The herald., 1898-12-10

ing the state of mind of California and
Bryan Democrats-being in the position to
read multitude Of foreign editorials on the
late election of the states before able to read
one of home manufacture.
The people see daily are mostly capital
lists, l should judge; That is those who con-
gregate at the English more particularly
reading rooms. One of these capitalists
remarked to me day or two after our elec-
ton with a good deal of assurance: "Well
Won see silver is dead" Of course replied
with equal assurance: "Ah, but you will
find later on that the American people are
not dead" The truth is portion of the
people must have found themselves in much
the same predcament as Abraham Lincoln
found himself before he could come to terms
with the south. Being in great need OF
funds he felt obliged to make not only
graceful concessions" but terrible conces-
sions because, as he affirmed, he could not
under the circumstances carry on two wars
at the same time; one with the Confederacy
and the other with the money changers.
Likewise many people at the late election
doubtless found it impossible to vote to sus-
tain the president and at the same time de-
clare their will as regards the monetary
extremely important one the people ought
to have another opportunity to express their
will concerning it before it is decided. The
writer of 'Shall the Indian Government
Ruin Inda?" in the November number of
the National Review puts the case none too
strongly when he says The money that a
people uses affects in the most intimate way
almost every act of their lives and certainly
~ L., IS 10, IS I,o
community Somebody ought to write to
the title 'Shall the American Government
Be Permitted to Ruin American" If now all
the money which has been lost to the plain,
hard-working American people since our
civil war through unhappy legislation, had
found its way to the relief of the London
and Irish poor and the wretched masses of
the continent doubtless not one word of real
discomfort would be heard in the length and
breadth of that generous land, America. But
to know that countless hard-earned dollars
have been presented, as it were, to men OF
the Rothschild stamp to the undoing OF ma
tions and the prolongation of ihlseries among
the INDECENT, is surely cause sufficient to
breed some discomfort; to brew Dreyfus inn
broglios of various kinds. BY this last as
sertion | do not mean to hint that the man
called Dreyfus is guilty in any way-only
heaven and himself can be sure as to that
with the Jesuits in one camp pulling every
wire available to show him up guilty man
and the Jews in the other spending money
freely to prove him innocent. 1t is pity
that both the Jeusits and the Jews have yet
to establish regulations for truthfulness and
straightforward conduct. Until this is done
we ought to be able to sympathize with
France in her dilemma since America is just
as muddled over the money question as
France over Dreyfus; and + sometimes won
der if we can place much more confidence in
what so-called financiers, of the John Sher
man type, tell us on the one hand and oul
bankers on the other; or again, might ado
our boss-made statesmen or badly ensaveo
press. Well, well, though the American
people can be fooled some of the time ano
some of the people all the time-perhaps-
it is certain that all the people cannot bt
fooled all the time; and certain again thai
the number OF American people who cannot
be fooled al the time is constantly ncreas
ing. 1t would be wise course, therefore
for congress to pursue to go little SLOW
about rivetng the golden collar on the necl
of the states.
As for the far east question. it is to b,
hoped that our country will pull with Eng
land, who stands for the open door, whicl
we should do also as much as possible.
, Yours in sturdy faithfulness to the prin
ciples of the Chicago platform.
MARY IVES TODD.
&c Via Faenza, Casa Ughi, Florence, Italy
November II, 1898.