The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-08

tariff is the continuation of a sound cur
rency. Under the gold standard every
man who labors gets an honest dollar,
instead of a deprecated dollar such as
| Mr.. Bryan is trying to foist upon the
| country. His financial policies are ex-
! ceedingly lame He and his followers
predicted four years ago that the adop-
| ton of the single standard would mean
ruin to the country. The unreliabilty of
| Mr.. Bryan as prognosticator is shown
| in the fact that. instead of going to ruin,
| this nation has been able to compete
with all European countries in the manu-
| facture of leading articles of commerce
and the balance of trade is very largely
| in our favor.
| 81 do not think that there is anything
| in the so-called issue of imperialism
worth discussing 1t is like the shaking
of red rag in the face of a bull in the
hope of making him mad. The men back
of the alleged issue know that there is
nothing in it. They cannot successfully
attack our manufacturers and the gener-
al policy of the present administration.
They dare not openly advocate the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to /, although that proposition
Democratic platform and in their desper-
alton they hint at the bugaboo imperial
ism.
President Mckinley was forced into the
war with Spain by Congress-; and it was
favored by the Democrats who were un-
der the influence of Mr.. Bryan. Dewey's
victory and that of Sampson and Schley,
assisted by the gallant captains of the
feet, together with the success of our
army in Cuba, put us in possession of the
Philippine Islands They came to US as
a legacy of war Our army today pro-
tects every point of that legacy. The
American flag has been raised over 1t.
Two hundred and fifty posts have been
established. Should we sacrifice what
has been attained by the gallantry of our
army and navy? Should we be guilty of
cowardfce, a quality foreign to the Amer
lean character? Shall we haul down the
American flag because the leader of
political party is trying TO make politi-
cal issue out of it, so prominent that no
others will be left in sight?
1.-THE war in the Philippines is kept up
by the natives who are receiving en-
couragement from Mr.. Bryan and his
followers. Mr.. Bryan has promised that
if he is elected he will withdraw the
american troops from the islands In
other words he will furl the flag. He Is
giving as much aid and comfort to Aguin-
aldo as he could give him if he were at
his side.
There is only one way to put stop
to this despicable business and that is
for the American people regardless of
their political leanings to arise in their
patriotism and by the power of their
ballots elect Mckinley and Roosevelt
"The trust issue that the Democrats
have raised is as great a bugaboo as the
cry of imperialism. I don't know of
such thing as a trust. I have been
diligently searching for one for long
time and on the floor of the United States
Senate 1 have asked to have the location
of the trust pointed out to me, but I have
never been accommodated. 1t Is said that
the Standard Oil Company is trust
Perhaps it was at one time, but it has
been recognized under the new law and is
now as legitimate as any other business,
and the se-called sugar trust is in the
same condition. can see no reason why
five or ten men should not combine their
capital and their brains for business pur-
poses If they want to do so. They have
as much right to do it as two or three
men have.
1.-The combinations of capital that the
Democrats are pleased to call trusts
have cheapened the cost of various pro-
ducas that they are responsible for. If
this is the result of the so-called trust,
then I am in favor of them, because they
give employment to labor and enable
us to ship the products of machinery and
labor instead of gold"
The Senator said that the prospects in
New Jersey were favorable to a Repub-
lican victory and he predicted that Nc
Kinley's majority would be between Is, 900
and 10000