The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-05

three years than the democratic party
ever did in all its paraly tic and impotent
history, or with all its theories.
ga theory is the most beautiful thing
in all the world; fact is the most
brutal. And when theory encounters
fact the fact doesn't do thing tn the
theory.
Free coinage would not benefit the
people of the Palouse This is the
greatest of agricultural counties, but
these hills aud valleys with their waving
fields in season do not require the stamp
of government. | have ridden up and
down and across and over them and
back again; yet | have eeen not q single
silver mine. Ii there stood on these bills
pyramid of silver reaching to the
eternal stars not single one of you
could get a dollar of it unless YOU
worked for it. Business activity makes
money circulate; abundance of money
does not make business activity. In
1898, 1894 and 1895 the dollars OF the
land hid away for fear of being cut in
two; now they are chasing about hunt
ing place for investment. But Colonel
Bryan will always support his theory,
regardless of the fact that we are now
loaning money abroad in large quaint
ties instead of borrowing on gold bonds
1862, 100000 when the theory he sup
ported was on trial.
"The fusionists are saying a good
deal about trusts. The only anti-trusU
law ever written on the statutes of the
nation was placed there by the republi-
can party. Democratic platforms have
pledged their enactment, but the pledges
have invariably been violated. In the
Iast congress, when a twO-thirds ma jOr-
| ity was needed to pass an anti trust
constitutional amendment, the demo-
Gratis bitterly attacked it, for the reason
| that they feared the republican majority
would get the credit for its passage. AS
long as | may be in my place any meas
ure which will be of benefit to the people
will receive my support.
Colonel Bryan has criticized and d.
| famed the supreme court up and down
| this broad land on the trust question;
| but there is one trust which is universal
the trust of 75,0cO,O00 OF people in
| William Mckinley.
''ln the hour OF it's youth the republi-
can party expanded the volume and
value of the nations currency. la the
DAYS of their decrepitude the fusionist
parties Iced must go iUUU miles from
home to find an issue. They had better
look to that imperial province of South
Carolina for such issues as they deal in.
1.-The Spanish war was won by Ameri-
can valor, American heroism, and good
red American blood. Bryan assisted in
the ratification Of the treaty of peace,
aud there was no question then about
extension OF our sovereignty over the
Philippines. He talks now about con-
sent OF the governed When boy my
mother governed me without my con-
! sent, but for my benefit.
who says We want to enslave any
body? In the hours of it's youth the re-
publican party freed men from bondage
it taught Mr.. Bryan's father in the Cos
that title to humanity could not be
gained by conquest and purchase. Mr.
BRYAN traces the title to his Nebraska
farm through conquest and purchase
If he nurses such holy horror against
gaining land by conquest and purchase
he had better deed back his farm tC
the Ogalalla and the Sioux. If we haC
no right at all in the Philippines, how IL
the name of consistency are we TO ac-
uuire a coaling station and harbor al
Manila, as advocated by Organism?
"Of the 100000 of people in TIT
I Philippines 5000, 900 want to come un