Show RIDING A HIGH NORSE HORSE in a moment of exaltation tho the ore donlan sees in tho the present war and its results a forward march for our nation we are to take a new place la in tile the world we are going to think only high thoughts formulate only a lofty policy henceforth wo we are arc to hav ba e a new keynote tor for our statesmanship and it will sound in a policy that looks to our relations with tho the world at large and to the fulfillment of our destiny in it with an exordium so stately we look further to see bee what new inspiration la Is about to be 1 unfolded untold cd and se me find that populism Is going to be heard of no more no more crudities I are to be indulged in and inasmuch as battles batties cannot be fought by phantom aigles or hat flat why tho the conclusion of 0 the whole business Is that wo we are henceforth to accept w m ith out debate the gold standard etan dard and that will be sufficient tor for all emergencies and that will insure our upward progress until woo I 1 vach those where troubles troubled no looser longer vex the world and where bloom perpetually tho the flowers that grow in elysian fields that makes a perfectly plain ce cae after tho the licking by the dewey squadron equa dron upon the spanish la in want manila tho the captain general issued a proclamation la larria tion in nelch ho he insisted that the tha hour for supreme resolution hail had come that lias has a tone so BO like that of the Ore oregonians oregonian gonian that one ond can hardly realize that a distance of miles of rolling separates them of course in our relations with the world the gold cold standard Is about tho the only thing really needed it may bo be a little awkward when dealing with spanish america and china and the straits settlements anil and india but it will mill be the oth other or fel low lowb I 1 s fault why by should we worry by clinging to it we shall find in the future as in the past that when wo we buy some of our own securities from great rest britain or germany or the netherlands with our wheat or cotton or tobacco or any other product we shall have to give twice as many bushels bushela buo hela bales or pounds as it may be as formerly but why should our producers trick kick at a little robbery of that kind so long iong as we are sure that tile the gold cold standard Is held inviolate with wheat at 63 65 cents per bushel cotton at C G cents per pound and other products in proportion there may riot not be a very great margin for the producer but it must be remembered that st it he does not got get quite money enough to bay pay ills hired men what he does get Is 13 no hat flat it Is A as rood as gold and when miten a government anything like that tor for the common people that ought of course to be as much os as could reasonably be expected the petty troubles lea ot of producers d rs ate aid little matters which it Is unreasonable to expect the government to bother with because a 0 famine short crops the klondike boom and a war mar scare enabled tile the oregonians to realize fair prices for one years crops find and changed some 1000 votes the ore conlan li wild and seems about to take the future government Covern ment 0 of the world into its own hands but in its soul it thanks god that letter did not collapse a month earlier |