The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-29
THE BRYAN SIDE
By Edward Kenny

R AM moved TO Ok INTO du eSdmhhe le redsonS given py IT, OV"S !
for Mr. Tafrs election and the reasons why he thinks Mr.; Bryan ]
Il should not be elected. ]
the title word "H" and then and therefrom concludes that Mr. Taft ought ]
to be elected. I have heard 10 many men IA 'Tf had bet o N the right I
horse" and "If I had only seen what vas coming" and If had only Z
thatI hana oean tnonanti II would e a gooa hing to eliminate that word !
"ff' from the language. just to prevent men giving a excuses Tor their
actions and inficting IN other people bad excuses for their mistakes 8
When I al qute young W e used to get off a rhyme, IT al the trees 3
were bread and cheese and all the oceans ink" One cannot help being !
fabbergasted 1t the idea of all the trees being bread and cheese and all 8
the ocean, ink. and. of course, all people are expected to be afrighted at !
DR.. Grove dozen ifs" such Is "f building contracts are being rapidly Z
let" etc, which is just about as good as saying "Tf all the trees we're !
bread and cheese" ETC.. That sort of thing won't do. The people want
reasons \
Dr. Grove says Mr. Bryan has '1nked his political fortunes with the
Democratic horror of crucihxion" Will DR.. Grove tell us what h means
by that? Who IA Mr.. Bryan, who has the Democratic party, tried to
cruelty? Does anybody know? Does Dr. Grove know? Will somebody
give a eason for that statement? The people wan reasons' lot simply
declarations.
In Dr. Groves excessive and eftusve defamation for Mr.. Taft he ]
shows himself ito be an emouonahst, rather la a easone He credits
Mr.. Taft with doing everything in the Philippines, ignoring entirely the
great work that as been done there by our soldiers, urarmy officers,
u civil deputies. No, ccordin tt Dr. Grove those americans od n"h-
ing-Mr. Taft did it ALL 1t makes m think of the book Mr. Roosevelt
of that notable work to declaret that Colonel Roosevelt was "anne In Cuba"
But it is in line with the Republican policy to credit everything to
way they tried to discredit Dewey and Miles and schey, because they
were Democrats The Ffhpinos are problems o. our hands, and the prob
mn a 4a Tnis,s are :" e@Uu uara VI r,on ua aatnsrsa ,mm = sluns Of hr
barism, he is strangely ignorant of history. He ought to n that when
good un,vers,, that was more, than N hundred ear olde than lar
yard College. and W e found a weather service bureau that was established
seventy-fve years. before we established ours here, and re found thou
sands of educated. cultivated people. Whether We will be able to esab-
fish our style of civilization in that farof country depends not o Re-
pubncans, but o Americans a $ heretofore, whether Republicans or Demo-
Gratis
Mr. Taft raj n t"alonei fl the Philippines" We have already spent
hundreds of millions of dollars IN that country, and will have to spend
millions and millions more OF our W money and it is a grave question
whether the game is worth the candle, in view of u necessities at home.
We regard the Philippines and Porto Rico Is par of u W country,
for the purpose Of spending money, but under Republican rule" for the
purpose Of returning that money, We regard the Philippines and Porto
Rico as foreign colonies and prevent them returning som Of the money,
for, in obedience to the demands Of the sugar trust other trusts, the
Republicans still maintain a high tariff o m the products those people have
to SELL. Did Mr. Taft overlook that, or "a he bound hand and foot and
a his mouth padlocked by the sugar trust and the other trusts that
have been created and fostered by the Republican party to compel the
people of the United States to pay exorbitant prices for the necessaries of
life nd tic hold back the development OF our trade?
Dr. Grove gives us the old, wornout talk of a "ffty-cent dollar" that
money was needed to carry on the business interests Of the country SO
that the farmers Of the West would OF be obliged to pay New York
bankers IL per cent. and more for the use of money to move their crops.
At that time the per capita circulation of money in the United States wa
s17@. The per capita circulation of money in the United States today Is
over 49,. Thus the problem for which a remedy was sought in 1895 has
beer solved. If Mr. Bryan had been elected in 1896. and had kept all the
government printing presses and all the government mint presses running
at full time he could lot have increased the money supply to any greater
extent than it has beer increased under the administrations Of Mr.. Nc
Kinley and Mr.. Roosevelt. The circulating medium having been more
than doubled Del capita since 1896, W must. according to tn logic of those
For the easons I have given, which are embodied in the fitting
declaration THE people ought o rule" and not the trusts, in the nation
and in the States, MI. Bryan ought to be elected President IF the United
States and Mr.. Taft should not be elected.