Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-06-28
Warren, Marshall Ihsadoy June q8 1900

able sta9esnaan or man of keener in
tegrity az all the broad land Of United
States to-day than Governor Roose-
velt, Oh lew York.
In regard to the other question
much could be said. William Jen-
nlngs Ryan, who ever since his de-
feat ln&l896 has posed and paraded
throughand galloped over the country
as the pre- ordained candidate of the
''new, oMand young democracy has
outlined the issue in a magazine called
the North American Review a mag
azine Fanked as a second class pub1i-
cation among literary men and finds
the issue to be s'Sixteen to one,''
TRUSTS and Imperialism" Now, we
had expected at the close of the last
campaign that the next question over
which they might arouse some senti-
ment az well as fuss would be that of
WomansSuffrage. But ah we were
appsinted. It will still be 'ssixteen
to one, sixteen to one, sixteen to one,"
with an additional verse, "We're for
or against trusts, just as you please
we Withhold and retain the Philin,,
pines, just as you please, just as YOU
please. Dear voter, Hoor-ray for Bry-
an. " Ihis is the issue! Truly the
position of the new democracy is no
better than that Of the Hon. HI. H.
Aaker, ,of Moorhead, who, when asked
what his platform was, answered prac-
tically that he was against everything
exceptthat he was for Bryan. He did
not name a single subject worthy of
his sanction, save the last one.
NoWswhat does this issue mean? To
me it simply means this: The ''six-
teen to one" slogan will be used as
means. to hold the allies of 1896 in
line with the party. It is supposed
that they will be able to so mystify
those who voted for Bryan on account
ofthe silver issue last time that they
will again cast their ballots for him in
the belief that the money standard
will be changed, which the Democrats
cannot do, even if Bryan wins out.
Its main purpose, in short, is to delude
the ignorant voter among the popu-
lists and silver republicans. The
trusts will be used to scare those who
cannot be fooled. An immense lot of
big words will be showered upon the
voters heads and ears of the awful
ness, the horridness of the crime CON-
mitted by the trusts growing under
Republican administration. You know
people are no exceptions from the rule
among animals, that when strange
big noise is heard, which they cannot
understand or make anything out of,
they get scared, startled and fright
ened or else exceedingly awed at the
magnifcence of the brain-po that
can father such strange words, And
So It wml be now, and tie whole show.
will end with the injunction "God
save Bryan"
Imperialism is still more mysterious
to explain, especially when we consid-
er it in the light of the repeated asser-
tions by to-day democrats that they
are either Jeffersonian or else Jack
sonian Democrats. Now the fact is
that all the great acquisitions of terri
tory made by our government have
been made by democrats. Their poll
cy, as long as they were in power, was
a policy of expansion. They even
went so far as to assert by the famous
"Ostend Manifesto that "Cuba is
and by right ought to be the property
of the United States" This was dur
ing the tifties, during Buchanan's ad-
ministration. .--... ...--' ....:
: Bryan says "It is absurd to say that
Spain could sell to us the right to act
as guardians of a people whom she
governed by force.'' In 1903 we
bought Louisiana from France in
1919 we bought Florida from Spain
the same market where we bought the
Philippines; in 1848 we TOOK from
Mexico large strip of land, out of
which we have carved several states.
In each one of these there were mul-
titude of people. We undertook to
govern these and that by force, if
necessary. In fact, military govern
ment was established at New Orleans
and at many other places in the
Louisiana Territory, as we'll as in the
territory of Florida. And all this at
the direction of democratic presidents
How can Bryan and his followers
claim to be "Jefersonian Democrats'
and yet accuse the Father of their
faith of ''Imperialism'? Surely, their
faith is whitening. +.
In this respect, then, the Republic
ans are treading the path already old
of usage and we'll protected by the
most fundamental laws and traditions
Of our history.
But, nevertheless, this campaign
will be extremely bitter and we must
be up and doing if we are to win.
The greatest danger waiting upon US
is apathy and overconfdence begot-
ten by our signal victory of 1896. A
vicious campaign will be fought and
we will win; but to do so we must
work incessantly. The least notable
victories are won over a host of minor
difficulties, but these are usually the
battles that in the end cost most. The
battles of the Wilderness cost Grant
much more men and time and energy