The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-02

(Which always rise last or all commO-
| dities) even after work was found, dur
| ing the process of these ten or twelve
! years, wages would not buy as much
| as they do to-day. Hence after severe
suffering in the start, and after low
wages and high prices for many years,
| the aborer would be no better off in the
| end.
And how would the farmer be bene-
| fitted, if starting in debt, he had in the
| process lost his farm?
Mr.. Bryan is very fond of insisting 1t
is inconsistent to assert that the silver
mine owner would make a profit in
coming silver and also that dollars
would be worth only fifty cents.
1t is not claimed that silver dollars
will go to fifty cents the day the mint
is thrown open, but decline gradually;
and at first the silver mine owner could
evidently make a large profit. When,
by the coinage of his bullion, they had
deprecated to fifty cents, his profit
would cease so that at one time he
could make a profit, and at another
time we could and would have fifty-one
cent dollars. A little thought solves
Mr., Bryans dilemma.
blt AIN . U6llFlCAllON fClL
THE PANIC.
What justification does Mr.. Bryan
offer for the inflictiou upon the commu-
nifty of this conceded panic? That as
the laboring man is not hog, he wants
something more than a full dinner pail.
But why not, have the something more,
and the full dinner pail also? What is
the objection to that? If imperialism
and trusts are, as he says, the para
mount issues, why to fight these must
he tack on a free silver panic? What
objection is there to giving the country
the benefits of an anti-imperialistic and
antitrust administration, and at the
same time, saving it from a free silver
empty dinner pail? This is the ques-
ton that suggests itself, Must we have
free silver in order to fight imperial
ism? If not, why not fight it without
free silver, and thus, if successful, have
all its benefits without the free silver
calamity? Why unnecessarily spurn a
full dinner pail?
Now, is it not fact. that we can
fight imperialism and trusts without
having free silver coinage? And if so,
why not do so? What advantage is
none, why insist on free silver and an
empty pail, when we could have fought
imperialism and trusts on a full one?
But Mr.. Bryan says, No. Imperial
ism is paramount, but if you have it,
you must have free silver too. You
must go the whole hog or none.
Is this the kind of leadership and
Craftsmanship we want?
If not, is it wise to choose him to
lead?
In this great disaster capitalists
could save themselves by buying ex-
change or foreclosng. The hardships
and misery would fall upon the laborer,
and those in debt. that is upon the mass
of our people, and make the rich richer
and the poor poorer.
Crime and lawlessness would necessa-
rily increase, and driven by hunger and
despair become rampant
Instead of more money, which Mr..
Bryan promises us, we have seen that
his election means a money famine for
year and more, and instead of pros
perity for the producers of wealth."
there would be but losses, hardships
and suffering.
In view of these inevitable, and many
of them conceded consequences of Mr..
Bryan's election, is 1t advisable to put
him in?
IMPERIALISM A FALSE ISSUE.
After all, is not imperialism false
issue, of which there is no real danger
to the country, which is only advanced
to conceal other purposes or to gain
power?
No. g.
the American people would tolerate i'm
herialism directed against themselves
in any FORM and the risk to-day is GER
tainly not real Nor would the majori-
ty of them willingly tolefate imperial |
ism directed against others. Nine |
tenths Of the American people to-day
don't want the Philippines But they
are an elephant left on our hands by |
the fortunes of war, uneought on our
part. When Admiral Dewey destroyed |
the Spanish feet in Manila harbor, and |
our army reduced the city destroying |
the only government in existence there, |
ought we to have turned the city over |
to be looted by Aguinaldo and his fol- |
lowers, as the latter demanded? |
Ought we to have turned the American, |
English, German and other white in |
habitants, as well as the peaceful Fill |
pinos over to anarchy, or ought we,
having destroyed the only support of |
law, justice and protection to life and |
liberty in the CITY, to replace 1t with an
other government at least as good es-
pecially as the city and all in it, by the
express terms of the capitulation of
May 49, 1898, were entrusted to our pro-
lection: This city, its inhabitants, its
churches and religious worships, it's ed
ucational establishments and its pri-
waite property of all descriptions, are
placed under the special safeguard of
the faith and honor of the American
army" and then, as soon as the inhab-
itants of the Philippines are capable of
self government, to hand it over to
them, as Mr.. Mckinley proposes? ut
is our purpose to establish in the Phil
ippines, a government suitable to the
needs and conditions of the inhabitants,
and to give them self government when