Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-09-06
Issue not the same as In .ee.

EDITOR GfobE Please allow me space
In your valuable paper TO answer "a
Word Of Advice" in The Times Of the
25th inst. The Times man seems to
think that all men are open to suspicion
II they change their Views. Thomas
Paine In his Age Of Reason" says: (and
all intelligent people agree with him In
thisj "When you deny me the right TO
think as do, You deny yourself the
privilege Of changing your own opinion. "
The logical conclusion, then, Is that
smart men sometimes change their opin-
lon bnt fools never do.
-Four years ago, when Bryan and Me-
Kinley ran their FIRST race, both were
untrIed men in the capacity Of chief
executive. AT the present time things
are different. Mr.. Mckinley has been
tried and found wanting. lie has shown
himself to be anything but what he
ought TO be, and this Is the reason why
such men as David Bennett Hill pro-
pose to support Mr.. Bryan this year.
Mr.. Hill stands just where he did four
years ago on the money question; but.
contrary TO the Times, "The political
situation Of to-day isHof in all essential
particulars precisely the same as II was
In 1867 II Il were 80, Mr.. Hill wonld
DO Just where he was then. The money
question Is not, strictly speaking, a
party question. The many divisions In
the two old parties on the money ques-
tion prove this fact. But no man who
believes In that immortal document, The
Declaration Of Independence, can sane
tIon the actions Of the present admins
tration In the Philippines or Porto Rico.
Mr.. Hill and his colleagues are patriots,
and they believe that human liberty and
human happiness are to be considered
before the almighty dollar.
What the Mckinley administration
did in Porto Rico the British Parliament
tried TO do With our foreiathers in 1890.
II Mr.. Mckinley is reelected, the Ameri-
can people will have acknowledged the
right Of the party in power 10 make laws
discriminating against different sections
Of our own country, and no thinking
man can believe for one moment that
such course will DO anything but dis
astrous.
| During the four years OF McKlnley's
administration the Republican papers
have done everything in their power to
injure Mr.. Bryan. Even proiessed dem
ocrats tried TO make him believe he
would gain influence by making few
concessions to some Of the political bosses.
But no, be was fighting for principle,
not for popularity. II Is this fact that
has made Mr.. Bryan one OF the best
known and one Of the most popular men
OF tho day.
| In Mstney precinct, with a registra-
ticn Of less than City voters, there are
two old line Republicans that will sup
port Bryan; in Condor, two blocks from
the Times office, is another old line Re-
| puDuChn WHO mas iorhaheH thu hVPuu
lican party, not because be is any less a
republican than he always was. but be-
cause the republican bosses have no re-
gard for the rights Of the common peo-
pie. No. no, friend Christie, the polit-
ical Issues Of to-day are aef precisely
the same as they we're in '96. Bryan
, aud the Democratic party stand fol
] human rights and human liberty. The
United States has no more right TO buy
the Philippines of the Spanish govern
ment than the people Of the South bad
. to buy their negros OF the slave fends
We wish the Times all deserved sue
) cess, and We believe It's editor means
well enough, still we do not think any
one raised as British subject is prop
or person to teach American politics.
J. A. MoMoRRIs
Condor, Oregon,