El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-20
demanded both as paDaces for every

Ill.
Mr.. Jefferson said: :sThe honest
payment of our debts." The Chicago
platform said "any old thing will do to
pay debts with" Mr.. jefferson said
that the public faith must be sacredly
preserved. The Chicago platform
echoes back the cry that the public
!altn was OF no concern to the new
dispensation, and that labor should
not be crucified on q GROSS of gold, the
plain meaning of which was that the
gold standard OF value should be
be payable in deprecated money.
That this is the true meaning is we'll
established by late speech of Mr..
Bryan, in which the public prints re-
port him as using this language in
speaking Of the monetary commission
sent to Europe in 1897: ''Heresfter,
when we send an ambassador to Eu-
have endured the gold standard as
long as we are going to, without wait
ing for the consent of any other nation.
great many of these people have
loans made here, payable in coin, and
we will pay them in the metal made
cheap by their own greed"
Did ever a great leader before give
uttera6ce to SO dishonest sentiment?
Because, forsooth, more than q quarter
Europe had yielded to the inexorable
demands of trade and commerce and to
the operation OF great natural law,
which they were pOwerless to resist.
and adopted the gold standard, which
had long before become the established
standard in the marts of trade, yet be-
cause of this, recent, loans made by
parties who we're then children, and
which loans happened to be expressed
in coin, as are many of our government
bonds, we will debauch our currency,
and then pay them off in "s metal
made cheap by their own greed"
Such morals would not be excusable in
q horse jockey. This government, as
the records of the treasury departments
attest, has never paid any of its funded
debts in anything but gold coin of
standard weight and fineness, no mat
ter what might be the expression on
the face of the obligation, and every
dollar of bonds now outstanding, al
though expressed on its face as payable
in coin, was sold for gold, and the gold
paid therefor covered into the treas-
ury and spent by the American people.
Which stands closer to Jefferson's
idea, Mr.. Mckinley. who is avowedly
for s'the honest payment of our debts
and the preservation of the public
faith" or Mr.. Bryan, who demands
that our European creditors shall be
paid of sin the metal made cheap by
their own greed?"
6. An issue of equal prominence
arising upon the question Of territorial
expansion Is now dividing the parties.
and, as usual, the present leaders of
the democratic party have abandoned
the principles and practices of Mr..
Jefferson, and the republican party,
under the lead of Mr.. Mckinley, has
seized and appropriated the same to its
own exclusive benefit and enjoyment.
Our war with Spain had not terminal
ed before the hosts of democracy were
warned by their leaders that the de-
signs of the administration were i'm
perialistic, and the intention of the
republicans was to violate the funda-
mental spirit OF our constitution and
government by entering upon q career
of territorial conquest. Porto Rico
and the Philippines had become ours
by methods entirely legitimate, and as
a.natural result of @ war which the
democrats in congress assisted in
forcing upon the country. The Decla-
ration of independence was revamped
for the occasion, and the public ear
has been filed with dire prophecies of
evil because q government was being
forced upon Q tribe of half-clad savages
against their consent.
IMPERIALISM"
Mr.. Bryan, the constituted leader
and defender of the faith, with his
usual eloquence. began to invoke the
shades of Jefferson and of Lincoln e
badly mated pair politically to descend
and fill the hearts and minds of demo-
Gratis with determination to preserve
our government from the throes of
imperialism, and to stay the hand of
our rulers from Decorating and pro-
flaming the temple of .our free govern
ment by expanding its territory beyond
its aforetime limits. He ought to have
known sufficient of the history of his
country to have given the shade of Mr..
Lincoln the go-by on sthe question of
conquest and of forcing q government
upon. people without their consent; but
it may be he was excusable for his
want of familiarity with the principles
and purposes of Mr.. Jefferson when in
the flesh. Apart from the Louisiana
purchase which was held under q mill
tary dictatorship by Mr.. Jefferson
while president, for many years, the
sage of Monticello is on record many
times as favoring expansion and Of
Boosting that our constitution was
peculiarly fitted for that character of
enterprise. In q letter to President
Madison, shortly after Mr.. Jefferson's
retirement from the presidency april
81, 1909, he said, after discussing the
and necessity of expanding
by wholessle: 81 am persuaded no
was ever before so we'll
calculated az ours for extensive empire
and self-government."
His followers seem to be strayinR
away from the Jeffersonian faith when
they deny the power and authority of
the government to extend its jurisdic-
tion and to enlarge its territorial
limits. The declaration of inde-
pendence is doubtless . good thing, but
the mode rn leaders of the party ought
not tn close their ewes while nursinn