JANUARY 15, 1903.
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RESULTS OF IMPERIALISM
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- jLiei any nonesi man ot lair miem
gence make a calm review ot. the re
sult of imperialism in the Philippines
and he will come to the conclusion
that the whole thing, to call it by no
harsher name, was a grievous mistake.
It has cost us the lives of about 20,000
mer. by wounds, diseases and acci
dents connected with the undertak
ing. It has cost in money about $300,
000,000. What have we in return for
all this? Ten million people in the
depths of distress on our hands, ev
ery one of whom hates us with an un
dying hatred. What gain has come to
any citizen of the United States, out
side of those who have been employed
in this business? Poverty will reign
in the Philippines for more than a
generation to come. What wealth
creating there is possible in that coun
try is connected with agriculture and
the beasts of burden upon which that
depended have been destroyed by our
army. No animal can be imported to
take their places. Their natural in
crease under the most favorable cir
cumstances is slow. The. native pop
ulation, crushed by a foreign invasion,
is . without heart and without th:
means of recuperation. By imperial
ism we have wrecked the hopes and
destroyed the prosperity of 10,000,000
of, people and done it at great loss to
ourselves. That is what imperialism
has done.
AN INFAMOUS GANG
The motto of this paper is: "The
truth about everything," and it tries
to live up to the motto. The truth
about the United States senate is that
it is the most infanous gang of
scoundrels that ever got together as a
legislative body anywhere on this
earth. It has a veneer of courtesy.
Its members pose as statesmen. Ther
pretend to pass laws in which the pub
lie welfare alone is considered. But
the truth about them is that their
courtesy is forced by the most drastic
rules, which are often disregarded. Its
membership is composed for the most
part of corporation 'lawyers, men en
gaged in manufacturing or banking
who are there to further their own in
terests and that of the corporations
that sent them there. Two of them
have lately been exposed and convicted
by documents of their own writing, of
being not only dishonest, but of pre
venting legislation for the money
there was in it for themselves. Docu-:-2nts
have been printed with the sig
natures of Senators Elkins and Bui
rows attached in which they declarer?
that the nroduction of beet suear
would return in dividends from 40 to
50 per cent profit, and that if the tar
iff was entirely removed it would still
be one of the best things in the
United States in which to invest mon
ey. That is a sample of the scoundrel
ism of the senate. These men organ
ized the fight against the Cuban treaty
and declared if it were ratified "the
industry would be ruined," when they,
at the very time, were making from
40 to 50 per cent on their investment
in the production of beet sugar. Theso
two men, like many others in that
body, are contemptible liars. It is a
note Wthy fact that Mr. Oxnard the
next day after these exposures were
made called on the president and de
clared that he would make no further
opposition to the confirmation of the
Cuban treaty.
The whole senate legislation is run
on this same plan. It is a nest of rob
bers. It is a body elected almost
Wholly by the corporations and the
senators are true to the influences
that sent them there.
BIG AND LITTLE TRUSTS
The evils that the people suffer from
the big trusts are not more severe or
numerous than those they suffer from
little trusts. Following the example
and expecting the same protection
that has been extended to the great
corporations, thousands of little trusts
have been formed all over the land.
The ones to which attention is now
most directed are the combinations
formed by coal dealers in various cit
ies and towns. From many points
comes "the news that while the side
tracks are full of loaded coal cars
the people can get none to keep them
warm.
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Every man knows that if the great
trusts, like the Standard Oil, steel and
otners of that sort, are to be allowed
to destroy competition, everything else
will follow in their lead, and the whole
system of commerce as it has hereto
fore existed will be overthrown. The
merchants in every little town, will
combine and the "retail price of everv
necessity will be arbitrarily fixed. TVe
communism of .greed will b'q in th?
saddle everywhere.
HOW THEY WILL DO IT
Senator Hoar introduced an anti
trust bill, the chief features of which
provide for publicity and the pun
ishment of parties who attempted to
crush out competition by selling goods
below cost until the competitor was
ruined and then raise" prices to recoup
the loss thus entailed and make ex
orbitant profits besides. It was no
sooner given to the- public than Con
gressman Jenkins, chairman of tho
judicial committee in the house,
jumped on it with both feet. Mr.
Jenkins says:
"It assumes to exercise power
enjoyed by the states. It oper
ates as a restraint upon com
merce, something beyond the pow
er of congress to do, as congress
has only power to regulate com
merce between the states, and not
to restrict it; it interferes with
the liberty of contract guaranteed
to the citizen by both state and
federal constitution; it deprives
the citizens of property without
any compensation; it is an at
tempt to legislate in the interest of
one class against another; it ex
empts a class of persons and cor
porations engaged in interstate
commerce, which the supreme
court of the United States says
congress has no power to do
that is, to create exemptions."
All of which goes to show that if
Senator Hoar's bill ever passes the
senate it will be held up in the ju
diciary committee of the house,' and
there it will end its career. The state
ment of Jenkins shows that no kind
of an effective anti-trust bill will eve
get past his committee. The repub
licans will introduce innumerable anti
trust bills, just as they have bills to
put hard and soft coal on the free lis,
to take the tariff off dressed meat and
to suspend the shipping laws. Not one
of them will ever pass as long as the
party leaders thing that they can hold
power and do nothing but talk. That
is the way they will do it.
SAME NAME, THAT'S ALL
Years ago the republican party
emancipated the black slave and in
recent years it has subjugated ten
million brown men, and holds out n
promise of liberty to them. The mul
let head who "votes 'er straight" to
day, thinks that he is voting for the
same thing that the republicans of
1860 voted for. Governor Boutwell, in
his speech to the colored people of
Boston, told them that "the republi
can party had become the enemy of
universal liberty," and he told them
the unvarnished truth. The New York
Post says:
"We have proclaimed that our
officers in the Philippine islands
were performing their duties satis
factorily and successfully, where
as the islands are in a condition of
famine, pestilence and general
misery more pitiable than under
any period of Spanish rule."
Practicing torture that equals that
of the worst days of the inquisition
especially in the case of Father Aug
ustine, reducing millions by military
oppression to starvation, repudiating
every principle announced in its first
platform, the mullet head, may God
have mercy on his soul, still believes
that it is the party of Abraham Lincoln.
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NOT THE 1UOIIT MEN
The trusts will never be suppressed
by the men who express such admir
ation and tender consideration for
them. In Senator Hoar's speech the
folowing passage occurs:
"I confess I like to see Pierpont
Morgan buying up great lines of
ocean steamships. I like to hear
of foreign potentates and princi
palities and powers bowing down
when he visits the continent of
Europe. We need great strength.
We need great individual power if
we are to rival foreign nations in
the great matters which they also
control by Individual power. We
must, if we can, look out in pro
tecting ourselves, not to destroy
them, nor to cramp them. We
can give tham a law which will
not impair tueir strength and not
check their natural and rightful
grow h and that I hope is all we
mean to do."
Men who talk that way are not the
sort that will wage a successful war
fare against those who have organize 1
to loot the people.
The dailies continue to talk about
good trusts and bad trusts. If there
is a good trust at all it must be the
anthracite coal trust. It is controlled
by men most of whom are shining
lights in the church and we have been
informed that God in his infinite wis
dom chose these men and gave into
their hands the control of the proper
ty interests in anthracite coal. Bvi
the investigation of this trust so far
as it has gone shows the pittance paid
the men, the company store infamy,
the employing of children, attempts to
bribe strike leaders, insolence to the
president, the holding of coal to pro
duce a famine and exorbitant prices.
If that is what a good trust does,
what do the bad ones do?
Little by little that benevolent or
ganization, the steel trust, is apply
ing the screws to competitors after
the fashion practiced so long by the
saint Rockefeller. The last thing re
ported is a change in the price of
terne plates which are used for tin
Rockefeller no, we mean Morgan
has fixed it so that the tin manufac
turers outside the steel trust all say
that they will have to put up forges
and make this sort of plates them
selves, or quit business. If they try
that Morgan will have another carl
to play. Is Roosevelt getting ready
Sto fire another shot?
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