The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-07

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growing dearer; that under gold stand
ard it was bound to continue TO grow
Scarcer. Well, as q matter of fact, ana
thanks to our prosperity. there is more
money in circulation per capita in the
United States to-day than ever before IN
the history Of the country. On July ISL
last the circulation per capita was S25.og.
an increase in circulation of $40 for every
man, woman and child in the country, as
compared with what it was on July list.
1896 So Mr. Bryans prophecy has been as
wide Of the mark in this instance, as in
every other.
1t was on September 24th. among other
occasions, that he dwet upon his doctrine
that wheat and silver went uD or down
together and prophesied as follows: An
American dollar will buy two Mexican
dollars and also about two bushels OF
wheat at the same time. There was a
time when an American dollar would buy
oniv one Mexican dollar, and then an
American dollar would buy only one bushe!
of wheat II the time ever comes when an
American dollar will buy three Mexican
dollars then it will buy three bushels o.
wheat" But unfortunately, since then
we have on several occasions had dollar
wheat and, on the whole. wheat has
risen. while silver has continued to E--l
At present one of our dollars Will pnr-
chase more than two Mexican dollars; put
it will only purchase a bushel ana quar-
+er Of wheat. OF course. as any child VINO
had studied the subject know the price
of wheat and the price of silver 90 not
bear the slightest relation to one anotiler.
Now. when utterances such as nave
Quoted represent the fine flower OF
st.tesman,s thought. as to what IS pest
for the country, from an economical ana
financial standpoint. the country is II
self TO blame if it invites disaster py
Giving him a chance to put his theories
into effect. Remember That all these
statements I have quoted We're Mate
absolutely without qualification. our oppo-
nents are as cock-sure ABOUT the sou . l5.-
lar, helms. a. "robber'' dollar four years ago
&C they are about what they are pleased
~ tenn "militarism and Imperialism at
the present day. and their utterahces
mean no more now than they meant theii.
N,.@s>- IMPERIALISM A ssHADOW.
I have shown you how little Mr.. Bryan
5,1tterances in the past have squared WIZ
the facts, whether he was deaiihS W.
fnance. or whether he was dealing win
"a tT;otisrn. and it is exactly as true to-day
when he and the makers of the Kansas
C,itv latforr1 talk of imperialism or mill
tarism. One reason that makes 1t dltl-=
cuIt TO seriously argue either question Is
fiat so far as know there IS no man
in the United States who believes in either
Imperialism or militarism. They are pure
phantcms of an even more SnadoWy ana
Intangible quality than the iniaultoi1s4 rob
her gold dollar which disturbed Mr. Bryan
so much four years ago. The regular q ,'Ii1S
is not nearly as numerous. relatively 10
.f,a whole spopula ton. as is the New. York
nolire force relatively to the population
of New York: and it is literally as absurd
to predicate miitarism or imperialism on
the size Of the army, as it would be to see
in the number of policemen menaceSto
personal liberty. There is no more chance
of draft to FILL one body than to MI
the other. and there is evensless Schance
in the case of HE army, that il will be
used against our freedom.
50 It IS with imperialism. There IS not
the least little danger of imperialism ana
there is not q. dividing line of any kind to
b. drawn between our methods of eSpan-s
sion in 1885 and 1899 and the methods OF
expansion under which we ACQUIRED M s.lSa
o,n. Illinois, Florida, Louisiana. Mime
sofa Missouri, Oregon, California, Hawaii
and Alaska. Br. Bryan ma $ recently
shaken of rs as having purchased the Pail-
! o,,nires at $50 a head. treating 1t
analogous to buying slaves at
81 cfa5 a. head seems I'M possible
thai such statement could pc MADE mace
unless as a Jest. Mr. Bryan must know
hat the philippines were paid for precisely
as Florida, = = -
ka were paid for.
- -. CONSENT OF GOVERNED
Mr.. BRYAN and his associates cannot say
enough about the consent Of the. GOV
erned' doctrine as appiyI!rs g NJ
pines. they dwell upon s. fact ha tho
m an5sis oooa enough to govern anot or.
IN North Carolina and other Southern llIt fern
states ne see before our eyes the process
Of the diasrane tsisement Of the nesro.N e
see before our eyes the black man GOV
erned without histscnnsent by the white.
man Belt remembered too that TT men
thus dtsfrunchIsed have always been Mr.