The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-10-21
LETTER FROM BICLOW
Continued From First Page)

Imerce Of our own TO protect We seen
70 have copied our maritime policy
from The frog that. according 10 tbs
proyerb. without a shirt clamored tol
drawers or AS the Germans say Do
whilst andern Katzen fangen una
kannst dir selbst keine maus fangen.
There was never time in our his
tory when our prospect of a CONNER
.ial marine adapted 70 our resources
was so bad as it is today, Why l.
this? II was not always thus, SO re
Gently as 1861, and before We hegaH
Systematically to plumber the people OF
our country under the preteNt Of pro
Getting them but actually TO enrich a
privileged class, we owned about one.
third Of the entire tonnage OF tho
world AS early as 1856 the total
value of our imports and exports car,
led in American vessels exceeded
sour hundred and eighty millions;
while the amount carried in foreign
vessels was less than one hundred
and sixty millions.
The tariff alone can explain the
shameful that we have not at this very
lime a larger commercial marine
lhan any other nation in the world.
The Candidates.
Two candidates for the presidency
have received the nominations of the
Democratic and Republican parties
respectively, one or the other of which
$ likely to be chosen have never
anioyed the acquaintance of either
Mr.. Taft. the candidate whom Presi,
lent Roosevelt has imposed upon the
Republican party. is personally ! am
told very worthy and engaging per
son. He is a graduate OF Yale Col
eye, whatever that NAV be worth, he
has been a Judge of a high court Of
iudicature in Ohio, whatever that NAV
be worth. he has been the nominal
though only the nominal, chief Of the
war department at Washington for the
asst four years, and as such charged
with the direction Of the work on the
Panama canal, where he has spent
some fifty millions more than his own
engineers estimated for the total cost
of the canal, and has left the work in
a condition which threatens to cost
nearly or twice as much again 20
complete.
Mr. Bryan was not originally my
fayorite among the various candidates
for the office OF president at this elec-
ton. perhaps because | had never met
him or heard him speak for his pow
ars of persuasion have certainly won
for him a national fame and a national
eminencc
He is without dispute man OF ey-
emplary habits and character He
owes to no mans eXertions but his
own, three successive nominations %
the presidency by the Democratic
party aud on each occasion he pollel
a larger popular vote than was ever
polled by any president OF the United
States before Mckinley pop
ular vote only exceeded Bryan's 500.
900 out of a total OF some $4,000 o01.
| expect to vote for him both because
I am encouraged to hope for some
relief from the confscating tariff poll
cies of the Republican party, during
his administration while I could eX-
pect little but what | should regret
from Mr. Tan. should be keep the
pledges which he gave will not say
for. bur before. his nomination
pledges made with a strange disregard
Of any opinions of his constitutional
advisers and in fragrant disregard of
the legislative department Of this GOV
4 dancing bear Is content 20 te leI
about the country patiently 10 perform
he tricks his leader teaches him, be
cause De is only an animal and does
lot know that his leader expects
when he has survived his usefulness. |
% wrap himself In his skin.
Is this the model OF candidate We
-equire 20 occupy the chair which has
been filed by Washington. by Jener
son, hy Jackson. Boy Van Buren,. by /
Lincoln. and should have been filled /
by a Tilden. who was fbe chosen of I
he people by plurality of more than
25ooo1 roicss j. such "a candidate
he best fa he found for fhn existing