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Show SUPPOSE, The nomination of Grover Cleveland for President Pres-ident would be a mighty test of the patience of the American people for these reasons: There is no class of people in any section that wants him nominated, save the class that lives by preying prey-ing upon their fellow men. The newspaper that flrst nominated him Is owned by the man with whom he made the negotiation to sell $180,000,000 of United States bonds, out of which those interested in-terested cleared $18,000,000. The masses of the people, mostly the small property owners, are paying the interest on those bonds and will eventually even-tually have to pay the principal. Mr. Cleveland was elected on a free silver platform. plat-form. His first important public act "after his inauguration was to call upon Congress to destroy silver as money. He is opposed to all tariffs I except one for revenue, such a one as England levies. He has been eight years President, but up to date he has never tread upon the soil of half the country and has but tlje most vague idea of the significance of the west half of the republic or of the people who inhabit that vast area. With him a small section of the ast makes all the country worth noting and when men leave that section, in his estimation they camp out. He is the candidate of the creditor, the in-tarost-gathing class and when Christ said: "The poor ye have always with you," had he been standing by Christ's side, he would have added: "But they do not count." When last elected ho had with him both houses of Congress, a full majority of both houses of his own political faith. The platform on which he was elected was a flam-lug flam-lug manifesto of what should be done for tho people. Had he been up for re-election on the day his term expired, not one State outside of the solid South would have given him its electoral vote, and no man's love for him or confidence in him hag been secured since. The hope of his managers man-agers is that the people have forgotten. The trusts desire to make more binding their oppressions. oppres-sions. The national bankers want to retiro all the legal tenders and take full control of the finances of the nation. Grover Cleveland is their candidate and they hope to buy enough corrupt votes to elect him despite his former record. What answer "will the American people make? IT IS DESTINY. In a speech before the Chamber of Commerce of New York City last month, Secretary Taft said: "We hold the Philippines for the benefit of the Filipinos, and "we are not entitled to pass a 'single act or to approve a single measure that has not that as its chief purpose." There is no Manchurlan conquest in thought, no assailing the half-wild men of Thibet for purpones of trade in the Philippine settlement. It is that peace may come where all before was wholesale and retail murder; it is that ignorance may be driven away, ignorance and cruelty unspeakable; it is that men may change from the sloth and vice and fear of centuries of Spanish rule and become self-respecting and respectors of the rights of others. It is that such homes may be established as produce self-respecting women. It is that a perturbed race may learn the blessings of order and peace and unlearn the belief that liberty means simply license. We know this was the thought in President McKinley's mind, that it is the thought in the mind of President Roosevelt; Roose-velt; the duty of our country became apparent when the flrst news came that the Spanish arm was broken there and without the loss of a Bhip or a man. The Philippines are on the border of Asia, where half the world's people are congregated; congre-gated; that Asia, which from the flrst has known but one man rule. That hive is stirring, it will swarm by and by. The old dynasties there are crumbling; there will be more changes there in the next forty years than there have been in forty centuries. Our anchorage there was for a purpose. In the Philippines Secretary Taft says there are 7,000,000 of people who hail with welcomes wel-comes the change that has come, and only 600,000 savages to be tamed and civilized; that the islands isl-ands have manifold resources; that "fortunately everything we do for the Filipinos and the Philippines Phil-ippines will only make their association with the United States more .profitable to the United States." The hand of Destiny is there. The occupation oc-cupation by our country of these islands may be the beginning of the advance of freedom over all the Orient. |
