The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-06-21

and In d short time, instead of tell
ing US there Is no imperialism, they |
will be pointing us to the compar-
ative advantages of d fferent|
brands of imperialism. Some will
be labeled "Polygamy,"
others "Slavery," others "rariff
Taxes Between Parts OF the Union,
and still others with various desig-
nations more or less appropriate.
And then we shall have disserta-
tions on their respective merits by
a man whose only claim to renown
is that he bought a United States
senatorship and afterwards boast
ed that he "knows his business"
But when this happens we shall
have gained one point. We shall
have forced them to admit that
Imperialism is at hand just as we
have already forced them to admit
that trusts are today operating In
every state of the Union, In viola
tion of the law and to the ruin Of
the public welfare.
Behind these trusts-the indus
trial and the imperial--is one
grester than any and from which
all the other came. It is the poll
tical trust, operated by M. A. Han
ma and represented in the White
House by William Mckinley.
This is the trust that gets into
every state, every congressional
district, every county and every
precinct in this country, debating
who shall be candidates for public
office; who, being candidates, shall
be elected; who shall make the
laws, and what kind Of laws they
shall be when made. The political
trust is the trust that goes into
state legislatures and even to the
distant islands of the sea, tc pro.
cure public franchises for its favor
ties. This is the trust that deter
mines which party shall predomi-
nate in both branches of congress,
and in return for services to that
end openly and shamelessly be.
slows foreign consulships and local
offices upon those who promote its
interests. This is the trust which
gathers up the usufruct of all the
other trusts and applies their mill
ions annually to perpetuate itself
in power. This is the trust that
worms itself into political conven-
tions, as it has recently done in
Ohio and from this very platform
and is able to prevent delegates
from voting for their choice for a
state officer, even after they have
been instructed by their constitu-
euts for whom to vote. This Is the
trust that is able to prevent the
people of Ohio from celebrating
the one hundredth year of their
glorious history, in manner al
ready provided by law, because,
forsooth, the political trust would
make of the Ohio centennial a po.
litical machine. This is the trust
whose operations are universal
the mother of all the other trusts.
Sometimes its offspring multiply
too rapidly, and then it becomes
like "the old woman who lived in
a shoe-she had 80 many children
she didn't know what to do"
But when this happens to the po.
litical trust it has a remedy in kill
ing off some of Its children by Civ
ing others advantages over them
and so the family resumes its for.
mer numbers and prospers on con.
tinued robbery without attracting
too much attention. This trust
fxes the policy Of the government
by debating who shall constitute it
It is able to stifie freedom abroad
and breed corruption at home, fol
under its operations it is easier fol-
a political boss to buy a United
States senatorship in Ohio today
than for slave to buy his liberty
in the Philippines,
You cannot destroy the other
trusts and let the political trust
live. They must stand or fall TO-
gether, If all the other trusts were
destroyed, the political trust would
breed their successors; but II the
political trust is destroyed, all the
others will die from lack Of nour
ishment. To accomplish this is the
object of Democracy; it is the OBJ
ject of your assemblage here and
will be the object of the greater as
semblage that will presently give
q new expression of the nationa
faith at Kansas City. And when
that Is done and our candidate Ii
nominated at one stroke we shall
have made an end of the imperial
ism of industry and the imperialism
of arms.
| My friends, In all we think, In