Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 26, 1899, Page 3

a VOLU} 40 THE ADMINIZTRAT.ON IS “SHAKING” THEM. The Unholy War for Enslaving a People, That of Right Ought to Be Free, Can Not Be Trusted to Intelligent Soldiers —Wired Men in Demand. When the great American nation caid that Spanish oppression should tcp in Cuba and declared war to en- ioice its demands the hands of the president were upheld by a_ united people. Volunteers pressed forward by thousands from every state. Most cf those volunteers were from the best Llocd of the nation. The North and the Seuth vied with each other in jing their best and bravest, sons to oly war for humanity. After : for freedom was over the pres- ident inaugurated a new war for the urpose of enslaving a free people. He did not call on the states for vol- uteers in the war of conquest. He in’t like the volunteers very much. They could think as well as fight. He ed for an increase of the regular army and he is now filling up its ranks. A New York paper tells the kind of men he is getting. Just Ms- ten: “During the recruiting last week at New York one of the news- paper reporters went through the crowd at the Third avenue office. The men who came,’ he says, ‘impressed the outsider as a needy lot who had tried everything to earn a living be- fore they came to the shelter of the army. They ranged in age from the minimum to the maximum allowed by the army regulations and walked about as if they had at last found a refuge from the uncertainty of New York i.” Those who were accepted gave evidence of feeling great relief. There Was no more need of care and anxiety for the morrow. The government would feed and clothe them and take care of them when sick, and the work provided would offer at least a diver- sion from the ordinary and promised e little adventure. Yes, as one ™man put it, the army was a refuge for the poor devil who had fared badly in the civil battle of life.” And here is what the Chicago Tribune, a life-long Republican paper, says of the enlistments: “The men who are crowding the Chicago recruit- ing office n r but few real patriots among their ranks. In general, these my officers say, are not enlist- use the flag is being fired upon use the army calls them. The extra effort to recruit men has merely | increased the production of the or- dinary output of peace times and awn in the lovers of adventure who are out of employment, with an oc- »nal drop of aggressive patriotism ermingled....The majority of them = out of work and realize that it will be long before winter sets in.” These men are only facing pestilence to e pe starvation. Compare them ’s gallant fighters or tsenbdurg’s heroic men. But then by careful training they may make pretty good killing machines, and as most of them have no friends to inquire into their treatment or mourn their death, they will not give the administration much trouble as did the intel- F nt volunteers now seeking their homes. They have no great states be- hind them with millions of earnest and loving men and women to demand for justice and fair treatment. Yes, ident, you may not get as good but you will reduce criticism to a minimum. Besides that, you are also redeeming your promise to fur- nish employment to idle men; employ- ment in killing and being killed, and if the war lasts long enough you may be able to furnish work for every man that wants it. A Job Lot of Jewels. Secretary Alger has made mistakes, but when the books are posted and the record made up his management of the war department will not stand Jowest in the list of those things that have given the administration prestige and the republican party strength for | future contests.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Chicago brother is eminently «correct. Alger will not be at the bot- ‘tom when the republican party begins tto reckon up its jewels. Here are some of its jewels: Repudiation of pledges made at St. Louis in referenee to bi- ™ lism and civil service reform; criminal aggression in the Philippines, benevolent assimilation with the bay- net and the sword; a wicked tariff passed for the benefit of trusts, em- balmed beef, horse doctors for sur- geons, cattle pens for transports, pysh- ing volunteers to the front after their terms of service had expired, favoring the regular army by keeping it idle at Manila, refusal to make Cuba free after congress had solemnly guaran- teed fits independence, the voluntary purchase of a foreign war at an ex- travagant price, denial of the Declara- tion of Independence, retiring General , Eagan on full pay after he had been convicted by court martial, holding up the order of court which punished Captain Carter for robbing the gov- ernment of a million and a half and keeping him in the army on full pay, buying transports at four prices to enrich the president’s brother, and other favored ¢ontractors, and sinking one of them to keep the fraud from being exposed, camps established to enrich railroads and encourage yellow fever, censorship of mails and tele- graph, to the end that the people should be deceived; an attempt to de- stroy our greatest military leader by {ndirect charges and cowardly inuen- do, blackening the reputation of a gallant naval hero to benefit a favor- ite who never captured a ship or fired a shot, conducting for two ard a half yrare a genera! fas) delivery Cor the | TEERS THINK | beneftt of convicted bankers. * | are only a few of “the things that have These given the administration prestige and the Republican party strength for fu- ture contests,” and who will dare to Say that the late secretary has not stood very close to his chief in weav- ing this beautiful web of immortal glory? OMcial Duty vs. the Political Canvass. It is really too bad to send Adjutant General Barry to San Francisco to fix up Governor Poynter’s fences with the returning volunteers just at a time when Barry’s boom for the congres- sional nomination in the Sixth district was enjoying a good growth.—Omaha Bee. The above article is characteristic of modern republicanism. The editor of the Bee cannot understand how public duty can rise above personal interest or how any man can abandon his own canvass for office in order to serve his country. General Barry does not go to San Francisco on a political mission. He goes as a representative of the state to officially attend to the reception and discharge of one of the most gallant regiments that ever bore the American flag to a glorious vic- tory. It is his duty to be there in- stead of grabbing for delegates in the Sixth congressional district. We do not know who is to be Congressman Greene’s successor, nor do we care, so that he is a good man. «It is none of our funeral, but if Patrick Barry is a candidate he will not lose votes because he is attending to the wants of our brave citizen soldiery. Why didin’t you say something about Gov- ernor Poynter who is also going to meet the returning heroes? You and your kind have for months tried to blacken his reputation with the Ne- braska soldiers, because he would not sign his name to a base lie passed by a Republican legislature. He does not indorse lying resolutions, but when he thinks he can help the soldiers of Ne- braska he hastens to their relief and he takes with him a thousand dollars of the people’s money and will spend it for their benefit. Governor Poynter and General Barry will meet our re- turning soldiers at the Golden Gate and will give them a warm and cor- dial welcome home. In the meantime the political canvass will have to wait until all calls of patriotism are at tended to.—Nonconformist. No Time for Evasion. It is stated that the republicans of the United States senate committee on the currency cannot agree upon the proposition that congress shall make a formal declaration of the gold stand- ard. It is understood that a majority of them are in favor of such a declara- tion, but one or two dissent. There 1s, therefore, reason to apprehend that in respect to this very important matter there will be division among repub- licans in congress which may result in no action being had. This would be distinctly disappointing to the sound money sentiment of the country and we think would prove embarrassing to the republican party, since it would be used by the opponents of the gold standard as evidence that the party is not honestly and sincerely in favor of that standard.—Omaha Bee. If your party is “honestly and sin- cerely in favor of the gold standard,” why did it lie to the people so shame- fully at St. Louis? Your party has never yet declared in favor of that standard. On the contrary you asked the nations of the world to help you let go of as much of that standard as you already had. If you are honestly in favor of the single standard you obtained a million votes in 1896 under false pretenses. You elected your pres- ident by promising the people bimetal- ism. No national convention has ever withdrawn that sacred declaration. The great republican party is as much pledged to bimetalism as is any of the other parties,.the only difference being that you will take it when England gives permission, while we propose to have it without the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. Parades His Own Infamy. Speaking of the campaign of 1896 Senator Hanna said: “IT made my headquarters at Chicago, aand there watched every move made by our opponents just as we would watch a game of chess. We carried the fight imto every state and kept our op- ponents busy at their homes, so that they could not come outside and fight us. Of course, we spent a large amount of money. We had to. When the cam- paign first opencd we had no speakers who could discuss the issue without being confronted with what tthey had said previously in discussing the cur- rency question. You see, we had to swing around, for en Major McKin- ley was nominated it was thought that Whitney and his friends would beat the free silver men in the democratic convention and make the fight om the tariff.” In the above statement the prince of political scoundrels parades his own infamy. He fully confesses that all the charges were true that were made against him. But even his black record shines like a star when compared with that of those speakers “who could not discuss the issue without being con- fronted with what they had said pre- viously in discussing the currency question.” Prefer thé Latter. At present there seems to be no way of protecting the pubtic and restoring to the people their government, ex- cept by having the government own the railroads, As between having the corporations own the government or having the government own’ the cor- poration, the American people wili prefer the latier.—National Watch-~ man. - AS TO EXPEDIENCY. IS THE CHICAGO PLATFORM ONLY HOPE. The Fellows Who Would Change It Do Not Want the Democratic Party to Win—A Massachusetts Paper Fires @ Broadside at Trimmers. It is argued that the money question is dead; that people will not interest themselves in it; that something more exciting must be adopted for the lead- ing issue; that the East will be sol- idly against the West on that issue; that if the Democratic party makes bi- metallism an issue it will be snowed under, etc., etc., says thé Springfield Leader-Democrat. All kinds of clap- trap arguments are brought up to switch the Democratic party from the silver question to some other issue. Some of these arguments are honest, but nine-tenths of them come from Re- publicans and Republican papers. A few are really advanced by Democrats who have the interest of the party at heart, and to these we will address our- selves. Those who argue that silver is dead do not closely read the signs of the times; those who believe silver will not be the leading issue should study the result of Gov. Hogg’s address at Tammany hall, July 4; those who believe the silver question can be shelved should consider the cause of the constant ovations to Bryan wher- ever he goes. Suppose those Democrats who forsook the party in 1896 do stand aloof yet. Suppose they nominate a ticket of their own, as they did then. Suppose that they even go over bodily to the Republican party. The party will lose no more votes than it did in 1896, even if as many, and will gain all that silver Republican vote which either voted the Republican ticket under pro- test or refrained from voting. As a matter of party policy, to say nothing about principle, it must be remembered that those silver Republicans who vot- ed with the Democrats in 1896 would desert the party the moment it turned its back on or subordinated the silver question, and it is believed that this vote is much larger than that of the gold Democrats. It should not be for- gotten that there are many thousands of independents and Populists who will vote for Bryan and silver who would not vote for Gorman or any other gold Democrat or any man who had to be taken up as a compromise measure, be- cause of his conservatism or lack of force. All these things must be con- sidered when the questions of platform and candidate are under consideration. The silver Republicans, the independ- ents and the Populists will stand no dodging and no foolishness, and if the Democratic party is to hold the vote it got in 1896 and draw to it the many additional thousands that are ready to come, it must take no backward step from its position outlined in the Chi- cago platform. Some new planks may be added to the platform, but none must be taken away. It must not be forgotten that the change of a few thousand votes in some of the close stftes would have elected Bryan in- stead of McKinley,and that this change cannot be hoped for if the party swerves from the lines of old-time De- mocracy. It is now known that cer- tain states were carried for McKinley by methods that cannot be used again. “God hates a quitter,” was once said of a prominent politician, and if it is true as to the individual, it is doubly true as to the party. If bimetallism was right in 1896 it is right now, and will be right in 1900. Every argument used in favor of the double standard in the la8t campaign will apply equally well in the next, while many new ar- guments will be added to the list be- cause of later developments. Truck- ling and time-serving may meet with apparent temporary success,but neither ever won a great victory. It is not only right but it is expedient for the party to stand by its guns in the interest of the great mass of the people, and against the allied powers of greed and monopoly, What Trusts Are Doing. News comes over the lines and through the press telling of many things that trusts are causing to be done against the interest of the gen- eral welfare of the people. We hear of villages disappearing and good- sized cities being almost wrecked; of the wholesale discharge of employes, and many of the traveling men being sent adrift. Men who believed they had established for themselves homes are compelled to go to other cities to find employment, and either lose their homes or sell them, if they can, for a song, says the Fremont (Neb) Lead- er. Here is a picture of Edinburg, Ind., drawn by the St. Louis Repub- lican: “In 1891 the National Starch Manufacturing Company was formed, and began to absorb plants in Indiana, Ohio and other states. The factory in Edinburg was taken in at $175,000, when it was really worth but $125,000. It was promptly closed down, throw- ing seventy-five men out of employ- ment and robbing the merchants of $600 a week. Families moved away; the price of starch went up 20 per eent, while corn decreased 25 per cent and real estate depreciated. Madison, Columbus and Franklin and other places have been affected by this one trust.” This is becoming quite a frequent picture. A Mighty Roar. The president is becoming dread- fully frightened. The still small voice of complaint among the common sgo!- diers in the Philippines becomes a mighty roar of disapprobation when the returning volunteers reach these western shores. The silent murmur is becoming a howling tempest, military ckjaw is broken, and the whole dreadful truth will be told by #oquent lips in ten thousand American homes. “The republican politicians are begging the president to come out into the Breat west and meet the soldiers on theif return and try to stem the swell- | ing tide of-disapprobation and disgust. If things are not fearfully wrong, why ; are all the soldiers, without distinction of party, telling the same stories of oppression and favoritism in Asia? Why do they all denounce this unholy and cruel war? Why do they tell the Same stories about an incompetent commander who has made a total mili- tary failure? One republican soldier, writing to a friend, says: “You know how bad I hate Bryan, but I will be damned before I vote for McKinley.” Yes, the president is badly needed in the west and he had better bring along with him a few thousand barrels of soft soap. Our hearts are bleeding for the blessed major, he is having heaps of trouble. His German followers are all gone. Irish republicans are swear- ing vengeance against him. Even the colored brothers have struck for higher wages, because they say they are as bitterly opposed to killing niggers in Luzon as in Georgia. And now, alas, the volunteer army is manufacturing campaign thunder to be used for his destruction. Alas for our noble presi- dent and his benevolent assimilation, Basis for an Inquiry. In view of the apparent fondness of the administration for investigations we would respectfully suggest the pro- priety of congressional action next winter looking to a thorough investi- gation of the conduct of the war, and especially to answer a number of per- tinent questions, among which the fol- lowing come to mind off hand: When was the idea of conquest of the Philippine islands first hit upon and by whom? When Was it determined that co-op- eration with the people of the Philip- Pine islands against the common ene- my should be abandoned and co-opera- tion with the Spaniards against the Philippine republic agreed upon, and why? Was the surrender of Manila to Gen. Merritt the result of a sham battle ar- ranged without the knowledge of our then allies? Why was the commanding general of the American army kept in ignorance of the purpose of the administration a year ago to fight.the Filipinos as well as the Spaniards? Was actual hostilities in February last authorized by the commanders of either of the armies investing Manila? Did President Aguinaldo repudiate responsibility for the rioting of Feb. 4 last and request the establishment of a neutral zone to prevent any pos- sibility of trouble? How many times did emissaries of the Filipino republic enter the Ameri- can lines to ask for an armistice or to offer terms of peace, and what terms of peace were offered or suggested? What was the purpose of the cam- paign to Calumpit and across Laguna de Bay, and why was the conquered territory surrendered? What proportion of the population of Luzon have actually pledged adher- ence to the constitution of the United States and have shown by their works true loyalty to the American flag? How many of the islands of the ar- chipelago have formally accepted the sovereignty of the United States? What sums were offered the Filipino soldiers as bribes to turn over their guns and by whose authority? What was the compensation paid the Mohammedan sultan of Sulu and what was the agreement as to annual pay- ments to him? What is the state of civilization, ed- ucation, wealth and religious proclivi- ties of those who are upholding the Filipino cause and of those who are supporting the United States? There are many other similar ques- tions that the American people would like to have answered, but these are. sufficient to suggest the proper lines of a congressional investigation into the conduct of the Filipino-American war. McKinley Is Afraid. From the Fort Madison (Iowa) Dem- ocrat: According to the Chicago Jour- nal (Rep.j, President McKinley is a paragon of timidity. It says he is— Afraid to send Miles, Afraid to stop the war. Afraid to call for a large army. Afraid not to. Afraid to announce any policy in re- gard to the Philippine islands. Afraid to support the gold stand- ard. Afraid to stand for bimetallism. Afraid to punish Oberlin M. Carter for embezzling nearly two million dol- lars of public moneys. Afraid to pardon him. Afraid to attack the principle of civil service reform. Afraid to enforce the civil service law. Afraid to be a president instead of a politician, Afraid he won’t be elected a second time to the presidential office. Afraid to be great; afraid to be little; afraid to be his own man—no back- , bone. Public Confidence Shaken. From the Des Moines Leader: An unfortunate result of the suppression | the century. ~ SEND US YOUR PHOTOGRAPH 725, ! put on receij of facts, either by the general in com- | mand at Manila or by the war depart- ment, or by both, is that it will be a Jong time before the public will be- lieve that it is getting the real facts, no matter how frankly the government may place the situation before the peo- ple, The confidence of the public, once | shaken, is not easily restored. It must be a slow process in any case, and it can be hastened only by the practice of entire openness on the part of the government dealing with the people. i tions, and in Minnesota alone there are DR. KEELEY’S DISCOVERY. ‘The Most Important Step in Medica! Science of the Century. Scientific men declare that the dis- covery of the Keeley cure has been the most important medical discovery of There have been over 300,000 men and women cured of the whisky, morphine and tobacco addic- about 3,000. The greater number of these were cured in the Minneapolis Keeley Institute, a magnificent estab- lishment, located on the corner of Tenth street and Park avenue. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley is a physician, a native of New York State, a graduate of Rush Medical College and a doctor : of the Missouri State University. He | was engaged in regular practice until { the extraordinary spread of his curre compelled him to devote his entire time and energy to the extension of this - work. Since 1880 he has devoted him- ! self exclusively to the cure of inebriety. As the son and grandson of physi-_ ¢ians who had studied inebriety, he be- , came interested in the subject when a | i child. He began a study of it while a surgeon in the army, 1862—5, and pur- | sued it diligently until his success was finally reached. Experience taught him Hl that inebriety is a disease of the nerve | tissues of the brain, and then he set | about to discover a specific treatment for it. He experimented largely with social castaways who were found grov- eling drunkenness and vice in Chicago, and many such are to-day living lives of de- cency and repute as a result of his experiments. He continue dhis experi- ments until, in 1880, he declared his | ability to cure any and all persons ad- ; dicted to the use of whisky, drugs or tobacco. Interested ‘persons are cautioned against imitators. Explanatory litera- ture will be promptly sent on receipt of application by writing to 629 Tenth Street South, Minneapolis, Minn. A defeated candidate says there is no honesty in politics. Perhaps not, but the supply seems to equal the de- mand, about in the low haunts of; A Help Nature Help You! 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