Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-30
HE WILL BOLT BRYAN |
Former Free Silver Leader Favors
McKinley's Reelection.
BE Is FOR TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
Quotes the Father of the Demo-
cratic Party.
PROTECTIVE TARIFF PRAISED

Colonel Oliver G. Sabin, formerly secre-
tary of the Silver knights of America, who
was active supporter of Mr.. Bryan in
the campaign of 1896. has announced that
he will advocate the reelection of President
Mckinley. He gave his reasons today to
Star reporter for this change in his political
views. He said
while l am not now actively engaged In
politics. I shall most heartily and with
whatever influence l can properly WELD
endeavor to promote the reelection of Mr..
Mckinley. AS I am a democrat, l must
consequently camp outside the lines of my
party. but 1 shall content myself with the
reflection that there is a higher and more
potent call to duty than any that comes
from fealty to any political organization.
THE democratic party, with its long line
of ilustrious leaders, he continued lis
great fact in the history of this country,
but the American people are still greater
fact. and | hold their interests to be para
mount in determining my political course.
The issues have materially changed since
1896 The leading issues then were the
free coinage of silver and the protective
tariff. They have both been solved by the
logic of events. The chief argument urged
in support of the former was based upon
the alleged necessity of an increase in the
volume OF our currency to meet the needs
of the people. Our money circulation. then
amounting to less per capita than ever be-
fore IS now twenty-nine dollars per capita,
the highest point it has ever attained in the
history of the country. This result is due
primarily to the Spanish war. which in
volved the expenditure by the government
OF many millions of dollars, but chiefly to
the vast increase in our exports, the bal
ance of trade now in our favor amounting
to eighteen hundred millions of dollars
This means a prosperous people. That the
United States is now a creditor nation in
stead of a debtor, as formerly, is due. in my
judgment to cur wise system of customs du-
ties, the protective tariff enacted by a re-
publican Congress. which keeps American
work for American workmen, and fosters
all our home Industries by imposing upon
foreign producers heavy tax for the priv
ilege of entering our home market which
Is of greater value to them than all the
markets of Europe.
THAT is the best economic system which
best promotes the self-support among the
working classes-that is to say the hand
workers of country.
Free Trade and Pauperfsm
''The application of this test in COM
pariSon with England's free trade system
which Mr.. Bryan has advocated throughout
his political career, will furnish a most con-
vincing argument in favor of the republican
policy of protection for American industries
According to the British census of 1890 there
was in the united kingdom including Eng
istered pauper for thirty-five of the popu-
lation. while in the United States, despite
the enormous foreign immigration. accord
ing TO our census for the same decennial
period. there was one pauper TO five hun
dred inhabitants.
THE charge of imperialism made by
the democratic party leaders against the re-
publican administration because of our ac-
QUESTION of the Philippine Islands and the
maintenance of the authority of the govern
ment against the armed rebels who there
assail 1t Is most unpatriotic it gives
comfort to the enemy The so-caIled anti
eXpansionists who made the false charge
are merely contractionists. and Mr. BRYAN
virtually commits political bIasphemy when
he involves the name of his party god
Thomas Jefferson, in support of the policy
that he advocates against territorial expan-
sion.
Jefferson and Expansion.
Jefferson in letter to James Monroe.
dated December B. 1902 wrote as follows:
No Constitution was ever before so well
calculated az ours for extensive empire and
self-government.'
'As early as 1885 that far-seeing and sa-
gacious statesman made the following fore
cast of our recent acquisition of Spains
colonial dominion in America. and predicted
the extension of our rule over the whole
North American and South American con-
tirents. Writing to Archibald Stuart in
that year. he said: Our confederacy must
be NitNefl DIS l1l' lTOHt winch all Amer
lea, north and south, is to be peop1ed. We
should take care. too, not TO think II is for
the interests of the great continent to press
too soon on the Spantards. These countries
cannot be In better hands for US. Ny fear
is that they are too feeble to hold them TIL
our population can be sufficiently advanced
to gain 1t from them piece by piece And
again. In letter TO James Monroe In 1901,
ne wrote:
"'However our present interests may re-
strain US within our limits, II is I'm
possible not to look forward to Distant
times when our rapid multiplication will
expand itself beyond those limits and cover
the whole northern. II not the southern
continent with a people speaking the same
language. governed by similar forms and
by similar laws
The Cry OF Mi1itarism.
1.-THE cry OF militarism is equally baseless
Our territorial area includes nearly 1900 900
square miles, and we have coast line of
about 1900 miles and an interior frontier
line extending over 5000 miles. Estimating
our population at 100000, our regular
army, with an authorized maximum of 65,-
wv, and hardly ever more than 60 600 men
Tor duty, gives one soldier for 125 square
miles OF territory and for 200 inhabitants
Il have no doubt that Mr.. Mckinley will
be elected. and that after the next election
Mr.. Bryan and all that he especially repre-
sents will vanish from our political history
trust that the wave that bears him away
from all ascendancy in American politics
Will not everlastingly' Submerge the dem
ocratic party, which he has so thoroughly
hinged, streaked and striped, through the
motley affiliations into which he has so
masterfully seduced It,"