The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-15
HIT ROOSEVELTISM
A HARD BLOW
0LNEY AT COOPER UNION
REVIEWED THE ISSUES OF THE
CAMPAIGN.

Laid Bare the Republican Record
ON Trusts Showed the vital Bear
ing of the Protective system UDon
Our Foreign Relations; Put the
Credit for the Philippine Encum-
brance Where it Belongs; Held
Up Republican Extravaganza and
Corruption and Put it Up to the
People if They Want New Or
der of Things.
New York, Oct. 14.-Rtchard Olnev
was the chief speaker tonight at a
Democratic meeting held at Cooper
Union, under the auspices of the Par
ker Constitution Club of New York
city. Joseph Laroque presided and
spoke briefly in introducing Mr. Olney.
Mr.. Olney dealt with Roosevelt's
record and the record of the RepubH-
can party on trusts. He took up the
economic relations to foreign policy,
our relations to other American coun-
tries, the responsibility of the Philip
pines, which he discussed at length
and then tackled the reckless waste
of national sources by the RepubL-
can administration.
The figures are indeed start
ling, he said. Under the last Cleve-
land administration the running ex-
penses of the national government
someXhat exceeded 81, 900, 600 a day
they A'e now about 81, $780, 600 per day,
and, at the present rate of increase,
will soon reach $2,000,000 Four years
of Roosevelt will cost us in round
numbers $500, 100000 or 5000, 000 900
more than four years of Mckinley, and
nearly $500, 900, 900 more than the last
four years of Cleveland. In ten years
our population has increased about II
per cent, while for the same period
our national expenditures, including
OUTLAWS for the Panama canal and the
81. Louis Exposition, have increased
nearly Ga per cent. or nearly four
times as much. In the same decade
our War Department expenses have
increased by more than 122 per cent,
and our Navy Department expenses
by more than 255 per cent, a rate of
increase which, judged by the popu-
Iatlon test, would call for a popula-
ton of 115,00O,0 900 instead of S0,0O0 600.
Since the last Cleveland administra-
ton, while population has increased
ABOUT Il per cent, national eXpendi-
lures have increased about so per cent.
expenses, that is, have been adj
Nanced about five times as fast as
population.
The conclusions become inevitable,
first, that under Republican auspices
the American people are being saddled
with immense expenditures for purely
military purposes, and, second, that
in view of what is got for the money,
our national government is much the
most expensive In the world.
Prevalence of Corruption.
IF extravaganza may fairly be re-
garded as an Inevitable concomitant
of long and unbroken tenure of power
by political party, the same is also
true of official corruption. 1t cannot
be otherwise so long as human nature
Is what it is and though the rule could
be established by the history of every
great political party that has ever ex-
lsted, no research or argument on the
subject is necessary. For demonstra-
ton of the rule we need not travel
out of the record of the Republican
party Itself. The facts are as conclu-
slve as they are notorious. Within
ten years from the close of the Civil
War, one of its greatest soldiers be-
ing President, graft, as it is now
called, was found to be so rampant in
various branches of the national adj
HllnlStration as to thoroughly rouse
public Indignation on the cry, Turn
the rascals out, there followed a po-
Hucal revolution as complete as the
SURFACES Of voters could make it, The
details, though they point moral, do
not adorn a tale and need not be re-
counted.
Encouragement of LawIessness.
Besides engendering extravaganza
and corruption. the long and continu-
Gus domination of one political party
only too surely tends towards lawless-
less. In this respect a party Is like
an individual-the more it has its way
the more it wants IT, and the more
impatient it is of obstacles however
formidable The Republican party has
been so long practically irresistible,
ms been so long unchecked by any
thing like effective opposition that, as
against its interests or its desires. even
the constitution and laws of the land
Seem to have lost all deterrent force
Apologists for the party sometimes
plead that it's lawless manifestations
are due to the character of the present
national executive. He Is an impetu-
Gus, irrepressble person, 1t is SAID. VINO