Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-03

done effective service, lls value beng
limited alone by conditions nXed in
the constitution OF the United States.
nifty to touch corporations OF any kind
except those engaged in commerce be-
tween the states or with foreign ma
tions.
Any further scope must be secured
by constitutional amendment. This
the Republicans offered in congress
last June, but the Democrats voted it
down. Bryan proposes, through action
by congress, a sort of license system
that is absolutely without warrant in
the constitution, and not worth the
words with VIII .e Ills it. His only
other remedy Is absolute free trade,
putting on the free list any article
that the president in power might hap
pen to think was in trust, thus max
ing the president autocrat over the
entire tariff-the very thing that the
English commons reserves to itself as
it's prerogative, and refuses to any
king of England
This Is the absolute power Bryan
would put in presidents hands, with.
out limit or restriction, and yet he
pretends to oppose Imperialism. Every
industry in the land could be destroyed
in day by a mere executive decree,
while the greatest of the trusts are
today Independent of the tariff, and
Of do,
ocratic tariff, and even when Bryan
was in congress, without a word from
him against them. Is it safe to trust
the solution of SO grave and delicate
a question to a man with such dan
gerous ideas, such radical opinions,
such uncertain and perilous theories?
Every Bryan ballot is a vote to do
that very thing.
Add to this the distrust and demor-
alization of free trade, of free silver,
the attack upon the courts and the gen.
eral sowing of seeds of suspicion in
all directions that have been INSOFAR
able from Bryans campaign, and will
be expected to be prominent in his
administration, if he should be presi-
dent, and how can the country escape
a tremendous business upheaval in
case of his success? Thus every Bryan
vote is vote to stop the employment
of labor, is a vote to advance the rates
of interest, is vote to scare capital,
make money scarce, to discourage
manufactures, to diminish the busi-
ness Of merchants, to curtail the con-
sumption of the products Of the farm
and garden. These are simply some
consequences that are involved at
home in every Bryan vote. Who wants
any of them? This risk was run
eight years ago? Who liked the re-
suit?
AS IL all these evils at home were
not enough, Bryan's program includes
disgrace abroad. All of his talk about
imperialism" simply means the furl
ing of the flag in the Philippines. He
declares, and his party platform de-
clares, for an immediate special ses-
sion of congress, to haul down the
American flag in all the territory in
the East turned over to us by Spain.
They declare for turning over the
archipelago not to all of the natives,
but to limited number among them,
to create anarchy and engage in
wholesale murder of all the rest--the
real majority of the residents of the
islands.
One glorious feature of the McKin-
ley administration has been in pro-
gress right through the campaign, and
yet no Democratic speaker or news
paper has found any flaw for criticism
from first to last. That is in the Chi
nese complications, where the United
States has led the world, where its
practical progress has absolutely and
completely given the lie to every ac-
cusation of imperialism. 1t is Amer
lea that has stood for the rights Of
China such as they are, for maintain
ing the integrity of the kingdom, for
the open-door policy for all nations
alike, for the respecting the authority
of the rulers of the Chinese empire.
and that, from first to last, alone has
had consistent and reasonable plan
of action, one to which all the other
great nations have been compelled to
come, by its reasonableness.
Brave, faithful to every interest of
our own imperllled people, active
where action was needed, Withholding
aggression where aggression would do
harm, and keeping clear of all foreign
and European entanglements, the
course OF the United States in China
has proved false, yet another favorite
Bryan assertion-that Of an Anglo
American alliance; for our course did
not please England at all soints, and
yet at the last England and Germany
have come together, in joint alliance
with each other, to support practically
the American plan.
Jeli-O, The New Dessert,
pleases all the family. -Four flavors:-