The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-14

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honest and patriotic men, it must be
that he had the vote of every
anarchist, every law breaker, every
citizen who wished law
wiped out and cared nought for the |
national credit
During the campaign which Mr..
Bryan terms the first battle. the issue |
was urged hercely as the salvation of
the country. | remember long whis-
kered speaker at our town who dwelt
lovingly on the statement that theigoy-
eminent could make fifty cents worth
of silver worth II by simply stamping
it, An old farmer rose inthe audience
and inquired if lac could ask Il CUES
ton. Certainly. We'll what | want
to know. said the farmer is this. If
the government can stamp 30 cents of
silver and make people think it dol
lar, could it stamp your whiskers and
make a mule think they were hay"
But seriously the campaign of '96
gravely threatened the welfare of this
country and the Democratic platform
contained more daggers for the
nations heart than any in the history
save the new one adopted at Kansas
City. 1t has all the old dar gers and
/ some new ones.
"The Republican party on the tariff
issue showed conclusively that
it was better party in peace
than the opposition and in war it has
equalled that record. William Me-
/ KIuley has proven himself Lincoln
diplomat, Grant to execute,
only alter'cvery effort of diplomacy
failed and then Dewey and sampson
Roosevelt and Funston, quickly and
I promptly executed the presidents
order, and the heel of Spain was re-
moved from 'ie uecks of millions who
had been gro>elling in misery for CEN
turtles TIE Hag was uniured and fol-
lowed in ,..ory beyond the seas and
it shall stay there until medieval
darkness gives way to Christian
American civilization.
Better soldiers never walked the
earth than marched under the Stars
and Stripes to free our helpless neigh
bors. 1t was the hand of Providence
which led us on in our noble career
led US where we were not cNpecting to
20. And thus it is that Democracy
found new issue, Imperialism.
Jefferson. who framed the Declar-
alton of Independence, was the first
great eXpansionist when he bought
Louisiana, regardless of the coustitu-
ton And other Democrats followed
jackson, Pope Seward AL We're
eNpansionists and added Florida,
Mexico and Alaska tu our country.
"Thcy ruled without the consent of
the governed and for years, every adj
dition taken, and some of these peo-
pie are still being thus ruled. If Bry-
an is elected he win rule thousands
without their consent. The American
Indians, the negroes in the south, the
people who live in the district of Col
umbla, the people OF Alaska, OF Porto
Rico--uone of these have voice IN the
nations government. But he is not
troubled about this, while he means
about the hard fate of the million and
a half Filipinos who are trying to gel
the chance to Cypress and rob and
rule the ten and half million Other
inhabitants of the Philippine archi,
pelago,
? "Mr. Bryan is also shouting of the
danger of militarism. 1t does look
serious to contemplate an army OF
100, 600 men, one soldier to every 76(
citizens, in country where there are
] 36 square miles for each warrior Mr.
Bryan is opposed to the new soldier as
e he was opposed to the old soldier, a
4 few years. ago before he dreamed Of
= the presidency he wrote an editoria
e in his Omaha paper about the pen
sions, the awful amount of money the
r country was giving to the men who
saved their nation, in their old age
+ "If it was an honest debt he said
: lit would not be SO bad An homes