Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-25
An HONEST REPUBLICAN VIEW.


Mr.. Louis C. Enrich, writing from
Colorado Springs, has an interesting
letter in the New York Evening Post
on the subject of Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. En-
and does not believe in the free coinage
of silver. Hence, he is not biased in
Mr.. Bryan's favor. He wrote concern
ing an address the great westerner
made at a tremendous meeting in Col
orado Springs and was particularly i'm
pressed with Mr.. Bryan's remarks on
the subject of Imperialism. Mr.. Enrich
said:
After a brief discussion of trusts, Mr..
Bryan spoke at considerable length on
imperialism" This portion Of the adj
dress won the most enthusiastic applause
of his audience. At times the orator rose
into impassioned and sweeping eloquence,
revealing the secret of his singular power.
trenchant argument and in the fervor of
his patriotic and liherty-loving utterance
Gus and cheering response. He said: w
are accused of giving aid and encourage
ment 20 the Filipinos. No TIL inspira-
ton of their courage and their resistance
comes from a nobler source. 1t comes
from the men who lived long ago; from
Patrick Henry, when he said, Give me
liberty or give me death: from Washing
ton. when he drew the sword TO fight in
defense of his God-given rights; from
Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote the
Declaration of independence. and from all
our Revolutionary fathers, who offered up
their lives in the cause of liberty and self
government" No thoughtful man could
imperialism without realizing the ire
mendous power which such appeals will
exert on the American conscience. I could
not but contrast its lofty tone with that
of a speech of Attorney General Griggs,
delivered at the Yale alumni dinner some
two weeks ago; when, meagerly touching
the saying of David Harum: DO unto
the other feller the way he'd like to do
unto you-an do it fust.'
The writer then takes the occasion
to warn the Republicans of the east
that they haven't everything their own
way as they imagine. He adds:
In our ha%ppy-go-lucky American fashion
we are hurrying along, into an electoral
campaign for 1900. which will be far more
dangerous than the campaign of 1895. The
Democrats will Bryan on the
Chicago platform. If the Republican party
realized its peril. threw aside its wild
and reckless Philippine-conquering policy.
the defeat of Bryan and free silver
would be crushing and final: but weighted
with imperialism. and all that this in
cludes. the result promises TO be very
different. II is within the probabilities
that Aguinaldo viii make Bryan the next
President of the United States. Messages
have come to me from sound-money lead
ers. Republican and Democratic alike. in
different parts OF the country, which can
be summarized thus: w fought against
free silver in 1886. but WI shall fight even
more vigorously against imperialism in
1900. Ii we are forced to make a choice
between these two evils we prefer to risk
free silver That / an ar-anC nua;rc-
the financial integrity of the nation. but
imperialism sears the very soul and con-
science of the Republic. Free silver is
suffering and financial disaster, we can
fling off fer ever. Imperialism viii poison
the very blood of our polite, and with
may eventually lead to the overthrow Of
American liberty" That Is the mental
attitude OF men whose voices and whose