Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-09-25

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the unrelenting arithmetic basis.
The best times the country
has known since the war will be-
gir Immediately after Mckinley is
elected in November.
Mckinley will sweep the
country like a prairie fire. Make
a note of this, and let us hear
from you after election.
Bryan is prosecuting his
country, while Mckinley is de-
Tending it. The prosecution will
rest early in November, but the
defense will continue for more
than four years.
There has been much water
ihis season, with no end of hot
waves, but somehow that "wave of
prosperity" promised in 1892 has
not been any nearer a suffering
people than ever.
II Bryan will post himself
up on the demonetization of the
negro, he will cease to assert there
are slaves in the United States.
The black man was demonetized
about ten years before the white
dollar was.
Mexican farmers live in mud
houses, wear rags when they can
get them, and fars not more sump
tuously than tramps this side of
the Rio Grande. 1t is this sort of
purple AMI fine linen the silver
auctioneer proposes for American
farmers.
-In 1873 the circulation per
capita in the United States was
about SIS; now it is about S23,
and would be greater by two or
three dollars but for the agitation
conducted by demagogues. All
the falsehoods hatched under all
the Bryan and Watson caps in the
country cannot alter this fact.
Roger @. Mills believes the
free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer would injure the business in
terests of the country, but will
vote for it anyhow. Such a con-
fession of demogogism would de-
pose leader in one party in this
country, and that one is the Re
publican party.
In his great speech at
Chicago, Bourke Cochran pointed
to the flag and declared he did
mot believe it's stars were rained
from the eye of human despair" !"
This may be beyond the range OF
the Silver Auctioneer's oratory,
but he will be able to see stars in
November.
in national crises a split in
the Democratic party isinevitable.
This fact argues well for the patri
otto end of the organization, but
Robert Toombs and Judah P.
Benjamin and Ben Tillman and
William j. Bryan have never been
able to defend the other part of
it in a successful manner.
Bryan contends that the
United States can establish a
monetary system without the con-
sent or cooperation of any nation
on earth, but that it cannot sup
press riots without the consent of
the State in which they are caus-
ing trouble. What sort of Titan
Lilliputian does he imagine Uncle
Sam is anyhow!
i A Populist editor remarks
that the people on Sirius, if equip
ed with telescopes sufficiently
powerful, are just now beholding
the destruction of Jerusalem that
occurred on this planet about
1900 years ago. Perhaps. But
those high flying folks need not
sit up late for several million
years yet to see the American peo
pie vote away their national honor
and credit.
They should not be called
Popocrats; the term comprehends
an injustice to the Western Demo
Gratis. They may make it an even
break on thirst for power and
Office, they may be neck and neck
in socialistic hatred of Repubi
can prosperity, but when it coln
to show down on argument and
IDEAS of statecraft, the Ne>i,D
democrat simply daylightS lnc
fopuliN. This isn't saying mn h
Tor the Western Democrat eiti.,.
An effort is being ma'!e t.
ret mp IA delegation of 500 fro.a
North Missouri to visit Major Me
Kinley at Canton. The trip won