Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-08


who said to a gold democrat: II know
that the doctrine of 16 to Is Utterly
.untenable from an economic stanepoint,
but l have nothing. believe that the
election of Bryan will overturn the ex-
listing condition of things and in the So
cial and economic revolution that Is
sure to follow will try to get my
share For this reason I shall vote for
Bryan" This declaration was made by
an Intellectual and phenomenally acute
man in all seriousness and in the ut
most good faith. The folly. then, OF
populist expectations is apparent when
one studies the business barometer.
Within two weeks after the adjourn-
ment of the Kansas City convention
Bryan's pretensions and his high
sounding homilies on the declaration of
independence and the Consent of the
governed We're received all over the
country with broad grin. What poll
ticians call apathy is Simply 9 good ma
turd contempt for theman and his doc
trines. Like the mountebank, he still
draws a crowd. For the same reasons
the street fakir draws his crowd. The
people Want to hear him and see what
he has to sell. Only the fools bite.
Intelligent men know that Mckinley
did not bring rain, nor sunshine, nor
good crops, nor prosperity, nor good
wages, noralow interest rates, but they
know that these things came and that
the last three came under a republican
administration and under the gold
standard.
To Mckinley we owe what? This and
nothing more. He surrounded himself
with the brainiest and most successful
business men in America and asked and
followed their advice. He advised and
assisted in securing from congress wise
legislation, the natural laws of trade
and the economic laws of money did the
rest. The running of a great govern
5ment is simply a huge business propo-
sition. To run it right requires the
very best talent that money can buy.
That these men have run it right is.
proved blythe fact that the balance is on
the right side of the public ledger. To
turn themout and put in charge Bryan,
man who never demonstrated ca-5
pacity for anything but talk, Jones, of
Arkansas, Weaver, of Iowa. Towne. of
Minnesota, Allen, of Nebraska,
Cyclone Davis, of Texas, and Alt
geld, of Illinois, would be about
as ridiculous performance as it would
be for the directors of q bank TO dis
charge. a faithful and competent cashier
and put in his place a smooth tongued
tramp, who could discourse on the
Declaration of independence and the
consentiof the governed.
The people of this country are not
army. They know the difference be-
tween a soldier and a despet, and the
volunteer who answers only to the call.
of duty. They know perfectly:
we'll that no standing army will ever.
Iexist that can for a moment be mem
ace to the liberties of the people. They
know perfectly We'll that the Philip
pines We're acquired exactly as ailsou
other territory outside of the original.
h; wa, 4, ,f,,;re1 ~, ,,,,r
chase, by an honest bargain. Whether
| ii was expedient or not is neither here
t3nor there. they know that we have ex-.
actly the same right to queN an insur-
Erection there that we have in Iowa.;
lsthat the doctrine of the consent of the
/ governed in territory belonging to the
United States was settled in the battle-
isiield thirty-siX years ago. tibet if a mil
4 lion brothers in arms did not menace
lsour liberties then. sixty thousand are
not likely to attempt it now.
If we$read the signs Alright the people
LOT this country Will have nothing to do
1 with a man who helped to establish
what he calls imperialism" in order
THAT he might reach the presidency by
1 denouncing it. who mouths about ZEN
hanging alliances" and yet derides the
4 administration for refusing to aid the
Beers in their5contest with great and
friendly power. who denounces militar-
dsism and yet advocates on the one hand
the fertilization of the Nicaraguan
Ecanal, pathway for commerce, and in
the other hand proposes to establish
4 with soldiers Of course--a stable gov
4 eminent in the Philippines, and then
keep enough soldiers there for ali time
to enforce the Monroe doctrine in Asia.
\ This is enough to make old James Mon
4 roe turn over in his grave.
/ The Minneapolis Tribune tells the
4 whole story, but not in words. 1t is
told better than words can tell it. A
proud old bird-the German farmers
Estrutting around a IS to / basket trap
4 set with a drop. Imperialism chaff is
4 strewed plentifuliy under the uplifted
i trap as a bait. A string attached to the
4 drop leads out to a log, behind which
Bryan is hidden. If the bird will only
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