BRYAN TRUE TO SILVER IDOL
SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE
Dakota County Herald
NO RETREAT
Dakota City,
Nebraska.
Belief In lib Panacea Will Remain
Unshaken.
Declared to Re a Paramount Issue
in Democratic Arkansas.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 190i
A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT LAWS
. FNACTED BY THE 60TH CON
GRESS, FIRST SESSION.
Declaration of Faith Made to Cover
the Fast, the Presont and the
Future.
The Situation Intolerable to Pre
People.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Financial Inw whereby banks In pe
riods of financial stringency may Issue
currency to tho amount of $.Ti0.iKK,
000, debiting as security therefor,
bonds, commercial paper or other as
sets, such emergency currency lelng so
taxed as to Insure Its retirement as
soon as the stringency has passed.
- Tuhllc buildings bill, authorizing
many needed structures, purchase of
sites, etc., Including site for Icpnrt
ments of State and Commerce and La
bor, adjoining Treasury and White
House grounds.
National monetary commission
created to devise a sound monetary s
tem for the government.
Two new battleships, at cost of
$0,000,000 each, exclusive of armor
and armament ; ten torpedo boat de
stroyers, three steam colliers and
eight submarines. '
. Consular service reorganized, abol
ishing unnecessary consulships and con
sul generalships, and establishing those
most needed.
' Widows' pensions increased from $8
to fl2 a mouth, and certain unneces
sary restrictions abolished,
i Investigation of tariff, preliminary to
revision, confined to Ways and Means
and Finance Committees.
' Model child labor law for District of
Columbia.
Employers' liability bill enacted to
replace. that pronounced unexmstitutlon.
al by Supreme Court.
nnrarnmant llfiKtllfw Imtr npnll f nr
compensation to all Federal employes
1 Efficiency of army medical corps In
creased by additional officers and cren
fftn of reserved medical corps.
, Increasing army pay, officers npprox
Imately $500 a year and enlisted men
about forty per cent Increase, applying
to both retired and active lists.
' Increasing navy pay, officers and en
listed men practically equalized with
army. Enlisted force increased G.C0O
men.
Restrictions on lnr.d of the five civil
ized tribes removed, adding $150,000,-
000 to taxable property of Oklahoma.
Numerous additional lights, light
bouses and buoys.
1 Granting 3.000 pensions to deserving
veterans of the Civil and Spanish wars.
Creation of commission and appro
priation of $1,500,000 for representa
tion of the United States at the Toklo
Exposition.
Prohibiting desecration and improp
er use of the flag.
Xav, Appropriation or $?J,zzi,vw ror me
J?unama Canal.
aVr A a tof-lst n t-wl atil I f Isti i a nit Kl t sa
tlons and Intoxicants and cocaine ex
cluded from the malls.
Secretary of War authorized to ex
pend $250,000 for the relief of suffer
ers from cyclone of April, 1008, In Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louis
iana. Interstate Commerce Commission
authorized to prescribe regulations for
the transportation by common carriers
of explosives, to promote the safety of
passengers and employes;
Railroads engaged in interstate coiu
lierce prohibited after January 1, 1910,
from using any locomotive equipped
with an ashpan which necessitates any
employe getting under the engine.
Sixty-two laws authorizing construo-
tlon of bridges over navigable streams.
Five laws authorizing construction of
dams in navigable streams.
Nine laws affecting Federal courts,
Judicial districts, etc.
Seven laws affecting customs, grant
ing increased privlllges to certain
-, ports, etc.
i.' Twenty-flve laws affecting public
: lands, making special grants, etc.
f Seven laws for the District of Colum
bia, including prohibition of all betting
within the District, and providing for
free examination of sputum in suspect-
; ed cases of tuberculosis.
Investigation of wood pulp Industry;
House committee reported no warrant
for altering tariff at this time and no
conclusive evidence of u trust, but suf
ficient ground for further Investigation.
One hundred and fifty-two public
laws were enacted.
There were 2,300 invalid pension acts
and about 700 private pension acts.
Bills introduced in House over 22,
000; in Seuate, over 7,000.
"MISERY AND DISHONOR."
Andrew D. White's Picture of What
Would Follow Bryan's Election.
"Just as I was ugutn free came W.
J. Bryan's effort to cupture the Pres
idency, which, in my opinion, would
fcave resulted In widespread misery at
home and In dishonor to the American
name throughout the world." From
the Autobiography of Hon. Andrew D.
White, LLD., former President of Cor
nell University and Ambassador to
Germany and Russia.
aether Labor Leader tow Taft.
(New Britain Record.)
Beu Chopin, editor of the Railroad
Employe, a labor organ, is out for
Taft. This will no doubt call for ad
ditional explaining from the Great
Samuel Gonipers, who promised to de
lifer the- solid labor vote to William
Jennings Bryan.
It would be extremely unkind to
say that-Mr. Bryan is fickle in his
IHilltlcal belief. Ills best friends
would lie the last to make such an
assertion, for they realize thoroughly
that their leader, when he has once
Implanted a conviction firmly in his
mind, clings to it like grim death.
Tills is especially true of Mr.
Bryan's attitude on the silver ques
tion through which he first rose to
prominence. He has very little to say
about that question at present, but
that he is absolutely certain that
It is a subject of the greatest im
lortnnce and that h's own particular
financial panacea Is the only safe
guide for the United States may be
plainly seen from the following ex
tracts from his collected wisdom :
In nn address nt the Jefferson Club
banquet at Llucolu, Neb., December
2i I. 1000, Mr. Bryan said:
"The principles for which we con
tended in the lost campaign Btlll live,
and we who believe In them must
continue to fight for them. An elec
tion does not change-principles; it
only determines what principles shall
for the time being be applied."
In the North American Review, in
the same month, Mr. Bryan recorded
this declaration of faith:
"To consider this election as de
cisive of the money question would
be as absurd as to have regarded the
election of 1800 as decisive of the
tariff question. It would be more
reasonable to regnrd tho late election
as conclusive upon the question of
Imperialism or upon the trust ques
tion, both of which were discussed
more by our people than the money
question. ' .
"The increased production of gold
has lessened the strain upoa gold,
and had to some extent brought the
relief which Democrats proposed to
bring in a larger measure by the re
storation of silver; but there is no
assurances whatever that the gold
supply, even with the new discoveries,
will be sufficient to maintain the level
of prices. Favorable conditions have
given us an abnormal share of the
world's supply of gold, but the
scarcity of the yellow metal abroad
Is already leading to the export of
gold, while the increase In tho issue
of banknotes Is evidence that we are
still short of money here. The Re
publicans defend the gold standard
not by logic, but by givlug It credit
for better times. When prosperity
fails, the gold standard will lose its
charm."
PERFORMANCE VS. PROMISE.
1 1
Response of Republicans to People's
Wishes Contrasted with Demo-
' cratie Proposals.
(From Gov. Hughes l'oungstown
Speech.)
"When we consider the inevitable
conflict of man) opinions and the Im
portance of the questions Involved the
record of progressive legislation Is ex
traordinary. The creation of the bu
reau of corporations, the railroad rate
bill, the employers' liability bill and
the laws jmssed for the better protec
tion of laltor constitute a record of
lcgltfatiou which no just critic can af
ford to minimize, and which attests 1 J
a marked manner the response of the
Republican party under Its forceful
leadership to the demands of the people.
"If all that Mr. Bryan has favored
during the last twelve years had ibecu
enacted Into law we should have been
overwhelmed with disaster, and would
regard It as our chief business in the
future to find a way of escape from
the meshes of 111 considered legislation
In which we would have ieen entangled.
It Is fortunate for him ns well as for
us that he was defeated, and whatever
may be his present political potential
ity may be ascribed to the fact that
hitherto he has not been permitted to
carry out his program. No doubt much
remains to be accomplished in the way
of necessary reform, but the record
already made by the Republican party
is a noteworthy one, and we must make
further advances with care aud needed
reflection. Our progress will be in
trusted to safe hands, and we shall he
fortunate in having a sailing muster
who knows bis chart and who will take
quite as much account of reefs and
shoals as of the speed of the vessel.
We have got our direction, we have
u most precious cargo, and we must
have a safe and experienced pilot."
Itate I. aw Amendment.
The rate law does not go fur enough.
The practice under It bus already dis
closed the necessity for new amend
ments and will doubtless suggest more.
Such Is the true method the empirical
and tentative method of securing
proper remedies for a new evil. Hun.
Wm. II. Taft. at Columbus, Ohio.
Three Great Xew World f)ead.
From the Republican National Plat
form The American Government, in
Republican band:), bus freed Oubu,
given peace and protection to Porto
It I co and the Philippines under our
flag, and begun the construction of the
Panaaia CauaL
THE SENTINEL
From the Baltimore American.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
A Man Who Has Bone Things.
Responding to the call 'of the na
tion for a muu equal to the emergen
cies confronting the Republic, the
people themselves have found him and
presented him to the electorate.
Naturally, the people sought among
themselves- for one truly representa
tive to the highest ideuls of American
citizenship. Their self-understanding
and correct valuation of men led theiu
to the Individual who more thoroughly
than any other fulfilled their require
mentsand that was William Howard
I'aft.
William Howard Taft, of Cincin
nati, Ohio, probably is the way he
.vould designate himself. That desig
nation, however, is grossly inadequate.
e"or while Mr. Taft ia au Amerlcau of
Americans, ho is also a citizen of the
world who, as invited guest, counselor
and adviser of foreign governments,
has exerted au influence for peace and
international good will unsurpassed by
that of any other American statesman,
living or dead.
The dignity of private citizenship,
which he enjoys to-day, is in perfect
accord with hU temperament and iu
jllnatlon. There never has been, nor
will there ever be, anything in official
honor sufficiently alluring to draw Mr.
Taft away from his lifelong Identity
with the plain people.
As a boy in Cincinnati he was reudy
to give and take in all the stirring
controversies, mental and physical.
wiiich give effect to the law of the
survival of the fittest. As a student
it Yale he displayed all the qualities
of wholesome young manhood which
have made that university famous, and
the endearing traits of bis character
were honored at the reunion of bis
class during the recent summer by a
celebration more delightful to him, per
haps, than any other demonstration of
public favor possibly could be.
In the frank, fearless, boyhood and
college life of William Howurd Taft
there was the promise, of au ear
nest, generous, upright mauhood.
That promise hits been completely aud
splendidly fulfilled. The serious af
fairs of life appealed irresistibly to the
young collegian after his graduation,
and at the early age of twenty-four he
appeared as Assistant Solicitor In his
homo country.
Mr. Tuft's professional advancement
from the position of Superior Court
Judge and Solicitor General to a scut
on the bench of the United States Dis
trict Court was due solely to a frank
recognition of his proved Integrity, his
ilillgeuce aud Inipurtlullfy In the ad
ministration of Justice uud his loyally
to the loftiest standards of Judiclul
conduct. It is said of hint by one who,
as a lawyer, knew hint well: "He was
the gentlest, fnircst and most upright
of all Judges before whom I have prac
ticed, lie was as incapable of doing an
t'liklud or an unjust thing us snow is
of turning Into soot."
It Is, however, In his career since his
voluntary though reluctant retire
STANDS FIRMLY IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLAG.
ment from the bench tbut wo shall find1
the most remurkuble evolutions in Mr.
Tuft's development as an American
statesman.
The country had gone through an un
sought wnr, tho successful outcome of
which imposed new and enormous re
sponsibilities upon the National Gov
ernment, and placed the United States
In the attitude of a nrst class power,
obliged to face the perils of permaueut
contact with Old World nationalities.
Momentous problems arose partly ra
cial, partly religious, partly constitu
tional all complex and urgent. They
required an Immediate revision and en
largement of American foreign policy.
They required ulso the services of a
new school of American statesmen aud
diplomats, who should be constructive,
self-reliant and capable of dealing with
grave conditions in a manner creditable
to the National honor and Just to in
ternational interests.
Among the patriotic, broad-minded
statesmen whom this changed condition
of international itffairs called Into the
service of the United States none has
exerted so wide or so wholesome an In
fluence as William Howard Taft.
Porto Rico anil the Philippines had bo
come American territory, requiring
American treatment. Cuba, an inde
pendent nation by the grace of the.
United States, had become an object
of kindly solicitude to the Government
at Washington, uud bus been ever since.
The Republic of Panama came Into ex
istence, bringing with it the terrlto-
Mial understanding essentlul to the con
struction of tho Isthmian canal, but
with it also came enlarged possibili
ties of discord In Central America
n gainst which the United States is of
Its own volition the guarantor.
That these vexatious problems have
all thus far advanced toward an hon
orable solution is due more to Wlllium
Howard Taft than to any other Indi
vidual. He bus been the builder and
exemplar of the new American pulley.
He has given to the inhabitants of our
insular possessions a convincing assur
ance of the integrity of American pur
pose. To the Philippines, to Hawaii,
to Porto Rico and to Puuunia he has
gone as a messenger of American good
will and fair play aud iu all those
territories he Is gratefully recognized
as their friend and protector. In him
they have an advocate of the forces
and methods that make for peace, pro
gress and brotherhood under Ameri
can sovereignty.
Mr. Taft is a many-sided man. He
works lut r J aud plays hard. Ho radl
ates geniality aud sunshine. As a
Judge he was both Just uud gentle,
As Governor of the Philippics his
courtesy, tact, sympathy und forbeur
unce gave to the people of the Orient
:iu exalted Ideal of American dignity
aud American manhood. As Secretary
of War he elevated the standards of
the military service and gave lucreused
security to the National defease
He eomlilnes the executive faculty
with the judicial in the hlghipt de
gree, and his rule of life, both public.
.ajAT.
and private, may be summed up In a
single sentence:
"I dare to do nil that may become a
man; Who dares do more is noiie."
The call of the people is for Wil
liam Howard Taft. They know him.
He Is one of them. There Is need this
year of a leader of practical exis
tence In public uffalrs whose principles
and policies are not subject to change
over night, and whose record in high
office is a suillclcnt guaranty for his
future performance. Mr. Taft fulfills
that requirement in every detail. HI
record is au unbroken story of accom
plished results for the public welfare.
No act or utterance of bis requires
apology or explanation. He is neith
er a dodger nor a trimmer. He has
encountered many difficulties aud mas
tered them all. His cheeriness, broad
humanity, Integrity and devotion to the
principles which have made the Re
public great aud powerful distinguish
him as au ideal of American citizen
ship. Iu the great political campaign upon
which the country Is about to enter no
body will have the slightest excuse for
misunderstanding the attitude or
the purimse of William Howard Taft.
The record of the Republican nominee
is an open book In which there Is
neljhcr evasion nor contradiction. He
stands by the party plaform uud by
the history of the party's achievements.
The Republican party presents lihu to
the people' as a statesman and in t riot
jvortby to rank iu succession with the
great leuders of American progress
whose names, from Lincoln and Grant
to Mclvlnley and Roosevelt, are unsep
arubly associated with the noblest tri
umphs of the Republic.
Minor Mention. '
"What is Mr. Bryan's reul para
mount Issue?"' asks a reader. Don't
know. Have not heard from Mr. Bryan
for several hours. Ouititn Bee.
Democrats who had been thinking
rather well of Senator Foraker will
have to revise their opinions. Sioux
City Journal.
Mr. Tuft muy not do as much talk
ing as Mr. Bryan during, the present
campalgu, but this will not prevent him
from saying quite as much. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
After all, this Issue will rfuffice. Taft
or Bryan? The country does not want
Mr. Bryan at the White House. It
will now discover no new reason for
Intrusting him with the great respon
sibilities of the Presidency. Boston
Herald. .
The bunk guarantee most of us want
Is that our checkbook stubs will tally
with the bank's figuring of the balance.
New York Mall.
Real tariff reformers seem unani
mously agreed in their refusal q take
Mr. Bryan as a tariff reformer. New
York Tribune.
Mr. Bryan miebt get further if h
could exulalu to the couutry how II
lost anything by defeating him In 1800
and 1000. Omaha Bee.
In lils siceeu of acceptance M..
Bryan said: "Our platform declare
that the overshadowing Issue which
manifests Itself In all the questloiw
now' under discussion, Is, shall the peo
ple rule? No matter which way we
turn; no matter to what subject we ad
dress ourselves, the same question con
fronts us."
If Mr. Bryan will turn towards al
most any Southern state which has
been under permanent Democratic conr
trol, he will quickly find a field for
practical work In the direction of hay
ing the cople rule. Let him, for In
stance, turn towards Arkansas, where
there Is a campaign In progress involv
ing, above nil other Issues,1 the refprm
of the present electoral system of the
state.
The laimc la Arkanaaa. ' '
Of this system, and of some of the
Issues Involved In the cnmpalgn, Gcorgo
L. Mallory, Secretary Arkansas State
League of Republican Clubs, In an ad
dress delivered August 21, 1908, at
Maumelle. Arkansas, said:
"In the last national contest the Re
publicans of this state polled 42 per
cent of the total vote cast. Roosevelt
received only 17,000 fewer votes than
Parker, aud this with the returns held
back for" twenty days by the election
boards before the results were an
nounced. If It required twenty days to
patch up a majority of only 17,000 for
Parker, who Is there who will not say
that by every application of circum
stantial evidence Roosevelt actually
carried Arkansas in 1!K)4.
"Tho Democrats often say t'.iey grow
tired of hearing the "Republicans ever
liustlngly talking about the Arkansas
election law. But Just as long as this
Iniquitous system remains with us and
the machine that it has created con
tinues faithfully and unerringly to
grind nut majorities for the dominant
party, giving the minority no represen
tation of their own choice on tho
county boards or nt the polling places,
just so long will we cry the issue from
the housetops and demand the common
rights of American citizens.
"I have.no hesitancy in saying that
the fertile 'source of nine-tenths of sit
the evils uuder which- this state suf
fers is the Democratic election law of
18IU.
"The law that places the whole ma- .
ehluery of elections in the hands of
three Democratic office-holders, often
themselves candidates for reelection, is
Itself the strongest circumstantial evi
dence that it Is the intention to steal
the election. Add to this the refusal
to allow the Republicans, who cast 40
per cent of the vote In this State, .the
right to name their own election Judges
and clerks, and the evidence is almost
complete to convince the most conserva
tive man of the fact that Republicans
In Arkansas are beforehand marked for -
defeat, and that fairness and honesty
and the reputation oT the state will all
be sacrificed, If necessary, to carry out
the corruption.
"The Democrats have frankly given
as their excuse for this law that It was
created for the purtwse of counting out
the negrrf. Yet we all know that the
worst features of this law are invoked
In the white counties of the state
where the Republicans wauld surely
wlS If given an equal chance with tho
Democrats at the polls.
Intolerable Situation.
"The situation Is intolerable to a free.
people. In 1770 my forefathers and
yours fought und bled because they
were taxed and were uot allowed rep
rscutntln. To-day, the Republicans,
Prohibitionists, Socialists, and Popu
lists are taxed and are disfranchised.
Tbey all contribute to the support of
the state Institutions; they bear their
share of the cost of public Improve
ments ; they do all that any citizen doe
to pay the running expenoes of city,
county aud state, but they are not al
lowed representation. They pay taxes '
but the law prevents them saying who
shall represent them as the levlers of
taxes. i
"More than that, this law opens a
yawning grave to every rising man in
Vrkuusus who claims the right of Inde
pendent thought. It stifles every laud-
able politlcul aspiration; it stands with
a 11m in lug sword iu the path of anyone
who would gain preferment outside of
the Iieuiocratle party; it blasts hope
and kills auihitlou, and over It all it
lays its blighting bund upon the ballot
box, corrupting and perjuring our Dem
ocratic olIU Iuls and robbing us of the
elective fnnu-hl.se, the most sacred and
vitluublo prerogative of free citizen
ship. "This Is the paramount issue In our
stale campaign; not tho state capltol;
not the convict system; not the trusts,
but whether Arknnsas as a state Is to
be holiest and square with her people
und treat them all with equality and
even-handed Justice, which Is conceded
to be the right of every Amerlcau eltj
zen under the Constitution. The Re
publicans who are working side by side
with the Democrats In business, tho ,
church, society, and In every laudable
enterprise that seeks to upbuild this
state, appeal to all good citizens to bnlj
sweep this unjust and disgraceful cJee
tiou law out of existence."