The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-12-13
E-d r0ri0I Comment +.
Queer Logic.

queer Logic.
That our country is enjoying season
OF commercial prosperity the Alliance is
not only willing but glad To admit. The
farmer is receiving fair prices for his
produce and the working men of our
country can get work every day at liberal
prices; and this condition of things
has been brought about by the repubi-
can party and its adherents solely by
adopting the principles advocated by
Mr. Bryan in his last campaign
ford Alliance.
Then the Alliance goes on to specify
how the republican administration fol
lowed Mr.. BryaL's theories,
"Mr. Bryan claimed that the free coin
age of silver would stimulate all business
enterprises" says the Alliance. The
republican administration very promptly
followed" the peerless leader" by
enacting a law establishing the gold
standard-and the Alliance itself admits
that the effect has not been to "crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold" Far
from it. "The rich mans money" seems
to be equally good for the poor man,
and as the Alliance so clearly says, "the
farmer is receiving fair prices for his
produce and the working men of our
country can get work every day at liberal
prizes" and receive payment IN gold or
its equivalent too.
"By act of congress, says the Alliance,
1.-The banks were authorized to increase
ho;r ~,
ing additional security" 1t does not
take an unusual memory to recall that
both Mr.. Bryan and the Alliance were
bitterly opposed to permitting the banks
to issue money on any condition what
ever. From this the Alliance now ar
CUES that the principle advocated by Mr..
Bryan was established.
"The first thing they (the republicans
did was to authorize the mint to run to
it's full capacity on subsidiary silver
COIN" says the Alliance. And thus
1.-The widest dreams of Mr. Bryan have
been carried out" That is queer, isn't
it? The Alliance, however, neglects a
concise statement of the fact that the
credit of the government is pledged to
maintain all money on parity with gold,
and also the important distinction that
it is the peoples silver that is being
coined and not the mine owners, who
under the free coinage heresy would have
been permitted to dump the product of
the mines onto the minis at twice its
market value.
The Alliance says: "They claimed that
the only thing needed was a protective
tariff and restoration of confidence"
Such a claim, substantially, was made.
The protective tariff has been maintained
and confidence was never SO limitless in
the business world as at present, and
American prosperity was never at so
high tide. Mr.. Bryan laughed at "con-
fidence" and advocated free trade.
The logic of the Alliance is the most
marvellous we have seen in many a day.
The Alliance, however, is honest in it's
admission of the benefcent results flow
ing from the republican control of na-
tional affairs, and could scarcely write a
stronger republican editorial than the
one we have quoted from. We would be
glad indeed if our contemporary would
show the courage of its convictions and
come squarely into the republican ranks.
Alliance, dear, give the republican party
credit for the good it has accomplished
and it is fair to judge a party by no
other standard than the effect of its
policies on the welfare of the people.
by their works we shall know them. "