The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-11-21
Europe,s suggestive Joy.

the defeat of the Democratic party in
the United States ought, it seems to
us, to move all Americans to sober
thought. The dispatches have told
us Of the satisfaction Of the London
press, the anxiety with which the roy
al family awaited the returns, and
smiled with gladness as they came in
showing the triumph of Mckinley and
the gold standard. Premier Salisbury
has announced the readiness of Eng
land to take ''common action in de-
fence Of the common heritage of So
ciety' In case the Democracy should
happen to win a Presidential election
hereafter on platform unfavorable to
the fleeing privileges Of the plutocra-
cy. His phrase at the Lord Mayors
banquet. in an address following Am
bassador Bayard's unpatriotic and
disgraceful speech, means just that OF
or nothing, The bourses of Paris and
Berlin and Of all other continental
cities, as well as the newspapers
which speak in the interests of the
ruling classes, have expressed happi-
ness as great as that of Wall street it,
self To judge by the dispatches, one
would think that Europe is solid fol
Mckinley, the gold standard and non
interference with the exploitation OF
the masses by the predatory rich. But
the people of Europe, the multitude
who do not operate in the bourses and
have no influence with the respectable
commercial press, have not been heard
from at all. What they think about
the American election has not been
thought worth ascertaining and tele-
graphing. That which we have learn.
ed with certainty is that the aristoc.
racy and the rich of the Old World
are in the most cordial and intimate
sympathy with their brethren of Amer
lea. They feel that the earth is
theirs, and that the smallest attack
anywhere upon the exclusive owner
ship must be repealed with their whole
strength-that the assailants must be
crushed into the dust, lest the tiniest
victory should encourage them to
more formidable assaults. That
is the spirit of the plutocracy every.
where. Progress of any kind is re-
garded with suspicion and intense
aversion. They would, as Emerson
said, nail the stars to the sky, il they
could. They know nothing of the
wisdom of craftsmanship, which yield.
little in order to retain much. AL
ways they fear the deluge, and always
they encourage its coming by theil
dull opposition to everything that j:
proposed for the benefit of others thar
themselves.
The conservative instinct of great
bodies of the American people were
artfully appealed to by the Republi
cans in the late canvass. and thes,
bodies, who have no community of in
terest with the forces of greed, wer,
induced to vote with the party of tn,
trusts. They were alarmed into the
belief that the moderate, constitu
tional and American proposals of tn,
Democratic platform concealed SIMS
ter purposes hostile to property anc
the national honor Reflection mus
cause these patriotic, if timid, Ameri
cans to ask themselves if cause thai
draws to its ardent support not alone
the money power of their own coun
try, but of the whole world, can be {
cause, the triumph of which is gooC
for the people of the United States al
a whole. If a political party in this
country may not propose any reform
without being reviled as If it designed
the destruction of civilized society
what is to become of the Republic? II
no party may propose the slightest cur
tailment of the privileges of the prey.
ing rich without being accused of Low
ing lawnessness. and anarchy, what
progress in government can be made:
If opposition to the political as vel
as the industrial rule of the trusts is
to be ranked as disguised treason, VIII al
has the future in store for popular
government in the United States?
No matter what any man may
think about our currency, whether its
basis should be one of the precious
metals or both, none can deny that the
result of the Presidential election has
given qualification to trusts and in.
creased their sense of security. Meth
er is it to be denied that the plutocra-
cy and aristocracy of every European
monarchy halls that result with Joy.
Can it be held by the thoughtful that a
victory which strengthens the trusts
and cheers the privileged classes
around the globe is one that should
please the pride and encourage the
hope of the patriotic American, what
ever his party may be?-Ne,o Yorl
Journal