The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-31
A TRUE INDICTMENT


dfctment It has attempted through
: Gov. Taft, Secretary Shaw and others
to refute his charges. In these last
days of the campaign it is pursuing
the policy of trying to gloss over the
surface of things, believing that the
voters could be deceived until they
have given the administration certifi-
cate of character for four years more.
The charges are true. Judge Parker has
reiterated them in his latest speech,
and they can be fortified abundantly
by facts and figures.
The waste of treasure in our opera
tions in the Philippines has been enor-
NOUS The Globe and the Demo-
cratic party have no quarrel with our
acceptance of whatever duty or re-
sponsibility may have been forced upon
us in the Philippines by events. They
have a quarrel mighty and lasting with
the policy that holds these islands and
their people as subjects outside of the
constitution, and as material for ex-
ploitation by American greed. For that
we are now paying millions upon mil
lions, and for that we are closing the
last chink of hope to the Filipino pa
triot.
Worse and worse grows the financial
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the last days of the Harrison admins
tration were days of swift decline into
national bankruptcy, and just as the
sins of the Republicans then were
visited upon Democratic heads during
the administration of President Cleve-
land, so now the extravaganza and in
capacity of the party in power are
hurrying the country into financial
ruin Not to dip into past affairs, not
to take up the hideous record of the
last four years, it ought to be enough
to show that the first sixty days of
the present fiscal year registered ex-
penses exceeding receipts by $24.0OO,0 600.
This cannot be explained away. 1t
is not something extraordinary, but
represents the reckless prodigality of
Republican rule. Rich as the country
is and enormous. as are its revenues,
the Republican party in the grip of
grafters is obliged to spend more. The
situation is perfectly clear to the eye
of every business man. If a Repub-
lican administration remains in power,
then before twelve months have passed
we must either levy new taxes or sell
bonds for current revenue.
This is the price of keeping in power
a party pledged to extortion and
monopoly. The trusts are ready to
furnish unlimited money for Repub-
lican campaign purposes, but they
have a bond that it will be returned to
them with heavy interest from the
pockets of the people. There will be
no reduction of expenditure. There
will be no lessening of the heavy cost
will still keep the price of all commodi
ties in our markets from 25 per cent
to 500 per cent higher than the same
articles from the same workshops can
be bought abroad. after the manufac-
turer has paid the cost of carriage for
thousands of miles. The big stick will
be locked up in a closet as far as
monopoly is concerned Greed and
combination will have their way, and
the power of the government will be
used only to punish or coerce those un-
friendly to it.
Nothing can stop the wild squander-
ing of public money with the Repub-
ncan party in power. Had it been
able to do so it would have cut down
appropriations at the last session, with
an election in prospect. 1t could not
do so because the treasury hooters are
its masters. Where they grabbed with
one hand before this election. they will
plunge both into the national Golfers
If their title is confirmed. We say
calmly that if the Republicans have
power for four years more there viii
be such riot of extravaganza as even
this country has never seen.
Opposed to this regime stands Judge
Parker and the national Democracy.
They have no alliances with the trusts.
They have refused the proffered sup
port of the great monopolies for their
rampaign. They are working for the
people. They demand economy and
honesty in administration. They pro-
pose the tearing down of those restrfc-
tions that hamper trade and the aboli-
tion of the protective grant of favor
itism to overgrown monopoly 1t is
for the people TO choose between these
two prospects.
Let no man go quietly and indif-
ferently upon his way, thinking that