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The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
BRYAN ON IMPERIALISM.
Ahe Republican Policy ROundly
scored by the Champion of
Democracy.

William j. Bryan is a leader of
thought. and he was the first great
thinker of this country to protest
against imperialism and to point out
It's dangers to this republic.
1t required great deal of courage
tor a public man to oppose the trend
OF war enthusiasm when it was at its
height, but armed with the courage
OF his convictions, Bryan spoke boldly
and now the people are with him.
Recently, in discussing the imperial
istic policy of the republican admin
istration, Mr.. Bryan said:
In all my speeches 1 devoted con-
siderable time to the subject of imperi-
alsm. and L found that the argu-
ments against a colonial policy were
we'll received
Il am convinced that effort to en-
graft such policy upon our form of
government will ALLEVIATE more repub-
licans than have left the republican
party III any previous campaign. AS
the purpose of republican leaders to
forcibly annex the Philippine islands
becomes more apparent, the defenders
of that policy become more and more
bold in their reputation of funda-
mental principles, and as the doctrine
of force is more boldly avowed the dis
affection among the republicans in
creases.
when the republican party meets
the speeches of Abraham Lincoln IN
the next campaign it will find that
the gulf between Lincolnism and Ham
naism is so great that the admirers of
the former cannot be followers of the
latter.
'If the republicans assert that an
imperial policy will pay, they will be
compelled to put pecuniary value
upon the lives that will be sacrificed
in the purchase of the supposed adj
vantages. If they assert that the ma
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
INSTRUCT ALL DELEGATES
Democratic Organizations Should
Thoroughly Prepare Rep.
resentatiVes.

Since 1896, events have so shaped
themselves to the detriment of the ma
ton and the American people, that no
man can sean the principles laid down
in the Chicago platform without being
convinced that it is the true democratic
doctrine in every detail, and that to
change a single line of it would be a
qualification.
1t has been charged against the dem
ocratic party that it is too steadfast in
its principles and that it is not party
of progress. The plain answer to that
is that it never has and never will pro-
gress in such fashion that the auton-
omy of the nation must be destroyed
TO permit the aggrandizement of a
special class and the ruin of the people.
1t desires no such progress as that con-
templated by the republican party; a
progress towards Imperialism and the
destruction of the individual citizen;
a progress towards the establishment
of separate sovereignty lorded over
by the president of the United States;
a progress which puts in the hands
of favored class the money of the
people; progress towards industrial
slavery and the apotheosis of plutoc-
racy. Its progress is based upon the
progress and welfare as well as happi-
ness and content of the whole people
which is the only American progress.
To maintain the principles of the
democratic party, it behooves all demo-
oratio OrUanizatiOn fo coo m ~ 4bo+
every delegate to the national conven-
tion is an unwavering democrat, DEM
ocrat who was not found wanting in
1896, and who will now pledge himself
to the Chicago platform and such other
issues as may be forced upon the con-
vention by the trend of events towards
a policy dangerous to the freedom of
the citizen and ruinous to the nation.
The mass of democratic voters are un-
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
Fertile IN Mischievou.pers.

She wanted her little boy to be so po-
bite, and she was very much mortified
when he came in where she was enter
tanning visitor with his hat on. Take
off your hat, dear, and speak to Mrs.
Primm,' y she said, gently. But dear"
paid no attention. ''Son, did you hear?
Take off your hat" she reiterated in a
more positive tone. Still "son" paid no
attention, and as he came close to his
mother she lifted his hat for him. And
the deluge that followed was equal
to any collection that Hermann ever
got out of his magic hat The little
fellow had filled it right full of black
eyed peas for his shooter" and then
stood on his head to put it on. And
lively bombardment followed that pep
pered the face of the baby lying asleep
in its mothers lap, and hit the floor
in rapid succession and bounced off in
every part of the room, to the intense
delight of the little fellow, who had
prepared the snare SO carefully.-Mem-
phis Scimitar.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22

ing beside his PROSTATE subaltern,
with the bride hitched over one arm.
A glance shows him how matters
stand. Clitherton has become uncon-
scious, stunned by the fall or over
powered by the heavy weight of the
dead horse that is slowly crushing the
life out of him. Phutt! A bullet
strikes the saddle, and several more
hum alarmingly near, but the major
is calmness itself. With an effort that,
handicapped as he is, is positively
herculean, he contrives to shift the
dead animal sufficiently to allow of his
dragging Clitherton from beneath.
The guns on the hills growl and
mutter like a giant beast angry at see
ing its prey escaping. The air seems
alive with flying bullets, but they
might as well be peas for all Penning-
dale appears to care. Lifting the lieu
tenant in his arms he sets him with
some difficulty astride the saddle,
mounts himself, and with one hand
supporting his insensible burden and
the other on the reins, speeds back
through the death-dealing shower.
Clitherton opens his eyes before
long and stares confusedly at the grim
set face so close to his, but it is not
until they are out of range of the Boer
fire that the major pulls up and assists
the younger man, now rapidly recover
ing, to alight.
A flood of recollection breaks in
upon the latter's half-dazed mind.
''Major, you're a hero" he says, with
grateful enthusiasm; you've saved
my life"
The other responds by a question.
"Are you wounded at all?" he asks.
"No, sir, don't think so; but that's
thanks to you. The beggars were pot
ting at me all the time 1 was strug-
Cling to get free. l fancy I've got a
rib or two broken, that's all. And you,
sir-my Godl were you hit?" For the
major had sunk suddenly to the
ground, his face ashen colored and a
bloody foam about his lips.
"Yes," he says, weakly as either
ton. kneeling, bends anxiously over
him. Eyes, they had me as L was
dragging you out. Stay"-as the other
signals urgently to some of the troop
ers who are riding back-'don't call
any aid, I'm past it. Bend closer
so. Tell-tell Doris 1 have given her
her release"
He smiles family, half turns, as q
gush of blood from the lungs fills his
mouth, and sinks back into his com.
panion's arms-dead.-AllvS Sloner.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22

swerving in their faith to the principles
set forth in the Chicago platform, and
no man must be permitted to trouble
that faith. 1t is the voice of nearly
1000, 900 of people, and to betray them
is to be recreant to the greatest trust
ever reposed in men.
Beware then and do not let any man
deceive you by any sort of specious ar
gument, or by any charge of bossism,
but let every delegate be instructed
upon the principles of the party and
instructed right
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
PRESS COMMENTS.

Mr.. McKinley's war in the Phil
ippines began year ago. 1t is still on,
though Gen. Otis has $4,000 soldiers
there and has announced that the "war
is over" about every other week.-N. Y.
World.
Many republican papers are say
ing Mr.. Mckinley should not uphold his
secretary of the treasury. They seem
to overlook the fact that Mr.. Cages
questionable acts were performed in
upholding the men who upheld Mr.. Nc
Kinley-Kansas City Times.
Having successfully lodged the
Kentucky issue the Honorable William
Mckinley may exercise all his address
in keeping out of the way of the Idaho
boomerang, which is now returning IN
his direction with an ominous hum
ming noise.-Chicago Chronicle.
To withhold from the people of
Porto Rico the right to sell their prod
ucts in the United States without tariff
restriction will be unjust and coward
lv. If those people are not accorded
the benefits of being classed as Amer
leans the island might better be re-
turned to Spain. = Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
1t was said of old that "a mans
foes shall be they of his own house
hold" Nobody can look over the politi-
cal field in the United States to-day
without seeing that William Mckinley
has greater need to take this saying to
heart than any other president in our
history just entering upon campaign
for reelection Y. Post.
The administration leaders in
congress are little chary about push
ing their schemes for a large standing
army They have in view the election
this fail and the ingrained opposition
of the American people to maintaining
large standing army in time of peace.
In war it is different. Then the people
are willing to give every dollar and
every man that may be called for. But
in times of profound peace they re-
call the warnings of history that a
great standing army is not good thing
for republican institutions.-P;.t
burgh Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
wonders of the Ring NebuIa.

With the Crossley rejecting telescope
at the Lick observatory photographs
have recently been obtained which
show surprising structure in the Gel
ebrated Ring Nebula in the consteila-
tion Lyra. With an ordinary telescope
this nebula appears only as delicate
oval, hanging like little smoke ring,
with faint stars sprinkled ,about it on
the dark sky. The photographs not
only reveal star situated in the center
of the ring, but they show that the ring
is made up, TO use Prof. Keeler's express
sion, ''of number of narrower rings
interlacing somewhat irregularly." The
space within the ring, which is covered
with faint nebulosity, is seen in the
photographs TO be crossed by three
dark and two bright bands. Near the
ring is a small independent nebula
whose photographic image appears in
the form of a "left-handed. two
branched spiral" youths Companion
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
nen,nnn for GOLD.

In the face of an international de-
mand for gold the republican money
tinkers are bending all their energies
10 force the republican congress into
passing the gold standard bill. Under
the circumstances it would be both
finafcial and political wisdom TO let
well enough alone, but the money pow
er is ravenous and, having the repub,
lican party in its clutches, proposes
to force the issue now irrespective OF
Chicago Dispatch.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
RRRRGHK LE2a&Eg MGs [NaE LN6s6 Z6a0:


ers We're equally opposed to the gold
standard and to the independent free
coinage of silver; they were supposed
to occupy the safe and conservative
ground midway between; they feared
Independent free coinage, and so they
turned to international bimetallism.
But now, since they have thrown
off all disguise they have changed the
issue. The contest will now be, not
only for and against silver, but for
and against the gold standard. The
main question will be whether the
gold standard shall be permanently
fastened on the country, with all the
evils admitted by the republicans in
their efforts to secure international
bimetallism.
For the first time since the question
Of the standards has been agitated
the people will have an opportunity
of deciding whether they want bimet-
allism-the free coinage of both mon-
ey metals-or the single gold stand
ard. Always, heretofore, the issue has
been confused; the republicans have
been shifty enough to evade it. But
now they cannot escape the results of
their efforts to make the gold stand
ard the permanent measure of all the
values in this country.
This is a question which the people
must decide for themselves and they
Will be given an opportunity in the
coming campaign.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
The fool cared not for this pitiful plea
AS he feasted the great, right royalty.
CONTRACTING THE CURRENCY.
A Coincidence That Is Significant
Single Gold Standard Fathers
n Panic.

Apparently the republican money
tinkers have taken an unfortunate
time to place this country on the gold
basis.
Coincident with the discussion of
the gold bill in congress a panic RACES
in New York and Boston, banks and
commission houses fail and all for
the lack of money to float their enter
prises.
Explanations of the cause of this
panic are being made and all of them
point to the fact that the prize of
money for the last three months has
been abnormally high. This being the
case, to contract the currency one-half
by establishing the single gold stand
ard is to force the price of money so
high that these local panics will be
followed by a general financial tor
nado.
Speculation has been fast and furi-
Gus. Trust stocks, more than half
water, have been sold at or near par,
the fictitious value has gone out of
these stocks, owing to the scarcity of
gold, and panic has resulted.
Demand for gold has increased.
Europe has called for it. South Af-
rica has ceased to send in its supply
of $S,000,000 month. American Sc
curities are being liquidated abroad
and gold is flowing eastward across
the Atlantic.
And yet the gold manacs insist on
contracting the currency. The Bank
of England discount rate has gone
up. Call money brings 1S6 per cent.
interest on the New York market, the
price of American eagles has advanced
and "industrial' or trust stocks have
tumbled disastrously.-Chicago Demo-
crat
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
PhiIinnine SnaiIS

The spoils system was tried in the
United States for many years and
proved melancholy failure. What the
result would be thousands of miles
across the Pacific can readily be con-
ceived. If political and personal IA
vorites were sent to govern the Fill
pinos their cupidity and ineficiency
would in time become as intolerable to
the natives as the maladministration of
Spanish officials before President Me-
kinley adopted his policy of giving the
Filipinos freedom by shooting them to
death. If the future has in store for
the United States the abandonment Of
American principles and the govern
ment of an alien race as subjects, let
US at least try to make the lot Of the
latter endurable by sending them Off
ciais who will be capable and honest
and who will not go to the islands
principally for the money that is in
it, Certainly, if Providence has given
US the Philippines, as the imper;alists
claim, he must have intended the is
lards to be governed by men of integ-
rity and proved efficiency-Baltimore
Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
Put to the Test.

She-I'm afraid that you are marry
ing me for my fortune.
The Count-No, no! To prove it, the
moment we are married We'll speit
your fortune just as soon as Fussible.
Syracuse Herald,
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22

get your release from me altogether"
The girl shivers. Don't, please, talk
like that" she says; you pain me un.
speakably."
Forgive me-" PenningdaIe responds,
humbly, Il am brute. But you know,
dear, it doesn't do to shut our eyes COM
pletely to the dangers of a campaign,
so perhaps you will bear with me for
a few moments while 1 tell you what I
have arranged with your father. OF
course the marriage cannot take place
until return, but as Sir Johns necessi-
ties are urgent 1 shall advance him
sum sufficient to relieve him of all i'm.
mediate anXieties with regard to the
estate. Should fall, you will find your
self your fathers creditor for the
amount, and, from all / know of you, I
don't suppose he'll find you particu-
larly unrelenting one"
The last few words are said with
smile and an air of cheeriness that is
kindly intended 10 divert the girls mind
from the reference to possible dis
aster. Who could remain insensible to
the tender consideration, ungrateful
for the generous purpose of this noble
souled soldier? Not Doris, certainly.
Her eyes filled with tears, her gentle
heart goes out to him as he stands gaz-
ing thoughtfully into the flames.
"Maj. Penningdale," she says, steadily,
you are good and true man, and
thank you with all my heart
And before the major knows quite
what is happening the girl has drawn
lips.
The South African sun shining bril-.
liantly from a cloudless sky, broad
stretch of veldt, frowned upon. by pre-
cipitous hills that echo the incessant
rattle of the Boer fire, belching death
from every bowlder and kopje upon the
handful of British cavalry below.
This little scouting party has 10
Gated the enemy's position and drawn
their fire" with vengeance, and they
now prepare to fall back upon the main
body. The bugle sings out few clarion
notes, the quivering horses are wheeled,
anu IN dn0Iner moment are numbering
back amid the leaden hail.
The two officers of the party, Maj.
PenniEg1a1e and Lieut. ClithertOn -ide
almost side by side Suddenly the lat
ter's horse Pecks, stumbles on a yard
] II IL" s"'" 9Ood DiD'
49, " -.s-a. [ ..stJ es
or two, and then rolls over dead. pin
ming it's rider to the ground with the
weight of its body.
The ma iOr IOOl<in0 hack over his
shoulder, checks his mettled but we'll
trained charger within dozen yards,
turns. and in few ml0ments is stand
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
FOOLS shness.

Don't call man a fool-he may be
foolish enough to 6ght.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22

We are opening ports in-the Phil
ippines with gunboats, and we are
opening them wide. Indianapolis
News.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-22
THE MONEY QUESTION.
A Clear Issue for the voters to Decide
Upon During the Coming
Campaign.

While some of the editors are won-
dering if the money question will fig
ure in the next campaign, Hon. j. u.
johnson, chairman of the executive
committee of the democratic national
committee, calls attention to the fact
that the proposed currency bills of
the republican party in congress have
already fixed the issue. By proposing
to fix the single gold standard upon
the country, the republicans have
shifted the issue from that which was
before the country in 1896, to con-
test over the gold standard pure and
simple. In the last campaign the dis
cussion was between those who fav-
ored the free coinage of silver at the
olG ratio and those who were opposed
to the proposition.
At that time the republicans re-
fused to make the gold standard the
issue. They fought shy of it and evad-
ed it. They admitted in their plat
form that bimetallism was better for
the people than the single gold stand
ard provided it could be reached as
the result of international agreement.
And now Mr.. Mckinley was so keen
for the introduction of international
bimetallism that he took it upon him.
self, even before he took the oath OF
cffice, to arrange for a commission
whose duty it would be to visit Eu-
rope in order that the evils of the sim
gle gold standard might be mitigated
as promptly as possible.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
many voters who were utterly opposed
to the single gola standard were won
over to the republicans by the con-
servative stand which they conceived
that party had taken on the money
question The impression left upon
the thoughtful voters by the
publican leaders was that these lead
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-03-14
1.-THE Russia F" one of the leadio,

=" The Russia" one OF the leading
newspapers OF ST. Petersburg, has a
vigorous article on the text that Eng.
lands adversely is Russias opportuni-
ty. England has fettered Russia by
many treaties. The moment has come
to break these letters. Now ia the
time to pay off old scores. Europe has
many and heavy debts to settle with
~ LAND. England did not scruple TO
.rn to her own advantage Russia's
weakness after the Turkish war, so
Russia should not hesitate to avail her.
self OF the opportunity presented by
England's difficulties in South Africa.
There is no time to be lost Russia
must not wait !or the promised reor-
ganizatiOn OF the English military sys-
tenn Ii she does her hour will have
passed and It will be too late"
The new law requires that horse.
shoers who want to ply their calling
| In Michigan must take out certificates
on or before March %, up to which
date they can register without the ex
animation that will hereafter be re-
quired.
| There 10 a woman whose pastor re
Gently asked after her health. Hei
reply was: II feel very well, bnt
always feel bad when feel ' oil, be
cause | know am going to foe, wors,
afterwards"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-03-14

l saw the old- time -honore Cantor
nome OF Joe Brown, the place where
he lived when, like Cincinnatus, ht
was called on by a committee and in
formed that he had been nominated
for Governor.
O!d Joe made his start light here il
Canton teaching school. Years ago
met General Ira Foster and be said
YES, | knew Joe's parents before he
was born. They were very poor. His
! Aunt sidney did my washing when
was young man living in D8hlonega.
Joe cultivated d little patch OF hillside
iand with pair OF bull calves and
every Saturday hauled something to
town to sell and take back somethipp
to the family. In 1889 | was riding to
canton In buggy and overlook a
young man walking in u very muddy
lane. lie had q striped bag hanging
over his shoulder and looked tired. /
asked II he would not get up and ride
with me. He looked down at his shoes
and said he was too muddy. But in.
sisted and he broke of u splinter from
rail and cleaned the worst Of the mud
on and got in. | learned from him that
he was the same Joe Brown and was
gong TO Canton to- get something to
90. And ne did. They made him uD
school and he taught it. | have kent
my eye on him for forty years and he
Is still wonder 20 me-"
AS | surveyed the time-worn prem.
lses ruminated on his eventful life.
How he rose and rose and rose again
and never fell Everything that Midas
touched turned into gold and lust so
every political effort that Joe Brown
made was success.
| recalled his long controversy with
Bob Toombs and how finally he de-
nounced Toombs in the press as a liar
and "a scoundrel and Toombs sent a
friend TO ask him II his church rela-
tlOns would prevent him from accept
ing a challenge, and old Joe replied
" 90 tell him to try me-" and Toombs
never sent it. | recalled the time
when Henry Grady was discussing
with Toombs the advantage or disad-
vantage OF Is young man with colleg-
late education and said: There were
some very great and successful men
who never had any education to speak
OF. There was Patrick Henry and
Henry Clay and Tom Benton and there |
was Joe Brown, who was so poor in his |
youth he had TO pillow bull"
Plowed bull you say" said |
Toombs. never heard that OF him. |
but If it was so you may set that down |
to his credit Henry, but it was q dis
grace to the bull"
But am pleased to remember that |
these two great and notable men maGe |
friends before they died. Old Father
lime IS good doctor and mellows us |
all down. Bull, Arp.