Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-04-18
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Some Things That Well Might
Have Been Omitted.
ais REFERENCES TO ECONOMY.

Pnrty's Hecord-Surplus In the
Treasury-Trcntmcn of the Cuban
and Philippine Mntters--Isun1 I'm.
pcrialistic Argument.
President McKinley's inaugural ad-
lress was disappointment to all who
expected him to say something impor-
tant. From beginning to end it was
cords. words, words. in Il conglomera-
ion which mace sense, but conveyed
40 information. says the New York
News. Very few people thought there
would be any declaration Of policy, but
there was Il general belief that he
would ut least attempt to give reasons
for his remarkable executive career.
It would not be correct to describe the
address as mass of platitudes, for
platitudcs are reiterated truths, and
he few verbal eXactitudcs uttered by
the president did not originate with
Mckinley.
Naturally he congratulated himself
that there is IL big surplus in the treas
ury, despite the expressed wishes Of
the people for its reduction. But the
Republican party when in power ut
Washington has too many places to put
the public money to care about con-
Quoting the government on it's consti-
tutional basis.
All references to economy might as
we'll have been omitted. They did not
sound we'll after the Qualification over
chance to be eXtravagant.
That we are ostensibly at peace with
the world Is no credit to President Nc
Kinley or his advisers. And II their
foreign policy is continued we will yet
lind ourselves engaged in active hostil.
tiles.
Sectionalism may be gone, but the eff
forts Of Republicans to force conflict
in southern states through multiplicity
IF venal ballots doesn't look like it.
We are not on an equality with other
nations Not long ago the claim could
have been truthfully made, but now
we are forced out Of the front line.
where we properly belong and are fur
nishng spectacle for other peoples
who wonder at our folly.
George Washington solemnly warned
this country against cntangling foreign
alliances. President Mckinley says:
"The American people . reject as
mistaken and unworthy the doctrine
that we lose our own liberties by secur-
ing the enduring foundations Of liberty
to others. Our institutions will not
deteriorate by extension and our sense
Of justice will not abate under tropic
suns In distant seas" Mckinley Is
more poctical than Washington, but
the Father Of His Country had horse
sense and no desire for imperialism.
There is no fear Of the nation retro
grading IL left to its own natural
course. 1t will grow and develop along
lines more firm than those furnished
by riotous extension.
Few men have the nerve to get up
before an audience of thousands ana
stultify themselves. President McKin'
lev in relation to Cuban matters said.
The declaration OF the purpose OF
this government in the resolution or
April 20. lHoS, must be made good.
rei be has repudated the pledge con
aimed II, that resolution.
we arc not wngirg war against the
inhabitants Of the Philippine Islands
portion of them are making war
gnnst the United States" said the
president. s'ophisticai, as usual. by
ar the greater part Of the Inhabitants
recognize American sovereignty he
declared. Ey far the greater part do
,otnlny OF the kind The bought sub
mission Of few thousands does not
'rprrsent the surrender Of 100000.
The New Orleans Times Democrat.
vvirwing the address, says In refer
'nce to the Philippine question:
The president makes an argument IN
'avor of expansion which has been Of
len heard before and which does not
gain strength by repetition. A single
sentence from the address will make
lraD what that argument IS. ''rhe
american people" lie says. "intrrnchcd
u freedom at home, take their love for
t with them wherever they go. and
hey reject as mistaken and unworthy
he doctrine that we lose our own lib.
rites by securing the enduring foun-
lations of liberty to others. Our instl-
-utions will not deteriorate by exten.
sion. aud our sense OF justice will not
.batc under tropic suns In distant
seas" This Is the usual extraordinary
argument Of the imperialists The Fl.
!pinos don't know what freedom is or
what sense OF justice is until we
shoot both the one and the other down
heir throats with KraG-.Iorgensens
And the imperialists' Freedom" and
sense OF justice" are the most gro
'esque kinds of freedom" and sense
II justice" that this republic Of the
west has ever had anything to do with
heretofore. Freedom" in this imperi.
llistic sense means the freedom which
pne man has to kill another man who
refuses to accept the kind Of govern.
ment imposed on him by the former.
and it will be news to Americans that
this is the freedom" which they love
and which they carry with them wher-
ever they so.
Backward Stems.