The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

good results viii follow; and that when
may or may not keep it, accordingly as
its discordant elements may or may not
whether It keeps it or not. the country
is the loser.
sions upon which we are now asked to
restore it to Pc PREsIT!s Ess1I s1r.vEp
In the first place, we have a. repetition
unlimited and independent coinage of sill
does not stand at the head of the column,
means i lust What it saws y # is naf adio in II
serted as make-weight, or a mere plati-
tude, or glittering generality, but as an
without which Mr.. Bryan announced he
would not accept the nomination. It is
insert it. and that it was adopted in the
committee on resolutions after a long and
and that one vote was the vote of Hawaii
the annexation of which the Democratic
Bryan's insistence won the day and the
resolution was adopted, and although the
half of the Democratic party. making, it
Is safe to estimate, three-fourthS of the
whole of the American people, are opposed
to 1t, yet who can doubt that if elected.
Mr.. Bryan would, in utter disregard of
the consent of the governed try to force
forced it into the Democratic platform.
But, however this might be, we are
ana we must meet It as we met II ia 1896
If our verdict was right them it would be
a calamity to reverse it now.
There was some room for argument in
1885, and muen was then said in favor of
free silver that seemed plausible. we had
hard times, and it was natural for free
trade Democrat to believe that it was the
gold standard, when his leader told him
trouble. 1t was then with many only a
theory, and one theory may be claimed to
practical results; but there is no longer
excuse for theorizing.
Mr. Qrxxa 1da wi min ton fh0v, nfc
are dealing with him now. See with
what results. He told us that If we adopt
prevailing would continue and grow worse.
We rejected his advice and unexampled
prices would fall still lower, but, instead,
they rapidly rose; He said our railroads
have more business than they handle.
He said we would become hopeless
compelled to DEPEND on the money " mar 1aai-
ketS of Europe to float our securities, but
cluding England herself, selling their
bonds in American markets to American
citizens, who are paying for them with
in gold all over the world. He said our
foreign commerce would languiSh, and the
balance of trade would be against US, but
instead we have never traded SO much
with other nations and the balances of
trade in our favor were never so large.
He drew careful pictures of the scarcit.
of money and told how it would curta1I
and handicap and embarrass business. but
instead the volume is steadily Increasing
and the amount per capita is now she
i4i s;sHTss tasa,ssa of +b ft tbst
would befall the farmer if he could not
be allowed to pay off his mortgage with
fifty-cent silver dollars, and told with
great emotion, how the farmers farm and
his home would be sold under the ham
in the unusual prosperity. and with the
good prices commanded by his products,
ever before cancelled in the same length
of time. The railroads can not get cars
other agricultural products that are hunt
ing markets in this and other lands. Such
illustrations might be multiplied. but these
needed in 1896 was not free silver, top
of free trade, as recommended by Mr.;
standard, as recommended by President
Mckinley, and promised by the Republi-
disputed, practical, every day facts the
predictions and the statesmanship of Mr..
Bryan appear indeed ridiculous Notwith-
standing, he now comes again before the
American people asking to be placed at
the head of the government.
Not, however, on the free silver propo-
it he RECOGNIZES that the American Deo-
III NE ir hoI1e o6ndennad + Not eitheT as a
free trader, for while he still adheres to
that belief, he knows that the country has
not yet forgotten the distress that attend
ed our last experience with that policy.
Neither on any other proposition We have
twenty-five years. All these great sub
jects Of political difference in the past are,
leaRt ignored for the purposes of this
campaign.
IMPERIALISM.
He has a new shibboleth-it is Imperial
ism. He affects to believe that President
Mckinley is trying to subvert the gov
public and establishing empire; it is in
this way he refers to what we have done
Philippines. What are the facts?
HAWAII.
Was the acquisition an act of Imperial
ism2 The people there had already over
thrown a monarchy and established re-
public modelled after our own. They had
the same system of Jurisprudence, the
same codes of procedure in their courts,
the same system of schools. For years
they had been celebrating the Fourth of
July and Washingtons birthday. They
have a post of the Grand Army of the
Republic and they have observed Mem
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