Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

sible reasons for invading it's sovereignty or
grabbing its territory. Not one of them
that is not apprehensive of the time when
Uncle Sam will think it proper to admin
lister discipline for misbehavior. Not one
of them that will not welcome any foreign
alliance that promises to curb the greed
and the insolence of the United States.
Philippine Responsibility.
Eve are indebted to the republican party
and to its presidential candidate more
than TO any other man-that, in addition to
its domestic and foreign policies, the United
States finds itself also incumbered with the
burdens and eXaCtions of another which is
neither wholly domestic nor wholly foreign
but which, for want of a better name, may
be termed colonial. 1t chiefly concerns the
10000 of brown people we recently bought
of Spain-or rather pretended to buy. since
the OStenSible purchase was q farce and
we got the Spanish title to the Philippines
only because Spain was under duress and
was too weak to refuse to sell.
THE criminal aggression the republican
party was thus guilty of now returns to
plague tia result to be welcomed as
sequences could be saddled upon it alone
instead of being borne, as they must be,
by the whole American people.
Increased Expenditures.
Under the last Cleveland administration
the running expenses of the national gov
eminent somewhat exceeded 100000 Il
day-they are now about s1500,o00 per day,
and, at the present rate of increase will
soon reach 100000. Four years of Roose-
Welt will cost in round numbers 81 COO
100000. or s2C0. O00cco more than four years
of Mckinley, and nearly 500, O0o, 600 more
than the last four years of Cleveland.
I'm ten years our population has increas-
ed about IL per cent. while for the same
period our national expenditures including
outlays for the Panama canal and the st.
Louis exposition, have increased nearly 81
per cent, nearly four times as much
In the same decade our War Department
expenses have increased by more than l22
per cent. and our Navy Department ex-
penses by more than 255 per cent "A rate of
increase which. judged by the population
test, would call for a population of
115,O00.o0O instead of $1,000, 600. Since the
last Cleveland administration. while pop
ulatlon has increased about - per cent,
national expenditures have increased about
GO per contemporaries. that is. have been
advanced about five times fast as pop
ulation.
Lawlessness and Long Domination.
Besides engendering extravaganza and
corruption, the long and continuous domi-
nation of one political party only too sure
ly tends toward lawlessness. Apologists
for the party sometimes plead that its law
less manifestations are due to the charac-
ter OF the present national executive. He
is an impetuous, irrepressible person il is
said who has seized the party machinery
and run away with the whole concern. Bat
the party has nominated him for President
unanimously. Nor is there a single law
less act of his that the party has ever dis
avowed.
Hence. though the hand may be that of
the President OF of n cabinet officer every
such act is the act of the republican party.
1t is as responsible for what it forgives
and condones as for what it expressly au-
thoriZes before the deed is done. The re-
publican party it is. therefore, which, in
violation of treaties and international law,
and of our own municipal law as well,
makes wanton war upon Colombia and
despoils her of the most important part of
her territory.
What Democracy Means.
Against the self-seeking. the conceit. the
impotence Of legal and conventional re-
straints. the devouring ambition, which are
at the bottom Of such a candidacy the DEM
ocratic party protests not in words merely,
but by the very character of it's nominee
for the presidential office. 1t not only an
republican policies as already de-
submits to the judgment and
of the American people that,
whatever be the policies the republican
candidate for the presidency has demon
strated his unfitness to be the head and the
official representative of a free. a law-abid-
ing and peace-loying people.
I'm its own nominee II presents candi-
date who is the exact antithesis OF the re-
publican candidate.
Col Charles A. De Arnaud Of 416 9Th
ST. NV Washington d. c., says under date oc-
tohcr g. 1904: ! have been using Rpans Tabules
for eight years, and do say that ! owe my