Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-14
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Bryan Sums Up.

Instead of regarding the recent
assault upon constitutional govern
ment, the overflow of American prin-
cipsls, as matter of destiny, we may
rather consider it as the last plague,
the Staying of the first born, which
will end the bondage of the Ameri-
can people and bring dellverance
from the Pharaobs who are enthron-
ing Mammon and debasing mankind"
This is William J. Bryan's sum-
ming up of the situation in American
politics It Is the conclusion of an
article entitled "The Issue in the
Presidential Campaign"
In the June number of the North
American Review the candidate for
the democratic nomination for presi-
dent outlines his plan of campaign,
which he indicates will be made ION
the issues of bimetsllism, antitrust
and anti-imperiallsm, thus being the
order in which he considers the ques-
ton. He says:
s'The issue presented IN the CAM
psign of 1900 is the issue between
plutocrscy and democracy All the
questions under discussion will, in
their last analysis, disclose the con-
fict between the dollar and the man
conflict as old as the human race,
and one which will continue as long
ne ba rooo
That the Nehrasken has not waver-
ed in his allegiance to the cause of
silver is Enthusiastically shown in his
repeated chasing of the money ques-
ton at the head of the list Says he:
IF man opposes the gold stand
ard, trusts and imperialism three
the chances are 100 to l that he is
in favor of arbitration, the income
tax and the election of United States
senators by a direct vote of the people
and is opposed to government by
junction and the black list.
eff a man favor the gold standard,
the trusts and Unprecedented three
the chances are equally great that
he regards the demand for arbitration
as an impertinenee, favors govern
ment by Injunction and the black list,
considers the income tax as q dis.
coursgement to thrift. and will OPP
pose the election of senators by the
people as soon as he learns it will
lesson the influence of corporations
in the senate.
"If the republican platform was
honest iii 1896, bimetalIsm was desir-
able at that time, because 13, 100000
voters supported candidates pledged
to bimetalism, differing only as to the
means of securing 1t. Il is needless
to discuss the ratio, since there is no
division of sentiment among those
who are actually trying to secure BIZ
metalism. There is positive, earn
est and active force behind the ratio
of Is to 1; there is no positive, earn
est or active force behind any other
ration"
This is the way Mr.. Bryan views
the trust question:
Instead of shutting a monopoly
out of one state and leaving it in
forty-four states to do business in We
should shut it up in the state of it's
origin and take the other forty-four
away from IT. This can be done by
an act of congress making it neces-
sary for corporation organized in
any state to take out license from
the federal government before doing
business outside of that state, the IL
cense not TO interfere, however, with
regulations imposed by other states"
On the question of expansion Mr..
Bryan declares:
"If the Filipino Is to be under our
domination he must be either citizen
or subject. IF he is to be citizen it
must be with view to participating
ultimately in our government and in
the making of our laws. If the Fill
Pine is to be a subject our form OF
government must be- entirely chang
ed. A republic can have no subjects"
Omaha Nah Nav