Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-02-01
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900.
IMPERIALISM A HUMBUG.

In 1896, upon the single idea OF the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, he made
campaign of illusion and delusion that was
truly remarkable. The political illusion
ist, like the professional prestidigitator,
when he finds that his special, leading
trick fails to charm, hunts up a new one,
that be may continue to impose upon and
fascinate the gulhble voters. MIR. Bryan
the prince of political iugglers, is now SO
engaged. He realized that his free silver
trick had lost its force and be is now peri
forming a new feat. which he writes upon
bis show bills, Imperialism"
There was never falser issue. presented
to the American people than the one
which the Bryan Democracy is now trying
to create. The Memphis Appeal, one OF
the strongest Democratic papers in the
South, in speaking of it says Imperial
ism is but an epithet to throw in the face
of expansionists. There is no such thing
as imperialism and it can not be used as
a stuffed club to beat expansion over the
head. Imperialism does not equal expsn-
sion plus scrap. This country believes in
expansion. The South believes in expan'
sion."
Yes, the South believes in expansion
We find some of the leading United States
Senators from the South ardent expansion
lists. We also see such leading Southern
journals as the New Orleans Times Dem
ocrat," Galveston "Newss" Louisville
Courier Journal" Memphis CONNER
cial.Appeal," Atlanta Constitution" Lit
tie Rock Gazette" Nashville "Amer
can," and Mobile Register" strong adj
vocates of expansion. But in the face o
all this, the Southern Democracy will bt
willing and happy to be beaten over the
head with "stuffed club welded by
William Jennings Bryan, stuffed with anti
i'm oerialism chaf and labelled ODE
m ocracy."
How does Mr.. Bryan expect to make hi;
cry Of imperialism" effective? By i'm
pressing the unthnking masses with the
belief that the Republican party is in favor
ofimperialism, or Of principle that will
undermine and destroy our republican
form Of government, and establish mon
archy in IT'S stead. TO the man who thinks
and observes euch a confentian on the part
of Mar. Bryan and his coadjutors is absurd,
fiimsy sham of n political juggser. The
record and history of the Republicans party
gives emphatic denial to such charge.
From It's birth it has been the champion
of individual liberty and popular educa-
ton. 1t won its first victory upon plat
form that was hostile to the extension of
human flavery; and was afterwards the
preserver of our form of government, which
has for its foundation the Constitution. 1t
is party of law and order, Of progress,
the advocate of higher civilization and
has proven itself patriotic to sublime de-
gree. This is the party which Bryan, the
political fakir, has undertaken to show is
not to be trusted with the keeping and
preservation of the liberties of the people
and the perpetuation of our splendid form
of government.
Mr.. Bryan might, possibly, convince the
American people that President Mckinley
and the Republican party are not wise;
but when he undertakes to prove that they
are not honest and patriotic he seeks. to,
perform a tack that is impossible of per-
Torrance. ;.'
There is no danger to this country from
imperialism, because there are no imperial
lists in the land; but there is a danger
which has been growing under the cultiva-
ton of Mr.. 3iyan's hand and that of his
close political associates-that of "social-
ism." They have been planting but one
kind of seed in their hot-bed-the seed Of
popular discomfort.
These agitators have been too ultra to
be sincere, too inconsistent to be honest.
They have tried to array the masses
against the classes, the rich against the
poor, with a reckless spirit that at timee
has been almost Economical. .
Such men as Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman
are dangerous and not helpful to our
country. They belong to the class that
feed upon calamity and thrive upon de-
preston. May the country be preserved
from such leadership 1t caters to social
ism, its permanent power would result in
anarchy.