The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-07

expect to give the country any real
reform. The platform is, in fact, a
contract signed and sealed, between
the Republican party and the ex-
plotting interests, guarnteeing that
nothing shall be done to force the
people from graft and extortion
ut is an admission that the money
to carry on the campaign is to be
drawn by the system and that means
that the system will be in control
after the election. The system is
run on business principles. and when
It puts up It's money to carry an
election 1T is sure TO be quite care-
ful about the security taken"
A resume of the currency law passed
by the last Congress is given with
comment in part as follows: ~
"Here is BILL designed to pre-
vent panics like that which swept ov-
err the land last fall. Nowhere in
the bill do you find the slightest
mention of the cause of that. and
of all other panics-the. dlstrust of
the bank depositor. " the situation
were not so serious. this bill would
be the most colossal joke of the CEN
turv. e
"The bill neither gives the elastic
currency of the Canadian plan nor the
direct government action of the DEM
ocratic plan. The machinery for Is
suing the emergency currency Is so
roundabout that half dozen panics
could be well under way before the
circulating medium could get out
"But the principal fau't of the bill
Is that It is not honest. The Gov
eminent is asked to go into partner
ship with the banks. even farther
into partnership tfan now When
the United States Government lends
its name to an enterprise. the least
It can do is to insure that every
one dealing with that enterprise
gets fair play.
'.If the Government is to cooper
ate in the banking business, then the
Government must secure the bank
depositors. If this is not done, then
the Government should withdraw al
together and meddle no more with
hanks than with grocery stores
On HImperialism" the manual
says: 'The Democratic party has a
plan; the Republican party has no
plan that it dares to reveal. TIE
Democratic party deals frankly with
the subject; the Republican party is
neither candid with the american
people nor with the Filipinos. The
l,ro,,it,, opd on,hiotitx, of tLa nanuh
lican platform indicates a desire on
the part of the Republican leaders
to avoid the subject as far as pos
sible.
Secretary Taft takes the liberty
of amending his platform on this sub
iect as he does on several others. by
introducing the matter which cannot
be found in the p'atform, or by any
reasonable construction be adduced
from II. The Republican platform
says nothing about independence,
while Secretary Taft holds out the
hope of independence: for to say that
It is unlikely that the people will
he ready for independence before two
generations must mean that they
viii after that time be ready and
ought TO have it, .a
"1n his attempt to defend the
holding of the Philippine Islands he
has laid himself open to just criticism
by conccaling the cost OF imperial
ism. The Democratic platform pre-
sents the only solution consistent
with out traditions and our ideals.
II Is to declare the nations intention
at once. This the Republican party
has never done.
FWhen the Filipinos know that
they are to have Independence as
soon as a stable government Is estab-
lished they will join us the moro
heartily in Fastening the day of in
dependence. and that independence
will be easily preserved. hecau.e the
great nations of the world will be
wiling enough to join In the neutral
i1ntinn Of thp isIandc -