Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-31


grasping his. mechanically. He had
seen too many comrades during the day
to be:eA enthusiastic
'NVell,S how are YOU? 1 hope the world
is using you we'll. What are you doing
novG??''
.oh, not much replied the stranger.
with a smile: II am just being governor
of Iowa. My name is Shaw
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: In the di-
vision Of China somebody Will have to
assume the national debt of that coun-
try, amounting to $500,00O,OO0. This is
on the presumption, of course, that the
tael goes with the hide
--sYS-ss
TWO CURIOUS SILVER soPHIs-
TRIES,
New York Tribune.l
Tho Col. bryan prefers to picture to
his western auditors the perils to liberty
of an imaginary regime of ..imperial-
ism and the burdens on industry of a
standing army no larger nor more costly
than that maintained in time of peace
finds it expedient to bark back occas ion-
ally to the familiar silver sophist,ies of
1896. To reassure his Kansas and Ne
braska followers. who still consider free
silver coinage the controlling Issue of
the fusion canvass. the Democratic or
atnl Puff took pains al two or three of
his stopping places last week TO revive
in ilagrantly pettifogging way his old
nf 1,i tf.ur, ~
silver question. Two of the shifty Me-
braska leaders, assertions invite atten-
ton because of their amazing trickery.
and shallowness.
a Wahoo last Tuesday COL Bryan is
reported as saving:
The republican party is trying today
the! same deception that 1T practiced in
lSs6son the money question. The repub-
slican leaders, wanted the gold standard
in 1896, just as they want ii now. but
they held out before the people the de-
fusion of international bimctallism.
The president sent Il commission of
three distinguished gentlemen. and they
were to labor With the European nations
and try to get those notions to help us.
DID they succeed OF course they did.
not. You can not find a republican to-
day who feels sorrowful because they
did hot get the International bimet-
sailism that they promicsd to get in 1896.
IL international bimetallism was
good in 1896 it iag good now. Then Why is
1T that the republicans do not talk about
3it?''
The Inference from all this is, of
course, that the democratic party alone
is 70 be credited with sincere and
earnest desire 10 promote workable
system of bimetallism. Yet Mr.. Bryan.
knows that the present administration
made a genuine effort 10 bring about
that International agreement, Without
Which an enlarged use of silver d, mon
ey by any single government would
simply invite unsettled values and COM
mercial disaster. On the commission
sent abroad to labor for internationa,
concert, Col. Bryan's associate on the
democratic national ticket, ex-Vices
President Adlai r. Stevenson. served
With zeal and distinction, and his per-
sonal credit is pledged to the good faith
of the failure reported By himself and
his associates TO the executive and TO
congress. Certainly no republican could
feel less sorrowfui over the empty hand
ed return of the commissioners than
Col. Bryan himself, whose. dream OF
monetary readjust ment is not at all a
sys tenn Of international blmetallism,
which would hold our standard of VAL
uea level with that accepted by all the
other great commercial nations but
system of silver fnonometallissn, which
would sink tie American standard to-
that recognized in China and Mexico
AT Pawnee on Thursday the demo-
cratic candidate made this equally pu-
Grille arguments:
9 republicans say hey do not be-
iieve in the ratio Of 16 to 1. When they
MAKE that assertion YOU a ok them why
Mr. Mclkinley'a administration is coin
ing silver dollars today at the ratio Of
10 70 l, In the month of March the re-
publican administration coined 100000
SILVER dollars at the ratio of 10 to 4, and
ye the blieans think that the ratio
q ~ to \ is not right, Its the ratio No
nave had for thirty four years. and the
ubiican party today dosa not adro-
cate any change III the RATIO
Identifying the coinage of a remnant
OF bullion held in the United States
treasury, against which, under the
sherman law, notes rcd g nabinin coin
nave already been sau.sd, with that free
ana .uni1rnits! acceptance of silver ar
the nlRts. AZ halt its commercial value.
for which Gel. Bryan has clafnored Il,
season and out. is a piece of tfickery al
most too picayane for comprehension.
The democratic candidate knew, az
Meil az any one thu; for every silver
dollar coined from the Sherman bullion.
fund the sovernment--unde republican
administration at least--stands ready;
70 exchange q gold dollar: and IL the
substitution Of silver dollars for coin
notes. one az we'll aathe other main
tainable al a parity With gold We're all
the recognition Of the validity OF the l65
10 ratio demanded by the fusion leader
and his supporters democratic financial
theories would threaten neither national
credit nor national honor. Enhappily.
no such Interpretation Of democratic
platforms or purposes is tenabe Yet.
10 voters who under his own leadership
have been drilled for four years past in.
all the implications Of cheap money IN
llatlon IL Is astounding that Col. Bryan
should offer such sophis.ries and niysii-
iications' as he attempted to palm off on
his audiences at PaWnee and Wahoo.
Prevented n Tragedy.
Timely information given Mrs. G eorr,
Long, of New Straitsville, o. saved TVS.