BRYAN1TE CHANGES
COL. a C. 8ABIN COMES OUT
SQUARELY FOR ROOSEVELT.
Former Surer Knight Says the Hen |
Now In Control of the Democratic |
Party Were Its Enemies in the Cam*
paigns of 1896 and 1909,
Ool. Oliver C. Sabin, formerly of Colo
rado, but now of Washington, who was
one of W. J. Bryan’s most enthusiastic
•upporters in the campaigns of 1896 and
1960, has abjured Democracy, and will
vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Dur
ing the campaigns named Col. Sabin was
associated with Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, in conducting the “Silver Knight,”
a free silver paper, and in organizing
“The Silver Knights of America,” a
free silver organization. He also assist
ed in the writing of the book, “The Hand
of Money,” circulated so extensively
throughout the country in the first cam
paign of Bryan. In a letter, recently
published, Col. Sabin says:
“How it is possible for a man who is
honestly in favor of the remonetization
of silver to support Judge Parker, who
is the very pet, the idol, you might say,
of those men who defeated Bryan, 1
cannot conceive. Ixx>k over the whole
list, from ex-President Cleveland, ex
Benator Hill, Richard Olney, and, with
out naming them, the whole manage
ment of the Parker movement now, and
w« find that they were either the active
or passive enemies of free silver and of
Mr. Bryan, and, in fact, of everything
that we, as silver men, held to be im
portant in our campaign. They not
only were against us in sentimeut, but
they organized a third party, went in
and tried to destroy Mr. Bryan and the
Democratic party, and they succeeded.
Now this same old gang, bought up by
the trusts, heeled by the trusts, sup
ported by monopolistic money, the
grinders of the face of the poor, is go
ing out asking for the votes of silver
men to support a man and a party that
has abused us and our people more than
they ever have the Republican party.
More Money in Circulation.
“The Republican party, with what
faults it may have, cannot be accused
of being insincere, and, furthermore, the
Republican party has come to where we
wanted them. What we wanted in re
gard to money was more of it, and the
Republicans came to it in a different
way. Of course none of us cared for the
simple question of silver, only as it af
fected the volume of currency. There
was too small an amount of money in
circulation to do the business of the
country. , Now we have plenty of
money. * * *
“Look at the financial condition of our
country now. Whoever saw such a coun
try? Where in all history is there rec
ord of a country as prosperous as we are
to-day?* Look at our immense exporta
tion of goods, billions of dollars being
brought into our country from abroad
more than we send out. The like was
never seen before. Our farmers only
a few years ago in the Western States
were borrowing money at anywhere from
6 to 10 and in some States 12 per
cent Look at them now. You cannot
loan them money, and most of them
have money to loan, and they are glad
to get 5 or 6 per cent for it. God is on
our side, and the very earth responds to
good times. Look at our corn crop, bil
lions of bushels; wheat by the hundreds
of millions, and at prices seldom before
equaled.
Good Time to "Stand Pat.”
“Taking It altogether, we find every
body and everything prosperous, and
as it stands now I am of the opinion,
very much, of these Iowa fellows who
believe in the doctrine of ‘standing
pat.’ I beiieve it is well to let good
enough alone. I, or any other person
except politicians, do not care who is
in power, for there is no political fa
vors we ask, only this, we, want pros
perity for our country—good times; we
want pur laboring men to be furnished
with plenty of work at good times
wages, who are thereby enabled to
educate their children, dress them
selves respectably, give themselves good
homes, and it makes them valuable and
useful citizens. * * *
“President Roosevelt has never left
ns in doubt where he was on any ques
tion, always straight, honest, true and
square. He is an American from the
crown of his head to the soles of his
feet, and nobody can have any doubt as
to bis standing by the flag of our coun
try and commanding honest respect. The
Democrats would do well not to carry
on their campaign expecting to obtain
votes from the American people by abus
ing the personality of Mr. Roosevelt. If
they do, he will be elected by the largest
majority any President has ever been
since the days of Horace Greeley. Ev
erybody knows Sir. Roosevelt is straight,
and whether you are his political friend
or enemy, you know he is a gentleman,
honest, upright and sincere.
“The attempt to show that he is wild
and erratic has no force whatever, be
cause be has already had charge of the
government for nearly four years, end
he has done nothing but what was right,
aurrounding himself with the very best
class of advisers, and if he has succeeded
for the first four years of his admin
istration, couldn't he do it four more?
Can’t we trust him better than Mr. Par
ker, led by Mr. Hill?
Men hhimld Be Honest.
"I think, furthermore, that In politic®,
as well as in the affairs of life, a man
should be honest and sincere. Now,
the gentlemen who are managing this
Parker boom are neither honest nor
•iucere. Mr. Hill, 1 suppose to be the
manager of the whole concern, as be
nominated Mr. Parker in the convention;
Mr. Parker is his creation. Mr. Hill
at a Democratic convention in the State
of New York openly advocated and
passed a resolution to the effect of gov
ernment ownership of all the coal miiies;
at the same time he and his friends,
under cover, were making fun of the
idea, and thought it was a good scoop
on the Republicans. They would no
more think of carrying it into practice
than they would of Hying.
“Take it with the money question.
They did not have honesty enough to
come out and declare in favor of the
gold standard, hoping to deceive some
body into the belief that they could sup
port and were believers in silver, as we
used to be. There is no sincerity in the j
whole party, no honesty in it, and I tell
you that a party, community or man can- t
not succeed where it practice* deceit, dis- ,
koneety and trickery. It cannot be done, j
It is Just as wrong morally to carry out
dishonesty in politics as it is in business
or morals, and I am opposed to it.
“So far as I am concerned, I am satis
fied that the best man is in now, and
propose to ‘stand pat.’ ”
Among the many Democrats who have
announced their intention of voting for
Roosevelt is Nelson J. Bozarth, of Val
paraiso, Ind. Mr. Bozarth was a leading
candidate for Governor before the In
diana Democratic State convention and
fought in the ranks during the civil war.
He has repudiated Barker because of
the stand taken by him toward old sol
diers in his letter of acceptance. Mr.
Bozarth is not the only old soldier who
has bolted the Democratic ticket.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
By tftnery Gassaway Davis.
(In his letter of acceptance, Mr. Davis
bewails the fact that the per capita cost
of administering the government has in
creased since the days of Buchanan,
when it was $2.01.)
I’ve wandered to the subject, John—that
note you sent to me,
Advising me that I have been put up for
our V. P.—
And O, I can’t (help thinking, John, how
times are changing so,
It costs us more to run tilings than some
forty years ago.
In honest old Buchanan's days, before
the civil war.
We didn’t have the money, nor se much
to spend it for—
Two dollars and a penny was the aver
age, you know;
Expenses have gone up a heap since
forty years ago.
They say the country’s grown in wealth
and territory, too,
But I have been so busy, John, these
facts I never knew;
When this was hut a little land, ex
penses were quite low—
Assessments were not very high, some
forty years ago.
In fact, it’s more than forty years, ns
sure as you’re alive;
Now, since I come to think of it, the
lapse is forty-five:
In '59 Buchanan was the boss of all
the show—
(I might have been a candidate, some
forty years ago).
It’s strange the country won’t stand still,
that it will spread and spread—
Why, I remember when it crossed the
Mississippi’s bed,
And when we quelled the red man with
his arrow and his bow—
Alas, but times have changed, dear John,
since forty years ago!
Sometimes, dear John, when I observe
that soreness in my neck,
And hear the frantic calls that ask an
other heavy check,
I wish I’d run for office in the olden,
golden glow,
For it was vastly cheaper, John, some
forty years ago.
To-day they say the railroads run to al
most every town.
They span the land from sea to sea,
crosswise, and up and down,
And where was once a wilderness the
busy whistles blow—
That’s why expenses have increased since
forty years ago.
They tell me we have islands now, all
scattered through the sea—
Ah, John, the times to-day ain’t like the
times that used to be!
They say that folks use sulky plows
where once they used a hoe—
These things make bills much higher,
John, than forty years ago.
We didn’t have no steamboats then—
not like these nowadays,
No steel and iron liners, nor no cruisers,
anyways—
I can't remember everything, but, John,
I know
The government costs more than It did
forty years ago.
They esy mat we have telephones, elec
tric ligvts, and all.
And trolley cars, and miles and miles of
(harvest every fall.
But notice the expenses, John! They
worry me, and so,
I wish that you had chosen me some
forty years ago.
DEMOCRATS AT WAR.
Hearat’s Paper Makes Savage Attack
on Kx-Secretary Olney.
The wake on the Democratic ticket of
1904 has begun, although it is some days
before the day set for the official funeral.
Among the protesting mourners, Ilearst’s
New York American attracts momentary
nttenion by the following truculent howl.
There is copied here only the opening
notes of the performance:
“According to the little-souled Olney.
Attorney General in Cleveland’s cabinet,
tlie war with Spain was a comical blun
der, and the men that gave their lives
for the freeing of Cuba were fools that .
had much better have stayed at home.
“Mr. Olney, by some unaccountable
error of the Democratic managers in this
campaign, has been making speeches in
behalf of Judge Parker, and this noble
sentiment is one of the things that he
has been saying.
“At Cooper Union last night, to a
meeting called under the auspices of
Democracy, he spoke with a nasty sneer
»f ‘our needless scrimmage with Spain
aver Cuba,” and again, later in his re
marks, sneered at what he called in his
pleasant way ‘that development of jingo
ism and militarism which brought on the
scrap with Spain.’
“IF MR. OLNEY HAD BEEN EN
GAGED TO MAKE VOTES FOR MR. '
ROOSEVELT HE COULD NOT POS- !
3IBLY HAVE HIT UPON A BET
i'ER WAY.”
This criticism might well be applied, 1
_»• the Democrats, to Mr. OIney’s entire 1
Hooper Union speech. In his comments 1
ipon the Republican foreign policy, the ]
Philippine question and its financial
lianagemcnt, Mr. Olney touched, with a 1
•ash hand, the nerves of national honor 1
ind pride. It was a sure way to pro
luce a vast crop of voters for Roose
velt. It is admitted that Olney spoke to
i silent house. It is not surprisnig.
“We believe In tbe gold standard ae
Ixed by the usage and verdict of the
insinesa world, and in n sound mone- I
ary system ae matters not of mornen- I
ery political expediency, but of per
nauent organic policy.” — BpomvoIi’i l
•Iter of Mosptaoo*. I
HARMONY.
f// * <cr" T
—Reproduced from the Philadelphia North American. .}•
DEMOCRATIC ANARCHIST.
Assassination Preached by an Incen
diary “Nigger” Hater.
If Democracy haa returned to “san
ity,” as Grover Cleveland asserts, it is
certain the party has not yet purged it
self of something even worse than insan
ity. Anarchists are a greater curse to
any community than lunatics, for luna
tics are often. harmless to society; but
anarcliists, by their words and deeds, are
always a menace. Take the case of Con
gressman J. T. Heflin, for instance. He
is an Alabamian with a mouth more dau
gerous than a dozen Czolgoszes. The as
sassin of President McKinley did not
openly preach anarchism before carrying
out his purpose and thereby incite oth
ers to slay public men. Heflin is more
cowariUy. In a recent speech at Tuske
gee, Ala., the home of Booker T. Wash
ington, and the negro school conducted
by him, Heflin said:
“There they sat, Roosevelt and Booker,
and if Czolgosz or one of bis kind had
thrown a bomb under the table no great
harm would have been done the coun
try.”
Of the report that Booker Washington
was going to help to beat him for elec
tion to Congress, Heflin said:
“If Booker takes a hand in this thing
it will be one time I will ask him to step
out. I will ask him to 'hands off,’ and
you know we have a way of influencing
negroes down here.”
Heflin, who succeeded Congressman
Thompson, had a fight with his Republi
can opponent. Captain B. W. Walker, on
Sunday. Smarting under this, he attack
ed Walker fiercely in his speech. He de
scribed him as “a black and tan serpent
hissing at the feet of honest, upright
Democrats.” He said it was the desire
of the Republicans to have Walker sent
to Congress so they could say: “Here’s
a friend of Booker Washington, and it
shows how he is looked upon down there
and how the people uphold him."
“If Parker is elected President,” he
said, “and Booker Washington goes to
Washington, yon will find him eating in
the kitchen instead of the dining room.”
. Heflin said he refused to meet Walker
In joint debate because that would have
recognized him as his equal. He added:
“I do not recognize any black and tan
as my equal. I will not lower myself to
the level of a black and tan who mingles
in equal terms with negroes.”
It avails Heflin nothing to say his
Iximb talk was intended to be jocular,
rhe fact remains that it was incendiary
language, such as is made criminal by
:he anti-anarchist law recently passed by
Congress. The Democratic party has
nuch to answer for, and unless it muz
sles such blatant “nigger” haters as
Heflin it may have more crimes laid at
ts doors. Heflin is one of the leaders
if the party in the South, and his utter
uices are an indication that Democracy
s, at least, not “safe,” even if it is now
‘sane,” as Mr. Cleveland would have the
icople believe.
DEMOCRATIC INDECISION.
'ountry Ha* Buffered Because of It
When that Party Was In Power.
Whenever the Democratic party has
lad a chance at power its course has
>een like that of the donkey in the fable,
vhich died of starvation while trying to
lecide which to eat first, its oats or its
lay.
It was this way when Buchanan was
President, and could not make up his
uind whether or not to suppress by force
he secession movement in the South,
ind so postponed having anything done
mtil Lincoln could become President.
L'his dilatory policy was largely rcspon
,ible for the enormous cost in money and
ives of suppressing the rebellion.
When Cleveland was President the
lountry suffered quite ns much from ag
mizing uncertainty as to what the Demo
rats were really going to do, as from the
ictual evils that they did do. On neith
r the tariff nor on the money question
vas there any unity of opinion amongst
he Democrats, and never was it poe.si
ile to forecast just what would be done.
The Democrats took one year and five
nouths to work up and pass their Wil
ou bill After the inauguration of Fraai- <
dent Cleveland, ns against four months
and twenty days that it took the Repub
licans to pass the Dingley bill after the
inauguration of President McKinley.
No less than 034 amendments were
made to the Wilson bill before it was
passed—and then, despite this enormous
number of patches to make the bill suit
all Democrats, President Cleveland view
ed it “with the utmost diaappodntment”
and said that it was marked with places
“where the deadly blight of treason has
blasted the counsels of the brave in
their hour of might.” The colossal fail
ure of this bill to produce enough reve
nue to run the government, as well us the
general blow it inflicted on the industries
of the country, thereby driving thousands
of men out of employment, was in sharp
contrast to the success of the Dingley
bill in not only producing enough reve
nue but in giving employment to thou
sands of people out of work, and in re
Storing irood finite tf» the fmmtpr
To the Editor:
I belong to an old Democratic family.
Wby should I not follow the traditions of
my kin, and vote as my father did?—John
Dean.
Answer: Because there is nothing left
for you to vote for. Nothing but an
?nipty name. Democracy to-day is mere
ly negation, criticism and idle complain
ing. True Democracy—that is the doc
trine of the equal rights and opportuni
ties of man is ouly found in Republican
ism.
In a speech at Norfolk, Neb., Mr. Bry
tn said: “On a number of questions
Judge I’arker is too much like iloosevelt
to suit us.” This raised a howl among
the Parker “machine” managers, and Mr.
Bryan hastened to deny that he had
made such a statement. A recent dis
patch from Norfolk says that 1,000 Re
publicans and Democrats, who heard
Mr. Bryan speak, are ready to take oath
that he expressed himself as reported.
Mr. Bryan is getting in hot water in his
'(forts to smile after swallowing the bit
ter gold telegram.
Thomas E. Watson, People’s candidate
for President, says: “The Democrats
lave a meaningless platform and a
THE QUESTIQN box.
Answer* by William Bhagbark.
To the Editor:
Alton B. Parker says he will. If be Is
elected President, revoke the age pension
order, hut try to get Congress to nllow sol
diers a service pension. Do you think
Judge Parker would be able to get such a
measure through Congress?—Old Soldier.
Answer: The service pension bill failed
to pass the last Congress, which was Re
publican. It would hai e no chance, of
course, in n Democratic Congress. The
Disability Pension bill, as construed by
President Roosevelt and the Secretary of
the Interior, is all right. There is no
danger of Parker's getting the chance
he wants to cut off the old soldiers' little
pension of $0 to $12 a month. VOTE
AS YOU SHOT.
To the Editor:
When will the work of sanitation begin In
the Panama Canal region? An American
Mother.
Answer: The first work of tho com
mission was that improving the sanitary
conditions uloing the canal route. The
work is progressing steadily. The entire
route is being overhauled, the buildings
disinfected and cleaned, and plans are
under way for providing a supply of pure
drinking water. From the moment when
President Roosevelt had power to take
up the matter, everything about the Pan
ama canal has been rushed, and the work
is going on in a practical manner.
To the Editor:
How can the black men In the South
please the Democrats? We have worked
hard, and claimed little. Yet we can't seem
to suit anyone.—Uncle Tom No. 2.
Answer: According to the Tillman
kind of Southern statesmen, the only
thing a colored man could do to obtain
peace is to die. But there are ten men
to one in this matter, and where one
American is hostile to the negro, ten are
friendly. The republic still lives, and
color, race or religion cannot shut out
citizens from the benefits of American
freedom.
AN EMBARRASSING TRUTH.
Zealous Parker Man Thlnke Bryan a
Dan Bar to the Party.
Ill the courseNof a political campaign
the {ruth will ctfme out at moments and
in quarters most unexpected. Some mem
bers of the party more honest and can
did than the rest will apeak out and utter
truths that must be most embarrassing
to the party, and which, like a flash of
lightning, reveal objects and purposes
tidfct before were shrouded in grateful
darkness. Snell effects must have been
produced by the utterances of the honest
and able editor of the South Bend Times,
one of the most influential Democratic
newspapers in northern Indiana, nml
these utterances are worthy of more
than a passing notice because they re
veal a condition of things within the
ranks of the Democratic party sugges
tive of its hopeless dissension and deca
dence.
Mr. J. B. Stoll, the editor of the Times,
conies out openly in ndvooaey of the elec
tion of Parker and Davis, not on the
ground that they stand for principles or
measures which are not also advocated
by Roosevelt and Fairbanks, but for this
one and dhief reason: that the election
of Parker will effectually and permanent
ly kill Bryan and all that Bryan repre
sents in the pnst and will represent in
the future. Among other things, Mr.
Stoll says:
Parker and Davis, triumphant In Novem
ber, will put a quietus on the radical de
parture foreshadowed by Mr. Bryan. • • •
An engaging personality and persuasive elo
quence may, under certain conditions, popu
larize a project fraught with incalculable
danger to our Institutions and lead to the
destruction of the republic Itself.
Thus it is plain 'how Mr. Bryan’s past
and future Democracy is valued by the
friends of Parker, yet Mr. Bryan was in
vited to stump Indiana on the theory
that he could induce his former followers
to vote for the very camlidate whose
election will put the stamp of condem
nation on ail that he ever did and advo
cated, and upon the good judgment, in
telligence and patriotism of all his friends
and supporters, telling them, in effect,
that they have been nothing less than
enemies of the republic.
When we place the damning judgment
of Parker’s friends against the opinions
heretofore held by Mr. Bryan about Par
ker we must come to the couclusiou that
tile two great leaders of Democracy have
formed a remarkably true estimate of
each other’s virtues and methods. This
is what Mr. Bryan said in his Chicago
speech of April 23:
I can prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker Is out a fit man for the
Democratic party or any other pnrtv to
nominate that stands for honesty nud "fair
dealing in politics.
And here is what Mr. Bryan said in
the Commoner, on July 13, after the
nomination of Tarker:
I HAVE NOTHING TO TIKE BACK. I
HAVE NOTHING TO WITHDRAW OF
THE THINGS I HAVE SAID.
In view of these unqualified statements
it will be particularly interesting to
watch how Mr. Bryan will be able to
convince his many friends in former bat
tles that he really wishes Mr. Parker's
success, and especially after the Parker
leaders have shown such an undisguised
disposition to consign Mr. Bryan to po
litical oblivion in case of sueh success.
An Organized Appetite for Office.
The Chicago Chronicle says:
Four years ago the issue was the full din
ner pall. Thin year the Issue at the South
Is the Hooker Washington luncheon. In the
course of time we may Iflevelop a pte-for
breakfast party.
And in the north the Democrats rep
resent the Hungry Joe party now.
First Voters f -r Roosevelt.
The thirty days before election round
up of voters reveals the fact that nearly
every first voter is going to cast his bal
lot for Roosevelt. It would be a dull
young American, indeed, who should con
sider a vote for the “has beens” as worth
while.
“To say tliot action against trusts
• nd monopolies should be limited to
the application of tho common law la
equivalent to saying that the National
Dovernment should take no action
whatever to ragnlato them.”-Kocse
■iafiiMiNftaMHMi
.S PROTECTION A ROBBERY?
Ik protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our savings banks—not national
banks nor trust companies—hold mora
than $3,300,000,000 ou deposit, against
$1,748,000,000 in 1894, an increase of
$1,552,000,000 in ten years, of which
seven have been protective tariff years?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that the savings banks of New
York and New Rngland alone, the banks
of the working people, have more money
on deposit than had all the savings banks
of our country iu 1894?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that the 1903 figures showed 7,305,
000 savings bank depositors, an increase
of 2,240.000 since 1890?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that the total deposits (exclusive of
government bonds) iu omr banking insti
tutions generally in 1903 amounted to
$9,073,000,000, an increase of $4,757,
000,000 over 1896?
Is protection a robbery, iu view of tbe
fact that our export of domestic man
ufactures increased from $277,000,000 in
1897 (last low-tariff fiscal year), to $452,
000,000 iu 1904 (last complete protective
tariff fiscal year), an increase of $175,
000,000?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our home consumption of wheat
in 1904 fiscal year, was 517,000,000 bush
els. or 49.000,000 bushels in excess of
1903 fiscal year, in spite of the fact that
our 1!H>4 wheat crop was 33,000,000 bush
els short of that of 1!K)3? J gggj
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our production of pig iron in
creased from 7,000,000 tons iu 1894 to
18,000,000 tons in 1903?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our coal production increased
from 152,000,000 tons in 1894 to 319,000,
000 tons in 1903?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our cotton mills used up 3,924,
000 bales of raw cotton in 1903, an in
crease of 2,945,000 bales over 1800, and
1,419,(XX) bales over 18907
Is protection a robbery, in view of tho
fact that in 1903 the cotton mills of
North Carcjlnn, South Carolina and
Georgia showed the following increase
over 1807, the last low-tar iff fiscal year?
Mills . 186
Spindles.3,444.323
Bales consumed . 705.402
Is protection a robbery, in view of tile
fact that our public debt decreased from
$2,331,000,000 in 1800 to $895,000,000 in
1004, a decrease of $1,430,000,000?
Is protection a robbery, in view of t.be
fact that our manufacturing and wage
earning interests show the following in
creases in 1003 over 1890?
Factories. 240,000
Factory workers. 3,uuO.OOO
Factory pay rolls, yearly.$3,000,000,000
Factory output, yecrly_$5,000,000,000
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that our importation of tin plate
decreased from 385,000,000 pounds in
1896 to 110,000,000 pounds in 1908, while
our manufacture of tin plate increased
from 359,000,000 to 820,000,000 pounds,
an increase of 410.000,000 pounds, in
only six years of protection?
Is protection a robbery, in view of the
fact that since Abraham Lincoln’s first
election, in 1800, we show the follow
ing increases?
Increased exports, 1904 ..$1,127,000,000
Increased imports, 1904. .. 038,(XX),000
National wealth.84,000,iXK).(XX)
Money circulation . 2,080,000,oOO
Farms and farm property. 12,500,000,000
Farm products, increase
1004 . 2,700,000,000
Farm animals, excess
1003 . 3,102,000,000
Government revenue, ex
cess 1004 . 485,000,000
Increased petroleum prod
ucts, gals... 2,640,000,000
Increased copper produc
tion, tons. 263,388
Increased com crop, bush
els . 1,500,000,000
Increased wheat crop,
bushels. 464,000,000
Increased gold and silver
production. 101,000,000
Increased cotton picked,
bales. 5,806,000
Increase steam railway
mileage. 190,000
Newspapers, etc., increase. 16.434
Patents granted, increase. 26,821
Sinult Ste. Marie tonnage,
yearly increase. 27,333,000
American shipping, domes
tic, increase, tons .... 2,391,000
And all the foregoing la only part of
what might be credited to the protective
tariff. WALTER J. BALLARD.
Rot Fit to Govern*
When Grover Cleveland was elected
President the second time the first thing
he did was to withdraw from the Senate
the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii
and order the American Hag there to be
hauled down. The Democratic party ap
proved this action as brave and patri
otic. He prevented annexation as long
as he could and the Democratic party
applauded every step he took.
Finally, in the seeoud year of McKin
ley’s administration annexation was com
pleted and the islands entered on a new
career of prosperity. Now no Demo
cratic speaker would dare to advocate
the surrender or evacuation of Hawaii.
A few years hence it will be the same
with the Philippines.
A party that opposes extending the
area of liberty and that advocates haul
ing down the American flag where it has
been legally and rightfully raised is not
fit to be entrusted with the administra
tion of the government.
Poverty in Pree-Trade England.
It was stated in the Manchester City
Council a few days ago that 40,000 to
50.000 people in that city were on the
verge of starvation and that similar con
litions prevailed in London and other
large cities of the United Kingd ■ n. Jo
seph Chamberlain has just stati i in a
speech that there are 1.000,000 fewer la
borers in the United Kingdom now than
In 1851, and that the capital of the farm
ers has fallen $1,000,000,000, that 13,
500.000 people are underfed, while Amer
ica, Germany and other foreign countries
are prospering. Neither the present in
dustrial condition of free trade England,
nor the condition of the United States
when it got a dose of free trade during
the last Democratic administration in
1893-1897, offers any promise of good
that could be wrought by Democratic vio
tory in 1904.
All Ready for. the Blow.
Now William Jennings Bryan
IIss dipped his pen in woe.
And has his leader written—
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