The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-07


enough to act alone in opening its
nlnts to free coinage of the white
metal.
Yet, oblivious of all these changes
Mr.. Bryan continues to perambulate
the country and declare that when
ne is President he will force Accent
dollars upon all Europe. He is a
living denial of the maxim that
times change and we change with
them" He resembles the year1ing
Dull who disdains the succu1ent
grass and bawls increasingly for the
lost udders of his ca1fhood, and by
his continuous speech-making for a
lost cause he cotnpe1s us to think of
Tennyson's poem of the brook:
babb1e, babb1e, as flow toward
the brimming river,
And men may come, and men
may go, but keep On forever.
The vice of Mr.. Bryan's co1lec-
ton OF sophisms in favor of free sill
yer coinage has always been that it
IS not an argument for bimeta1ism
at all, and that his methods would
only result in substituting the sing
lie silver standard for the single gold
standard, and SO Mexicanize our
currency, and demoralize values
without increasing them. He says
in substance to the silver miners:
Establish free coinage and your
silver dollars will buy twice as
much flour and pork as now," and
in the next breath he says to tn
farmers: Establish free coinage
and you can sell your flour and
pork for twice as many silver dol
lars as now" The trap of his
doub1e-faced sophistry is imperfect
ly baited, for it is plain that both
miner and farmer can receive twice
as many dollars even now for the
product of both mine and farm if
they take their pay in Mexican dol
lars.
This they are not likely to do, al
though the Mexican dollar contains
46 cents worth Of silver, while the
American dollar contains but IS
cents worth, for they know that at
the very doors Of the mint in the
City of Mexico one American dollar
can be exchanged for two Mexican
dollars. This is because the Amer
lean dollar contains something more
than As cents Of silver, something
that Mr.. Bryan proposes to strike
out of tit contains 55 cents
worth of the honor Of a nation that
never broke its pledge. (Tremend'
Gus applause).
The greatest question of the
hour at last is, "what shall we dc
with the Philippines" Mr.. Bryan
says give them up" President
Mckinley says, keep them. Gap
plause.) We are told that plant:
and animals grow not steadily bu
in tides and pulses, and it is appar
emily true that the same law governs
the growth of nations, and that th'
beginning of each epoch OF growth
may often be traced to some on
incident. l believe that when tn
cloven mail of the "Malne' up
clashed to the night in HaVan
harbor, forces were put in operation
which were destined in their Out
come to make Of this nation nc
only a world power, but the creates
power in the world. (Applause'
The destiny which then came to Il
. is one that we cannot escape II W
, would, and craven is the spirit ths
, would seek to evade it, or 1mped
f its fulf1lment. No mere desire &c
+ conquest, no lust of empire, no hoT
of commercial advantage 1mpelle
: us to war with Spain. We engage
in the most unsel6sh, the mo-
patriotic, the most humane conte
q that ever enlisted the might
0 armies.
Not the least of the benehcel