The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16

ed their attention toward securing re-
pudiation of the national debt, by pro-
posing to pay it with an unlimited is
sue of paper promises not to pay
/ OVERTHROW OF THE TARIFF.
The Democrats of a later day Inherit
ed the tendencies of their party. Race
germs will rule. AS with tie father
so with the child. eye cannot gather
figs of thorns, or grapes of thistles.
For 16 years after all other questions
We're settled, the Democrats attacked
the Republican policy of protection.
Once they secured the Presidency and
three times they secured one house of
Congress, but not until 1892 did they
secure both houses and the Executive,
and so gain power to enact or repeal
a Federal law. The American people.
have not yet forgotten the dire results1
of Cleveland's second election.
sMOKELEss CHIMNEYs.
In twelve months after the Demo-
cratic victory of 1892 more men were
thrown out of employment than enlist
ed in the Union armies during the
Civil War, and four thousand millions
of dollars of values were extirpated as
utterly as if wiped out with a. sponge.
The fruit of orchards was ungathered,
and the din of anvil, the beat OF ham
mer and the hum of spindles was
silenced. Smokeless chimneys, silent
! factories, deserted shafts, moss-covered
turbines and railroads in the hands of
receivers, were the fruit of the great
Democratic victory. Bankruptcy perch
ed like bird of night on the ledger
of the merchant. Enforced idleness
made f1accid the unused muscles of the
mechanic. Starvation gibbered from
faces shrunken by famine. That paIlid
emblem of despair-the notice of a
Sheriff's Sale-was nailed to the doors
of tens of thousands of homes. and
there was hunger in the cottages, and
hell on the highways all the way from
the Penobscot to the Missouri. When
| Lee gave up his sword at AppomatoX
the South was not more bankrupt Of
resource or bereft of fortune, than was
| this proud nation in one year from the
{ Democratic victory of 1892. Verify it
! was a condition and not a theory that
then confronted this nation. A deplor-
able Democratic condition that was the
| offspring of a bad democratic theory.
DEMOCRATS DEPLORE DISCUS
SION
|
to any criticism now made of their
party career will not answer on the
merits" they prefer to confess and
avoid They deplore discussion of
their past errors. They express an ar
dent desire to come down into the pres
ent century and debate only living
! questions such as the Trusts and the
Philippines. 1t is said that in the near
future they intend to resuscitate their
old friend and master free trade; but
at present they have ordered him TO
| ''go away back and sit down" and
| they have ruthlessly cried shut up
! 20 the sirens of free coinage Of silver.
FREE SILVER.
l will not discuss free silver for it is
an extinct issue. Events have RENTED
it to the limbo of things lost on earth.
! l advocated it's principles and uphelu
its standards until they led into the
doors of a national Democratic Con-
vention. and then 1 could follow them
no longer. When the fifty cent dollar
! fled to Bryan's bosom / discharged
myself from its company. / never CEN
i sured those Republicans who saw their
duty in different light. Ny own con-
Victions compelled me to stay with the
Republican party. Even while the free
coinage issue was under discussion
, probably not one Democratic voter in
five knew any more about it than
lobster knows about the ten command
+ ments. l doubt if even the Hawaiian
delegate whose casting vote forced 1t
into the National Democratic platform
in 1900, could have satisfactorily eX-
planned it. 1t has dropped out of dis
cussion, and this year poor old Sixteen
to One has been remorselessly kicked
: out of nearly every Democratic conven-
: ton from Maine to Oregon. He is dead,
dead dead. His embalmed remains are
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