Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-06-26
BRYAN BRIEFLETS,
Commoner Comment on Current Circum-
stances and Popular Professions.

Commoner Comment on Current Crcum-
stances and Popular Professions.
Mr.. Hanna is unable to tell just
what ails his sore limb. Did Mr..
Hanna ever investigate a complaint
known as Tomjohnsonitis?
These gold standard organs that are
trying to explain the recent rise in
the price of silver studionsly avoid
giving the real reason-increased de-
mand.
Secretary Root seems mach more
concerned about preventing the con-
dition in the Philippines from becom-
ing . campaign issue than he is in i'm
proving the conditions.
The administration organs are fret
ting because Gen. Miles reported on
things as he found them, not as the
administration organs would have the
people deceived into believing.
The administration attack upon
Gen. Miles is an indication that the
administration press is clearly of the
opinion that when conditions are too
bad to make public they should be
lied about.
People who insist that the expan-
sion accomplished under Jefferson was
the precedent followed in the expan.
sion practiced in the Philippines are
invited to read the two treaties and
compare them.
The recent rise in the price of silver
will have the effect of forcing some
organs and orators to renewed efforts
to prove that the law of supply and
demand applies to everything except
the white metal.
That scratching sound Des Moines.
ward is only Senator Allison trying
to write tariff plank that will say q
whole lot and mean absolutely moth
ing, q task at which the Senator is
wonderfully adapt.
The fnanciers who claim that the
money question is settled reserve to
themselves the right to change it to
suit themselves at any time. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether an intelli.
gent people will submit to this sort Of
thing.
Professor Watts OF Chicago Univer.
sity says that Shakespeare was q mere
punster. Three or four years from
now people who remember Shake.
speare will vainly try to recall the
name of q Chicago professor when
they see pun.
Having for some years vociferated
Justify about the necessity OF the flag
" staying put" the administration is
acting somewhat inconsistently when
it demands that Russia's flag shall
come down in Manchuria. But in.
consistency is becoming the rule OF
the present administration.
Some Of the gold papers Of the
South are giving Mr.. Cleveland credit
for trying to settle the race question.
They should remember that it was the
desertion OF the Cleveland Democrats
that made it possible for Mr.. McKin.
ley to be elected twice and for Presi.
dent Roosevelt to inject the race ques.
ton into politics.
President Roosevelt says we must
have large navy to enforce the Mon.
roe doctrine. This is only a subter.
fuge. A large navy is not needed to
enforce the Monroe doctrine. for no
one has any thought of disturbing it.
Imperialists want large navy to back
up q policy of exploitation. Father
Nugent explained it when he said
that it was on the theory that . man
who carried ." jimmy" always found
it necessary to carry q revolver also.
The New Orleans Picayune says
that the silver plank OF the Demo.
cratic platform was not Democratic,
because the Democracy from Jack
sons time was absolutely committed
to hard money, sound money; but Mr..
Rryan's special doctrines are all radi.
cal and revolutionary, and are far
away from genuine Democracy" and
yet the silver plank of the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms demanded
simply the reinstatement OF the very
law Of 1884, which Andrew jackson
signed. Is it ignorance or disregard
for the truth that makes the corpors-
tion papers misrepresent the facts Of
history?
An Alabama reader OF The Commoner
makes the following proposition: "If
there exists any reason why Democrats
should abandon their announced basic
principles and adopt Republican or
quasi Republican doctrines, it must
be because those principles have been
vindicated, and if Republican doc
trines have been vindicated, then
there is no question that the Repub-
lican party should be continued in
power" If the reorganizers say that
it is only the gold standard and not
the high tariff that has been vindi-
Gated, they must remember that the
money standard is the same now that
it was under Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tratiod, and that the Republicans use
the same arguments to show a vindi-
cation of the high tariff that they do