The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-30
He WRITES
OF POLITICS
Prof. Hosmer on the
Election Lessons.
lis NOW IN MASSACHUSETTS
Pictures the Possibilities if Bryan
Had Been victorioE over
Mckinley.

of the most sanguine Republicans.
, The American people have spoken and
! in no uncertain terms. The fact is the
country is proud of the administration.
The issue between cheap money and an
honest dollar, between reaction and
progress, is closed for the present at
least and business men-Republicans
and Democrats alike-are expressing
relief that the campaign is over, conf
} dence is restored, and trade once more
} is returning to it's proper channels.
While Incorporate language is occa-
} sionally used in the heat of argument,
! on the whole the present campaign has
! been conducted with admirable good
! feeling upon both sides. 1t is no long
er considered necessary to heap vitu-
peration on opposing candidates. Mr..
Bryan is doubtless an estimable man
but without the experience and train
ing requisite to preside over the ma
ton. He has never been a member of
Congress, of a state Legislature, or
even of city council; he is not even
} successful in his own profession.
1t was not a good business PROPOSE
ton to place such a man in the office
, of President. His one qualification for
. .notoriety apparently is his SILVER
1tongued oratory. The nation has just
passed through an important crisis and
needs at the helm the man who has so
ably conducted the affairs Of state dur
ing the last four years. 1T is not
!, wise" Lincoln used to say, Ito swap
horses while crossing a stream"
While there is no disposition to score
} Mr.. Bryan at all, yet his association
} with Croker, Pettigrew, Altgeld. Lentz,
J ,Tillman and others of that class could
not fail to turn the majority of his fell
I low citizens against him. Mr.. Bryan
also made the sad mistake of appeal
ing to class feeling. Can it be posi-
BILE that any man really believes that it
is the policy of Mckinley and the Re-
publican party to quarter detachments
of a standing army near every large
city to intimidate the laboring classes?
That remark of his savors of the dema-
gogue and he has been rebuked at the
polls, the electoral vote-not counting
MISUNDERSTANDING 292 to 155 and be-
ing a victory of almost two to one.
The latest reports indicate that Nc
Kinley's popular vote exceeds Bryan's
by 1000, 900; four years ago Mckinley 8
plurality over Bryan was 100000.
The old cry, renewed by the Bryan
leaders, that the rich are getting
richer and the poor poorer, is a cheap
Misrepresentation. Everybody knows
that the poor mans son of today is
apt to be the rich man of tomorrow
and that great estates seldom remain
to the third generation. 1t is dishon-
est to talk glibly in commiseration Of
the Woodworking laborer while repre-
senting that the employer has nothing
to do except to gather in the profits.
They never call to mind the care and
anxiety of the capitalist who labors
longer hours and takes all the risks.
Sometimes employees are unjustly
treated, but all employers are not ty-
rants, neither are they an exclusive
class, for every American citizen who
has the capacity can become an en-
iployer if he so chooses.
During the campaign in 1896 in Sioux
Falls, S. D., Senator Pettigrew
marched at the head of a Demo -popo-
crat procession, one of whose banners
bore the inscription:
THE TIME WILL COME WHEN
BANKERS WILL BE HUNG IN NEW
YORK AND BOSTON LIKE HORSE
THIEVES IN TEXAS"
Such rot is not to be excused as the
heated expression of an exciting cam
, paign but is an insult to the intelli
gence of American citizens.
The matter of trusts is an economi-
cal question and the people of this
country will solve the problem in time.
All trusts are not injurious; on the
contrary, some are highly advanta-
geous to the masses, since they reduce
the price of necessities Neither are
stockholders in trusts all Republicans.
There are some Democratic stock
holders in trusts, as Mayor Van Wyck
of New York we'll knows. If combina-
tions of capital on the one hand, and
combinations of labor on the other, are
to be regulated, the country is quite
safe in Republican hands. Massachu-
sets has been a Republican State for
forty years, and under her laws such
combinations are admittedly well man
: aged
The talk about Imperialism. Caesar,
I and the empire was also campaign
!, nonsense and could not stand analysis.
9 The American people believe that the
action Of our government in the West
Indies, the Philippines, and in China.
mas been wise, just, and dignified, Carl
Schurtz and Sol Griffin of the Spring
field Anti-Republican to the contrary
Notwithstanding
: 1t may be noted that Hawaii is In
pad odor here among the Gold Demo
Gratis of New England because the Ha-
Wallan delegates at the St Louis con-
ventlon cast the deciding ballot which
foisted upon the party the silver issue
the cause Of their defeat four years
ago. Such action on the part of the
~; representatives was not in
all respects WISE.
president Mckinley retains his Cabi-
net Secretaries Hay, Gage, Root. Long
Hltchcock Wilson, Attorney General
Grlggs, and Postmaster General Smith
each having signifed his determination
to accept reappointment.
1t is idle now to speculate as to tho
monsrel Cabinet Bryan would have as
sembled, but the possibility of a Croker
in that body the average American car
hardly contemplate with equanimitv.
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