The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18

| OF iron and appears before the American
| people as the most imperial political boss
| OF the century. lie regarded the tariff as
| the paramount issue when In congrsss.
| the silver question as the paramount ISSUE
| In 1896. The misty thing he terms impe-
rialism Is the burden OF his SONG now.
| IL would be guess to say what would be
paramount In his mind IL the American
people should experiment with him as
president. Some things we know. He
would strike down our tariff system II he
could and he would tear up the foundations
of the nations credit In frantic efforts to
substitute a debased dollar for good one.
The gold democrats are told that they
should support Mr.. Bryan because re-
publican congress will prevent him from
Incorporating his poisonous financial her.
estes into national law. If Mr.. Mckinley
Is elected, he will mead no congressional
handcuffs to make him salfe. Ii Is a reason
to excite the amazement of gods and men
that man should be made the chief ex-
ecutive OF 7O,o0O.OO0 OF people because for
time he would be powerless to do what he
wanted to do. Mr.. Mckinley Will not be
an experiment. For four years he has
been the center of American political life.
In his administration a foreign war with
Its results has made necessary the consid-
Grafton OF new questions OF national policy.
We made n real estate deal with Spain to
stop bloodshed and put Cuba on the road
TO Independence, as we promised. Mr..
Bryan went to Washington and helped to
ratify the treaty of Paris which gave us the
Philippines. Our title Is not questioned In
any civilized land except our own. They
are an inheritance of war. We are respon-
sible to God and man for the character of
their government and the well being OF
their people. No ghosts of future troubles
should Brighten this government from the
performance OF Its obvious duty to restore
order there. When order shall have been
restored when life and property are safe.
when native enlightenment can dominate
native savagery, when the people become
capable of self-government and want 1t,
they Will be given independence, and not
before. This country has not started upon
career of world conquest. and 1t never
Will. But II has undertaken the job of
giving good government to the people COM
mitted to Its care and Ii will complete IL
In spite OF Aguinaldo and his democratic
backing.
Cuba free by diplomacy If II could. 1t was
forced into war by the whirlwind of pop
ular Indignation caused by the destruction
of the Maine and the numberess offenses
against our common humanity committed
by Spain against the Cuban people. With
in four months after the war began an
army of over 100000 men had been placed
in the field, two Spanish fleets had been
swept from the seas, the American navy
had become the wonder of the world. our
flag fioated over Manila and the Cubans
had been freed from the bloody rule OF
Spain. The results have been law and os-
der and new prosperity springing up In
Porto Rico. new life ard new hope and a
dawning independence in Cuba and just
government In the Philippines.
Bryan's Shndowy Claim.
THE friends of Mr.. Bryan claim that
they will obtain the German vote upon this
issue. The claim is a little shadowy tor
st.s - 4.
issue, and the other is that German voters
do their own thinking. The German people
are less affected than almost any others
by shallow surface aSitations OF political
thought German philosophy deals with
facts, not with fancies. Mr.. Bryan reached
silver platter for the Ge,man vote in
1896 and was beaten because he did rot
get II. German memory is not short-lived
and German judgment is strong. The Ger
man-Americans of this country know that
Mr., Bryan wanted a 50-cent dollar in 1885,
and they know that he wants II now. No
man or party owns that vote or hasa right
to claim II. The republican admnlstra ton
has earned at least the respect of German
Americans. Ii has made good its promise
to them to maintain the gold standard. and
the republican promise in that regard Is
now part Of national law. Is there any
thing attractive to the German mind IN the
political marriage, contaminated at Kan
sas City, between the democratic party,
which represents negation; the silver re-
publicans, who want free silver, and the
populists, who want everything? Does
the domination OF such a political aggrega-
ton In national affairs mean safety or dam
ger? 1t Is not simply question OF politics.
1t is question of business We are doing
well. Shall We undertake to do better by
placing party in power which has opposed
the means and the way by which We have
become az prosperous as we are?
We are told by the Kansas city statesmen
that the republican party Is the friend OF
trusts. and that 1t Is responsible for them.
Is II responsible for the one hundred trusts
formed In Germany during the last two
years? Is IL responsible for the trusts that
are plastered all over England? Is IL re-
sponsible for the trusts that are being con-
stsntly formed in every civilized nation? Is
1t responsible for the democratic ice trust
In New York city? why not tell the truth,
and say that trusts have come as the OUT
growth of modern business. and are nor the
fruitage of law or of politics?
There Is only one way that the power
OF trusts can be broken or regulated and
that Is by an amendment to the conStitu-
tion of the United States giving congress
! the power of regulation. Such an amend-
mont was offered and supported In the low
| er house of the last congress by the re-
| publicans of that body. 1t required a two
| thirds vote for passage, and was beaten
| because of the solid opposition of the demo-
| cratic members. a stringent amendment
| to the existing law passed the house OF rep
rosentatives In spite of democratic protest
| and Is now pending In the senate Shall we
| regard democratic balderdash at Kansas
| city or democratic action at Washington?
| Trusts can be regulated by legislation, not
| by vituperation. The republican party
| endeavors to curb trusts by law. The de M
| ocratic party votes the other way ard ex-
| ponds It's energy IN the famboyant resolu-
| lions Of a national convention.
| Party Performance
The democratic party talks. The repub-
| lcan party acts. The democratic party Is
| magnificent In promises. The republican
| party is strong In achievement. IL IL not
| necessary In this convention, whore you
| and have been honored wit a places by tho
| republican party. TO go into exhaustive de-
| tails Of the party's life. The true state
| ment OF its history Is an unanswerabic ar
gument In it's behalf IL has made Amer
| lea paradise for men who work. IL swept
| from the path of labor the deadly competi-
ton of the slave. II has placed the strong
| arm OF the protective tariff laws about the
men who toll. and said that the underpald
| labor of foreign countries should rot COM
| pete with them. Its policy has stimula ted
invention, opened gold mines. popula ted
the western prairies, buildcd cities and
constructed states. IL has made the money
of the United States the best In the world.