Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-14
The Giant Democracy is Only
Bruised, Not Broken.
Our Correspondent INDUCES in Some Re-
Elections on tho Recent Election and
Points Moral The Policy of Europe's
Crowned Heads.
Especial to virsinian-Pilot.)

ner will yet wave over Jer,Isaler
Some Tancred will arise, and, with
flaming sword, plant it on the very
citadel OF triumphant success. VA
riety of causes has produced this nm
looked Tor national calamity. Sixteen
to one was no doubt potent factor;
the lavish expenditure of money am
other, and yet, to my thinking there
is still another. Capital cannot supply
enough money to buy sufficient votes
to elect Il President. 1t is the colossal
manufacturing interests back of II all.
ihose states in which these interests
largely centre have the power to de-
eide the political status. These States
are dominated and controlled by the
flnanciers, and they in turn control and
direct the voters The glamour of San
Juans nero had nothing to do with 1t.
his Iame as Il captain was not great
enough. Men who have seen pitched
battles are not easily dazed The flash
oil powder on that Cuban hill was but
rushlight to the conhagrations they
have seen. Our defeat is a yeritable
SailIlae, ana yet Cannae did not crush
Home-only nerved her to greater en-
ergy. Men learn from experience and
by object lessons. l rejoice that the
residents hands are unshackled that
the hopes OF the opponents of imperial
ism anu miitarism are blasted by an
increased majority in the lower House.
| They have played with fire and they
nave got burnt. The gold Democrats
and anti-imperialists in the Republican
| party have played a high poker game
and they have lost. II will yet take
oceans of money and foods of blood
| TO subJuGate the Philippines. a vast
standing army is now ont only a ne
cessity, but n certainty. Its depicting
ranks will demand continual food for
bullets and disease. Webster's mag
niiicent description of England's mill
tary power and possessions can now
he appropriated by us: Her morning
drum beat. commencing with the sun,
ana revolving with the hours, pourS
round the world one unbroken strain of
martial music" set TO the tune of God
save the Queen" and Rule Britannia"
NO Yankee Doodle in that strain
Whence must come the rank and file to
MI those distant graves-to uphold the
nag that Is to wave in the van of vic
torious conquest? 1t is no summer ex-
cursion TO the Gem of the Antilles. but
q poisterous voyage over two oceans.
Go among your Americanzed foreign
ers in your crowded cities: among the
new arrivals. sturdy peasants from
lturope's crowded population. and ask
them why have they left fatherland
and the dear old homes OF infancy to
cast their lot on foreign soil. Their
answer will not be as Of old to go
| West" and drive the pillow afield to
| make bread for wives and babes.
They know that Ildorado Is now
| closed; that capital has those fabulous
| fields OF golden grain; that those broad
domains are ranches run by city kings
of gold. What is the reply OF the blue
eyed German. the swarthy Italian. the
muscular Russian and Pole2 Seventy
five per cent. of these young men, q
nations strength and pride. will tell
you to escape army service and mer-
CHESS CONSUMPTION. Sadowa. Metz and
Solfcrino have no charms for them
they feel no heartbeat in the roll of
The drum. The Hungarian and the
Croat, the German and the French.
now as ever are willing to fight the
invader. But Afric's burning sands,
the SirOc'S awful breath are equally
distasteful to the chasseur and wolff
Geur of the boulevards as to the hussar
from far distant Bingen on the Rhine.
These men have come among us. not
to embrace war god but to enjoy
peace and freedom from harsh military
rule. AS the years SO by as the army
increases, whence must come the re-
cruits TO fill the ever opening gaps?
Gloss ii as you may-hide 1t you can
not-they must be conscribed. There
is not Il standing army of large dimcn-
sion in all the world but that draws its
supply from THIS source. I repent, /
rejoice in the decided victory won by
the Republicans. 1t leaves them free
to act. Whom the gods wish to de-
stroy they first make mad"
In relation to the causes that led TO
the Democratic defeat the editorial in
the Virginian-Pi struck the key
note. and the papers scathing condem-
nation of the proposed reorganiZa ton
OF the party. under the leadership of
those who have stabbed it. will meet
the hearty approval of every true
Democrat. If Caesar be dead it is poor
taste to call upon Brutus to restore
life. The wounds would bleed afresh
at the murderer's touch. 1t needs re
organization. Let its true and tried
friends. who have followed It's flag in
victory'and defeat. do this work. Every
dead issue should be eliminated from
its platform. Silver is not necessary
for our nations life. No matter how
we'll convinced each one may be in re-
gard to the benefits that would follow
from its restoration as n basis of value
yet it is nom apparent to all that the
Democratic party cannot win with 1t
rs an issue. The world financial must
do this. if it is ever done. 1t has driven
from the party an army host of voters,
and these voters. in the main. possessed
those sinews that win. 1t is highly pro-
bable that from merely business
standpoint that the country will flour
ish. No restrictions upon trusts, CAPT
tai will open its purse and enterprises
OF great pith and moment will expand
their operations. employing tens OF
thousands of idle hands. No danger
that poverty will settle like q pail of
mourning. The danger to our institu-
tions does lie in that direction. but the
danger is by what methods capital will
be increased. No matter what any of
us may think of silver" 1t has be-
come n veritable bugbear. and if this
ghost of Banquo will not down ii gives
the opponents of Democracy a vast adj
vantage. l trust in God no Democrat
in Congress will even whisper of silver
Let it go: it is no vital issue. It's adop-
tion or rejection will neither drag down
or uphold our free institutions. II we
can win without II: IL its elimination