The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-08-06
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
NATIONAL POLITICS IN AN IRRE.
CONClLABLE TANGLE.
The Scarcity of Gold Threatens the
Success of His Golden Wedding.

Never in our recollection has nation
al politics been in such tangle rs it is
now. Never such bitterness and ire
concilable differences in the press con-
cerning platform and a candidate
Some of their utterances are shame
full, intolerant, disgusting. They
speak of the Chicago platform as born
of anarchy and reputation, and use
all the odious adjectives they can find
in the dictionary. The New York
World is especially bitter against both
platform and candidate, and because
it cannot find blemish in Mr.. Bryan's
life or record, tries to belittle him as
the boy orator. When Jobs three
aged friends charged him with self
conceit and rebellion against his Maker
young man listened and at last vent
ured to speak. He apologized for his
youth, but added: 'Great men are not
always wise, nor does old age always
understand Judgment. The Lord
was wroth against Jobs three aged
friends, but had no word of condemna-
tion for Elihu.
! don't know how old these belliger-
cut editors are who denounce Mr..
Bryan for his youth, but they seem to
have forgotten that Jefferson was only
thirty-threc years old when he wrote
tho declaration of independence, Madi-
son WAS only forty when he and Hamil
ton wrote and published the Federalist,
which is still said to be the greatest
treatise on political science that has
ever appeared in tho world. John
Marshall was only thirty-nine when
appointed attorney general by Wash
ington, Patrick Henry was but twenty
nine when he made the speech that
first made him famous, and WAS thirty
nine when George Mason said of him,
"Hcis by far the nest powerful speaker
, ever heard. Your passions arc no
! longer your own when he sddressos
them. He is the fr>t man upon this
, continent as we'll in abilities as public
virtues. James Monroe was sent to
congress when he was but twenty eight
years old, and when he was but twonty-
, three Bancroft says h.. was tho most
, conspicuous representative upon the
floor of the house. Horny Clay was
sent to the United States senate when
he was twenty-ninc. John Randolph
was leader of the house in 1900 when
he was only twenty eight years old.
, One thing is certain. Mr.. Bryan il
= Did enough to capture and lead the
8 old and the young who are so fortunate
q as to hear him; and Alfred Lewis, o.
8 the New York Journal, who has heari
4 all his speeches, says he has never
Q made failure or mistake; that he Ii
i student of all history and burns tn,
e midnight oil. Every newspaper cor
respondent OF Chicago accords to hin
t extraordinary abilities, and have daret
Q to say SO, even to the disgust of tn
o old stays who stayed at home.
: AS to the platform cannot see any
o thing in it that should cause such de
= uunciation. One platform is for goIc
IS and the other for silver and gold
9 Great and good men differ honestl
, about that and they have right t.
Il differ. The best editorial ! have see
D from gold standard paper wss in tn
. Richmond Dispatch under the captio
:, of ''Don't Exagg the spirit G
'S which was "Don't try to alarm tn
people with predictions of ruin On
panic and national distress should si
yer be restored to it's former cond
,e ton. While we are for q single gol
s. standard yet we cannot predict On
s. such evils. The transition will com
IN gradually if it comes at all and on
10 bankers and commercial men are SID al
~ enough to prepare for it and let
e. come by degrees. Don't exaggerat
ne the situation"
ed That is the way to talk and to writ
N Let everybody do like my friend La
OF ramore, who has all the time been
W. goldbug, but says he shall surpo
OF Bryan and the platform. tried, sal
OF he, to keep them from putting that 81
q, yer plank in the platform, but the
would do it, and now I am going
aS stand on it until it breaks down, Of
af then I can tell the boys, 81 told yc
IL so." And then he whispered to m
"and besides being a democrat fro
away back, my mother was Bryt
and her father was from Culpepp
county, in old Virginia, don't VI
see." "Of course, of course" said
"you are right; You are always right
There are bigger things than t
currency and the country has surviv
them. I haven't seen ten dollars
gold in five years and have surviv
that. 1t surely has ceased to be
common currency of the country.
two years more my wife and I are
have golden wedding, if we live, a
I'm afraid there won't be enough g.
in the country to make the eve
/ respectable. The bankers keep it
, locked up and out of sight, exec
~ when they have to ship it to Engla
to pay our gold coupons. History t.
Of the time in this country when CO..
skins and deerskins and tobacco ,
the currency, and the people got ale
ne? and there is still some remain.
so the continental money that cir
lated during the revolution