The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-17
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL
From Our O,ra Correspondent.

beam from his own eye before attempt
ing TO extract the mote from that Of
his opponent, has charged Mr.. Bryan
with falsehoOd and other crimes. Yet
1berate falsification. While making
his Northern tour, o few weeks ago.
there was circulated statement that,
in writing Of the Western cowboys, he
had described them as men who, when
drunk on the villainOus whiskey of the
frontier Gowns engaged too often in
Geagly ehooting affrays.' and and 'bru-
tai dissipation but that, nevertheless,
they are much better fellows and
pieasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers; nor
are the mechanics and workmen of q
great city to De mentioned in the same
breath Mr.. Roosevelt declared that
this was svillainous' lie.' Yet on
page 10, of "Ranch life and the Hunting
Trail, !" published by the Century Com
pany of New York and bearing Roost :
veits name as author appears this very
statement. dis book is SO elegantly
gotten up aud sells at so high price
that ne doubtless never imagined that
cultural lab0rers,, or 'mechanics,' CT
'wOrkmen' would even be able them
selves to read the wanton insult. And
now, when engaged in frantic appeals
for the votes Of these same people he
SO thoroughly despises, he baG the
temerity to deny point blank That he
ever said it. But he did say IT,. If Mr..
Roosevelt regrets the insult, il. he now
believes 1t wes uniustified and nnca!l-
ed for, let him make manly apology,
and not attempt to deny plain truth.
Some days ago General Grosvenor
and Assistant Secretary of War Miekle-
john undertook to convict Mr.. Bryan
OF falsehood in connection with his
statements about the Sulu treaty. Mr.,
MleklejOhn, in particular, ventured to
address letter to Mr.. Bryan, taking
him to task for asserting that that
treaty recognized slavery, and saying
that although the President confirmed
the treaty providing for slavery, he did
dld not thereby recognize that institu-
tiOn. Mr. Bryan has now replied in
part, fs follows: cit is true that the
President two months after the sign
icg of the treaty sent to General Otis
the instructions which you quote. You
will note that the treaty, or agreement,
as the President describes it, was con-
frmed and approved subject to the
action Of Congress, and the only eX-
ceptlon that he made was in regard to
Article 10, relating to slavei You
can but know, however, that since the
Republican party. with the approval of
the Administration. has adopted tho
theory that the Cons titution docs not
follow the flag, and therefore. the
Thirteenth Amendment does not inter-
fere with slavery in the Sulu archi-
pelagO." This slioui3 sso]d Mr.. Miekle-
john for while.
One fact that 81 Republicans are
trying in vain to explain away is the
V5c S,tk kIn<.x oc II.
is now % cents an ounce--the highest
since February, 1907. Since last De-
cember there has been q rise of Al
cents. They say that the upward
movement 10 due to an improved de-
mand from the East. China it is said
has been taking more silv0r, since the
troops OF the powers need it for local
purchases, wages of coolies and the
like. "Chinese merchants prefer sill
yer to imported goods. The Indian
govern ment, since establishing the
gold standard has found increased use
for silver rupees for improved retail
business. The consumption of silver
IN Europe for industrial purposes has
also been large" In other words, the
stock OF gold money is not sufficient.
II the chance that the Indian mints
may resume silver coinage has raised
the price so much. how much mere
would the resumption Of silver coinage
by the United States raise it.
Like good many other Republicans
who opposed imperialism until Mark
Hanna and Mckinley made it o party
shibboleth, Senator Depew is having o
hard time explaining his past utteran-
ces. Whenever he is billed for a
speech, the Democrats cover tho bill
boar6D q the towns and ill pages of
the local newspapers with sentences in
black type from interviews on imperi-
allsm which be gave to the world two
brought to the public attention is a
statement of Mr.. Depew, given to a
well-known interviewer here in Wash
lngtOn during May, 1893. which read:
eff we should keep tho Philippine
Islands. we should reverse the tradi-
tlons. OF this government from its
foundation. We would nnel, m q new
line OF policy" A great deal more i'll
the same. line is calculated to make
Junior New York Senator shy OF the
anti-imperialism issue.
Estimates prepared by the War De-
partment on the bnsis of m army Of
100000 men and by the Navy Depart
ment, put the total cost Of the military
and naval system of the United States
at S200,00O,000 during tho next fiscal
year. According to existing law, the
present army strength will lapse on
July next, the army reverting to its
former strength of $4,000. Hence, un-
less there is Affirmative legislation by
Congress at its session beginning i'm
December to maintain the increase in
the army in whole or in part, the ex-
pense will, on the first day of july
next, be reduced very largely. There
was appropriated for the army for tho
present fiscal year. $1t4.O0O,0 200. When
the army consisted of %, 900 E;cn it re-
quired only about $26, 200. 900 year to
support it. IL Mr.. Mckinley is re-
elected Congress will rightly construe
this fact into demand by the Ameri-
can people for large standing army,
and the increase to 100, 600 men will be
authorized and made permanent. If
Mr. Bryan is elected Congress will con-
elude that the people are opposed to q
large army, and no Liquidation increas-
ing it will be passed, and on July 1,
1901, Che regular army will resume it's
former proportions and the expenses of
maintaining 1t will drop down to the
old estimates, n saving of at least
s'SS, ,OOO, 900 o year. being effected.
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