Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION.

Democratic Party Is Conducting Such a Campaign This Year. The Republicans had a great deal to say four years ago about a campaign of education. It is the Democratic party that is conducting a campaign of education this year. They are pointing out to the people the enormous cost of imperialism and showing the evils that inevitably grow out of a policy such as now actuates the present administration. Some of the facts deduced in teaching this lesson are startling and the Republicans would prevent the publicity given these facts If they dared, but they have been unable to prevent the publication of\figures that appear In official reports. Imperialism naturally leads to extravagance, and nowhere Is that extravagance more apparent than in the medical department. There are four hundred medical officers on duty In the Philippines. Their salaries amount to $720,000, averaging SI,BOO per man. There are at present 60,000 troops In the Philippines, and of these 5,000 are reported as being on the sick list. This sick list amounts to 8 per cent, of the total force. Reduced to dollars and cents this means it costs the government $144 a man to care for the sick and that under each doctor there are only twelve men. If this is the average of care and trouble assigned to each member of the medical corps the war In the Philippines for this portion of the army is little more than a picnic. These expenditures do not include the pay of the hospital attendants, the nurses or the cost of medicines. It only needs a study of the official records to show the gross extravagance of the medical department. There are five hospitals in Manila containing 1,277 men. These men are cared for by a staff of tbirty-fhr,ee officers, an average of one surgeon or doctor for forty men. These figures show that one of two things exist. Either extravagance has been permitted in order to enable the President to appbint contract surgeons in the shape of patronage at the behest of politicians, or the percentage of sickness in the Philippines is much greater than the department has represented. Certainly, this disproportionate number

of doctors Is not needed for the small number of sick compared with the large number of medical officers. The departmeut Insistß that the sick reports have not been doctored, and It Is therefore responsible for the large number of appointees that have been placed upon the War Department pay rolls. An Honest Confession. The people generally think the intention of Mark Hanna and others of bis kind Is to make this country an empire that they might be perpetuated in power so long as they may be permitted to live, yet It is only now and then that any of those who would bo willing to see Mark Hanna in power for life, make an honest confession. The boldest confession of tills kind comes front the Dos Moines Globe, and should be a warning to every American wlio loves liberty and a country .that guarantees It. When the men who are In power would prefer a crown, it Is only a step from the republic to the empire. The paramount question to be settled Is “Shall this nation stand or shall it fall?” The voters must decide It. Read the following from tbe Des Moines Globe and then decide whether you want Bryan and a republic or Mark Hanna and an empire: Now Is n good time for America to ilo away with her old, obsolete constitution and adopt a form of government that will be logical with our new expansion ideas and will give ample protection to capita*. We should not be disgraced In the sight of civilised nations, as the violence and killing that accompany the operation of street cars in St. Louis now. A constitutional monarchy la probably the most desirable plan that we could now adopt Everything Is ripe for the change. We have a large army and It can be Increased under almost any pretext without causing alarm to the masses. This country has been so prosperous that the voters hare lost the spirit of patriotism and honesty that are necessary to the successful operation of republica. Tbe strong iron hand of discipline will hare to be used to bring the masses to a foil sense of proper behavior. The Policy of Imperialism. It Is costing tbe people of States 910,000,000 a month to maintain tbe war In |be Philippines. This |lO,000,000 Is tgten from the pocket! of the millions of 4>r population who work long hours fdt a scanty reward. It Is principally raised by taxing consumption, and such h tax Is always borne

by the ms.py who toil while ft does net burden accumulated wealth. The men who till the soil and the men who work at the forge or In the factory pay the war tax: To preserve the national honor, this burden would be borne by the loyal people of the United States without complaint and gladly. But there Is no salve of patriotic purpose to keep this load of taxation from chafing the backs of tbose who bear it. The war In the Philippines Is waged to subdue a people who ask only for freedom. In carrying It on, the great American republic has turned its back upon Its most sacred traditions. By force the McKinley administration la seeking to make the Philippines a subject colony, without anv regard to the “consent q{ the governed.” It is to raie an alien and distant people as Great Britain rules India that $10,000,000 a month Is exacted in taxes from our people and 70,000 American soldiers are offered to death, wounding and disease, 5,000 miles from their homes. This Is not the policy of the Great American republic. It Is the new and dangerous policy of imperialism. McKinley as a Chaser. President McKinley spends a large section of his time chasing across the, country from Canton to Washington and back again. First he goes to Canton and sits on the front porch and wonders why the millions of grateful workingmen don’t come up and thank him for the full dinner pail. Then he gets tired of that and rushes back to Washington with the announcement that the Chinese situation has reached a crisis. As to the President’s influence on the Ohio vote, it Is—nil. lie won’t make a hundred votes difference in the result whether he stays In Canton or Washington. Mark Hanna, and behind the trusts, are central figures in the Republican campaign. The President with the “chocolate eclair backbone” doesn’t matter. Lawlessness Among Mine Owners. These men, however rich they may be, however powerful, however respectable in their own sight, have deprived thpmselves of the right to rebuke the poorest and most ignorant miner should he defy the law. They can ask nabody to sit at their feet and

loam respect for statutes, for they themselves have been law breakers on system In a specially mean and sordid and cruel way. They have broken the law providing for semi-monthly payment of wages. They have broken the law forbidding the existence of company stores. They have broken other laws designed for the protection of miners, and broken them in order to steal from laborious poverty.—Philadelphia North American. Political Potponri. The Republican editors are not quoting much from Lincoln these days. Washington Post Tbe Imperial President has been heard with patience by the American people and has failed to Justify empire and his surrender to empire.-St. Louis Republic. Roosevelt is trying to treat imperialism as a Joke. This is in accord with the Republican plap of campaign, but it does not divert the attention of the people from the great Issue now before them.—Atlanta Journal. The Sultan of Sulu naturally Is deeply Interested in the Presidential campaign. He understands that If his good friend McKinley is defeated his salary and harem expenses will no longer lie drawn out of the United States Treasury.—Kansas City Times. In bis letter of acceptance Mr. McKinley asserts that our government had no Jurisdiction over the Philippines till after the treaty with Spain was mnde. And yet some time before that he Issued a proclamation asserting Jurisdiction over the whole country.—Grand Rapids Democrat. The silence of such men as ex-Presl-dent Harrison and ex-Speaker Reed, like the outspoken opposition of others like Senator Wellington, Carl Schurz, •x-Governor Bout well, Bourke Cock ran and ex-Attorney General Monett, Is causing the Republican managers a great deal of uneasiness.—Rochestor Herald. Taxpayers In this country are already paying enormously for Imperialism. They will pay still more heavily If the party of empire remains In power. They will never receive any benefit from this appalling tax. The benefit will accrue to the trusts and the monopoly mlllleaalres who control the party of empire.— St Louis Republic.