New-York tribune., 1896-10-07
WILT OIGHT TO BE.

What will come to pass any young Repnbllcan
can predict with as much confidence ana pos
sibly with more reason. than the Populsts or
Mr. Bryan What ought to happen can bc stated
with entire certainty. and If the American people
consider that WELL the future will take care OF
itself. 1t ought 10 happen first of ALL that every
man who had impcrilled his life in the dark days
of civil war To maintain the right of the National
Government 10 enforce It's laws in Il state.
whether It's Governor turns rebel or not, and
every son or relative having enough Of patriot
ism 10 honor one who did so mpcril his life VIII
vote against the ticket set up by men who de-
clare that the Government has no right 10 do
any such thing II ought 10 happen that the
votes of those who cherish the memory of loyal
heroes will bury Mr.. Bryan and his platform in
the same last ditch with other enemies OF the
National sovereignty.
1t ought to happen that every man Of either
marty who knows what n government Of law
means. and understands wherein it differs from
n government OF mobs viii help To vote down
those who demand that mols shall never meet
restraint. that National courts a. well as the
National Executive shall bow 10 their will a.
the Suprcm" Law. and that any court which
holds an alleged demand of the people uncon-
the Constitution to every shift in the current of
popular feeling.
1t ought to happen that every workingman in
this country. knowing that deprecated dollars
rob him by making his living more costly with
out correspondingly increasing his wages ana
instructed by experience in this and other lands
that nothing else can place the wagc-carncr and
the poor man 50 completely at the mercy Of
at Al, al t,-ll nf.
against the attempt to make the dollar in which
wages are paid no longer a good as gold II II
one Of the marvcls Of our history that many
workingmen did vote twenty years ago and
NOR, with the iia,-money theorists who pretend
ed them as now. that it would injure the wage
Garner to have his wages paid in the best money
10 be had anywhere in the world. But when
experience came with specie resumption and n
PROSPERITY never known before rewarded the
fidelity of the people TO National pledges the
results for the workingmcn Of This land ought
TO have driven chcapmoncy NONSENSE ont of
their heads forever.
/, o,lght TO happen that every laborcr in this
country will vote against the party and the the
Ory which send part of our work to be done III
foreign shops, leaving willing Americans with
out work or wages. Here also some Ignorance
was natural and pardonable in 1882. when men
had not known by experience for "A whole gen
Grafton the effect Of Frce-Trade legislation. To
the amazcment Of all practical people. a host
of American voters then voted for the Free
Trade ticket because they were told that "a
change" would be good for them. They have
been paying for their exercise Of freeman
right II is part Of the blessings OF self-govern-
mcnt that it teaches men with siernness and
severity, if they wantonly fool away their own
blessings and the blessings Of other millions
whom their votes affect; But after the expert
cncc of the last three and half years there
ought 10 be no American labOrcr so reckless OF
the welfare of other laborers or so blind To his
own welfare as 10 imagine that he can be helped
by closing American mills and sending iheil
work across the ocean. The thing that ought to
bc does not always come to pass. But this year
Americans who have sense can make sure th;l'
the right thing shall come 10 pass If they do their
whole duty and neglect no proper effort