The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-06
a Democrat VINO Sees thc prift.

democratic ticket A man who can do
that in Pennsylvania must have some
thing in him.
Pattison is still democrat, but he
hasn't trained enthusiastically with
the later day brand of democrats.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of sixteen TO one struck him
as impractical, and when the Chicago
democratic convention decided to make
a campaign on that issue Pattison
took to the woods
He wasn't with his party any on the
money question and not much on the
tariff question. lie didn't believe in
the Chicago platform denunciation Of
courts, and altogether the campaign of
1896 was somewhat dreary to Mr.. Pat
tison. Still he continued to be dem
ocrat. lie hung to the name tenacious
~, even as an ambitious pup hangs to
root. lie hoped that somehow or other
the party would get through with fool
financial theories and other fool things
it seems to have gotten mixed up with
and come back to the old lines. 1t is
evident, however, that Pattisou
doesn't see much hope for the demo-
cratic party. lie has been through the
west and northwest and sized up the
situation. Here is what ne says:
"rhe financial question in this coun-
try is one of the chronic subjects of
campaign agitation, just as the tariff
question has been for years. 1t has
been clear for some time to the repre-
sentatives of democratic sentiment in
the west as ! know it to be in the
east, that the American people are
thinking on matters which more di-
rectly concern their interests.
~ found everywhere in the west un-
parclleled prosperity, not in manufac-
turing only, but in agricultural pur-
suits. Farmers are getting good prices
Cor their products. As they constitute
the great mass of the voters of this
country, they form an important ele-
ment, possibly the most important in
all political calculations.
"Besides, the relations of the United
States to the commerce and markets of
the world are different from what they
were four years ago. The people, !
find, fully understand this. Then
there was great paralysis in industries
of all kinds. Some attributed it to the
financial question and others to vari-
GUS distempcrs, real or imagined, in
the economic system of the country.
''No matter what was thought about
1t, everybody knows the result. We
are now approaching another cam
paign, this time with prosperity every
where. ! do not think the farmers and
wage-workers, with wages increasing,
orders coming in from all over the
world, and every workingman, and
every dollar of capital put to the Sc
verest tension to keep up with the de-
mand of trade, will stop long to discuss
or even consider obsolete issues.
Upon question which is not obsolete
he is as outspolSen:
eyes; you may call it expansion or inn
perialism. There are 75, 600, 900 of peo-
Pile in this country to-day. So far as |
learned from democrats of prominence
and influence everywhere, the over
whelming majority is in favor of push
ing ahead
After becoming possessed of these
outlying countries as the result of a
victorious war, we cannot abandon
them.
81 believe in making short work with
the insurrection in the Philippines.
That is what it is. Settle that part of
the question at once; then let congress
arrange the details.
Let rs look at the Louisiana pur-
chase. That was n democratic meas
ure. 1t is true, it met with some oppo-
stion then, but there is not IA person in
the country to-day who can say that
that was not II first-class bargain.
Now, take the parallel in the Philip
pines. These islands to-day, with
steam and electricity, are not so far
away as Louisiana was in the begin
ming of this country. We knew so
| little about the country that the gov
eminent organized an expedition,
under Lewis and Clark, and sent it out
to explore those unknown possessions
of the United States. II was two years
before the expedition was heard from.
| Now we can hear from the Phil ippines
in few minutes, and we can send out
merchandise there in less than two
months from the Atlantic side of our
country.
1--WE as nation are to-day the neigh
bors of the whole world. We are ship
ping locomotives to Siberia, railroad
bridges into the heart of Africa, cleo
trio plants 30 India, and our textiles to
China, street rails to England. We are
the foremost nation of the world in the
output of pig iron. We turn out more
manufactures of all kinds than any
other nation. The people are too busy to
stop to consider whether silver should
be sixteen to one or coinage free,
They know that intercourse with the
outer world in financial matters must
be based on the coin of commerce,
whether it be gold, silver, nickel or
any other thing of fixed intrinsic
value,
"The United States is not only the
workshop and granary of the world,
but its cotton is n staple at home ano
abroad. These are things to be con-
sidered in preparing for "A nationa
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