Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-07-12

Presidency of 1885, Correspondents submit
| ted TO Congress shows that In one case al
| least, an appeal from an Institution in New
1ork City to the Secretary Of the Treasury
for financial assistance, because, as 1t was
claimed, the officers OF the bank had con
| tributed literally to the election Of the pres
| ent chief executive, was not made in vain,
| and the asked-for assistance in this case
| from the government was freely, If not cor
ruptly, given.
"Embalmed Beef'' for Soldiers.
II. The scandals which surrounded the
| War Department in feeding embalmed beef
| to the soldiers, IN It's purchase of old yachts,
| tugs, ocean liners, ocean tramps, barges,
scows, etc, for use as army transports con-
stitute an important chapter.
13. So also the scandals in connection with
the postofice matters in Cuba, and the scan
dals in connection with the expenditure OF
the funds sf the Paris exposition. Time will
not permit an amplifcation of all these scan
dals.
II. They loudly proclaim that theirs is the
party Of liberty, and in their yainglory boast
OF their very name, Republican, yet they are
caught coquetting and forming secret entan-
CLING alliances of the most deteStable char
acter with the old mother monarchy. They
stand supinely by and refuse even an express
sion Of sympathy with the Boer republics
In their heroic and unequal struggle for eX-
lstence as against the gross expressions and
brutal efforts at enSlavement of the same old
tyrant who went down in defeat when he
sought to prevent the establishment Of our
own liberty-lOYing republic. They thus per-
NIT brave people in love with their free
republican institutions to perish from the
earth, lest by one word of sympathy anu
comfort they might offend the delicate sensl-
bilitieS Of their new found ally, Great Brlt-
ain.
10. An important chapter is the oft-re-
peated promise, made to be broken, that
when the war ceased the oppressive, bur
nU0n and royyot ions IN
articles Of prime necessity should be re-
pealed or reduced. Though the war closed
two years ago, and Notwithstanding there Is
a large and growing surplus in the treasury,
not one dollar of reduction in these taxes
has been made 1t is known that delegation
after delegation of citizens, suffering from
these burdens, crowded the committee
rooms at Washington, and literally begged
for some relief. 1t is true that those of us
who constitute the minority of Congress
Joined in that appeal and declared our readl-
ness to support any and all measures that
might in some degree remove these burdens
or taxation. But deaf ear was turned by
the Republicans to all such efforts for relief,
and none came. 1t is well known, also, that
no relief will be given by the party in pow
er, and it is vain for Oyerburdened people to
look to them while present policies are at
tempted to be enforced The only hope for
relief lies in hurting from power the Re- |
publican party and the restoration of the
party which believes in simple and econOm- |
ical government.
Cost of imperialism"
Sixteenth and LaSt-The cost of Repub- |
licanism and its twin monster imperialism. |
This is neither the time nor the occasion to
discuss in detail the increased apprOpria-
tlon made necessary by the Republican pol
icy of Imperialism. Briefly, however, / will |
mention that the average of appropriations |
per year for all purposes of government for |
II Gne Two years Immediately preceding d 6ne
Span1Sh-American war were about S41o, ,OOO,-
OOO. The average expenditures per annum
for each of the three years since that war,
the fiscal year upon which we have
just entered, show an increase of nearly
$500, 100000. The total increase for the three
years will be nearly 100000, 600. And
In like proportion it will 90 on. This
shows the difference in cost OF the
empire as against the republic. These fig
ures refer alone to the money cost of the
change, and do not include the expense of
the blood of the American boys, the price of
which Is far beyond computation. In the
Republican Congress just closed not one
dollar could be had for much needed public
buildings throughout the country at home,
but many millions were promptly voted to
prosecute war in the far-away Philippine
Islands. Not dollar for necessary i'm
DrOvementS of our rivers and harbOrs at
nome, but millions to be stolen and squan.
Tered in Cuba and cur new insular posses
;iOns Nothing for the Isthmian canal, and
many other enterprises and objects, but
more than $500, coo was freely given for
he army and navy, for Imperialism and
military, for gold and glory.
l said at the outset that the issue this
'ear was again Is to l. The foregoing are
,riefyl the sixteen parts of the issue. What
S the one part?
We have seen that platform pledges are
made and broken; that good intentions Of
nen are many times set Mt naught; that
'lain duty clearly set forth and understood
S disregarded; that some men are weak
nd vacillating and may change their sol
mn opinions in day 1t is apparent, there
Gre, to all that in this supreme eXigency
f the republic a demand goes forth, not
or a faint-hearteG declaration of platform .
latitudes, but for man. Yes. n man who
tands like a mighty rock in the desert a
nan who, knowing the right, will dare do
he right; man who, rather than follow q
multitude to do evil" will stand. like Pom
ey's pillar, conspicuously by himself, and !
ingle in integrity.
Such a man, the one part, this cOnven-
ion will tender to the nation their candi- :
ate for PreSident-a man who IS unsur-
assed as q citizen, unequaled as an ora
Or, courageous as Il soldier, conspicuous in I
very element that constitutes the typical
nd the true American, William J. Bryan, Of !
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