The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-12
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR
To Rescue Democracy and Avert
Ruin from the Country.
ILLINOIS SUPPLIES THE LEADER.

United States Consul Parker Puts Pree-
nant Truths Terseiy-Bryan's Success,
Would Not Only Produce Panic but
Would Involve the Nations Prosperity
for Years-No Living American Ever
Had Business Transaction Except Upon
the Basis of the Gold standard Dollar.
In recent letter to Hon. Frederick
w. Lehman of Missouri. Hon
| George +. Parker. United States Con-
sui at Birmingham, states some preg.
nant truths in language of pithy
| impressiveness.
although | am 5000 miles from the
| scenes of the pending canvass, and
so can only look on" he says, II am
| not, i hope. a careless spectator. Of
| fetal connections with every National
| Democratic committee since 1876, and
close relations with IL in that event
| full year have afforded me some
chance to see the working of our po-
| litical and party systems. 1t seems to
me that no more imperative duty has
ever presented itself than that Of rescu-
ing the Democratic Little Red Riding
Hood from the gaunt Populist wolf.
which, having flched the name of o
/ Douy VI lON SCthS
i'm obedience to it's nature, to bring
ruin to this country.
'Once before in it's history Demo-
| cracy came TO a like parting of the
| ways.
| at il fitting that, under the leade rship Of
n citizen of Illinois, its real friends should
| now as then save the country, and, IL posi-
BILE. recall the party to its duty"
/ aEnfiralU a from those lar
considerations which lie at the founda-
ton of national progress and even OF
national life. is the fact that. IL
this attempt to debase the
coinage shall succeed, no other Sc
rious question can he thought about OF
debated for years to come. When
man must fight to keep the starv-
ing wolf at bay, he has little time to
devote to the beatitudes, or to sermons
on the decalogue. But improved con-
ditions in municipal governments; the
widening and extension of markets:
the promotion, within right lines, OF
civil service reform; the study and set
Element of the social problems now sc
dominant i'm the public thought; the diff
| fusion of education until IL comes to in
fluence and then to regulate conduct:
the Improvement of newspapers and all
the agencies which direct or modify
public opinion-all these questions
must be put aside for an indefinite
time IL Bryan is elected, in order that
| we may save the country from him and
his friends. He has not shown that he
has an idea on any other issue than
| that which, in our belief. means ruin;
and not one of his followers has indi-
Gated, even for a moment, that he ever
heard of or desired anything but silver
and the spoliation of industry. Too
| much good work on broad lines is al
ready under way to put il in peril and
too many good men of all parties are
| united in pressing these questions upon
public attention, not to give emphasis
to the importance of insisting upon
popular closure against these men and
their designs. and so insure that union
among good men which Edmund Burke
declared TO be necessary when the bad
or the ignorant associate.
"No Man in the United States Is old
enough to have borrowed money, or Ca
have sold land or goods, or to have en-
pioyed or done any labor that was not
measured by a gold dollar worth always
and everywhere one hundred cents.
Every bushel of corn. every yard OF
blest citizen. every accumulation OF
capital, whether little or big. had this
foundation Just as surely in the period
of the widest imitation as it has had
since the resumption of specie payment
| in 1879 Let il be conceded that the
majority of the followers i'm this new
| crusade have no desire to do a dis
| honest act, and that credulity. not wan,
of morals. is the principal element In
their political attitude. Still ii is not
possible - without rejecting on theii
mental capacity-to acquit the lead
ers of dishonesty, of preaching what
| they know to be a dangerous doctrine
| They court the condemnation denounced
| by Moses when he said "accursed be
he that removeth his neighbours land
mark" If they could have their way
IL. for brief time. they could bring
the people of the United States to q
trial of their policy, even for the short
est period, IL would be a happy fate
for them If they should escape the
lust wrath which would await then
when the awakening came.
''It Is sometimes said that the chancs
of success for this specious appeal lie.
with the farmers. 1 do not believe II
I count IL my good fortune to belong
to this element of our population. anC
as l know there is nowhere I'm the world
an order Of men engaged in agriculture
who have the same sturdy qualities
so I believe that there is none more
honest, more prudent. more far see
ing. more thoroughly determined e
maintain national and private honor
as well as national and private interest
than those who are the bone and sinev
of our institutions. from whose ranks
In the main, come the men and womel
who measure our business. professional
moral, and religious progress. AS n
| demagogue has ever made successful
appeal to them, so I do not believe tina
they are about to abandon traditions
| habits and character at the bidding O
the most dangerous combination eve
seen in our politics.
1T is asserted with equal persist
ence that the hope of success for thi
| movement lies i'm the west. Neither d.
I believe this ] think know the peo
pie OF the west, because in ancestr!
and nativity. as well as in every fibr
| Of my being. I am OF the west western
know that in no part of the countr.
Is the sentiment against sectionalisn
so strong as IL is in the vast region ~
ing between the Monongahela and tn
Missouri. No communities know bette
the banefulness of sectional division o
the wholesomeness of union, ant
none have done more to prevent tn
one and promote the other. In no par
of the world do the rewards of industr,
Il