSln. faiidS An increased foreign trade will
follow this condition which only huge
can handle; we deny the
existence of trusts, but we must have
dhe dh3ot consolldations" - /" Therefore, when you
oplect TO paying an artifcially enhanced
price Tor sugar, oil, salt, clothes, beef.
hardware, hats, shoes, or in fact any
S,fs,ti. OF the necessaries Of life, you are tar
IN league with Agllinaldo. little Amer
lean q, coward in time of war and q sia
pudlator in times OF peace,
REPUBLICANS ARE DoDGIHG
1t is not to be wondered -at9 that nn5,a.
IIhese circumstances it is assumed by
hepuDncan orators that none of these
foaes tbes oLl s1ons are OF much Importance, that
tne money question is after all the reel
issue In this campaign that the preser-
yallon- OF the gold standard is the. vital $
9oesfl9a, ttoesI n. They declared for interna-
iona lional olmetalllsm in 1886; since then they
nave Doasted Of having firmly estabiisI1l
Sd the gold standard, but now when afheS,
M1o md mat they cannot defend their record
upon the new and tremendous Questions
". Mnich ll nave arisen they doubt whether
they nave, in the language of Pere Je-
rome, figs dat law" or not-perhans III
lney had four years more they would
pace the coined as we'll as paper Money
T. the control of the national banks.
and so they ask us to re-eiect Mr. Mo-
hlnley, not because we approve of his
Policy, Dut because we fear Mr. Rrvar,
II Is an argument unworthy of a great
= party, r! ana Senator Davis, when he used
II IN Chicago, after devoting hours foS q -
defense of the presidents policy CONCERN
ing the Philippines, Porto Rico and Cl1hs
must nave realized this, for while decIar,
LIS. ffiS: lt 70 De the paramount issue he re-
!IdlHeQ from attempting to hold his and.
lence by speaking upon it at anv IanCTi,
NO matter what we may believe a. to
the new questions which have arisen
concASa 'lte tsai, past Tour years. we must all
army actively operating in foreien
iand we have actual and undisputed nos
session or Porto Rico, we have WITH no
Sae SLe ttuseS gfoWn to such proportions that
SENATOR hanna alone cannot see them
CPon these questions as to what tha
poLcy or this government shall be to-
wards the Porto Ricans and Fiifpinos or
oe o4MSfos va the sultan of Sulu. the people
on TINS country have never had an opn6rs
ssunIly OF voting, and now when the fima
mas come for the American people to
express their will the Republican nartV
oeghS oe IlaI 70 peg tne question and have this
decided upon a. minor ollestinn
~ ~Wnicn they themselves claimed to have
settled four years ago. 'sTh,Is onn
science does make towards of US ALL ~