The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-05

glnnlnSS, disaster from prosperity, anu
decadence from progress. It's bunch
| of bugaboos and a nightmare Of indi-
gestible edibles for no particular arti-
, Gle for which our people have ever
shown an appetite or ever will If Bry-
| anism has an object of existence it Is
| masked under deceit and is concealed
| under false pretences.
! -Four years ago Mr.. Bryan said that
| "the gold standard would destroy the
| opportunity for work, would increase
! the number of idle men, would discour-
age enterprise and paralyze industry"
| Present conditions show the falsity of
| every one of these dire phophesies,
! Labor never had more hope and great
| er opportunity than encourage 1t to-
day. ENTERPRISE and industry never
| had more inviting and more numerous
| channels for their exercise and their
| profit than are offered to-day.
Four years ago Mr. Mckinley said in
advocacy of the gold standard that
1.-THE dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage-earners and the pensioners must
continue forever equal in purchasing
| and debt-paying power to the dollar
paid to any government creditor Our
| domestic trade must be won back and
our idle working people employed.
Public confidence must be resumed and
our foreign trade reopened." Present
conditions show the fulfllment of these
promises.
Thus are two of Mr.. Bryan's para
mount issues shattered. One, that of
free trade, 10 broken and decried and
discredited by an actual test. Another.
that of free silver at the fixed ratio OF
Is to 1, is Slapped of vitality and de-
stroyed of attractiveness and power by
the demonstrated benefit and success of
it's adverse policy. There's a verse in
the book of jeremiah which might be
given a present application on these
two contra prophesies of four years
ago. And this is the verse: "Then
said the Prophet jeremiah unto Han
aniah. the prophet, hear We now, Han
aniah: The Lord hath not sent thee,
but thoumakest this people to trust in
a lie."
All that Bryanism stood for in 1896 is
reaffirmed in 1900, The st. Louis plat
form is the Chicago platform with
some changes of phraseology and some
Encouragement of paragraphs. All the
old issues of 1896 are with Mr.. Bryan
and his platform, and with them is a
new one which we welcome and stigma
tie as unholy and as disereditabe ana
as disastrous as the rest. We meet
Organism and its pseudoymous aggre-
cation a any and all points on their
lineof defense or on their line of attack.
We criticisa the defense, but with equal
assurance we repel the attack. Repub-
licanism never yet 'scuttled'' it's ship.
Lincoln, Grant or Mckinley never
fought that way. The republican par
ty has under all Its patriotic leaders
and in all it's progressive movements
sounded it's imperial clarion along the
whole line of it's battle. God willing, it
always shall Patriotism living, it al
ways should
am not an apologist for a single act
of the republican administration in It's
policy or it's legislation, or IN its execu-
ton in dealing with the grave duties,
the serious business and the grand pos
sibllties which have been entrusted TO
it as a result, an inheritance an obliga-
ton and a trust growing out Of the war
with Spain. Because we offer no apol-
ogy Mr. Bryan calls us imperialistS
Because the republican administration
refused to shirk the duties. declined to
give up the business and was not will
ing to lose the opportunities, Mr. Bryan
declares that imperialism has become
menace and a danger to our republic.
Thanks to the good Lord and to the
wise craftsmanship of Mckinley, the
power and the authority and the spirit
of American nationality has thus far
been preserved. If any one wants to
call that Imperialism. let him so call it.
If the flag had been furled the authori-
ty of the United states had been deri-
ded and its power had been weakened, /
we should have called the performance
cowardice and perhaps treason.
The war as cause has given results
which may not have been anticipated, |
and it is with our prospective dealings |
with those results that Mr.. Bryan and |
his party are alarmingly concerned |
In fact it Is with the future of the
that his paramount issue is
made. SO be 1t. The Philippines are
possession Of the United States. We
assert the possession and propose to
maintain it. The possession is unduly
engaged in rebellion. That condition of
affairs, though regretted, will not deter
us from our purpose to maintain our
rights. The republican party has dealt
with rebellious possessions before and
so thoroughly and wisely dealt with
them that to-day they thank us for the
subsection. When we once before had
4 rebeilious possession to deal with we
awaited the surrender before Offering
he terms of capitulation We do just
he same thing in the Philippines, and
hen we will act according to the
ivowed principles of the republican
party, Sustained by unbroken judicial
precedent, that the representatives of
he people in congress have full legsla-
i've power over territory belonging to
lie United States subject to the funda-
mental safeguards of liberty, Justice
md personal rights, and are vested
With ample authority to act for the
highest interests of our nation and peo-
lie entrusted or it's care" William
Mckinley has said that Wen do this
hing as regards the Philippines and
he republican party endorses him and
lis sayings. You can argue imperial
SIN, if it amuses you, Colonel Bryan,
nd forecast what might be done. We |