The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-15
A DIFFERENCE.


Coin Harvey is about right when he says:
"a statesman Is enc who wants to do
something for his country and a politician
| is one who wants his country to do some
| thing for him."-Rochester Democrat.
Coin Harvey is one of the honest and
earnest reformers of this country who
has. in his way accomplished an i'm
mense amount Of good.
1t is probable that his little book
Coins Financial School," did more
than any other single agency to shape
! the political issues of'1896.
We believe Mr.. Harvey to be a states
man rather than politician.
He is still young man and is studi-
GUS and progressive. Coins Financial
School," advocates metallic base for
| our money, double standard and de-
votes much space to the useless discus
sion of intrinsic values.
This book and the discussions it pro-
voked did more for the cause of govern
ment legal tender paper money, other
wise known as scientific money or
greenbacks, than could have been done
by any similar work in open advocacy
of greenbackism.
We have reason for believing that Mr.
Harvey is today a scientific money man.
During the campaign of 1896 Mr.. Har-
| vey worked with the Bryan Democrats
and during a brief trip to this state
made some of the most telling speeches
in our campaign. On the money ques-
ton Mr.. Harvey has personally reach
ed an advanced position with the Pop
ulists and Socialists. He is most keen
ly appreciative of the power Of money
for evil in American politics as logical
and consistent thinker stands far in
advance of Bryan.
Coin Harvey is one of few men
vvhom we would be pleased to see occu-
py high place in the national councils.
Compare the wisdom of the remark
above quoted with the following loose
and nonsensical utterance of Bryan
al Stamford, Conn.,, few days ago.
Mr.. Bryan questioned the right of the
government to rule the Philippines by force
and said the title 1t obtained to the islands
was a title to the land, not to the people.
What could be more ridiculous than
this statement from Bryan? Is there any
difference between our government own
ing the soil of the Philippine islands and
owning the inhabitants thereof in any
of the necessary and practical results?
If our government be regarded as own
ing the soil then we proceed to order
the Filipinos to till that soil for our
benefit or get off. The Filipino has no
place to get off and he is forced to till.
If, on the other hand, our government
owns the Filipino on the theory that
what is his is ours, and what is ours is
our own we order him to till his soil
for our benefit and again he tills.
1t would indeed take philosopher to
find distinction here and this is the
kind of nonsense that Bryan is talking
down in New England. Mr.. Bryan
would do well to put into some of his
speeches little more logic in place of
SO much oratory.
Here is another tumble from Bryan's
Stamford speech:
"As remedies under the constitution l
would demand that the congress before
granting a corporation the power to do
business outside the state in which it is
organized should stipulate condition
that there must be no water in the stock
Squeeze out the water and you have gone
long way toward killing trusts. Next l
would have congress insist that the cor
porations must prove that they have not
been holding monopoly on any manufac-
tured article, do not hold such monopoly.
and will not hold any"
This is worse bull than the pre-
ceding one. He says, Squeeze out the
water and you have gone long way
toward killing trusts" Mr.. Bryan ne
elects to explain how we can squeeze
out this water when the trusts own
the sQueezer. How could the boy split
the wood when his dad had the ak? Mr..
Bryan says: Next would have con-
gress insist" etc. But right here Mr..
Bryan should note that out of % Dem
ocrats in the United States senate II of
them stand for the pending Republican
financial measure and all other pluto
legislation.
How childlike and simple for Bryan to
expect reform from a Democratic party
that Is about evenly divided, and Re-
publican congress almost unit for the
money power. Harvey Is indeed a
broader man. T.. A. r.
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