St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-08-31
THE TEN LIVING ISSUES

The real, living, burning questions OF the
campaign are:
Though Rider or Judge?
Shall the people of the United States have for
the next four years Personal or Constitu-
tional government-the sovereignty of party
Rough Rider or a Aidge for Chief Magistrate7
II-Reform the TIA riff.
Shall the tariff never be revised except with
the consent and under the direction of Its bene
ficiaries- by "the friends of It's abuses, its ex-
tortions and its Determinations or shall 1t be
revised in judicial spirit py the friends OF
the masses and for the common Weal!"
III-Curb the Trusts.
Shall monoplies like the Beef Trust, control.
ling universal necessaries of life, continue to
receive the protection of sheltering tariff, and
enjoy still longer hnaHIgence " rsason OF snelr
funds.
Iy-The Abuse of Power
Shall the action of the President in Kidding
in order to placate the corporations-in making
his former private secretary and head of the
Department of Commerce campaign-fund
solicitor from the very corporations he was ap-
pointed to " diligently investigate".tn appoint
ing railroad corporation official Secretary to
the Navy, and political agent of the Southern
Pacific Railway to the head of the department
to supervise and curb corporations (all to aid
his own campaign)-shall this surrender of the
Rough Rider" be approved by the people?
v.-No Corporation Rule.
Shall the rule of corrupt corporations in poll
tics and their controlling influence in govern
ment be further enlarged and confirmed by
in p party ciosey aed with
the tariff, by the election of corporation agents
to Congress and to State offices, and through the
reconstruction of the Cabinet to meet their
views?
vI-Stop the Extravaganza.
Shall we continue policy of reckless extrava-
gance as evidenced by the expenditure of more
than s25O0 900 00o during the last four years, or
shall we return to reasonable economy?
yu.-Cheek the Corruption.
Shall corruption bred of too long lease of
power, as instanced in the half-disclosed postal
frruds, in the land-ofice scandals In the pension
ahuses in the sale of Offices and negotiations of
Corrupt public contracts by Senators Dietrich
and Burton, be condoned and continued?
vIII.-No "Big stick" Buster.
Shall the attitude of the United States toward
foreign nations be that of bully with a " big
stick and chip ON hi. shoulder, or shall we
return to the policy of Washington and Jeffer-
SON" Peace and friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none"-minding our
own business and expecting other nations to do
the same?
K-what will the Filipfnos do to us.
Shall we continue the malevolent effect upon
ourselves of so-called benevolent as sanitation"
from that deplorable and una merfcan adven-
tire in Asiahc c0lonialism-Which becomes all
the more DANGEROUS the more we impose
the hybrid and forever alien races of those
Islands shall be Incorporated into QUIZ body
r5olitic, to cast the die In our National Conven-
Hons. as the delegate from Hawaii did at Kansas
CITY in 1900; to participate in our elections, to
Govern those who now by force impose upon
hem government without consent and taxation
without representation!
x-"Let Us Have Peace.
Shall we. forty years after the end of the war
hostile States, tear assunder by revival of
the sectional Issue the bonds Of fraternity and