Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-08-15
TO BE WAR.
n Bryan Is Elected, England viii
Declare Il.

strength. lnc iines says iHc
silver craze IL not confined to the
West and South. and there is alway =
danger that a policy of sentiment
and selIishness may spread rapidly.
II is quite possible that the next
few weeks may seem 10 strengthen
the party of Repatriation. and that
distrust of the result in November
may increase. In New York city
there are evil signs. To say that
there is no danger of his election
would be to say too much"
a Scotsman, resident in New
York, writes TO the Scotsman that
1.-The silver craze is assuming such
alarming proportions that there is
beginning to be fear that il may
control the election. Banks every
where are sending out appeals TO
their customers to do what they can
to counteract the folly; but what
avails il ~
One correspondent contcmplates
complacently, If not joyfully, the
prospect Of an early and acute
financial panic in the states as such
a state of affairs would help inuteri-
ally in defeating Bryan" Advices
from America state, however. that
the bankers have deferred for the
present the playing of this game.
Perhaps they know better the tenn
per of the people.
Speculations are rife az TO the ef-
feet on England of Bryan's election.
The Times and Echo, radical pa
per- says in It's issue of July 10: IF
Bryan is elected and the Democrat
ic platform enacted into law, there
will be war between this country
and the United States before this
time next year. The great capital
lists who forced Mr.. Gladstone TO
occupy Egypt will compel any gov
ernment in osfice here TO declare
war against America sooner than
that their holdings of American
bonds shall shrink TO half values"
The same journal admits condi-
ton justifying war when il says:
"If the single gold standard can be
forced upon South America and
Asia. as it has been since 1873 forced
on North America and Europe, gold
must inevitably appreciate TO at
least four times its present absurd
value; or to put il otherwise. COM
modities must decline to one. fourth
of the present price, and labor, all
the world over, be crucified as II
was never cruci6cd before--in days
of medieval serfdoni or even chat
tel slavery. Such il the e'contest. IT
the money lords can force gold
monometalism upon the whole
world, they will succeed in estab-
fishing the most gigantic moneyed
aristocracy among the rich, and the
worst system of pconage serfdom
among the masses that has ever
cursed the hapless sous OF men.
But they will not succeed. have
long leaned to the belief that the
social revolution would come to us
out OF the dauniless bosom of the
far West, and the present struggle
is but the beginning of the end of
the Glasses both in The new world
and the old"
The English press very generally
Processes belief in the sincerity
and ability of Mr.. Bryan and his
followers. The Speaker for July Is
had the fairness TO say: "Mr. Bryan
and his followers really believe that
the masses are being cruciiied upon
cross of gold. They entertain no
doubt as to the righteousness of
their cause when they are attacking
wealth aud society and old laws and
principles in order to replace them
by the tenets of Jack Cade. This is
the terrible part of the business. If
they were as some English critics
enormously suppose, mere charla-
tans and inpostors. They are en-
thusiasts which they knew to be in
iquitous merely because they be-
lieve they can win votes by 80 do
ing, then their great crusade
against the public rights would not
be so formidable a business. But
we cannot believe they are charla-
tans and impostors. They are en-
thusiasts undoubtedly and crauks
presumably. And there are no
more dangerous persons in the
world than cranks and enthusiasts
when they have allowed themselves
to become the advocates of dis
honest cause"
The Tablet, British reform pa
per, thus states the silver question
as il exists in America:
"Let US suppose grain shipper
had spoken in this fashion to bro
ker: Twenty years ago entered
into a contract with you to supply
fifty tons of grain of given quail
ity. Year after year my harvests
have been weighed IN your scales,
and every year have found myself
obliged to supply an additional
number of sacks TO make up the
total, which you reckon TO be fifty
tons. The grain is the same in
quality as il was when the contract
began twenty years Ago, but now
have to supply nearly twice as
many sacks of IL before your scales