Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1901 Page: 9 of 16
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Thursday, July 4, 1901.
SOUTHERN MERCURY
A
BRYAN A8 A LEADER.
Mr., Bryan is, as we believe and have
frequently said, a man above bribes
and corruption. This does not prevent
him, however, from being the victim of
a fatal error. Blackstone tells us that
all the statutes passed prior to 12th
Charles II., only prunned away the ex-
cressences of feudalism and left
the root of it stronger and more
vigorous than ever. This is what Mr.
Bryan would do with the trusts and im-
perialism. He is not a profound think-
er, and halts at thoroughgoing radical
reform. What is lacking in Mr. Bryan
is character, in the proper meaning of
that word. In all his relations, politi-
cal, social, personal and family, he is
what we call a grand man, a man
whom every one esteems and respects,
and whose acquaintance every honest
man would be happy to claim.
But it takes different metal from
this these days to head a radical re-
form in the United States. It wants
the stuff of which Savanorola, Crom-
well, Mirabeau and Patrick Henry are
made, to be a leader of reform in the
United States. It is doubtful if the
man lives who is fitted by nature for
such leadership since Jefferson and
Jackson. We are still waiting and hop-
ing for his apperance. Meanwhile, let
us work on as best we can with such
material as we have (which is super-
ior to that in the two old parties) and
possess our souls in patience.
The fact that Mr. Bryan is not the
leaders of the hosts of reform does not
prevent him from being of great value
to the cause, nor from saying many
things which sink into the heart and
memory of the oppressed. Here is one
of his last declarations.
"The rank and file of the Democrat-
ic party can respect an honest Repub-
lican who calls himself a Republican,
but they will not respect a dishonest
Republican who calls himself a Dem-
ocrat."
States, and I found Goluchowski, head
of the Ministry of that country, our
bitterest and most outspoken foe.
"Obviously the other ministries of
the Old World, including even that of
England, are artfully encouraging Qol-
uchowksi in his course of opposition,
with a vew to drawing our fire before
they openly declared hemselves.
"For the immediate future our trade
prospects were never brighter in Eu-
rope. There has been almost a total
crop failure in Germany. The agricul-
tural outlook is only a little brighter
in England the crop yield is not very
promising. But as soon as the Conti-
nent recovers from its present agricul-
tural depression I confidently believe
the tocsin of war will be sounded. In
Russia there are loud professions of
friendship for the United States, and
one hears many expressions of admir-
ation of our commercial development
and methods.
"The Russians are modeling their tar-
iff system after ours, and in a few
years will try to apply it with vigor
and severity against all nations alike,
but particularly against the United
States.
"We can meet Europe's onslaught
with courage and confidence. We out-
strip her now in ev&y material re-
source, in labor-saving machinery, and
in the rapidity with which our surplus
capital is accumulating. Add to these
advantages a patriotic citizenship and
an intelligent working class, and who
can doubt for an instant the we will
win the battle? When it is over, then
the problem will be to keep the dis-
tracted hordes of Europe from over-
running this country, and to prevent
the desperate monarchies of the Old
World from acts of territorial aggres-
sion in South America, upon which
they are already looking with covet-
ous eyes."
We are not so sanguine of success
as Mr. Vanderlip, who is a profession-
al optimist. But what he says about
the coming commercial war and South
America is true.
EUROPE TO COMBINE AGAINST
US.
Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, late assist-
ant secretary of the Treasury, in a re-
cent interview with the New York
Tribune correspondent, gives; expres-
sion to the same view that the Mer-
cury has long entertained aud express-
ed; to-wit: that over exclusive and
narrow tariff policy, and the still nar-
rower construction put upon it, would
cause Europe to combine against us
in a commercial war. Mr. Vanderlip
says:
"I think it is not only possible, but
highly probable, that, Europe can and
will agree to binding terms of trade
combination against us within the next
few years, and that the result will
be the most gigantic and stubborn com-
mercial war in the history of the world.
As most of our commercial treaties ex-
pire in 1903, I look for the real begin-
ning of the war then, in a refusal of
most continental nations to renew
those conventions.
"At the present moment Australia,
which never did like us, is leading in
the movement against the United
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SECTIONAL ANIM08ITY
Foraker, Mark Hanna's mouthpiece,
insidiously put forth the poison of sec-
tional feeling, and endeavored as best
he could, to re-vivify the old hatreds
of the war between the States, in his
speech before the Ohio State Republi-
can convention recently convened.
There utterances are all the more sig-
nificant because they make out lines
on which the campaign will be run
from now on till the presidential elec-
tion. To divert attention from' their
rascally robberies, and from their
traitorous nullification of the Constitu-
tion by a Shiras vote in the Supreme
Court, they are striving to airay the
numerical majority of the North
against the South. This is their only
hope of perfecting their plans of plun-
der and imperialism. Here is the point-
blank endorsement and defense of im-
perialism which Hama'fi mouthpiece
lays down as the essence of the Repub-
lican doctrine:
We were told that we had no po*er
to hold and govern conquered territory
except as a part of the United states.
We were told that the Constitution fol-
lowed the flag and wherever we raised
the one we must at once apply the
other, and that any other government
was an unconstitutional usurpation of
which the inhabitants might lawfully
resist; that Aguinaldo was a Washing-
ton and McKlnley a despot; that the
Filipinos were patriots, struggling for
liberty and that we were oppressors de-
nying them freedom and destroying
with the sword; that our fig must come
down and our army must come home.
Such were the contentions of 1900.
Once more the people sat in judgment.
Their verdict was the triumphant re-
election of William McKlnley and a
total collapse of Democratic claims,
pretensions and policies."
It is a well-known fact to every in-
telligent man that, counting the whole
number of voters in the United States,
McKlnley and imperialism lacked one
million votes of getting that "trium-
phant vindication," so flippantly claim-
ed. They simply have no regard for
truth when a falsehood can be suc-
cessfully and profitably put in its place.
He proceeds as follows:
"Neither is it a time to show indif-
ference to the wrong the Democratic
party is committing today in the South-
ern States against the black man,
whom it is robbing of his suffrage un-
der the forms of constitutional amend-
ment and legal enactments that are in
violation of the Constitution of the
United States. This Is worse, if pos-
sible, than the inhuman lynching of
which we read almost dally, because
it is without provocation, and is a blow
aimed at a class and the government of
the nation."
He also emphasizes the great service
rendered the "nation" by the negro in
conquering the South in its efforts to
maintain constitutional rights. Thus
wickedly does the spokesman of the Re-
publican party arrayed prejudice
against the South; and more wickedly
still does he seek to stir up strife and
war between the two races in the
South.
As if this were not sufficient to fan
the smoldering embers into a flame,
Hannahs man taunts the South on its
defeat after a four years' struggle, In
the following words:
"It will be the President, the Con-
gress and the Supreme Court—all the
departments of the government on one
side, and the Democratic party and its
allies on the other. It will not be the
flrst time that we have had such an
alignment of forces, and as always
heretofore, patriotism and American-
ism will triumph."
It would be two tedious to go over
the whole of this official speech to
show its malicious thrusts and insinua-
tions against the people of the South.
And, be it remembered, this is the
key-note of the campaign. With all
their honeyed words for commercial
purrposes only, let us not forget this
poison of asps which is on their lips.
The Republican party wiii be suc-
cessful in reviving the old bitterness.
The good thing that will come out of
It will b§, that the South will continue
solid, trUft to its traditions, fttod not
forgetftit of Its heroic dead.
CHICAGO RELIGIONISTS' PICNIC.
The following clipping from the In-
ter-Ocean throws a flood of life on a
dark subject:
The annual picnic of the Sunday
school of St. James' M. E. church, For-
ty-Sixth street and Ellis avenue, wound
up Saturday night in a "spooning j>ar-
ty." This was while the young folks
were returning on the tram, and those
who spooned were old children, who
had gone along "just to see that the
little ones enjoyed themselves."
Angered by the refusal of the super-
intendent to permit dancing, the older
picnickers succeeded in putting out the
lights in the train, broke several win-
dows, so officials of the railroad say,
and then, in the darkness, they are said
to have Indulged In hugging and kiss-
ing. These amatory pleasantries were
interspersed with tender phrases.
Two special trains bearing the happy
excursionists left Chicago in the morn-
ing for Kankakee. There were 1,400
persons in the party, and it is said
to have been the largest Sunday school
excursion that ever left the city. Five
hundred of them were children, an<i
the remainder young couples who went
to the picnic, not to enjoy themselves,
but just to see that the little ones had
a good time.
At Kankakee the Methodists learned
that the young people had planned a
scneme wnicn, naa it oeen camea oat,
would have been a disgrace forever.
It was nothing less than to have a
dance. The very thought of a dance
at a Methodist church picnic caused
the old folks to tremble, but they re-
gained their wits in time to prevent it.
Deprived of the pleasure of dancing,
the young people proceeded to put In
the day as best they might, vowing
that they would more than make up
for their loss when night came.
The train had barely* gathered head-
way when something appeared to be
troubling the lights. First one, then
another went out, until the train was
wrapped in darkness- It was explained
to Mr. Davis, who made inquiries, that
the cars were ventilated by windows
which ran along the top, and that
doubtless the wind, coming through
these openings, caused the lights to go
out.
It was not long before the crowd be-
gan to pair off. Such tender little
sayings as "Does 'oo love me?" "Oh,
no, you must not kiss me—some one
might see," and things of that kind
were heard in the car at frequent In-
tervals. No one could interrupt this
love feast except the small boys, and
they could only suppress it for a time.
One youngster was more terrible
than all the rest. He not only had a
good pair of lungs, but a huge mega-
phone which materially assisted him
in his work. All these little Interrup-
tions started what in slang Is called
a "rough house." At all events several
of the car windows were broken during
the mixup, but in just what manner
it was impossible to determine. The
picnic was voted a success, even
though the dance was stopped, and
should another one be given it would
doubtless be better attended than the
one last Saturday, although that one
broke all record* for Sunday schools.
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