Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-06

coming quite common form OF lntroduc-
ton for the speakers at the Republican
meetings in Kansas this year
The party that must look upon the
generally prosperous condition of the coun-
try as a menace to its political prospects,
is in an unfortunate condition deserving
sympathy, but sympathy which should
be devoted to efforts at reformation and
not of endorsement at the polls.
The country is not yet ready to turn
ovcr the chair which has been filled by
such statesmen and patriots as Washing
ton, Lincoln, Grant and Harrison to one
who appeals for support on account Of his
record against most of the wise legislation
that has been enacted ever since the boy
orator commenced to figure in politics.
Democrats pretend to say that if for
eign built ships are admitted to American
register then American shipbuilders will
build all the ships the carriage of our
foreign commerce employs, while the Re
publicans stand fast in support Of the
statute which has, since the foundation Of
our Government, reserved American reg
istry for American built ships.
erminc of the highest and purcst court
the world has ever known. The country
resented the onslaught so much that in
the platform this year the Democrats re-
Trained from attacking the court, nor did
they mention the measure disapprovedby
the court, yet they have indorsed the
platform which advocated the measure
and condemned the court.
Russell Sage is not satisfied with the
present prosperity, He complains with
bitterness that "money is a drug on the
market now" In the hard times of the
Cleveland administration Mr.. Sage could
lend out his money with usury. Now
he has to compete even with the farmers
Of the West, who have become lenders Of
money where they used to be borrowers.
No wonder he is dissatisfied with Nc
kinley prosperity
Never before in the history of the
United States has the output Of Southern
iron ore and pig iron, lumber, coal and
coke been so large as it has been in the
last two years, and not for years, if ever,
have the prices been so high. Never be-
fore was so large proportion OF southern
products shipped from southern ports.
Never before has money loaned at such
low rates of interest All this under the
gold standard and protective tariff.
Yet the South will probably vote almost
solidly for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and free trade, as personifed in
Bryan. She will also vote for Bryan's
Philippine and China ideas and to cut off
the great and growing oriental market
for her cotton goods.
1t is the exact truth to say that Mr..
Bryan's speech of acceptance was dis
appointment here, greater to the Repub-
tican managers, possibly, than to the
Democrats. He really deatin platitudes
so gcncrouslo that there is nothing tanei-
bic in it to attack or pick to pieces Be
sides the platitudes there are, of course
innumerablc high flown periods and no
end of misstatements of fact, to say moth
ing Of the stilted and chcstnutty philoso-
ply, so-called, apparent in the whole
thing. Such as it is, however, the Bryan
speech Of acceptance will be riddled to
pieces as time goes on. 1t is believed
that votels oyerywhcrc-who will Of
course, have opportunity to read it every
whcre-will pick it to pieces for them
selves, themselves asking questions at the
end Of every sentence; asking what Mr.
Bryan would actually do under the cir
cumstances, what he really means, what
of it if it is so, etc. Moreover, it is a
cowardly speech, omitting all reference to
silver and the overturn Of the Supreme
Court and the suppression OF the negroes
now actively in operation everywhere in
the South, stultifying in this last particu-
lar the whole force Of the Bryan argu-
mcnt of the ''consent of the governed" "
Such as it is, however, the speech will be
made to do good scrvicc-better on the
part of Republicans, probably, than on
the part Of Democrats.