Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-01-05
The Fruits of Victory.

1t is refreshing to see many so called
Democratic papers which deserted the
party in 1896, finding fault with their
new friends, the Republicans, over
expansion. When their beloved friend,
Mr.. Mckinley, was indicted into Office
they were exhuberant with the knowl-
edge that as the money was now ar
ranged to suit them, and Bryan dead,
they could be happy. But they are
not happy. Mr. Mckinley is not
working to please them. He is an ex-
pansionist, and this is dangerous
thing, they say. 1t never seemed to
occur to them that such a thing would
be certain If the country went to war,
and that a war was certain if McKin-
ley was elected But gold, honest
dollars, sound currency, were all they
cared for then-these carried with
them, all a people could desire-apd
having gotten them, they ought in
decency to be quiet for a while, though
they are not. Now comes the time
when many persons who saw no dan
ger in free silver rejoice in the quak-
ing of the knees of those persons who
fastened gold on them. The domi-
neering denunciation of all who did
not agree with them, by the gold press,
CHASING them as anarchists and popu-
lists, and thieves in fact, is not yet
forgotten. Those whom they so
classed are now being looked to as the
ell Gibraltar-the stone which the
builders rejected is becoming the head
of the corner. We have little sYmpa-
thy for them in this time of trouble
and for the present shall do nothing
to help them out. A Baltimore paper
which used to be Democratic when it
suited it, but which helped fasten Re-
|publicanism on Maryland and on the
country, is in conniption fits over the
situation. Its whilom friend, Nh.
Mckinley, is getting it over the knuck-
les. In speaking of an island of the
Philippine group it says:
ut contains, according to geogra-
piers, 1888 square miles, and its area
is therefore little less than that of
the State of Connecticut, and is divid-
ed into the three provinces of Iloilo,
with population estimated at 472, 900;
Capiz. with $4,000, and Antique, with
124, 900, OF an aggregate of over 800, 900
souls, all included in Mr. McKinley's
proposed purchase of the Philippines
with the human live stock thereon for
$4,000, 0OO."
Suchpurchase of "human live stock"
is called criminal aggression" and
war for humanity, it says, is religated
to the rear. This is the result of the
new combination; these are the fruits
of the gold victory. We have had
war, thanks to gold. The Republican
party would never have been in power
but for their aid, thanks to gold. We
are now to have the consequences,
thanks to gold; we will have a few
more places in which to spend our
pocket change. thanks to gold, and it
is possible that in the end there will be
a necessity for buying another election
which we have learned SO well how to
do, thanks to gold. All this is the out
come of the effort for honest money,
and national honor, and sound cur
rency, and good government, as OPP
posed to those evils known as anarchy,
populism and other similar vices,
thanks to gold. With gold we can do
most any thing. We can expand and
contract. This time we can expand,
so we hope those honest persons who
so loved the nation will have more of
it to love. They deserve it and should
have it. The laborer is worthy of his
hire