The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14

lueuCy-d pFceluoHCy boI ioI 1io NO
publican party by money or combi-
nation Of capitalists intent upon Sc
curing national legislation in aid of
their particular interests.
"Second-"It will mean that the
American people approve the legisla-
ton thus obtained and justify such
legislation as the Dingley tariff bill
with all its devices for taxing con-
sumers and wage earners-that is, the
great mass of the people--in exonera-
ton OF accumulated wealth.
"Third-It will mean tina: the Ann
erican people uphold the policy OF
greed and contempt for allen peoples
whose retrihutipe consequences are
seen in recent events in China, ap-
prove OF our joining the ranks OF in
ternational land grabbers and sane
ton the rapacity as well as folly by
which while pretending to buy, we In
fact forcibly expelled Spain from her
Philippine possessions and saddled
ourselves with the gravest RESPONSE
bilities.
"Fourth-It will mean that the Am
erican people approve the tactless and
brutal policy pursued since the Philip
pine acquisition was made.
"Fifth-It will mean that the Am
erican people approve the extraordi-
narily fatuous policy or impolicy, or no
policy at all, by which the Philip
pine archipelago, many thousands OF
miles from our shores, becomes an in
tegral part Of the United States, while
Cuba, the cause and inspiration OF
the war, lying right at our door, the
key to the Gulf of Mexico, and abso-
lutely essential to our defense against
foreign attack, is declared alien terri
tory and entitled to all the rights Of
an independent sovereignty.
"Sixth-It will mean that the Amer
can people approve an abdication of
its AUCTIONS by the national legislature
which leaves millions of human beings
outside the pale of any recognized
code of law and signifies for our new
possessions for an indefinite period
militarism of the most unadulterated
sort.
"Seventh-It will mean that the
American people, having in their
president the sole representative of
the nation as whole, have national
executive who fails to uphold the
dignity and the independence of his
great office; who exercises its func-
tions in subservience both to other
branches Of the government and to
the clamor of special pecuniary inter.
ests; who, condemning the acquisi-
ton of territory by force as criminal
aggression wrests her possessions
from foreign State by the menace of
continued war; who finds the plain
duty of the government to be one
thing today and exactly the opposite
thing tomorrow.
"Eighth-It will mean that the
American people indorse the policy in
which the United States of America
sets up in blu siness as an Asiatic power
and welcomes the large standing ar
mics, the international complications,
and the entangling alliances, all OF
which are the inevitable incidents
and consequences of the Oriental
role
"Ninth-It will mean that the Am
erican people either don't see, or see.
ing, approve the great and growing il
not already overwhelming influence OF
money in our politics. The natural,
the inevitable result (of protective
tariffs, subsidies, and the like) is that
the money of the country hotly pur,
sues the control of the government as
the source Of more money-that the
flag figures as a sort of commercial as
set, replete with possibilities of pc
cuniary profit ior it's fortunate custo
dams. Should Mckinleyism now
again prevail it will not be because il
Is not cordially distrusted and disliked
| by the great body OF American cleo
tors. 1t will be because of the In.
fiuence of the purse and of felicitous
| application Of an enormous campaign
fund-because of an Investment
scare which. if in some measure gen
uine, will be in much larger measure
artfully worked up for election ends
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 pos
sibilities said to inhere in Democratic
success in the ensuing election, exag
gerated as they are by partisan yea
and subsidized ingenuity, are out
weighed by certainties of mischief in
4 volved in four years more Of McKin
fleyism. Stock exchange panics, often
made to order, generally irrational
and now freely predicted by those
who know how to make their pre-
dictions good and are sure to profit by
| whatever caprices the market may in
dulge in, are as dust in the balance
compared with the enduring evils tc
result from the vicious national poll
cies which the American people are
| now desired to impress with the yea
of their favor and to thus perpetuate
indefinitely"