The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-06-22


against special privilege, against pluto,
crazy, could not and can not number
among its leaders trust benelici&rieE.
m240Hoiist", llertenaries T7ho put tt:s
t5.i.cr a0ove the man. Such we're first
70 leave it when it became truly Dem.
ocratfc. They are gone for good-for
its good. Bat there were other men,
t4ns, perhaps. hundreds of thousands
Of them, who reeoiled because they
sincerely feared the effects of free sill
yer, who went out on that Issue only,
though perhaps a little on account of
their lack of knowledge of Bryan.
THESE men will be back in the party
this year. Not only will there be no
Gold Democratic ticket, but a very
great proportion of the men who vot-
ed that ticket, or who, being ordinar
ily Democrats, voted for Mckinley,
will this year vote for Bryan.
Certain States in this union are car.
ried by this party or that largely as a
result OF shrewd political organizing.
In these States in the last election Mr..
Bryan had the professional politicians
against him. This year am persuad-
ed they are for him-not perhaps that
they love him better, but that they
now see his strength with the people.
1t is my firm conviction that the East
will show the most surprising gains
for the Democratic ticket this year,
and while there may be some falling
off in the West, due to the hopeless
ness OF effecting any silver legislation,
it will not suffice to wipe out his mag
nificent majorities in those purely
American communities.
1t is idle. to attempt now to split
straws between imperialism and ex-
pansion, for each day shows that the
sort Of expansion for which this ad-
ministration stands is imperialism in
it's fullest form-the sort of imperial
ism that sends white soldiers to the
Philippines to shoot down brown men
fighting for liberty, and black soldiers
to the Couer d Alene to overawe white
men striving for a greater measure Ct
industrial liberty.
Imperial ambitions cost money
| more than that, they cost lneu. The
one IS taken from The pockets Of the
poorer claes, the others are draw
| from their fgesides. There is MANY q
| hairt torn with anguish to-day il,
tiIsse United Sta:eS thag syldicats.
| may loot Manikt through street rail
ways, electric lights ana boutipg op
| erations.
+ And the trusts. Jerry Simpson said
TO me II few weeks ago: "Out my
way the people can't think Of but ont
thing at Il time. IL SO they couilu''
think OF anything bat free silver
This year they can't tiiiik OF anythins
except how baroed wire is rig"
| Whatever measure of prosperity hG.
come to the working people by reason
| 81 tGe resum ;;ticn of mtnuf3ctur!s..
| after the prolonged stoprage prior Il
| 1897 has been in Il great degree oGsst
! hy fire increase in the cost of living
ne Z. trust extortiou. AID particu
| Early is this true OF the class that lies
| between tie manual workers ami The
manufacturer or capitalist. They NOR,
than any other, the clerk, the sc:,oo
| teacher, the small shoDkeeper, the
| man striving to set up for himself
have suffered, and will suffer more
| unless tendencies are checked. Will
they empower and expect u party
| under which the trust has seen it's
| greatest development, party which
has put one trust attorney on the
| supreme bench and made another
| attorney general, to put an end to
these moEopolies? l believe that the
| people will see that the strokes being
dealt at individual enterprise, at the
independence of the small producer or
merchant, menace the future Of their
children, and that they will turn
fromthe party which has done nothing
to prevent them to the party from
which every trust magnate, every
great financier who bleeds the people
with bonds and watered stocks, has
been driven with whips of scorpions.
And that is another reason why
Bryan will be elected.
l have commented upon the fact
that in 1896 that the Democratic party
was disunited by the simple process
of taking back all who stand for prin-
ciples and keeping out all who are OPP
posed to It's spirit. Now, how about
the Republican party today? Is the
editor of The North 4 merican and are
its myriad readers wholly content with
a party which in the nation stands by
Quay? Does the struggle over the
policy to be pursued in Porto Rico
portend party with unity of thought
and purpose? What does the attitude
of Senators Hoar and Mason and the
attitude of hundreds of thousands of
Republican voters standing behind
them-on imperialism portend? Can
your party get together; on the
question whether Secretary HAY
ought 10 give the N!caragua cana! tc
England or not? Are you quite sur'
that the Senate viii back up tie De
partment of tire State in The cases OF
Macrum and .idelb,rt Hay the adele
scent?
These are just isolated cases. One
could catalogue Republican disser-
sions to the point Of boredom. But
on this point every Intelligent reader
can do his own thinking and act as
his own memory, keeping in mind the
while that the squabbles in the Hou-f
and Senate are the least importanf
AMI the revolt of the voters is the
vital thing. That revolt is in progress
over imperialism, over the treatment
of the Beers, over the domination Of
the trusts, over such scandals as the
turning down Of Attorney General
Monnett in Ohio, because he prose
cuted the Standard Oil trust, the
Gage trade with the Standard Oh
bank, the Hanna-PaYne subsidy grab
cn,4 ba Gtop6 o -5 Oil sbir,s. I'M apn,,c,F,