The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-31
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS A PUBLIC
NECESSITY.


There is indeed am abundance OF money
piied up I'm New York, but real estate,
outside of few favored cenicfs OF COM
mercc or manufacture, continues 70 s2
down and the basis of general Nathonai
rrosper.ty As continually declining. Inc
reason why people stick TO Bryan Is be-
cause ne better appreciates the causes OF
our troubles than those whose suSc &C.
annual prophecies are followed by sue
ressiye annual refutations Were we 70
rctire grcenbacks now and contract our
currency, as the god standard men rec
oinmend, we would phosphate ano'nsr
nanic There is not enough money in the
South to give the people living chance,
and to talk about less money with thc
present low prices prevailrns ior ,r our
oisty or satire. 1t Is useless TO talk against
trusts and monopolies when the golh
Trust worked by a syndicate oil whIcn
the English monarchy Is at me nead ana
ia producing strtngency and decline CT
nrices the word oyer-R Recent interview
with Senator Daniel of Virginia
No man can justly accuse Senator John
w. Daniel of Virginia OF being defna'
gogue, or alarmist. He is one OF the best
thinkers and most Industrious students IN
the senate and bears the reputation OF
being broad guaged and statesmanlike. He
was re- elected to the senate. the other day.
by the unanimous vote OF the virginia
eglslature--republican and populiste. as
well as democrats, compllmenting him With
their votes.
Senator Daniel has minated the real
cause, In the foregoing interview, OF the
Inability OF the republican party TO give
the relief, financially and otherwise, which
men of all parties concede the country
needs In some form. The failure arises
now and will continue to arise from the
want OF intelligent appreciation by the
republicans OF the actual necessities OF
the South and West The leaders OF tina
party are chiefly Eastern men and asso
clated in some way with The big moneyed
or corporate interests Of the East They
necessarily take narrow view OF the
Nations wants. They keen their party In
the bourbon bondage of forgetting nothing
and learning nothing
These men answer the cry that the South
and West need more money by pointing
to bursting vaults In the East and do not
feel the necessity for some financial sys-
TEN that VIII drive money into circula-
ton that can not be boarded for great
speculatons. The successive rcfuta;ions oil
successive prophesioe' bring no change OF
policies and "the basis OF general National
prosperity continues TO decline while
there is an abundance OF money piled up In
favored centers.
A party OF the people, representing the
producing masses rather than the easy
classes, but without unfair or prejudiced
purposes toward the latter. and composed
OF leaders as well as OF rank and file rep
resenting all sections, can alone inangurate
the reforms necessary. Such a party is tn,
democratic organization. But what would
II avail to ATTEMPT to curb trusts and mon.
opolies and bring back natural conditions
as Senator Daniel saws. so long as the
syndicahes and the gold trusts can control
the finances OF the country?
Monetary reform. therefore. must pre-
eede all othe- kinds and there IL no party
| In the country. with fixed financial
policy, that can accomplish this reform save
| the democratic. The success OF tho demo
cratic party is absolutely necessary to the
general welfare OF the Nation, n condition
precedent to all reform-and the fact is be-
| coming more apparent every day.