The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07

had begun to revive before Mckinley was
fact was the rise in the price OF wheat, fol-
lowed by the rise of other agricultural pro-
ducts. Then came the immense increase OF
gold that kept prices up here and elsewhere.
Not only Is the boast that Mr.. MeKinley's cleo
tion was responsible for high prices not true,
Populists first told the people in certain sec
tions Of this country that prosperity chiefly
dependent on government Some men preach
the doctrine with the hope that during periods
OF prosperity the average win let
the extravagant, dishonest and unjust govern
ment in which he is Interested continue unin-
terrupted This is the CHIEF IL not the whole.
hope of the Republican party to-day. Let the
Republican party beware and let all men who
love their country beware of carrying this
doctrine Of government-created prosperity any
farther. II the idea IS once firmly imbedded
In the human mind there viii be no saving
its teacher from the wrath to cOme-State
socialism.
l quote again from the platform:
I'VE refused to paIter longer with the
miseries of Cuba and declared war against
Spain"
Bad history again, Democrats demanded
the recognition Of belligerent rights and inde-
pendence for Cuba day in and day out. The
Republican Speaker constantly refused them
even so much as a parliamentary recognition.
The Republican President was thoroughly out
OF sympathy with their wishes. Finally treach-
cry and cruelty unprecedented led to the blow
Ing up OF the Maine and her crew. Public
opinion would longer be trained-''Re-
member the Maine" became the battle crv
1t wes not ''the miseries of Cuba" at all that
public demand and fight Spain. Hearing the
echo OF that cry Remember the Maine" and
amid the universal excitement and anger the
Republican Speaker and the President both
stood out of the way, we'll they might and
the former advised Intervention. It is un-
patriotic TO pretend that this. long de-
layed as Il was was in any proper sense
Republican measure. Democrats voted for it
as fully Republicans. They did this and
voted for the act of intervention not because
IL was Republican President or a Republican
measure, but because the American Govern
ment was at least pursuing an American policy
"a policy which had always been Democratic
Then the platform adds these words: I'VE
fought quick. victorious war with Spain"
Bad history again,
Americans fought IT. 1t would be invidious
to state the politics of heroes, but II seems to
me that 1 have heard 1t said that Dewey was
that Miles was a Democrat. and II seems to
me, too that 1 have heard that a Republican
administration snubbed the first, tried to dis
grace the second and insulted the third. 1t
the fighting line that Joe Wheeler was as
much in evidence the President himself
II seems to that I have heard that Hobson
was Democrat. 1t seems to me- too that
have heard that young Bagley OF North Caro-
lima, the first Offering OF the war upon the
altar of a. common country was a Democrat
quote from the platform again I'VE set
Cuba free"
Bad history once more But for the Demo-
cratic Senators and Representatives demanding
and voting for a provlso to the act OF inter-
vention, to the effect that the people OF Cuba
were and OF right ought to be free and indie
pendent" and pledging our faith that we would
wage no war of conquest or territorial ac-
paclfcation' the Republican administration
would doubtless be furnishing to the world to-
day in the of Cuba a companion niece TO
the picture which has been exhibited in the