The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-25
WASHINGTON.
n our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Oct. 22, I

Washington, Oct. 20, 1900.
Republicans, from Mr.. Mckinley
down, have made this a campaign OF
Misrepresentation from .he start Mr..
Mckinley himself started the false
pretense that the war taxes would be
repealed at the coming session of Con-
gress, and the promise has been reit.
Grated and reiterated by republican
speakers and writer's in all sections of
the country. The war taxes will not
be repealed by the present Congress,
unless the election of Mr.. Bryan in
cites the republicans to do so with the
hope of embarrassing his adminstra-
tion, Tor the very simple reason that
the money they produce is necessary
to meet the expenses of the Mckinley
policy of imperialism. This is well
known to every prominent Official of
the Treasury Department, although It
would be as much as his place was
worth for any one of them to publicly
say so. But they don't have to say
anything, the figures tell the tale. The
official figures show that the total ex-
penditures of the government for the
last fiscal year amounted to $I6S,-
! o99, ,S2S.oo, and the total receipts to
SI7I,27I,45I.7I. Subtract one from
the other and you have the ''immense
| surplus about which republicans are
so fond of talking. There will be no
repeal of war taxes, but there will be a
reduction in the tax on beer, the
brewers having bought promise to
that effect with heavy campaign con-
trbutions. Still republican speakers
say it will be repealed. They 60
on the theory that vote obtained by
falsepretenses counts for just as much
as one bought for cash, and is cheaper
Echoes Of the big Bryan meeting
held in Madison Square Garden, in
New York City, will reach the remot.
est section of the country, and the
enthusiasm there aroused will spread
until 1t takes on the qualities OF
democratic tidal wave, which may be
great enough to sweep the trust-ridden
administration out of power, or may
Just tall short of that much to be de-
sired accomplishment. No man can
say in advance what the result of it
will be, but let it be what it will, it is
admitted, even by the McKinleyites,
that no such outpouring of the masses
as that which honored Mr.. Bryan has
ever before turned out in that city to
hear any candidate; and old campaign
ers, who were there, declare that they
were astonished at the intensity and
the amount Of enthusiasm aroused by
Mr.. Bryan and the other speakers. 1t
was revelation to New Workers and
it opened the eyes of many who have
heretofore refused to believe that
Bryan and Stevenson had chance to
carry the State of New York. One
enthusiastic Washington democrat
who attended the big meeting said /:
"That meeting was worth a million
democratic votes. 1t would have
been an absolute impossibility in that
town during the campaign of 1906"
Why Mr. Mckinley keeps an
American minister 1T Pekin when he
invariably turns down his advice and
recommendations and acts in accord
ance with what the Chinese Minister
to the U. S. says, is one of those
questions which a whole bunch of
Americans would like to have salts
factorily answered. 1t bobbed up
again this week, when Minister Con-
ger sent dispatch warning Secretary
Hay that the Chinese government
was not "toting far. After that dis
patch was received the Chinese MN
lister, in violation of all diplomatic u.s.
age, was allowed to have a personal
interview with Mr.. Mckinley, in order
that he might present a dispatch from
the Chinese Emperor to the would-be
American Emperor, thanking him foi
all he had done for the Chinese gov.
ernment, while members of that gov
eminent were melting the murder ol
Americans and other foreigners in
China, and Mr. Mckinley dropped
the political work IN which he is now
exclusively engaged for a whole hour
to swallow chunks of tafy presented
by the willy Chinaman.
Inasmuch as il has been well knowr