The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-22

the land and needing for their develop
ment more capital and more people,
are in sympathy with all the motley
forces of discord, discomfort and DIS
union, conspiracy, communism anu
calamity. now struggling for the con-
troll of the law making power. IL /
powerful combination ana so was
the one which sought and failed to
nerpetuate slavery and establish the
dangerous doctrine of state sovereignty
| i'm 1861. 1t is to the states which COLI
stitued the Southern Confederacy and
which bought for human slavery,
secession and notification that the
new Democracy and their Popu!lst
allies now look for their chief support
in their crusade for cheap money,
CHEAP labor and the reputation OF
honest debts. They may place I'M
plicit reliance upon the "solld SOUTH,
but they cannot win without the sup
port of northern and western states III
which we believe the sentimen: oil Tie
people is too strong fer Tie right 10
afford any hope of SUCCESS for the
wrong. There is great promise for the
future in the fact that all The great
commercial and industrial Interests CT
the country excepting only iho>c ai!ie'i
with silver mining, all the newspapers
of national reputation in the norris asd
probably at least three fourtii- OF tAc
lesser lights of journalism, aisu the
mighty moral influences Oh the i'i:ipit
are almost solidiy united for the pro-
lection of the nations financial :sonor.
The great fight cannot fail anu th.
people of the State Of Washington will
have cause for thankfulness for s:sany
wears to come if the states electoral
votes are cast for the men and the
cause whose triumph means honest
money and the protection Of American
industries and American labor.
our readers who differ from us in re-
spect to the issues CT this campaign as
being too partisan and perhaps even
harsh, but they are not so intended
We are not unminful of the fact that
some of our fellow citizens in this
county, fas we'll as many thousands
Al, ctnt
sincere believers in the financial policy
advocated by the new Democracy and
the populists-by the former because
they rightly interpreted the hand
writing upon the Democratic wall to
foretell the doom of tie old orginiza-
ton OH account of its utter failure 10
redeem its promises to the people, and
so recognized the necessity OF adopt NJ:
some new issue upon which 10 base
their renewed appeal for popular sup
port; by the latter because t:iey look
upon it as Il step toward the goal OF II
redeemable paper currency TO bt
ground out by the government bureau
of engraving and printing as legal ten
der for all debts public and private,
which has been and is now the chief
end and aim of their existence. 1t Is
the ghost Of buried greenbackism come
back to haunt the land for a little time
in new form, and it is attended by
train of witches which are eyen u great
or menace to law and order aad con-
stitutlOnal government than the eho-t
itself. The frowning phantom Of the
perniciOus doctrine Of states rights per
sistently preached by john G. Calhoun,
of South Carolina, until he made II Il ,;
bed of rebellion and secession, aad
which was finally drowned in the lie
blood of tens upon tens of thousands
of the Unions defenders upon the bat
tie fields Of the civil war, reaches out a
bony hand in an effort to throttle the
executive power by denying in the
Democratic platform the right of fed
eral interference to protect the lives
and property Of American c:t!seDs III
the states except at the request I'll the
governors thereof And Oh the same.
rebellious platform the saecter OF social
ism is conspicuous in the brazen de
fiance of the supreme court and bold
declaration of intention to pack it to
secure the accomplishment of certain
ends. The same dangerou3 spirit is
manifested in the demand for the gov
eminent ownership and operation Of
railroads and teIegraphs which could
only be acquired by confiscation.
Then various designs, whicl, if carried
out would speedily be slIbversive of law
and order and good government,
are thinIy masked under the silver
mantle with which the arch gob
Inns of the crusade are ens!eav-
oring to dazzle the eyes Of the people.
Let us not be deceived. The R.pabii
can party is now as it always has been
the greatest friend which labor and
capital alike have ever had. How
can labor hope to profit if the avenues
for the safe investment of capital are
closed? How can the farmer be ass;sr-
ed of q profitable market for his pro-
ducts if the machinery stands idle III
| the mills and workshops of the Lane;