Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
ASSAILED ROOSEVELT
OINEY DECLARED PRESIDENT
MENACE TO NATIONS PEACE.
Chief Speaker at New York Meeting
Last Night-Present Admins
tration a Swagger One.

A dispatch from New York last night
saws: A great audience packed Cooper
Union tonight to listen to Richard Olney,
Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Presi-
dent Cleveland The hall could not hold the
enthusiasts of democracy, and the fire.
quent roars OF applause were overwhelm-
ing in character. Mr.. Olney was making
his first formal speech of the campaign.
The affair was under the auspices of the
Parker Constitution Club and Joseph La
ROGUE presided.
Mr. Olney spoke in subdued tone at
first but as he warmed up he drew round
after round of applause. This was par
ticularly the case when lie characterized
the present government as one of ''swag-
ger, meddesomeneSs and lawlessness, and
when, in his argument on the Philippine
question, he said that even though anarchy
would have resulted by allowing the Fill
pinos to govern themselves in the FIRST IN
stance, self-government of any kind was
preferable to government by foreign ma
ton.
Shows Republicans the Way.
Mr. Olney said in part: IF the repub
lican party were really hostile to unlawful
and harmful combinations of capital it has
at command two weapons whose use would
be most effective. 1t could for one thing
prevent all ldNOTltlSiH UelWeeu GuSloIIlelS
on the part of railroads and other semi
public agencies employed in national COM
merce, and could require and compel in all
cases and for all concerned equality OF
service and equality of charge Nothing Is
more notorious than that the most eX-
elusive and most Objectionable monopoes
in this country have been built up and are
maintained by alliances between producers
and manufacturers on the one hand and
carriers or other semi-public agencies on
the other.
For another thing-as another way of
demonstrating its opposition to oppressive
moonpolies-the republican party might SO
amend our existing tariff laws as to enlarge
the field of competition, as to limit eX-
orbitant profits, and as to relieve domestic
consumers from the eXactionS of industries
so long and thoroughly established that
their owners, without artificial assistance.
can hold their own IN all the markets ol
the world
The Philippine Question.
"Our ACQUISITION and retention of the Phil
ippines have changed conditions. They are
1000 miles from our shores, and may at
any time present us with the alternative OF
submitting to a great national humiliation
or of carrying on most onerous ana proHt-
less war with one or more OF the great
European states. In short, without regard
TO any other consideration. whether OF right
or of wrong of eXpediency or of lneXpe-
d.ency, the Philippines have put us under
bonds to cherish the friendship OF all the
great civilized powers.
yet in spite of this obvious condition, IN
spite of the manifest niece ssity OF foreign
policy characterized by the utmost circu'n-
spection, the republican administration
whose Endorsement and continuance IN
power is sought, seems to take pains rather
to court trouble than to avoid 1t. Its med
dlesomeness its itching to take hand IN
everything that is going on in the world
anywhere seems to be chronic and in
durable.
A Policy Of Swagger.
$50 far as concerns the world at large our
foreign policy as shaped by the republican
marty is characterized by swagger. by med
dlesomeness and by lawlessness. In its spe-
cial bearing upon other American states 1T
is aggressive. arrogant and menacing, turns
peoples naturally our allies and friends into
enemies, whose enmity is all the more dam
gerous because masked and postponed in
its manifestation to abide some favorable
opportunity for making it effective. Not
one of them that is not asking itself how
soon Uncle Sam will invent or discover plau-