The Globe-republican., 1900-10-11
DEAR Boy LETTERs-Ko 8
nv Dear Boy:

Ny Dear Boy:
So old man Skinner says that there
will be war in the Philippines for twenty
years yet; that we viii soon the time
when men will be conscripted in every
township for service in China and that
we are bound to have i financial crash
next spring. and then the poor people will
see the hardest times they ever saw
Well I guess the old man Is a typical
Democrat. He certainly has all the
symptoms Perhaps had better tell you
what the symptoms are
There certain constitutional char
acteristics which distinguish the Demo
cratic party and opposite characteristics
which distiu guish the Republican party
When tell you what they are. you viii
see why l want you to be a Republican
l. The Democrats are peSsiInisfic-
They always look the dark side They
perpetuaily expect evil ahead and see
nothing but the evil in the things that
now You pick up average Demo
cratic platform and You find it full of
phrases like the following: I'VE protest,
I'VE denounce,' we disapprove, we
view with alarm" One of the strongest
reasons against the party is that they
are always striving to make the people
Disseminated with their lot and to fill
them with anxious forebodiDgs for the
future Right in the middle of abundance
and cheer and victory, they insist that
we are all going Ito the bow-wows-''
Now it is the nature Of Republicans to
he optimistic. The Republican party sees
the bright side. Thankful for the bless
ings of the past, they look forward with
confidence to the future They expect
good things and the expectation helps
bring good things to pass They rejoice
IN the greatness and prosperity of our
highly favored land They look upon
our schools and churches, our farms and
factories. army and navy. and their
platforms contain phrases like these:
Thankful for the past" I'VE rejoice
we congratulate." I'VE point with
pride They bring to the people a song
of hope and cheer and content. Be q
Republican. my boy, and keep sweet
Don't let yourself get soured and pessi-
mistic-
2 The Democratic party seems unable
to learn from experience One reason
why 1 fit in easily into the Republican
party IS because L can learn from eSpe-
riencc. Eight years ago | was a free
trader 1 read about free trade in book
and convinced. 1t very nice
book and the free trade theory pre-
scented in very nice way / still insist
that free trade is nice thing in book
so long as you keep it in the book; but
when yon take it out of the book and ap
ply it to wool and eggs and pig iron and
things, it doesn't work worth a cent The
experience OF this country from 1898 to
1897 made me protectionist- But our
Democratic friends have failed to learn
the lesson In their platform this year
they still denounce oar protective tariff
law.
If there is anything positively settled
by the experience of nations, ii is that
the best standard for a nations currency
and for the worlds currency is gold For
centuries the nations bungled along en-
deavoring to keep up two standards, sill
and gold, with the result that the
comparative values Of the two metals
were constantly changing and the cheap
er driving the other out of circula-
ton, making currency scarce. values I'M
certain, exchange troublesome and com
,nerce difficult. Through experience, the
nations, one after another. learned that
the honest way and the best way is to
have standard and that standard the
best money old-w;th a hundred cents
worth of gold in the dollar We have
earned that, since standard dollar is
n measure of value, it should contain the
value that It represents.
All civilized people in the world have
| learned this except the Populistic-De
ocra1ic party They como out this year
| Of our Lord 1900 and propose TO roll
| back the wheels of progress and return
- the financial ways of barbariSTn.
Now the Republican party does learn
by experience 1t keeps up with the pro-
! cession- When thing has been tried
md found wanting. the Republican par
| ty drops it. When thing has been
| ,roved to be good by experience, the Re
publican party sticks to it. My boy, the
| Republican party is not perfect by long
| ways. 1t has some men in it who are
not good Any great party must have
| some such in a world like this It may
| sometimes mako mistakes. But the broad
| political principles OF the party true
| and right and it is the party that learns
| from experience. You be Republican
| and you will not be sorry.
| YOUR FATHER.