The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-10
AN INCONSISTENT GoLDBUG.

Administration organs are deter
mined to make this a Republican war,
although half the people who have en-
listed as privates are not Republicans.
OF course. the majority of the officers
are members of the goldbug organize
ton, for the administration had the
power and used it to promote the in
terests of all the milionaires and pol
iticians who had aspirations and wore
the Hanna brand.
And Democrats, Populists and silver
supporters generally are required to
pay more than their proportion of the
expenses of this war; since the reve-
nues are raised upon what is con-
sumed by the people rather than the
property they possess.
So determined is the administration
party to use this war for partisan
purposes that it's officials and spokes-
men do not stop at the aggrandize-
ment of political associates, but pros
titute the power and authority given
them for national defense for the pur-
pose of humiliating and prosecuting
volunteers who entertain financial
opinions contrary to those adopted by
the ST. Louis convention.
In assailing Mr.. Bryan, his patriot
ism, courage and motives, they have
resorted to methods for the like of
which. war was declared on Spain less
than two months ago.
Even the New York Commercial Adj
vertiser, generally consistent, whether
right or wrong, laid down a rule for
volunteers in general which it refuses
to apply to an advocate of the free
coinage of silver.
The other day it remarked editori
ally:
If Mr.. Bryan is going to the front
as a private, it is all right. If he has
enlisted as a private only to be elected
captain, or colonel, then the sooner he
is got rid of the better.
At the same time it was saying:
Nothing puts spirit and energy into
military service like hope of promotion
from the ranks. This is what made
the armies of the French republic and
the first empire irresistible. 1t is what
causes our volunteer service to be pre-
ferred to the regular army. Lack of
agingly slow now. 1t ought to be sup
piled. We shall need a much larger
regular army after this war. Its work
will be increased, and the worthless
ness of the national guard has been
proved. The service ought to be made
attractive, so that it's quality may not
deteriorate with the necessary increase
of numbers. The army ought to offer
a career to American youth, whose
oh ha ha
at West Point. American youth will
embrace no career without hope of adj
vancement. The way to get the right
sort of privates in an army is to give
them hope of becoming officers.
The Commercial Advertiser writes
itself down as an intolerant partisan,
a Bryan hater, an enemy of half the
American people and an inconsistent
organ of the money classes, a hypocrite
and sycophant. The mark of Hanna
is upon its brow.
Every goldbug organ of the east
which has poured the walls of abuse
over the blue uniform of Volunteer
Bryan has done so for the purpose of
eliciting a smile or nod of approval
from the president. They would curse
the flag for the same reward. They
would change their praise of Hobson
to abuse if Hobson were a silver adj
vocate They would revile Bryan I'M
der the same conditions that they laud
Dewey.
The yellow-is in their eyes. 1t is the
jaundice of partisan bigotry, the en-
blem of jealous selfishness, the hue of
gold.