The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-08
Silver and Expansion.
Laredo Times.


Laredo Times.
Under this caption, the San Antonio Elk
press of yesterday quotes from and COM
ments on the opposition to silver and favor
to expansion OF William Henry Thorne
editor of the Globe Quarterly Reviow. the
following being one paragraph in the ar
ticle:
However, Mr.. Thorne thinks the sill
yer question Is still very much alive
and open for discussion, and that when
the American masses get fairly hold OF
the merits of 1t they will put some such
man as William j Bryan in the presi
Dental chair. Still he regrets that
Bryan so soon and SO eagerly commit
ted himself to non-expansion because
The can never obtain or carry the pres
idential nomination on an anti-expan-
sion platform" He maintains that
the facts and the people committed
our government to expansion and 1t is
now no longer an open issue. 1t
was practically closed before the war
began and it is clnched forever now.
I'VE have expanded, and we can not
go back until some power greater than
ourselves sets us back" Mr.. Thorne
thinks 1t was infamous to begin ths
war. but 1t would now be still more
infamous to retire from any of the
provinces we have conquered or adopt
ed until we have provided them with
good and stable government.
1t is a good deal for goldbug to ac-
knowledge that silver is very much alive,
and the assertion that Bryan can not carry
the election against the expansion advo-
Gated by the goldbugs, is o case of the
wish being father to the thought. Bryan
would not oppose such expansion as re-
ceived Texas into the Union, the territory
being contiguous and the Texans being
eager to get in. but he could not be 9
democrat without opposing the kind o; ex-
pansion that the goldbugs are seeking to
faston upon the country, for this kind Of
expansion is nothing less than imperial
ISM 1t is not surprising that the gold
bugs take such untenable ground as they
do in support of their positions, for they
have no other kind of ground TO stand upon
but it is astounding that they can de
ceive so many people with such false pre-
lenses and himsy argument. When Presi'
dent Mckinley asked recently: Who vii
haul the Gag down." 1t would seem tha
he thought that ne was talking to To-
OF numskulls, instead of to intelligent pee
! pie When this man, who occupies todaJ
that question: did he mean TO insinuate that
those Americans who hauled down tbs
| American flag at the City of Mexico II
iSl7 were traitors to their country? If not
( what did he mean? We ask for informa-
ton, and would be glad for any one o
President MeKinley's supporters to sead /
/ to us Tor publication. Now. let's return
TO Editor Thorne. He says the war agains
Spain was infamous. This is a bare as
Will .1.a.r
| the infamy comes in, and there is not
doubt that II Editor ThorRe were to ex.
press his full sentiments. he would asser
that the war George Washington wage.
against Great Britain was infamous. Thl
i goldbug editor contends that the facts anC
! the people have committed the government
/ to the expansion that the goldbugs ar
seeking TO fasten upon the country, ant
might az well contend that the facts anC
the people have committed the government
TO the gold standard; might as well con
tend that any other palpable falschood /!
true and throw truth 10 the winds. Editor
Thorne says 1t was infamous to begin tn,
war with Spain, but II would now be still
more infamous to retire from any of thu
provinces we have conquered until we hav,
provided them with good and stable gov
eminent. Was II infamous that the Aneri
cans retired from Mexico In 1S47 and al
lowed tho Mexicans to govern themselves
! Was ii infamous that the United States al,
not pounce down on the Texans in 1898
when they were so weak. and set up
government for them? or course it was
from the standpoint of the controlling in
nuences Of the republican party, for theI
principles are as the instincts ~ beasts o
prey, and OF course It was infamous tina
General Scott ordered. b. direction OF
democratic president, the American lal
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Mexicsns We're completely at his mere,
and thai was toe good a chance fnr =.
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