The herald., 1897-06-22
LOOKING TO THE WEST AND
THE SOUTH

DR.. Albert Shaw In an editorial in the
June number of the Review Of Reviews
has the following: I'VE have fallen into
serious ruts in these latter days. The
expression Of honest and manly senti-
ment as regards question like that
of Cuba Is sneered at. The redemption
Of the country must lie in the public
opinion of the west and south. The east
has fallen under the spell Of money, and
even the pulpit takes its tone largely
from those elders and vestrymen ana
pillars Of religion and philanthropy who
do business in Wall street. 1t is is wei.
to value Alright the tides of opinion
that sway eastward from the great Mis-
sissippi valley. reinforced by the warm
currents of chivalrous sentiments that
set in from the SOUTH
The east under the spell of the money
power? The honest money, sound mon
ey, patriotic, unselfish, honorable, phi
lanthropic east under the spell of the
money power? Surely, tits wrong. Mr..
Bryan and his millions of repudiation-
lists, anarchists demagogues, thieves,
| tramps, out-of-works, won't-works and
good nothings generally accused
the east of that same thing and it was
denied only a short six months ago.
Has this subtle power only stolen up
on the simple, unthinking east in that
short space of time? Can it be- that,
with the advent of prosperity, this
fiendish greed OF gold has paralyzed the
entire east? The east that has had no
good thing to say of any per-
son who accused it of being led
that way last year? Can it be
that some good prophet did come out
of the west and that the east has heard
his voice?
"The redemption Of the country must
lie in the public opinion OF the west and
SOUTH
Is the east entirely helpless? Can no
man be found in all those wealthy states
who has the courage Of his convictions?
No man who has the manhood to stand
up for the right?
&NOtC I1AC "OANoj AiAoSe AtS -AACe eSSAAtS
to lie. In that sentence DR.. Shaw gives
up all hope of doing anything for hu-
manity in the east. He turns his eyes
to the sunny south, with its mixture of
black and white, to the boundless west,
with it's plains and mountains, where
live the majority of the pure-bred Amer
leans today.
1t is the same south and west that
suggested an American policy in the
last campaign. It is the same west and
south that felt that the people of the
west and south were being robbed by
the bondholding, stockjobbing east. 1t
was not so much the free silver craze
as it was the feeling that DR.. Shaw
has 80 aptly expressed that the country
had fallen under the subtle spell of mon
ey. 1t is the same sentiment that stood
by Grover Cleveland when he told John
Bull that he must arbitrate with Vene
zuela. 1t is the sentiment of the free
born American patriot, not the senti-
ment of the foreigners, who, as Theo-
dore Roosevelt expressed it, had some
sense when they voted for sound money.
Did DR.. Shaw suppose the corporations
that contributed the largest campaign
fund the world has ever known gave ii
for the simple purpose of saving the
country?
The sugar trust is not sure it Is saved
until it shuts out all competition. The
beef trust says it is not saved
when its representative asks Mark Han
ma why it's schedule has not been looked
after. Mr.. Hanna said he had over
looked it, but that it would be attended
to. So it might go, ad infinitum. The
east is under the bad spell of money
| elected Mr.. Mckinley. Can you expect
man to go back on his constituents?
Is it fair for them to elect man and
then turn to the south and west and say
to them, we look to you for public opin-
| ion enough to make the government do
they seem to be getting ready to say
to us, you have left undone the things
you ought to have done, and there is no
good in you. They also will probably
add the Irishmans comment, "Divil take
YOU"
| 1t is passing strange that DR.. Shaw
should just discover what the west and
south have known for years. 1t is
stranger still that he should turn from
| the honest, intelligent, enlightened east
to the wild an woolly west and to the
| ignorant south.
Verify, the world do move" and in
it's movement we see many incompre-
hensible things. In the language Of the
Irish Shakespearian student, Lay on
McDuff, and dom the man who says he's
got all he wants."
BRYAN THE MAN