Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-09-21
Richard 0iney's Reasons.


effect of indorsing IT what it. Will
mean II the American people now
soleunly record themselves as ap
proving the Mckinley Admimistfa-
liOn and all its works.
Il. IL will mean that I hc Amer
lean people sanction II synlicatrd
Presidcncy-a Presidency got rnr
the Republican party b, the moa-
ey "i blnatIOn OF capitalists
intent upon Sc, uring national leg
islatiion in aid of ,heiI par, ocular
interest.
''2. Ii will mean that { he Amer
lean people approve the lrgisla-
ton thus obtained and ju tlfy such
Legislation az the DiDgley tariff
bill, with all it's devices for taking
consumers aud wage edrnrrs-tllat
is, the great mass of people-iu
exoneratiOn Of accumulated wealth
90. 1t will mean that the Amer
lean people uphold the policy of
greed and contempt for alien peo-
pies whose retributive consequent
ces are seen in recent events i'm
China; approve of our Joining The
ranks of International land grab
bers, and sanction the rapacity as
well as folly by which, while pre-
tending to buy, we in fact forcibIy
expelled Spain from her Philippine
possessions, and without excuse
either i'm the demands of national
honor or in consideration of the
national interest, have saddIed
on selves with the gravest respon-
siOIlities for some 100000 or 10,
100000 of the savage or at best
half civilized brown people Of the
tropics.
81 1t will mean that the Amer.
lean people approve the tactless
and brutal policy pursued since
the Philippine acquisition was
made, whereby what was pressed
upon the country as a treaty of
peace was in fact but the signal for
another more costly, bloody and
prolonged war.
40. 1t will mean that the Amer.
lean people approve the extracrdi>
nary factuous policy of impolicy.
or no policy at all, by which the
Philippines, many thousands of
miles from our shore an integral
part of the Uuited States, while
Cuba, the cause and-,ifis piratiion of
~lhe war, lying right at our door,
the key to the Gulf of Mexico alb
solutely essential TO our defense
against fotcIgn attack, il declared
alien territory and entitled To all
the rights of an independent SOW
ereignty.
THAT "PLAIN DUTY"
&c. 1t will mean that the Amer
lean people approve an .abdication
of its functions by the National
Legislature which leaves millions
oil human beings outside the pale
of any recognized code of law and
signifies for our new possession for
an indefinite period militar;sm of
the most unadulterated sort.
81. 1t will mean that the Amer>
lean people, having in their Pres.>
dent the sole representative of the
nation as whole, approve of a
National Executive who fails TO
uphold the dignity and the indie
pendence of his great office; who
exercises its functions in suhserv-
lence bolh to other branches of the
Government and to the clamor of
special pecuniary interests; who
condemnIng the acquisition of teY-
ritory by tn menace of c)ntinued
wa; who tiHus the '.,laih dutv' of
the Cover. IN eat 20 be one thing to.
day aud exactly the opposite thing
tomorrow, and whose disregard for
elementary principles Of civil ser.
vice reform is s. andal rs notorious
as IL is indefensible.
"o. 1t will mean that the Amer.
people indorse the policy by which
the United States of Americ, se.s
up IN business as an AsiatIc power
aud welcomes the large standing
armies, the increased naval forces
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