The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-08-24


of, the century. He regarded the tariff as
the paramount issue when in coEiress.
the silver question as the paramount issue
In 1896. The misty thing he terms imps-
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 a debased dollar for a good one.
The gold democrats are told that they
should support Mr.. Bryan because re-
publican congress will prevent him from
Incorporating his poisonous financial her
estes into national law. If Mr.. Mckinley
Is elected, he will need no congressional
handouts to make him salfe. 1t is a reason
to excite the amaZement of gods and men
that man should be made the chief ex-
ecutive of 100000 Of people because for a
time he would be powerless 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
it's 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, as We promised. Mr..
Bryan went to Washington and helped to
Eatify 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 it's 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 not
before. This country has not started upon
a career of world conquest, and it never
will. But 1t 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 numberless offenses
against our common humanity committed
by Spain against the Cuban people. With
in four months after the war began an
army of over 30O, 900 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
flag floated over Manila and the Cubans
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 a just
government in the Philippines.
Bryan's Shadowy Claim.
''The friends of Mr.. Bryan claim that
they will obtain the German vote upon this
issue. The claim is a little shadowy for
two reasons-one, that there is no such
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 fancies. Mr.. Bryan reached
a silver platter for the German vote in
1896 and was beaten because he did not
get it. German memory is not short-lived
and German judgment is strong. The Ger
Americans of this country know that
Mr.. Bryan wanted 50-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
sas City, between the democratic party,
which represents negation; the silver re-
publicans, who want free silver, and the
populists, who want everything? Does
the domination of such political aggrega-
ton in national affairs mean safety or dam
ger? 1t is not simply question of politics.
1t Is a question of business. We are doing
well. Shall we undertake to do better by
placing party in power which has opposed
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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 it responsible for the one hundred trusts
formed in Germany during the last two
years? Is it responsible for the trusts that
are plastered all over England? Is it re-
sponsible for the trusts that are being con-
stantly formed in every civilized nation? Is
it responsible for the democratic ice trust
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
fruitage of law or of politics?
There is only one way that the power
of trusts can be broken or regulated, and
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. It required two
thirds vote for passage, and was beaten
because of the solid opposition of the demo-
cratic members. stringent amendment
to the existing law passed the house Of rep
resentatives in spite of democratic protest,
and is now pending in the senate. Shall we
regard democratic balderdash at Kansas
City or democratic action at Washington?
Trusts can be regulated by legislation, not
by vituperation. The republican party
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ocratic party votes the other way and ex-
ponds it's energy in the f1amboyant resolu-
lions of a national convention.
Party Performances.
The democratic party talks. The repub-
lican party acts. The democratic party is
magnificent in promises. The republican
party is strong in achievement. 1t is not
necessary in this convention, where you
and have been honored with places by the
republican party, to go into exhaustive de-
tails of the party's life. The true state
ment of its history is an unanswerable ar
gument in its behalf. 1t has made Amer
lea paradise for men who work. 1t swept
from the path of labor the deadly competi-
ton of the slave. 1t has placed the strong
arm of the protective tariff laws about the
men who toll, and said that the underpaid
labor of foreign countries should not COM
pete with them. Its policy has stimulated
invention, opened gold mines, populated
the western prairies, builded cities and
constructed states. 1t has made the money
of the United States the best in the world.
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