Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-15
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lEx-Goyernor Hoadly.l

in time of prosperity and without the
excuse of any of the causes which op-
Grated in other like ruinous move
ments in other times. French assig-
mats, continental currency, legal-ten-
der notes, were all issued upon the
plea of necessity. No such excuse ex-
lists for the use of silver now. The fif-
ty-cent dollar is simple robbery, moth
ing more, and the worst of it is that it
can, in the long run, benefit nobody,
except the charlatans and demagogues
who are promoting its use in the ex-
pectation of securing office.
l confess that Mckinleys admins
tration has failed to satisfy me, except
in the administration Of the State, War
and Navy Departments, and they, 9TH
er than the first and third, only parti-
ally. But, Notwithstanding the Ding
ley tariff and the Puerto Rico fiasco,
what better can be expected of the
Democratic party under Bryan's lead?
His potent influence plunged our coun-
try into the Philippine scrape, by rat
flying the treaty, when the situation
might have been controlled and S20,-
100000 saved by leaving Spain and the
friars to fight it out with the Tagalogs.
Mr.. Bryan now proposes carnival of
anarchy, with the Supreme Court de-
graded and the Tagalog tribe in imme-
diate power, beginning his efforts the
| day after his Inauguration.
This is our country. We hold if we
do not own the Philippines and what
ever happens to them and their inhab-
itants will proceed from us, and ours
as nation will be justly charged to
the action of our Government in the
disposition of these islands and their
people. Moreover, Mr.. Bryan has told
us his purposes with relation to the
| Tagalogs. What will he do with the
Moros and their slavery and poly
gamy? This nut viii be hard enough
I for Mckinley, even with the aid of his
Commissioners, to crack. Can Bryan
do better? Does his program of let
ting the Moros stew in their own
grease" promise better outcome?
| have had in my lifetime the pleas
ure of acquaintance with two of Mr..
McKinley's Commissioners, Judge
Taft and General Lake Wright No
better, more capable or wiser men live
in our country. They are now in Ma
nila, charged with the responsibility.
1 confess I would rather trust them
than Hole in the Sky Boutwell,, as he
Winslow, or, under the circumstances,
even that noble gentleman, Wentworth
| Higginson. Upon the advice of such
men propose to base my vote in the
Filipinos
/ do not think we ought to be divert
ed from the matter in hand for one
moment by considerations of blame for
the past. McKinleys administration
may have been guilty of many errors
of omission or commission. What do
they amount to in consideration of the
attempt now proposed to debase our
currency and degrade our courts. Even
Bryan's successful action in favor of
the ratification of the treaty of Paris
would not be worthy of remembrance
had it not created the present Philip
pine situation and caused us to face
the music. Shall We, ignorantly and
hastily, transfer our power and duty of
control of the islands to the Tagalogs,
or to the Tagalogs and the Moros? Or
shall we wait and try the experiment
of attempting to establish a stable gov-
ernment before giving up hope? And
this when abandoning the islands
means silver money and ruined Judi
ciary.
In the choice of evils it is clear to
me that the least of the possible or
probable harmful effects of the Presi-
dental election will be those of which
we can be the most easily and quickly
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and not to fly to others likely to con-
tinue as permanent and durable as
saults upon the scheme of government
derived from our fathers and the hap
plness of the people. To lift green
backs to par required the labor of
mere than generation, and. for one,
Eonor and respect the court of which
Marshall and Story and Chase and
Field were members too much to ac-
quiesce patiently in the innovations
proposed by Altgeld and to be com
pleted by Bryan. We can return to
the Tagalogs and Moros any rights
that they have been deprived of as the
result of Dewey's achievements any
day ,withoutdelay, The remedy for this
evil will be quick and effectual if once
resolved upon. But it ought not to be
preceded, accompanied or followed by
the degradation of the currency or the
court
The Jolly Pathfuders" is the larg-
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ever visited Marietta