The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 23, 1900, Page 12

‘While GF Ube Same ime reatrieting 6 peel ee See eee ee of our people. It im a mordid| can mot be’ invoked te jeatt not be subjects without imperiting il try) for I reiterate € market abroad. It is a very difficult vet gifted artist to portray | {ree trade with Porto Rico does not | *°me of our people. It ix a sordid | © Re uae token OF gatchoubat GGA a ee Ey that this stupendous increase 0 economic feat, ax this country has ees F Y | harm these interests materially, but | Yi’, and should have no place in the | { s. If the Islands 5a Wella tn surtandie cub kdl, 4 penditures under this administration | ® Fecent publication entitled, learn n in th s the comme 1 glories | er Ox , for the Sugar Interest, | literature of this discussion, but it] tuha an citizens wo are ne Ming Tender our 3 is entirely exelusive of war expendi-| Cenntry; What it is, world whilst refusing buy from be ours, if we return to a Mr. Myrick and Mr Frve, preat,| may be well to consider it, because of | Wine to #0 Wiese ire ce cae CAB Has Se) Pontye® Cae MenNaie tt ay ee The crrcredd | Bunce it what it tn." ¢ Do: hota that policy under whieh this country | 48d Mr. Myri ce Te TT | as sauseneh Setstisdnation ts aie | Chr Omar tations Gove ated oe ae to an Empire, we favor an immediate What tha insesxs | No, 435.), among ether says: ! That a high ta Once surpassed England in prowess | deut of the Tobacco Growers’ associa-| |! nd6 tha Dam Gf ous couliter to the | totes meee ee The Nether! declaration of the nation’s purpose to by ieietny .|Siut white in past years protection in] achelies toetatanch then upon the seas, bly eigincestig Nl, pd el Laced Amp ayry Sher headin t Sart tnad Inder Ta EM RE ve the Filipinos, first, a stable form ire. one, | the form of a ta of the utinost | ied ite walle and are We want an empire upon the high- pate a naa Lokepeigcnyneas iva EN Wile ln cuneeation oF teal European birth scattered! amon t; second, independence, ‘ becauss do not | mpertance and assistance in building | occupations at the expense of Ways of ocean commerce and in the | the philippines and Cuba, It will be} Philippine archipelago be a profitable | Eactish domination in India, less” that | atl third, protection from outside ins Uae ture aust he apparent to every observing | COustmers is becoming more anc oy E naen oe bee, Pers This em-| time to crue (hina teen poi - commercial acquisition? ‘The entire ple in india are ef Rigiaie bie ane af ereereees Such as has been given eanareien neak i upparent to the American people, I, Dire will not require large standing | ime to cro : sell =| trade of the Philippine islands, con-| feaultes ah army ot THN Heltich wakiers | fF nearly a century to the republics Okie anc senciog, | DEESCN that protection fis the fa] juote in this eonneetion on extract | tiles; it will not eall for conquering | C™® t® AIT not be fife are non the | sisting of both exports and imports | (2 tke care of the Wx colfectora, Spain | of Central and South American.” Gita. wilh ontrol | rill is constently Lecaming of lens| To an interview with legions; it will not depend upon | Crossin Pats wae renee Migs Mhiegl RM probably amount, winder tho maoek | fe htee costae tea eee arenes | Or, Chairman, the result of {hi of our army, during the last calendar | mPortance to us.” Continuing, he) ouished citizen of ourcountry exp teaming bayonets or flashing swords, | EUiiiw-citizens, the Porte Rfean| favorable conditions, to not more| {eet sutered Muni bay, chere were tess | campaign will determine whether this voas Gal Taio Wee Own TF6GakEe 8 ; ow, how is it, and what la it, 17h the onerations of the great Care| But will l buttressed upon the abill-| 4° Gin war the nateone” f the | than $10,000,000 annually, ‘The United | frnines SMarls Folding in the PRU) eovcrnment is to slip the anchor of its McAin se cad of Chia vust pun 4h: {hut enubles an operative to-day to! ots Tron and Steel Trust. le anya: | tY» the thrift and the energy of the most shameless exhibition, of the| States during the fiseal year ending] «Agalonktt poles means that we shatt| old safe constitutional moorings to 05.2 has been charged up by the Proues so much more in a sata “The Carnegie company ina practic) American people which can master | Met Spemeless exhibition | Fanoble | Tune 30th, 1900, sold to the Philippine | fow tack’ mastersand a few oMechuticrs | tr the certain perils incident toa Teprosentatives of this government for | «24 vera ego? It is siinply invention | CAlly fmpregnable monopoly. It con-| Me world In commerce, surrender to them made by any ad-| islands products amounting in value | Authorlty of a amall traction oe tie pee [Loses in quest of Colonial Enrpire, the cost of administration there, 07) °°UY SS ¢ MAL Balea in Ue im.| {Fels all the materials of ity manuface| ‘THE POLICY OF IMPERIALISM. | ininistration in. the histors of our| to the beggarly sum of $2640,449, the | ple while they rule the natt The issue is pregnant with the des: course this exhibit as to Cuba in| voved machines, touls, processes and | tring processes, trom the iron ore| Dut, fellow-citizen, I must hasten to| country. ‘The surrender was made. as| imports from those islands to this|THE CONSTITUTION AND ‘TIHE| tinies of a free people. ‘The United eludes only the money which found) trainees that our inventors are con-| Of the Mesaba range to the finished | @ conclusion. have already occupied | geclare nator I r, not be- | Country being $5,971,208, | FLAG, States has survived all the dangers of ita way into the trea that is) taitly furnishing ta eur manufacture|2ttiele, It is a member of a combi- more time than [had intended to oc-| cause fr ade with Porto Rico| Among the principal items export-| But, fellow-citizens, T must hasten, | it8 constitutional history, and is now land, 1 do not know v Tl erst Again, he declares that “this re-| Mttion or trust that includes the cons | cupy in the discussion of questions re-} would materially reduce the profits | ¢ dfrom this country to the archipel- |The enactment of the Porto Rican | # seat and powerful republic; splens any, was stolen in transit. It Fl Bett ba ba Gnanafactured [Ces big enongh to be formidable lating to internal policies. 1 come | of the trusts upen sugar and te so during the last fiscal year were | tari bill, under the cireumstances to | “id in the magnificence and variety of er, that our o Is th product). tian ‘been Inniely, if not |Solapeutor Its enormous profits now, in the order of my argument, to} jut it being the first outpost of fed. | manufactures of iron and — steel, which [have adverted, in connection | #8 Alnost ilimitable resourees; with iated the republic before inainly, due to our inventions, stimu | enable it by sheer weight of money to # very brief diseussion of a very great | eral legislation for the government of | horses, coal, coke, cars and cotton| with the Philippine policy leaves no|# climatic range permitting a variety world by the acknowledged tl latedened toatawa be ¢ tent sys [crush out competition from smalier issue. It is not an issue involving the | colonial possessions, the trusts took | 10th. The chief articles imported to| doubt as to the position of the re-|f Production unknown to any other $151,000 up to this date, whieh has! tain.” Continuing further he says:"{Concerus, Competition from abroad | annexation of adjacent territory to| the administration by the the be-| this country from the Philippines] publican administration upon the is: [COWMtrys with & homogeneous people been made good to the Cubans by an] ie cost of production has been inf i8 effectually shut out by the tariff, | be ultimately uplifted into statehood, | cause their campaign contributions | Were 8 cane and Manila hemp, We | sue to be settled at the ensuing elec: | thoreughly in love with free institus appropriation from our own treasury.| that way (by labor-saving machinery) |The government of the United Statea| but an issue involving the acquisition | haa larwely contributed to its elec-| €uter upon the policy of trade expan-| tion. ‘The republican platform: says, | UoMs, and a destiny so exalted and T have not included the income and| cigrmamsly decreased, One man with {is @ power partner in the enters | of remote isands,already more dense-| tion, and demanded that the bill be| Sion by the sword, with purchases} “That the largest measure of self gov-| Mdiant with the rainbow of promise expenditures of either Porto Rieo or ie aid of machinery ean oft tices do] Prise. Take the government out of | ly populated than cur older states, to| throttled because it would establish «| ftom the archipelago of more than Jernment consistent with their wel} Hat language is utterly impotent ta the Philippine islands. Tn the com-| the work whieh it required ten wen to] the partnership, demolish the wall bes be governed by congress as colonies | precedent for future legislation in re-| tWice the amount we sell to them, It] fare and our duties shall be secured | Mdequately depict or portray parison submitted, as between the] ay without machinery, That has great. | hind which these ineredible profits in disregard of the protection of the spect to the Philippine istands and | May be well to ay emind the poo-| to them (the Filipinos) by law.” This}. The example of this free republio cost of this administration and that ly, reduced the prices of such articles." | have been gathered in, and the Cars| constitution, Cuba. Was ever the inordinate greed | Ple that trade docs not always follow] is not the doctrine of the Constitu- | has lighted up the dark places of the of Mr. Cleveland, E have, as heretofore) ¢ coatd multiply quotations, but P| Regie company would no longer be he democratic party has always}and power of trusts more defiantly | the flag, but it does always'seek the| tion, It is neither the spirit or the lets | C4hths it has established the altars of stated, not included expenditures onl rye inade a sullicient number to e ble to tax the country as it has taxed | been a party of progress and of great] exhibited than is shown in the story | best markets for profitable sale and| ter of the Declaration of Independ=| feedom in every climes it has been account of our colonies, I have limit-| jotish that Iaboran ing machiger | it for the last eight years.” policies, Its territorial policy has been | of national humiliation, by the dis | ¢Xehange. Expericnee has shown that | ence. The issue is indubitably the Re- | Me hope of the oppressed pr ovory, ed the comparison to three years be-} cuormously auguments production,| Pellow-eitizens, this n example the policy of expansion in entire har-| tinguished republican senator (Mr, | Countries With colonial dependencies | public against the Empire—the Con- | Mition; it has been the joy of the Lib: cause this adininistration has not yet) nite at the same time it should | of the methods employed by all the | mony with the Monroe Doctrine, The] proctor) in the extract. from the | tstally control not more than 40 per | stitution against the Colonies, The re-|e'ty loving people of the world; it concluded four-year period, but Ot) choanen the output, increase the con-| {uUsts. Theexorbitantexactions of the | first contest for territorial aequisi-} speech L have just read! This country {ent of their trade, — If, therefore, | publican administration following the | has established constitutional BYstDe the present rate of expenditure the | sumption, open up new fields for la | Sugar Trust at this time are giving| tion was with the old federal party,| bas cut off the trade of Porto Ricy|th® commerce of these islands| example of Alexander Hamilton, pro-| ments; It has caused thrones to tottor four-year term of President MeKin-| pep and give added empleyment to la-| the American people an object les; Which stoutly resisted the extension | with Spain by the Paris treaty, and/#Mounts to $40,000,000 the United | pose the establishment of a colonial | their fall; it has stricken shackles Jey will cost the people considerably | ior, put for unwise legislation these {800 instructive and yet very expen=| of our borders. At the time the demo-| then taxed its commerce with us in| States in time may control 40 per | system similar to the English system, | from skevess it hay utterly diseredited more than one hundred millions of | ; }h do} PY results would be as certain as] sive. The retail mereh the hotel- | cratic party inaugurated its first pres the | the course of the seasons or the revo-| keepers, and nearly all other business | ident, ‘T last administration of President ut kings rule by divine disregard both of the Declaration of | Cent. of it, and estimating the profit | That system would mean one form of | {he doctrine Independence and the Constitution of | 0” that commerce at one-fourth of its | government for the colonies and an-| Teht jars in excess of the cost of vmas deiferson, on the 4th Hitanvos (he enrthinen (isasts classes are in the iron grasp of trust | Of Mareh, 1501, there were but 13 stars] the United States. ‘The Constitution | ¥lue we would have a net balance of | other for the mother ecountry—the}| When Jefferson announced the mas Cleviand. ‘The extravagance of the} xtonopolies are essential to the or-| monopolies, which paralyze trade and | in the blue field of our national flag. | says that all “duties, imposts and ex. | $4,000,000 to the profit side of the} United States, It would mean sub-| terful doctrines of the sovereignty of republican national administration is] ganization of trusts: because they can | itimidate individual enterprise, Dur-| ‘There are 43 stars there now, with cises shall be uniform throughout the | edger. But let us assume that onr| jects there and freemen here for a] the people, and the equality of men, further demonstrated by the per eap-| rot exist in the presence of competi-|ing the last few years the | other territory out of which can be f United States.” ‘To this constit ita 1806, H.18 in 1900, How long the people will continue to tolerate the exactions of the repub- lican treasury spoliators remains to be seen, Our people are long suffer: ing, it is true, but the time is not far distant when a revolution in public sentiment will retire to private life all representatives, whatever may be penditure,which was only $6.09in | but in excess of | tion-| Net profit would be greater than this| time; it would mean a government of | it was the defiant chatlenge of liberty al maxim of taxation should be add-| ®mount, and reach $10,000,000 annual-| force there and a government of « ed, if the republican poliey is to pre: | ly: Tn such an event, how would the] sent here; it would mean the fina vail—provided the trusts consent, | #ecount stand?) The United 8 CAUSES OF THE WAR WITILSPAIN, | 8S" Fellow-citizens, I voted for the de laration of war with Spain to drive the eruel, treacherous Spaniards from the western world. In discussing the tion, It fellows, therefore, logically | trilsts have succeeded in removing the | created splendid states, Every acre [that trusts are the vieh fruitaye of “scales” from the eyes of many of | of territory added to the Union prior monopolies. One of the great writers| that great thrifty class of our peo-| 10 the acquisition of our island pos- on political esonomy anticipated the| ple known as commercial travelers, | Sessions was a contribution by the ent condition of our country in the | Year by year the ranks of this sturdy | democratic party, Our territorial area | terse ttatement that, “where comipe-| and enterprising business class ara) which was but § tition is not, monopoly is." Another | being thinned, because of the rapa-| the time of the or | wrilcr of eminent ability declared with | cious greed of monopolies: ieee the emphasis ef unanswerable logic However the Standard Oil Trust | Milesunderdemocratic stat that “where combination is pos competition is impe nd) Mr. Chairman, it | to despotism, it was the beginning of the American republic whose glorious tes establishment of a government of} career to the present time has bee ly disbursed during the fiscal] foree everywhere; it would mean that] the song and story of freedom year ending dune 30th, 1900, oc] My countrymen, $78,000 on $108,-] the president and congress, who ceount of expenditures | but the creatures of the Constitution, | diate the Declaration of Independ- consequent upon the Spanish wa govern colonies outside of pence and turn our backs upon the The treasury department is not) the Constitution; it) would mean] Constitution? able to segregate and identi »| iithoug ° kin, hall we forget the — glorions ees ue and identify the| that, although the —treaty-makin total expenditures in Cuba and Porto | power of the Constitution has been |#ehievements of our armic of representatives on the 24th of Rico. ad OU Murch, 1898 that: Rico. Jinvoked to bring shall we now repus S4 square miles at rnization of the re- s expanded 103,025,600square nanship, Linelude the Maskan territory,be MW that acc ble, | and other trusts continue to enlar; ible.” their powers and enhance — their | ©¥ ing Cbvious that] profits, The Standard Oil Trust re-| the administration of President John- the party name, who have wantonly | squandered the public money, and territory into} navies in behalf of constitutional grove tion was made under ‘ ‘ ' é L have requested this exhibit but it| the United States, the Constitution | ernment? Shall we forget the awful thus proven faithless to their trusts. [trusts could not exist if there was] cently declared a dividend of 8 per | s6n after he abandoned the republic: |, suaKe seems Impotent to Hort {ean not be furnished. ‘The appropria-| itself is powerless to give the people | Sifering at Valley Korg hall PH INCOME TAX |fair competition, the people mast as-| cent. which added to prior dividends, | @ party. eftorts to ex-| tions made for the army during the [of the territory thus added the bene-| forget the valor and hardships of « The demand for an income tax is | certain the causes whieh prevent com-] amount to 38 per cent, for the present | ‘The Louisiana purchase, Florida, Visited by the | present fiscal year exceed $14,000,000, | fit of its protection; it would mean | Soldiers in the war of istz and th not only just and righteous, but in! petition in order to make an intelli-| year, or dividends aggregating in| Texas and the extensive domain add- uistadores upon the un- # of the West Indies, At the beginning The appropriations for the navy are| that a constitutional provision could | War With Mexico? Shall we forret the entire aceord with the policy of this! gent application of remedial legis! Republic until the recent decision of | tion, It will not be denied that the amount more than one-third of the | ed as a result ef the Mexican war ¢| entire capital of the company came into the Union und ia haut Gt Sh al result, | terrible carnage, the anguish and the 000,000. ‘The increased | Work out an unconstitutios demo- Bayer America,” the naval cost by reason of the occupa-| Fellow-Citizens: It is claimed that | heartaches of the civil war? Shall we the supreme court declaring its un-| are certain trusts which are due to the} ‘The MeKinley variety of “prosperi- ic administrations at a total cost Taare Sev ink {| tion of the Philippine islands can not | (he Constitution does not apply to|foret that the Monroe Doctrine haw constitutionality, ‘That decision re-| monopoly of maitral advantages, The| ty” which has been on exhibition re 00,000 to. the national nia or scalping | he aecurately s been a mighty defense for human libs n by the : but it probably | territory annexed under its provi versed the decision and precedents | anthr: $ women and childr ite Coal Trust is a notable ex-| cently has manifested its presence asi This cost, of course, does | not § ecent crimes | constitutes the greater part of the| sions, but must be extended by an act] erty? Shall we forget that the Con- of that august tribunal for a century, | ample of this character of trast dae] largeiy, by marking up the prices of | Not inelude the $20,000,000 paid for the | | oun estimated that appropriations over and above the] of consve An act of congress is] stitution: gives us the shield of the and the country shares the apprehen- | te the ownershit by a few tndiv.duats | life's inexorable necessities, 1 could | Vhilippine islands under the Paris | Byer, Suamish ey geil | appropriations for the maintenance only the expression of its will, whieh | teat Writ of Habeas Corpus and of sion of Mr. Justice — Brown, | of the only anthrcre coat mises is} stand here till the going down of the | tre All of this vast empire was | months ago that the United States should | and inerease of the navy prior to the} may be changed, modified or repealed | the right of trial by jury? Shall we & republican judge, in his dissenting | the United States. ‘There is another] sun multiplying citations and piling | contiguous territory, thinly popu-| Ue'iipes trecdamen meervene Im Dealt ct war, ‘This amount is about|at any time, Under this construe-| forget: that the supreme court haa opinion, when he expressed the fear | kind of trust ue in port toa monopo-| evidence upon evidence to show the | lated, and out of which we have! petjow-citizens, the views then ex-! $35,000,000, but estimating it at only] tion, the Constitution might be sent | {hs far found no auth are un oretS that the decision might in some hour | ly of aataral sdvcntages and in part | practical plundering operations of the Ved great sovereign states, now] pressed remain unchanged up to this | one-half of this sum, it would be | with the flag to Porto Rico and the | Constitution for colonic of danger rise up to paralyze the arm | to the advantezes incident to ou} trusts, 1 will conelude with a single | the homes of millions of energ hour, The United States, by the joint | 500,000, certainly a conservative esti-| Philippine islands by one congress,| | Shall we forget that the United of the governm The income tax] patent laws and ths Jiscrimination by | illustration furnished by the repub- | and patriotie citizens. This added ter-| resolution approved by the President, mate. ‘The well-established estimate | and a subsequent congress might | States was once an English colony has heretofore powerful | railroad ecomvanies ‘n their favor. lican press. It is a conclusive vindica- | Titory did not come as result of 21 april goth, 1898, declared “that the | of the cost of the army serving in the hdraw, modify or repeal it, ‘The | and that our re OLED ENY Tubhors agent in sustainiy treasury} The Standard 0:1 Ty ust is a conspie-| tion of the fact that a high tariff does | Policy of conquest. The democrat people of the island of Cuba are, and | United States is an average of $1,000 | Constitution, therefore, under sueh a | overthre eon yetnth Catan tela when threatened with depletion and! uous exsample of this character of| foster trusts party believed then and now, a8] o¢ right ought to be, free and inde-| for each si The service in the| construction, would be the mere | the Republic? Shall we, especially our exhaustion, ‘The tax upon incomes! trusts, The ownership of the best pat-| TIE REPUBLICAN PRESS FOR | President McKinley did less than two] pendent.” It further asserted “that | Philippine a ive Pehants GE IG cock of furious partisans, in- | foreign-born citize et ta constituted a large part of the na-| ent for refining the oil, the ownership | PREE TRADE years ago, that “forcible annexation | the United States hereby disclaims creased pay and other expenses, will| stead of the shield and the defense | large standing army ime pete ag tional revenue du he civil strife, of nearly all of the large producing! Within the last year or more demo- | UNder our code of morals is criminal] yyy disposition or intention to exer-| bring that average up to not less| for the liberties of the people. Could | taxation and great peril to free insti- and did much to keep our flag in the | wells, and the discriminating favor of | crats have been vee# much amused at | 88ZTessio cise sovereignty, jurisdiction or con-| than $1,500 yearly, With about 65,-| ever folly be more monumental than | tutions? sky during that unhappy period. ‘The | railroad rates wers the causes which| come of the editorials appearing in | CHANGEOF PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS. | trol over said island, except for the | 000 soldiers in the Philippine islands| the claim a mere statutory| Shall we forget the thrillingappeais recent war with Spain has empha-|contributcd to the organization oi | republican newspapers demanding the It seems, however, that the presi-| pacification thereof, and asserts its the yearly cost of our army there{ enactment could establish, expand, | of Patrick Henry forliberty? Shall we sized the baneful efects of the deci-| this powerful monopoly removal of the tariif from articles en- al mind has changed, not only | determination, when that is accom-|must be not less than $07,500,000, modify or limit the great charter of | forget the solemn warnings of Wash sion of the supreme court. ‘That wac| The great Cattle Trust at Chieago.| tering into the maufacture of paper | upon this question, but upon other! plished, to leave the government and | Which added to the increased naval] human liberty—the Constitution of | ingtons farewelladdress? we for- called to nd the stern fact that} which plunders our farmers, is an-| used by the me tropolitan dailies and | questions consequent upon the v control of the island to its people.” | cost would make an annual drain of| the United States? get that this republic isthe lastrefuge While the government had the power | other form of trvt which seems i] the country press. Unanswerable ar- | with Spain. When our commissione! eclaration of war, approved | not less than $115,000,000 upon our re-|_ ejlow-citizens, in view of the} Of free government? Shall we forget to call its citizens into the army and| be the outgrowth in large part of this] uments have thus unwittingly an-| were sent abroad to negotiate the by the president, was a solemn ex-/| sources to meet the expenses conse-| tenth section of the the teachings of Washington, Jeffers navy to defend the nat ickson, Lincoln onal honor, | civilization whieh val! it had no constitutional power to Paris treaty it ns were | pression of the American people that! quent upon the annexation of the] js of supreme importance that the | 8°? i. ; a the island of Luzon|the people of Cuba ought to be free | Puill of illustrious statemen? Shall we s for enormous] peared in the columns of the republic: | F |an press in support of the demand of | to s treaty, th ask only fi ad along line e-|and expensive plants pine islands, As t this! people should elect a national admin- quire accumulated wealth to bear its] In my opinion, however, and in the| the Kansas City platform to place | as a naval station, so t and independent, and that the United | enormous outlay may be credited as a| istration and a congress who will] Plot from our memories all th seen rete The gan ae eenses of Iudgment of the democratic party,| trust-made products upon the free | and merchant vessels might find safe] States had no purpose of conquest in| maximum estimate $10,000,000 of | wisely determine the political status | Blorious examples, doctrines and government. ‘The son and the hus-| the overwhelming majority of se| list. ‘The tari¥ upon the materials | harbors, and the government secure | entering upon that struggle to eman-| profit on commerce. Fellow-citizens, | of the inhabitants of the Philippine hievements to enter upon ee band and the father could be required trial vampires in one country) entering into the manufacture of pa- | commondious docking privile | ges for] cipate Cuba. to follow our flag up San Juan hill, wait and construction of ves- or battle with Dewey in Manila bay, m. it is estimate or With Schley off Santiago, but no 000 of eapital have b levy could be made ou the incomes der tr I ask, does it pay? reer of conqu The Porto Rican tariff bill Pane Sone This opinion was shared by the| Mr. Chairman, the proposed estab-| has already taxed the trade of the i x et a Me < ee mA president until the changes of views! lishment of a Colonial Empire to be | asi hea Rec AR gy ita Fre ee ace am | manufacturers of paper to organizs | ‘The presidential mind changed on|to which I have referred. ‘The na-{made in humble imitation of Great| the Constitution. It bas even gone | #0und judgment of the American peo- i Mt control during the last few | trust, again vindicating the maxim: | the subject of “forcible annexation,” | tional republican administration then ' Britain is a very expensive luxury, as| further under the republican colonial | Pie, and yet I would appropriate the of great wealth to maintain our glo- years, and more than two-thirds of | “Where competition is uot, monop- | and the resutt was the annexation of | agreed that the Cuban patriots were! must be admitted ofter the examina.| policy and identified the people of] ublime invocation of the famous rious navy and our invincible army. | this mighty capitalizotion has sought | oly is.” | the entire Philippine archipelago at| entitled to freedom. tion of still another phase of our war| that island in the language of the|Poet—~ oe The justice of an income tax could the advantages of trust monopoly| However, permit me to sugg ayers} It seems, however, that while the expenditures, During th Lest’ we forget lest we forget not be more forcefully stated than since the Dingley tariff become a lav, i : i ggest to | ® burdensome cost to our ta: ure as “Citizens of Porto Rico,"1 Lest’ we forgety lest we forget! the editors and publishers of repub- | to the exist g high tariff sys-| per used hy the press of course shuts | the that $8,000,000,-| out competition, aad thus enables the | sel people of that island in defiance of fiscal year | m