RRYANAND democrats who
THE CURRENCY , ,
favor the election
of Mr. Bryan to defeat imperialism , be
lieving him powerless to effect a change
in the currency system , have not
thoughtfully considered the nature of
our constitution. Section 2 , Art. VI , of
the constitution reads :
"This constitution , and the laws of
the.United States , which shall bo made
in pursuance thereof ; and all treaties
made , or which shall be made , under
the authority of the United States , shall
bo the supreme law of the land. "
It is the duty of the president of the
United States to execute the laws of
congress. When the treaty of peace
was ratified by the senate of the United
States , in the manner prescribed by the
constitution , it became the supreme law
of the land , and it became the sworn
duty of the president to uphold this law
as it is his duty to uphold any other law.
This treaty transferred sovereignty over
the Philippines from Spain to the United
States. It was now the duty of the
president to uphold our sovereignty
there as it was to maintain it in any
other portion of American territory. He
must suppress insurrection in the Phil
ippines just as he would be required to
suppress insurrection in the territory of
Oklahoma. If Mr. Bryan had been
president at the time of the ratification
of the treaty of peace , and been true
to his oath of office , he would have
done in the Philippines just as Mr. Mo-
Kinley has done and is now doing.
The duty of the president toward the
Filipinos will continue as it is today no
matter who the
Duly of the President.
occupant of the
office may be , until our relations with
the Filipinos are changed. This change
cannot be wrought by the executive
alone. He has neither the power to ac
quire nor to alienate territory. As con
gress alone can acquire , an act of con
gress would be necessary to give away
or make other regulations relative to
that which has been acquired. If the
Filipinos are to be given independence ,
congress and not the president must
grant it. If we are to establish a
portectorate over them , congress and
not the president must make the
needful regulations. Hence , if Mr.
Bryan is elected and does not have
a congress opposed to the retention
of the Philippines , our relations with
the Filipinos will not be changed one
iota , and we will be no nearer a solution
of the difficulties than before. Mr.
Bryan would be confronted with a
rebellion against the sovereignty of the
United States , and as he could do noth
ing to relinquish that sovereignty , he
would be compelled to put down the
rebellion , and use the army of the
United States to accomplish it. If the
use of the army to maintain order in
territory belonging to the United States
be militarism , we would thus have mili
tarism under Bryan as wo now have it
under McKiuley.
The only way to effect a change , in
regard to our political relations with the
. , , Filipinos , would
A Silver Congi'CBR. , , ,
be to elect a con
gress favorable to the relinquishment of
our sovereignty there. If this should bo
done , would not that congress do in
regard to the currency question that
which Mr. Bryan declares he will have
it do ? If Mr. Bryan is true to his plat
form and the pledges ho has made
repeatedly to the American people ,
is it not incumbent upon him to
work as diligently with congress to
secure the repeal of the new currency
law and enact radical silver legislation ,
as it is be to bring about the relin
quishment of our sovereignty in the
Philippines ?
SenatorSher-
THE ANNUAL
COINAGE.nmn > m support of
the act of 1890 ,
said : "If our present currency is esti
mated at $1,400,000,000 and our popula
tion is increasing at the ratio of 3 per
cent , per annum , it would require $42-
000,000 increased circulation each year
to keep pace with the increase of popu
lation. ' ' In commenting upon this , Mr.
Bryan stated in his Madison Square
Garden speech :
"If the United States then needed
more than $42,000,000 annually to keep
pace with the population and business ,
it now , with a larger population , needs
a still greater addition ; and the United
States is only one nation among many.
Our opponents make no adequate provi
sion for the increasing monetary needs
of the world. "
The report of the director of the mint
for 1899 , effectively refutes the state
ment of Mr. Bryan that 'our opponents
make no adequate provision for the
increasing monetary needs of the
world. " This report shows that the
gold coinage alone for 1899 , was $108-
000,000 , together with $28,000,000 of
silver and subsidiary coinage , making a
total of $186,000,000 , or almost treble
the amount Mr. Bryan stated was
required annually for the "increasing
monetary needs of the world. "
THE COLORADO
World-Herald of
CATAMOUNT.WorldHerald
the 24th says :
"Governor Poynter and family re
turned this morning from a two week's
outing in the mountains of Colorado.
Hunting and fishing were their favorite
pastime , but the governor had several
opportunities to discuss politics in an in
formal way.
Ho is of the opinion that the republi
cans are welcome to all the solace they
derive through assuring one another
that Colorado will cut down the Bryan
majority of 1890. He says that Mr.
Bryan's firm attitude on the money
question , his unwavering demand that
the Kansas City convention declare
specifically for the coinage of silver at a
legal ratio , gained him many friends in
Colorado. They will not waver in their
allegiance to him by supporting McKinley -
ley and his gold standard policy. "
It is agreeable to learn from such in
tellectual altitudes that the free coinage
of silver at 16 to 1 is holding the Rocky
Mountain friends of "the peerless" to
their enthusiastic work.
THE CONSERVATIVE has contended ,
ever since Bryan made the reaffirm ation
of the money fallacies a condition pre
cedent to his candidature at the Kansas
City convention , that under the dust-
breeding and cloud-evolving inenl of
Imperialism , the Colorado catamount
was snugly concealed.
Croker and purity of ice in New
York and Tom Patterson and free silver
in Colorado are the chief supports effusion
fusion , delusion and confusion reform.
Free silver is paramount in the moun
tains. Imperialism is paramount in the
eastern cities. The catamount of Col
orado and the paramount , pedigreed , as
out of Kansas Oity , by Bryan , are a team
of twin catastrophes which will fly the
track before the race is half over.
MORE TRUSTS
WANTED. works of Neb. City
passed into the
hands of the starch trust. Probably this
is why Morton is defending the trusts.
He helped start the Argo works. "
The above is from the gospel of popu
lism as preached by St. Bowlby in the
organ of fusion at the pretty town of
Crete , Saline county , Nebraska.
If the Argo works are in a starch
trust how did they get in ? Did a trust
destroy the Argo by making competition
impossible , and then the Argo swallow
the trust or the trust take in the Argo ?
Bowlby or Bryan should fly to solve this
enigma and endeavor to protect the
plain people of Nebraska City from the
voracity of the octopus.
Every day there are employed more
than two hundred persons in the Argo
_ . works. Everyday
Deeds. /J . /
more than thirty
tons of pure white starch are made at the
Argo. Every day there are about three
thousand bushels of Nebraska corn
ground up at the Argo. And every day
the money paid for wages , and the
money paid for corn , and the money
paid for coal , and the cash paid for trans
portation is circulating by the thousands
of dollars among citizens of Nebraska.
The Argo acts. It does not talk. It
creates. It does not dream and de
nounce. And if that which Nebraska
Oity and Otoe county and the state get
in the way of compensation and content
ment out of the Argo starch factory is
the result of a trust , we demand more
trusts and we will contribute to their es
tablishment cheerfully and liberally , as