The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-26
sircuIasion statement.
Hanna,s Subsidy scheme Endorsed

As was foreshadowed in the earlier
dispatches, the Damon and Phythias of
Ohio Republican politics (Hanna and
Foraker) completely controlled the con
vention of the party IN that State ana
dictated its every move. Those carrier
reports are also verified in the subject
matter of the platform, which virtually
ignores State issues, and is simply a
suited panegyric upon the assumed
achievements Of the Republican party
u, the field Of national affairs with, OF
course, the usual allotment Of verbal
bouquets to President Mckinley and
the two Senators who were running the
thing
According TO this document almost
everything in the situation row con-
fronting the country is just as it should
be, and all that is right is due to the
wise and beneficent policy of President
Mckinley About the only thing that is
out of true is the condition Of the negro
in the South, and this is all owing TO
the wickedness and peTfidy o. the DEM
ocratic party. The long range affection
OF Northern Republicans for the South
ern negro is almost equal to the cam
paign love which Hanna and Foraker
bear to each other.
It IS pleasing to note that the plat
form does not entirely overlook Mr.
Hanna's pet measuTe-the shipping sub
sf5y grab. That deIectable scheme is
not mentioned by name, but it was
merely because II would not have been
good politics % do so. The platform
demands such legislation as VIII re-
store our merchant marine 10 pre-eIni-
nence upon the sea, 50 that our grow
Ing foreign trade may be carried in
American built vessels manned by
American sailors under the American
flag This Is eloquent, persuasive, and
1t has a catchy, patriotic ring; but d.
vested of all fapdoodle, il simply means
a subsidy Of a couple Of hundred mil
lions to few big corporations
The Republican leaders can see no
possibility of the development of in
dustry ana trade except by the taxing
of all for the benefit Of few. 1t ought
To be clear 10 the most commonplace
Intelligence that, given a sufficient
bounty. anyone can build a factory or a
ship. but II does not follow that the.
building of ships and factories in that
way is the best method OF developing
the industries of a country. a system
that is built up by bounties must be
sustained by them, and al the first
whisper of a withdrawal of the artificial
support the whole fabric trembles with
fear.
But that is another story. The point
now is that with all his boIdness and
self-conadence Mark Hanna did not
dare to say subsidy in his platform.
He means it, though, just the same. and
II the Republicans win the shipping
plank will be construed as an unquaIi-
fed endorsement Of this scheme to loot
the Treasury.
The people of Ohio might as well IA
yor taxing themselves for the payment
of the Chinese indemnity as to give
their support TO the measure for which
Mr. Hanna stands sponsor-nay, better;
because the Chinese indemnity once
paid, that would be the end of il, while
the Hanna tax, like the brook, viii go on
forever, besides building up more giant
trusts TO prey upon the people.
II would seem as if the almost unGis-
guised championship of this nefarious
scheme Of plumber should turn the scale
in Ohio.