The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-23
A CHASER
AFTER VAGUE IDEAS
SAYS VIM. H. TAFT
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sled hat the continuation of the gold
standard meant uncertainty in employ.
ment of labor and hardship to the
wage Garner; that 1t would send down
the price of farm products-wheat be.
low so cents, corn below 80 cents, and
oats to 5 cents. He did not haveto
live two years to see every prophecy
that he made in hat campaign refut
ed by the fact.
Adheres to Free Silver.
Then came on the campaign of 1900.
In that campaign he still adhered to
his free silver fallacy. and still went
about the country trying to explain
why 1t was that the continuation OF
the gold standard had not resulted in
the disasters which he had prophe.
sled.
But. lest the issue of free silver had
become a little shop-worn, he brought
out as a paramount issue that of anti
imperialism. He announced that If
he were not elected in the next cleo
ton, patriotism would have ceased to
be in this country. the celebration of
the Fourth of July would become but
a memory and that liberty would die.
His agitation of this question con-
tinued the war in the Philippines
against the United States for fully two
years longer, and many a poor fell, !
who lost his life in the service of his
country in those far distant islands
owes it directly to the inspiration
which the opposition of the democracy
under Mr.. Bryan, made to the policy
of Mr.. Mckinley in the Philippines. He
was beaten On these issues and we con-
tinue to celebrate the Fourth of July
with fervor.
At the end of the mex foul years
Mr.. Parker was nominated. Mr.. Bryan
still insisted on inserting in the plat
form a clause in favor Of free silver,
with Mr.. Parker in making the para
mount issue the tyranny of Theodore
Roosevelt, executive usurpation and
m~ilitarism. He denounced Mr.. Roose-
Welt as completely subject to corporate
interests and held up to the country
the dangers of war to which 1t would
be subject under a Roosevelt admin
istration. Although the same policy
was being pursued in the Philippines,
as before, imperialism had ceased to be
then a paramount issue.
WarIike Prophecies Fail.
The prophecies which Mr.. Bryan
made with reference to the warlike
tendencies of Mr.. Roosevelt and to his
subsection to corporate influence he
had only to wait, as he had to wait in
previous instances when he made a
prophecy, some two years to find them
utterly refuted. For in the his
tory of the world has any chief exec
utive had such a triumph in making
peace as Theodore Roosevelt in the
America, in Santo Domingo and in Gu,
ba, and never in the history of the
country has there been such a com
plete triumph over corporate influence
Is that. which the courage, the honesty
and the persistence of Theodore Roose
welt has wrought during the present
administration.
IL liO Soi1H1i6h III 1cbI In IL PIC
vious campaigns Mr.. Bryan has de
nounced m~ilitarism and imperialism
but this year he a advised hat the
visit of Il navy to the Pacific coast
had aroused such an interest in the
navy and had made it 10 popular or
that coast that his Pacific friends per,
suaded him to approve a plank in the
| rlaffnrno for On. adony1ofo nour for fhc
protection of the Pacific coast.
Just what he mean by this is a lit
tie difficult. What the republican
party means it is clear. 1t means al
increase in the present forces of the
navy, and yet. with characteristic in
consistency, Mr.. Bryan, as already
said, attacks the republican party fol-
making suitable appropriations for the
increase of naval force.
Bryan Goes Around the World.
In 1906 Mr.. Bryan went around the
world and his return was heralded
with the statement that in his visit
around the world he had so gained in
formation and knowledge that he had
become safe and sane: that he was a
conservative and all the democratic
party awaited his coming with great
interest.
Immediately upon his arrival he dis
PEELED this impression by de-
claring that he was convinced that the
only solution of the railroad problem
ultimately would be government own
ership. He has previously declared in
favor of a national initiative and ref
erendum and also In favor of the cleo
ton of federal judges.
All these most radical propositions