The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-09-26

were sound money and a protective
tariff. They, as well as he, have been
fully tried and they have proved
complete success. Their success has
proved the Democratic theories of free
trade and free silver a complete fail
ure. The country could not be in its
present prosperous condition and
sound money and protective tariff
be wrong. The country could not be
in its present prosperous condition and
free trade and free silver be right The
trial and success Of sound money and
a protective tariff prove conclusively
that free coinage and free trade are
wrong. Now, which will we have, a
man and his rules of government that
We know are right, or a man and his
theories that we know are wrong? Will
we discharge our family physician who
has cured us of our sickness and keeps
us in health and employ a quack who
gives the medicine that made us sick?
Will we bet our money on a horse that
has taken every heat and won every
race at home and abroad or on a horse
that has only pranced before the re-
viewing stand?
MAMMA OF SOUND MONEY.
81 knew Bryan in congress and ad-
mire his great power as an orator. He
has delighted me with his eloquence
upon more than one occasion. And l
remember that Aaron was a great
orator But it was not Aaron who led
the children Of Israel out of the land
of Egypt. It was Moses, and when the
American people were suffering dur
ing Clevelands administration und~
the blighting curse of the Wilson Ia
III bill and the threatened free col
age of silver; when we were groaning
under our task maskers and making
bricks without straw, it was not Bryan
nor Democratic oratory that lifted our
burdens, but it was William Mckinley
who led us out Of the land Of shadows
and fed us with the mama of sound
money ard a protective tariff, and al
though we still hear the rumble Of
Democratic chariot wheels our spies
have been to the promised land and
returned with the rich grapes Of pros
perity. We have mama and quail in
abundance and we no longer make
Democratic bricks without the straw of
protection.
But while the free coinage of silver
was the paramount issue four years
ago, they say it is not the paramount
issue now. Our Democratic friends do
not think so much Of free silver as
they did. They are still for 1t, but
they say less about it. They have lost
heart in It. They have a new theory.
They call it Imperialism. They still
keep a stock of free trade and free sill
yer on their shelves, but they do not
show them to customers, except to
customers from the west. They de-
clare that Imperialism is the para
mount issue. They say that Mckinley
and the Republicans are imperialists
and that The maintenance Of an army
In the Philippines and the attempt to
subdue the insurrection there is i'm
perialism. They say it was all right
TO buy the Philippines and all right to
pay Spain twenty millions Of dollars
for them bit that it is always wrong to
maintain possession of the purchased
property, and they bring forward the
declarations Of departed saints Of the
Democratic party to prove that the ac-
QuisitiCn Of territory is all wrong and
they want us to discuss that. They
say that is the paramount issue. Now,
] am Wiling to discuss any question
with them except the demogoguery Of
the Democratic party That is a mat
ter too apparent and self evident to
warrant discussion.
AMERICA AS A NATION.
1T may be that when our nation was