The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-05
THE TEN LIVING BURNING CUES
TIONS.

TIONS.
The New York World, which is TAX
ing an active and earnest interest in
electing Judge Parker, has presented
the ten living questions in this cam
paign; as it sees them, in a singularly
strong and clear way. They are ten
strong arguments in favor of electing
the Democratic candidate which will
have great weight with independent
voters. We make room for the Worlds
article. 1t declares that 1.-The real liv-
ing, burning questions of the cam
paign are
Though Rider or Judge?
Shall the people of the United States
have for the next four years a per-
sonal or constitutional government
the sovereignty of a party dictator OF
the sovereignty of the people-a
Rough Rider or judge for chief mag
iStrate?
H.-Reform the Tariff.
Shall the tariff never be revised ex-
cept with the consent and under the
direction of it's beneficiaries-by "the
friends of it's abuses, it's extortions
revised in a judicial spirit by 1.-The
friends of the masses and for the com
mon weal?'
JH.-Curb the Trusts.
Shall monopolies like the beef trust,
controlling universal necessaries of
life, continue to receive the protection
of q sheltering tariff, and enjoy still
longer indulgence in the non-enforce-
ment of antitrust laws by reason Of
their enormous contributions to party
campaign funds and their potential in
fuence with party leaders?
V.-The Abuse of Power.
Shall the action of the President in
Kidding himself of the one successful
trust prosecutor in order to place the
corporatiOns--in making his former
private secretary and head of the De-
mcnt of Commerce a campaign
fund solicitor from the very corpora
lions he was appointed to diligently
investigate''-in appointing railroad
corporation official Secretary of the
Navy, and a political agent of the
Southern Pacific Railway to the head
of the department to supervise and
curb corporations Call 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 corpora
tons in politics and their controlling
influence in government be further en-
larged and confirmed by continuing in
power a party closely allied with them
by the granting of special privileges in
the tariff, by the election of corpora
ton agents to Congress and to State
offices, and through the reconstruc
ton of the Cabinet to meet their
views?
VI.-StOp the Extravaganza.
Shall we continue a policy of reck-
less extravaganza, as evidenced by the
expenditure of more than $4,000 ,000,-
600 during the last four years, or shall
we return to a reasonable economy?
VI.-Check the Corruption.
Shall corruption bred of too long a
lease of power, inStanced in the
half disclosed postal frauds, in the
land office scandals, in the pension
abuses, in the sale of offices and nego-
tiation of corrupt public contracts by
Senator Dietrich and Burton, in the
purchase of a seat in the Senate by
the Democrat, w. A. Clark, ratified by
Republican Senators, and In the as
tendency and executive recognition of
notorious corruptionS and profession
al spoilsmen, be condoned and con-
tinued?
VIII-No big Stick Buster.
Shall the attitude of the United
States toward foreign nations be that
of a bully with "big stick" and
chip on his shoulder, or shall we re-
turn to the policy of Washington and
Jefferson-"Peace and friendship with
all nations. entangling alliances with
nOne"-minding our own business and
expecting other nations to do the
same?
IX.-What Will the EilipinOs Do to Us?
Shall we continue the malevolent eff
feet upon ourselves of So-called "be-
nevolent assimilation" in the Philip
pines until it is too late to withdraw
from that deplorable and un-Amer-
can adventure in Asiatic colonialism-
which becomes all the more dangerous
the more we impose upon them the
veneer of our civilization-and until
the hybrid and forever alien races of
those islands shall be incorporated in
to our body polite. to cast the dies in
our national conventions, as the dele
gate from Hawaii did at Kansas City in
1900; to participate in our elections to
sit in our Congress, and eventually to
help to govern those who now by force
impose upon them government with
out consent and taxation without rep
resentatiOn?
X.-"Let Us Have Peace
Shall we, forty years after the end
of the war and after a complete recon-
Citation of the once hostile States tear
aSunder by q revival of the sectional
issue the bonds of fraternity and con
cortland this when the people of the
South have just secured the nomina-
ton of a conservative and sound mon
ey Democrat for President, and have
given repeated instances of the strong
est national and patriotic feeling?
ELIGIBLE FOR ONLY TWO TERMS
The Stokes county Republican Con-
vention adopted this resolution: BE
1t resolved That no Rnnnhlican Shall