Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — POLITICS OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POLITICS OF THE DAY

PROFIT AND LOSB. When the administration gets ready to make a report to the people as to the profit and loss of the policy of imperialism, how will the account stand? Certainly not in favor of a policy which burdens the nation with taxes and gives no adequate return. In 1890 the national receipts wens $403,080,982 and the expenditures $318,040,710, and the army and navy cost tie Government $00,589,044. How does the account stand for the present fiscal year? The receipts were $515,960,620 and the expenditures $605,072,179, of which $293,785,359 went for the army and navy. While McKinley’s administration has Increased taxes and raised the revenue in every possible way, the deficit this year amounts to SS9, Taxes have been increased 27 per cent, by the Republican administration, and the expenditure has doubled since 1890. Not only this, but the Interest-bearing debt of the Government has grown from $600,000,000 to $1,182,149,050. Now, what has McKinley to show for this enormous increase in debt and taxes? The war with Spain ended more than a year ago. This nation is supposed to be at peace with all other nations, yet war expenses go on at an increased

Beale. It will be difficult for McKinley to make his profit and loss account balance. The people of the United States are patriotic, but they are not imperialists, and they will not long approve of a policy which costs much more than R comes to.—Chicago Democrat. Hope Only l« the Pemocrncy. Never before since the dawn of the republic have greater dangers beset Its integrity. Moneyed greed, combined and entrenched under the protection of the Republican party, is fast marching toward the overthrow of the cominerciai and political freedom of the masses. An oligarchy of wealth Is laying siege to the underlying principles of government by the people. Militarism Is raising its mailed hand to strike down the basic enunciations of the declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal, and that the power to govern resides in the consent of the governed. The Republican party Is In league with the allied enemies to sacred principles and traditions that have successfully withstood foreign wars and domestic shocks for more than a century. To the Democratic party the nation looks for emancipation from the evils which threaten its perpetuity, and for continuance in the faith and practices of the fathers. The Democratic party must rise to Its opportunity. It must show a united and unbroken front to its foes and the foes of the country. Let it throw away feud and selfishness, and with harmony and unity on its bannerp courageously march to the rescue of the American people from the perils that threaten.— St. Louis Republic. WH'fet the Flag; Means. President McKinley says the flag will not mean one thing iii the Philippines and another thing in the United States. Well, that sounds all right, but what does the flag mean In Hawaii ’! It means that slavery flourishes the stars and stripes. The sugar barons have instituted a feudal imperialism in Hawaii and the laws they have made are upheld by the Supreme Court. Rabbi M. S. Levi, of San Francisco, who has Just returned from Hawaii, confirms this statement, as follows: “Slavery and involuntary servitude of the most degrading type ejeist in the Hawaiian Islands to-day as a means for the. enforcement of contracts made by laborers to work on the sugar and coffee plantations. Thirty-six Ga-

ttclans, subjects of the Austrian Empire, are now confined in Oahu prison, Honolulu, because they refused to longer comply with the onerous conditions Imposed on them by their owners. They were convicted of ‘deserting contract service,' and were sentenced to indefinite imprisonment. They can gain release only by buying their way out of prison or going back to ,the cane fields.” What does the flag mean in the Philippines? It means government without the consent of the governed, taxation without representation and a war o t imperialistic conquest What does the flag mean in the Sulu Islands? It means that slaves there can secure their freedom by paying S2O to their masters. Lacking this, the slaves remain subject to the tyranny which ended in the United States when Lincoln Issued his emancipation proclamation. Truly, President McKinley was more poetic than truthful when he gave that rhetorical recital as to what the flag means.—Exchange. Advanced, Even for Jingo. The copperhead of the present day is under the delusion that the principles of the declaration of independence apply to savages and half-civlHzed men, and therefore apply to the Fili-

pinos, who are utterly incapable of self-government. When Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence he was writing about civilized men capable of self-government. He had no thought of slaves or savages. The best way to civilize savages is to subjugate them. That was God's way In the days of Joshua, and it is the only sensible way at the present 1 time.— Braddock (Pa) Herald. Pnhtt'-ttjr for the ' r rn»t«. As the trust corporations are the creatures of thie State, It is the right and duty of the State to compel them to publish the condition of their finances and business. The knowledge concerning the financial condition of many an overcapitalized trust to be obtained from compulsory publicity would cause Its collapse without the necessity of other legislation on the part of the State or the general government. What is wanted Is light to reveal the secrets of trade conspiracies against the public. —Philadelphia Record. Alarer « Pathetic Spectacle. Alger allowed himself to be crowded out of the Cabinet on account of his Senatorial ambitions. Now he bos quit the Senatorial race. It would be a hard-hearted person who would not fed pity for this man, who went Into office little more than two years ago with magnificent opportunities and bright prospects, who Is now out of politics with all his ambitions shattered. Whether he is a victim of his own lust for power or of the intrigues of the Washington bureaucrats does not matter. He presents a pathetic spectacle.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Only ■ tarter.” The Chinese government has lodged at Washington a dignified but very earnest protest against Gen. Otis’ order extending the Chinese exclusion act to the Philippines. This is a mere suggestion of the international entanglements into which the policy of benevolent assimilation by bullets and military orders Is likely to bring this hitherto untroubled country of ours.—New York World. A Problem In Arithmetic. They say there are sixty tribes in the Philippines, and we are fighting but one of them. If tt takes 62,000 men twelve months to do up one tribe, how many men and months avIU it take to fix the whole lot?—Kansas City Time*