The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

There has not been an hour from the moment
the Pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth to the
bright May day when Dewey hmnbed the flag
OF Spain In Manila bay when Americans have
not been the missionaries OF liberty The Revo.
lutionary war was for liberty and expansion
on land; the war Of 1872 was for liberty and
expansion the sea; the Mexican war was
for liberty and expansion TO the west and
south; the Rebellion was for liberty and union
everywhere, and the country is still in the
morning of its history. The imperialism OF
the American idea gave the French people
power TO throw off the old regime and enter
into the dominion of individual sovereignty. 1t
has made more than half score Of Latin
American republics strung along the Andcan
mountain chain, every one Of them children OF
American thought and OF American example
and still sheltered under the strong arm of
American protection. America never consulted
with COwardiCe, or took counsel with the fearful
She relOiCe6 as a strong man to run a race,
and cares not how hard the task may he provid.
ing it is just. The Republican policy which 50
long has guided the destiny of Republican
America has been Just and generous. opening
the door Of opportunity to all, opening markets
that looms may spin, furnaces blaze. Chinney'
smoke, trains fly and ships SAIL making work,
maintaining wages and paying honest toll and
American skill the highest wages in the best
money in the world. The Republican party
hlanuS IOt lne lNptElallSll OF opportunity tne
dominion Of achievement, the kingdom OF manly
labor, royal remuneration for loyal service. II
this be imperialism let the enemies Of the re.
public make the most OF it,
The silver orators from Bryan down are never
tired Of reiterating that the gold standard Ia
established solely in the interest of the creditor
class, who want whatever is due them paid in
the best and highest kind Of money. They as.
sumo that the debtor class is the poor who owe
money! and that the creditor class is the rich
to whom money is always due. On this ground
they endeavor to foment hatred and bitterness
among the poor against the rich, and to array
class against class and empioye against en-
ployer. To stir up such iealousics and hatreds
opens the road to anarchy, and anarchy leads
to the destruction of government. But it is
not true that the poor are the debtor class, and
the rich the creditor class Az a matter OF
fact the great majority of people belong TO both
classes, having money coming to them from one
direction and having to pay it out in another.
| 1t is, therefore, difficult to draw any hard and
fast line to separate the debtors from the
creditors. But il there is a creditor class in
| this country, a set Of people to whom that
designation is peculiarly applicable, it is not
composed of the men who handle large sums OF
money and who are engaged in carrying on greet
enterprises They, for the most part, are debtors
The real creditor class is composed Of work
/
oi business, of saared people, and Of depositors
in banks especially depostors in savings banks
| These are the men and women TO whom money
| is always due and who are entitled IL anybody
| in all the world is, TO the best and most stable
money that can be devised. huctuating
money, varying in value from time to time. is
to them a condemnation Of poverty and loss
A letter from Chicago says: The political
situation, so far as the Republican outlook is
| concerned, may be sized up in one word-oveT-
| confidence. The great trouble at the present
moment is that everybody nearly, and especially
! the Republicans, are too busy making money,
! getting their crops in, earning good wages at
their situations in the mills all over the country,
and, In short, reeling so very contented that one
who comes along to talk politics finds little en-
couragemcnt The correspondence, the clip
pings from the newspapers, the private commu-
nications received from leaders in various states,
an indicate that this danger Of overconhdence
is liable to be the great one. II ought to be
said, however, that the officers Of the Republi'
can national committee fully alive TO this
danger. They like to receive the reports OF
| prosperity-and the reports also that many
millions Of voters as possible, especially Repub'
hcan voters, are having a very good time OF II
financially. But they do not allow themselves
to be luiled into any feeling OF false security
by this. They have been working from the
OrOp OF the nat, ana lndl dCtOIdlHk 10 All
ports, is the exact condition in the east The
Republican leaders believe that they will win,
but they are going to work harder and harder
to bring about that consummation; and they
propose to take no chances. One Of the best
advertisements ever written simply said
"No time to write advertisements-too busy sell
ing hats" That about expresses the present
situation.
W. +. Curtis writes to the Chicago Record
saw a safe manufacturer at Manhattan Beaci
last night who told me that his company hat
sold more safes in Kansas during the last two
years than in any other state and that his com
petitors had enjoyed a full share OF the busi
ness. lie did nOt pretend to explain the Tea
sons for this extraordinary demand, but onere'
the facts a prosperity straw.
JEFFERSON NOT AFRAID.
From tho Second Inaugural Address, 1905
know that the acquisition OF Louisiana ha
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