The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-09-03
POLITICAL NOTES And COMMENT.
TAFT AND BRYAN CoNTRAsTED.

At Republican rally In Lewiston
last week Gen. Henry {. Corbin of
Ohio spoke of the Democratic claims of
Republican extravaganza and said that
with the exception of three items,
navy, Panama canal and pensions,
which the Democratic platform eX-
pressly approved, every appropriation
passed by Congress had been APP
proved by Democrats and Republicans
alike. He contraSted Taft and Mr..
| Bryan, and asked if the voters were to
select "a High school teacher from two
candidates, one of whom had taught
for As years in every grade except the
highest and was familiar with ali the
| textbooks in use, while the other had
spent his entire time in telling the
other fellow what not to do, and had
| twice before been candidate and been
| rejected which they would select.
| BRYAN AND BANKRUPTCY.
Congressman Henry Sherman Bou-
| tell of Chicago, a member of the ways
and means committee of Congress, in a
speech at Portland Aug. oath, discussed
the tariff question and reviewed the
| work which has been accomplished the
past twelve years. A feature of his adj
dress was his treatment of Mr.. Bryan's
recent address IN Iowa on the same
question. He said, in part:
eff on March 4th next Mr.. Bryan
should become president, with Demo
cratic Congress in both houses, and
should actually place upon the statutes
books the financial and economic va
carries delivered by him in his speech of
last Friday, it would plunge the nation
into bankruptcy and bring on industri-
al al, ha cGn,,Il horjr NV ranpal
ing the duty on sugar to punish the
sugar trust he would upset the nation
al finances by losing sixty millions a
year in revenues and would stir up a
revolution in Louisiana, Utah, Color
ado and Michigan. Then if he should
repeal the duty on cotton goods, be-
cause some hustling manufacturers of
New England or the Carolinas were
dumping goods in China in rivalry with
England and Germany, he would divert
other millions from the treasury and
invite still further industrial ruin. But,
of course, Mr.. Bryan could do none of
these things any more than he will in
wade the Solid South and summon the
cohorts of Democracy to the defense
of the Constitution with the battle cry,
Shall the people rule?' Mr.. Bryan
simply does not mean what he says.
What he utters with Chadbandian
JUNCTION in the north he repudiateS with
Pecksnit1ian duplicity in the south.
NO BACKWARD STEP FOR MAINE.
The demands of modern industry are
driving the world toward temperance.
The education of the people is driving
against alcohol with emphasis. The
Lose From, hi root uaSto of all
the money spent on drink, huge as it is,
is as nothing compared to the loss in
steadiness and efficiency. The attempt
of the brewers and distillers to make
out that their business contributes to
prosperity is grotesque. The business
men OF America know too much to do
more than smile at an argument so alb
surd.-Collier's Weekly.
And the advocates of the saloon in
Maine are trying to do the impossible
in their effort to force Maine to take a
backward step, to lose what it has
gained, to put it as State at odds with
the advance made by modern industry,
education, medicine and the business
enterprise of the generatiOn.-Port
Express.
THE PEOPLE DO RULE.
Sudll lllt pcOplC lult. Vdo oiiO VA
| Of Mr.. Brvan's speech of acceptance, as
it was of the platform he had adopted
at Denver. 1t is sounding phrase,
but how much actual pertinence has it
in this campaign, and how much aid
and comfort is there IN it for Mr..
| Bryan himself? asks the New York
Mail. If the Democratic candidate has
in mind the rule of majorities, why,
then, majority rule has been twice
indicated on his own head--once in
1896, when he was beaten by a popular
majority of 100000 and by a majority
of ninety-fve electoral votes; again IN
1900, when he was beaten by popular
majority of $4,000 and by majority
of 1877 electoral votes. In his several
campaigns for the Nebraska senator
ship Mr.. Bryan has been further made
to feel the weight of hostile popular
majority. If by his question Mr.:
Bryan has in mind the triumph OF
popular beliefs, the same exhibit OF
personal disaster must be made. The
people ruled against his 5O-cent dollar
in 1896, and against his plan of cutting
our colonial possessions adrift in 1900.
Those decisions represented the popu.
lar will, deliberately arrived at and fair
ly expressed, and held more strongly
| now than in 1900 or in 1896.