Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-08-23

people the mos, imperial political boss
of the century. He regarded the tariff :
the paramount issue when in congress. |
the silver question ~ the paramount Issue
in 1896 The misty thing he terms mpe-
rialism is the burden OF his song now.
1t would be guess TO say what would be
paramount in his mind If the American
people should experiment with him as
president. Some things we know. He
would strike down our tariff system II he
could and he would tear up the foundations
of the nations credit in frantic efforts to
substitute debased dollar for good one
The gold democrats are told that they
should support Mr. Bryan because a re-
publican congress will prevent him from
Incorporating his poisonous financial her
estes into national law. Ii Mr.. Mckinley
is elected, he will need no congressional
handouts to make him salfe. 1t is d reason
to excite the amazement of gods and men
that man should be made the chief eX-
ecutive OF 7O,U0O.0Oo of people because for
time he would be powerle<s to do what he
wanted to do. Mr. Mckinley will not be
an experiment. For four. years he has
been the center of American political life.
In his administration foreign war with
its results has made necessary the consid-
GRAFTON OF new questions of national policy.
We made real estate deal with Spain to
stop bloodshed and put Cuba on the road
to independence, we promised. Mr..
Bryan went to Washington and helped to
ratify the treaty of Paris which gave US the
Philippines. Our title is not questioned in
any civilized land except our own. They
are an inheritance OF war. We are respon-
sible to God and man for the character OF
their government and the Well being Of
their people. No ghosts of future troubles
should brighten this government from the
performance or its obvious duty to restore
order there. When order shall have been
restored. when life and property are safe.
when native enlightenment can dominate
native savagery, when the people become
capable of self-government and want it,
they will be given Independence, and nol
before. This country has not started upon
career of world conquest. and it never
will. But it has undertaken the job OF
giving good government to the people COM
mitted to its care and it will complete it
in spite of Aguinaldo and his democratic
backing.
The administration would have made
Cuba free by diplomacy if it could. 1t was
forced into war by the whirlwind of pop
ular indignation caused by the destruction
of the Maine and the numberess Ofrenses
against our common humanity committed
by Spain against the Cuban people. With
| in four months after the war began an
| army of over 100000 men had been placed
in the field two Spanish fleets had been
swept from the seas. the American navy
| had become the wonder of the world. our
| had been freed from the bloody rule of
| Spain. The results have been law and or
| der and new prosperity springing up in
! Porto Rico, new life and new hope and a
| dawning independence in Cuba and Il just
government in the Philippines.
! Bryan's ShndOwy Claim.
"The friends of MIR. Bryan claim that
| they will obtain the German vote upon this
issue. The claim is little shadowy for
| ra. that fhnra l.. h
issue and the other is that German voters
do their own thinking. The German people
are less affected than almost any others
| by shallow surface agitations Of political
| thought. German philosophy deals with
| facts. not with fancics. Mr.. Bryan reached
| "A silver platter for the German vote in
| 1896 and was beaten because he did not
| get 1t. German memory is not Short-lived
| and German judgment is strong. The Ger
| man Americans Of this country know tina t
Mr.. Bryan wanted a 5O-cent dollar in 1896.
| and they know that he wants it now. No
man or party owns that vote or has right
| to claim it. The republican administra ton
has earned at least the respect of German
| Americans. 1t has made good its promise
| to them to maintain the gold standard, and
the republican promise in that regard is;
now part of national law. Is there any
| thing attractive to the German mind in the
political marriage, consummated at Kan
which represents negation; the silver re-
pubicans, who want free silver. and the
populists. who want everything? Does
the domination of such a political aggrega-
ton in national affairs mean safety or dam
ger? 1t is not simply Il question of politics
1T is question of business. We are doing
we'll. Shall we undertake to do better by
placing party in power which has opposed
the means and the way by which we have
become as prosperous as we are?
We are told by the Kansas City statesmen
that the republican party is the friend OF
trusts. and that it is responsible for them
| Is 1t responsible for the one hundred trusts
formed in Germany during the last two
years? Is it responsible for the trusts thai
are plastered all over England" Is it re-
sponsible for the trusts that are being con
stantly formed in every civilized nation? l:
1t responsible for the democratic ice trus,
in New York city? Why not tell the truth
and say that trusts have come as the out
growth Of modern business and are not the
fruitase of law or of politics.
There is only way that the powe
of trusts can be broken or regulated. anc
that is by an amendment to the constitu
ton Of the United States giving congress:
the power of regulation. Such an amend
ment was offered and supported in the low
, er house of the last congress by the re
publicans of that body. 1t required a two
thirds vote for passage and was bea ter
because OF the solid opposition OF the demo
cratic members A stringent amendmen
, to the existing law passed the house o; rep
resentatives in spite Of democratic protest
and is now pending in the senate. Shall VI
regard democratic balderdash at kansa
City or democratic action at Washington
Trusts can be regulated by legislation, no
by vituperation. The republican part
> endeavors to curb trusts by law. The dem
ocratic party votes the other way and ex
ponds its energy in the fiamboyant resolu
lions of national convention.
Party Performances.
The democratic party talks. The repub
. lican party acts. The democratic party i
, magnificent in promises. The republican
party is strong in achievement 1t is no
necessary in this convention, where yo
6 and have been honored with places by tn
republican party. to go into exhaustive de
I tails OF the party's life. The true state
! ment of its history is an unanswera Bile ar
gument in its behalf 1t has made Amer
lea paradise for men who work. 1t swep
from the path of labor the deadly competi
ton OF the slave. 1t has placed the stron
= arm Of the protective tariff laws about tn
= men who toll. and said that the underpai
~ labor of foreign countries should not com
4 pete with them. Its policy has stimulate
n invention, opened gold mines. populate
the western prairies. builded cities an
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