New-York tribune., 1900-11-03

10 expect Presidential candidate to meet the
issues OF the day with frankness and candor
Above all. they desire that be shall not attempt
10 deceive them with false statements or with
assertions which. by stating half the facts and
coneealing the others. give them false impres-
eion. Many of them have the time the
opportunity 10 learn from the public records the
details OF the questions under discussion and it
is only Just 10 them that those who appeal for
their support should tell them the whole truth
and nothing but The truth
have followed with great care ths published
accounts Of your addresses since the campaign
began, and assuming that you are quoted wth
reasonable accuracy am forced to the belief tta
you are doing yourself great injustice and
creating the conviction that you are not dealing
as frankly with the people you have been
accustomed 10 90 in the past.
/ assume. OF course, that you yourself know
the facts. and all the facts. relating to the sub
!ects which you attempt to discuss. They are
entirely accessible and as you have devoted
your entire time to matters Of this character
since your entrance upon public life ten years
ago ii IS reasonable TO assume that you
familiar with the subjects which you discuss
You have constantly criticised the course of
the President in suppressing the insurrection in
the Philippines; Vet you know that the insur
rection had been actually begun when the treaty
with Spain was ratified by Democratic votes
which were cast for il by your advice. and that
by that very act you aided in placing this re-
sponsibility upon his shoulders.
THE SIZE OF THE ARMY.
You criticise the size of the Army. Yet you
know that conditions in the Philippines
critical and the lives of troops there in great
Danger Wnen the temporary increase was asked
by the PRESIDENT; and you also know that the
act, which was supported by Democrats and
Republicans alike. is but temporary one, and
itself provides that the additions TO the force
shall terminate on July of next year,
You talk Of buying the FilipinOs and of ex-
tending government over new territory without
the consent Of the governed. when you know
that every foot OF territory west of the Missis-
sippi acquired by your party in precisely
the same way and the people temporarily gov
erned ny precisely the same methods, and that
the opportunities for local seIf-government
x4lfr hez- hear off he POrfD
vastly better than were given the inhabitants
Of the Louisiana Territory, Florida and the ter
ritory obtained from Mexico.
You talk about governing people without their
consent. yet you know that your party is
governing millions of people in the Southern
States without permitting them the voice In their
local or National government which the Consti-
tuition and laws guarantee them, and when the
matter Is brought TO your attention you have
not one word Of condemnation for IL, but meet
TIE issue with evasion worthy only of the merest
pettifoger.
You talk of trusts and charge the Republican
party with responsibility for them, yet you
know that during your own term in Congress
YOU did nothing except introduce two bills which
YOU permitted to die in the ptgeonholes Of your
own Ways and Means Committee You also
know that the Republican party enacted the
only anti-trust law ever passed by Congress.
and that your own party in the last session of
Congress defeated the only remaining remedy.
q constitutional amendment, which pro-
posed and urged by the Republicans, and which
required for its adoption two-thirds vote.
You complain Of the existence Of duty on
articles passing between Porto Rico and the
United States, amounting to ID per cent OF the
Dingey law rates, when you know that the real
purpose Of that to declare the right to regu-
late matters Of this character in regard to the
Philippines, and so protect our workingmen of
the United States from the cheap labor Of the
Orient, and that every cent of the duty thus COL
lected in this country as well as in Porto Rico
goes to the benefit Of the suffering Porto Ricans
for whom you profess so much sympathy. You
know also that this duty is but temporary, and
that the present law requires absolute free
trade with the island in less than seventeen
months from this time.
BUYING SOVEREIGNTY"
You said at Milwaukee. who says that we
can buy sovereignty over human beings?" Yet
you know that this is just what the greatest
leaders Of your party did IN the case of Louisi-
ana Territory, Florida and the enormous terri
tory obtained from Mexico. and what IT tried to
DO IN Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands. and you
knew when you recommended the ratification or
the treaty with Spain that you were recon-
mending this very action
At Indianapolis you complained that "a Re
publican President could send a telegram of
coincidence when a king dies, but when two
publics expire TO Republican sheds tear re-
ferring. Of course to the South African repub-
lies; yet you know that the United States Gov
eminent did more than any other nation on
earth to bring about cessation of hostilities in
South Africa that IT was the only Government
10 tender its good offices as mediator and that
Hague Peace Convention for IL to do more. The
telegram Of coincidence upon the death of the
Italian King. 10 which you sneeringy allude,
requires defence or explanation. as you must
know that international courtesies Of this kind
are always observed and that the failure to OBJ
serve them would Justly have subjected this
Nation 10 criticism.
You said at St Louis that under Il trust
system the travelling men Will not be n eded"
YET you know that investigations by the De-
tsrtment OF Labor show that the so-called trusts
nave increased instead Of decreasing the
Der OF travelling men and other employees. and
That they have increased and not reduced the
wages OF their WOrkingmen or salesmen, and you
Know from your constant travelling upon the
IalIroads that the number of travelling men
consider
trusts IS greater than ever before. and that
nis is shown by the records of the railways
travelling statesmen.
You constantly assert that the so-called trusts
nave advanced prices of the articles that farm
srs ouv much more than the advance In the
prices Of farm products. Yet the October 13
ISSUE Of 'Bradstreet's' shows that from October
J. 1899 to October l. 1900 wire nails fell from
20 = to - 80 keg: petroleum, from S.S cents
s,o,3 e. - cents gallon; pig iron. from S24 30 to
SIo % q ton; window glass. from 50 So to 50 30
thousand feet: copper. from 1s.s cents to ISL
eoI; leather. from 33 cents to 20 cents a pound:
ZEE Ssei biiets. from S29 10 $l7 ton. and building
onek from 81 75 10 81 a thousand All these
articles, you assert. are manufactured and their
prices controlled by so-called trusts. Yet in the
&C 11srnier show an advance-corn. from 20 cents to
e e cents a bushel; hogs. from 81 65 to $5 80 a
aa cents pound; wheat. from TO cents 70 70
sents bushel barley, from 46 cents 10 SO cents
oushel; cottonseed. from s11 TO SIT 35 ton;
nay from II cents TO 95 cents O hundred
''-hos, and hops, from 13 cents 10 f6 cents.
TRUTH ABOUT THE sULU TREATY.
lou iou talk Of the President sanctioning slavery
s ~ poiygamy in the Sulu Archipelago by a
tb with the Sultan. when you know that
IN only reference to either of those subjects
81 - the agreement was a provision by which
saves might purchase their freedom. You also
r Lo~ from public records that the President. on
Is Ipt t OF the agreement, Immediately instructed
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