Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-10-28
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondents of the counrr.
Washington. October "a.

hnPo''ant Us showing the drift OF
public opinion on political issues.
and especially how the voters OF
therstates in which elections are
held view the cratic course of the
Republican Administration. If the
Republicans hold their own, il must
be taken for granted that the ma
jority of the voters of the United
States are satisfied TO continue the
extortion of the trusts through the
protective tariff and the continued
high prices of the cost of living.
BY endorsing the Republicans, the
voters will sanction the program
that the leaders of their party have
agreed upon, of allowing Congress
to take no action other than to pass
the appropriation bills and adjourn
at the earliest day practicable.
That would mean the transcon-
tinental railroads have sufficient
influence with the Republican lead
ers TO prevent the building of the
Panama or Nicaragua Canal: That
no action will be taken upon treat
les which President Mckinley so
ardently wished to see ratified, to
ward of the inevitable reform of
the tariff, which he foresaw must
come unless some relief from mo-
nopoly was granted; That the much
agitated labor legislation is again
to be postponed, and that the prom
ises made in the Republican plat
form are again to be broken: That
no investigation OF the frauds in
the departments is TO be under
taken; That the financial legislation
that has been declared so necessary
to prevent a panic will not bc at
tempted, and that Secretary Shaw
can continue TO loan the surplus,
without interest, TO favored banks
and continue To disobey the law for
the protection of the United States
by receiving doubtful security in
place of United States bonds,
which the law plainly commands.
Why is this Republican Admins
tration afraid to legislate on these
and other matterss Being in league
with the trusts and combines, they
dare not legislate against them.
They fear the people
If the Democrats show gains in
the elections this Fall, it will indi-
cate that the voters are determined
to turn out the Republicans, with
their numerous scandals. and inau-
gurate the reform that is so neces-
sary for the public welfare.
Equal rights to all and special
privileges to none" is the Demo
cratic slogan, and as the voters are
beginning to see that trust pros
perity means the piling up of mill
ions in the pockets of the favored
few and no fair share to the many,
it is only reasonable To expect the
voters will demand a change in
political conditions. That the Re
publican leaders are frightened to
the point of desperation is plain
enough or President Roosevelt
would not have authorized the
speaking members of his Cabinet
TO take the stump for Hanna in
Ohio and to bolster up the rotten
Lodge machine in Massachusetts,
and to aid the disreputable crew
in Kentucky that call themselves
the Republican party in the state.
Thedisagreement between Russia
and Japan and the utter breakdown
of the much-heralded open door"
in Manchuria has alarmed the ex-
port merchants of the United
States, and they have sounded q
note of warning to President Roose-
welt and the Republican leaders,
that instead of aiding the enlarge
ment of our business in Asia, they
have virtually closed the door that
was at least partly open. That
Russia will ever withdraw from
Manchuria is not within the realm
of probability; she owns the rail
roads and the banks there; the
Chinese authorities are subservient
to the Russian representatives; il
a word, Manchuria is Russianized
The boast of the Administration
that the treaty just concluded witt
China gives us two open ports IL
that country is, therefore, worth
less, unless Russia opens theIl
doors, for she has the key to boil
of them. Even if these two port
were open, are they of value Nook
den. one of the two. is on a small