Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-07-31
When you examine the lists

to Organism, you inva
riably find that they are ex-Green
packers, or have been voting the
Populist ticket for several years.
"A Democratic editor COM
plains that Watterson supported
Greeley in 1872, though he has
given Bryan the marble heart.
That editor should understand that
the boilers are not fighting Bryan
himself, but simply refuse to ac-
cept Organism. There are some
Democrats to whom platform
means something.
Candidate Sewall is a mem
ber of the Swedenborgian church.
Swendenborg held that the final
Judgment had already taken place
in the world of spirits and
that the good and the bad had
hoen separated. Mr.. Sewall may
reason from this position that his
party will never again be called
upon to answer for its iniquities.
Bryan is not an example of
remarkable precocity. Patrick
Henry was only % when he de-
clared his feet were guided by the
lamp of experience, and Benjamin
Franklin was but % when he
made up his mind that silver is
too caprIcious and unstable to
serve as a standard of value. Bry
an is SO, but has much to learn
along both these lines.
a free coiner asks, CHOW
is a poor man going to get golt
dollars?n When the dear fellow
learns how he can get silver dol
lars he will have the question an
swered for himself. 1t is now JUS
as easy to earn one dollar as the
other, and there is no difference in
value. Free coinage, however
would drive the gold dollar out
leaving only silver substitute
worth about fifty cents, and i
would hardly be more easily got
ten.
The voters should under
stand that bimetal!ism in tneor,
is not a double standard in fact
This country has experime ntet
, along that line. The ratio of tn
act of 1892 was 15 to 1. The com
mercial ratio at that time bein,
15ls to l, silver was favored an(
gold was driven out. In 1884 Ben
ton, Clay, Calhoun and othe
leaders got together in the inter
est of national honor and prosperi
ty, and the ratio was changed t
16 to l. AS on the bullion marke
15a ounces of silver was still
worth an ounce of gold, the effec
was virtually monometallism witt
gold standard. If a variation @
half an ounce either way had sue
pronounced effects then, wha
would change from 81 to l6 to
mean now! Cleveland says
would mean silver monometallism
The st. Louis platform mean
gold and silver; the Chicago plat
q form means only silver.
The measure which propose
to require that immigrants to thi.
country shall be able to read an
write is so moderate and reason
able there is difficulty in under
standing how any man who's
opinions deserve respect can max
objection to it. An absolute illit
crate person is likely to be unf
for citizenship in any countr
not governed by despotism. Pal
9 ticularly can he have no fitness fo
, citizenship in land where univel
, sal suffrage is the rule and publ
G opinion the controlling force c
the government. We believe tina
the sentiment of the America
people would approve measur
1 much more severely restrictive ev
L ell a measure which would requ1I
that each immigrant should prov
1 his ability to maintain himself fo
< a consider able period of time al
ter his admission here, and woul
extend much beyond the FIVE year
, the date at which naturalization
| should be permitted. 1t is proba
$ bly, mistake to suppose tina
7 laws of this kind for discouragin
D immigration are distasteful to pei
: sons of foreign birth who have a
ready acquired citizenship. Th
interests of these people in tn
: general welfare of tho couutry iS a