Show I OOLOEII HAY ON THE SLTUAPXON I Colonel John Hay who was once private pri-vate secretary to President Lincoln has just returned from Europe where I I he went last spring and comes home I quite filled with alarm He had no j sooner landed upon his native shores than he gave his views on the political situation He finds it anything but satisfactory sat-isfactory and assuring The cause of 1 bimetallism he says has received a j serious blow through the action of the I Democratic party How bimetallism has received this blow be does not statc amtaor point tff importance He I has said it and his ipse dixit must betaken be-taken as original authority The colonel says there would have been a very different state of affairs if the Democrats had stopped at the free coinage of silver but when they advocate the abolition of the supreme court and the adoption of other extraordinary ex-traordinary measures It creates a con dltion that is litte short of appalling Wo cannot but agree with the colonel that when the Democrats advocate the abolition of the supreme court it creates cre-ates a condition that Is little short of appalling But when did the Democrats Demo-crats do this Here again the colonel takes his ipse dixit as an original authority au-thority The colonel declares that Mr Bryan I if < i ff is an oddity just now but he will not remain an oddity all summer that he I has not weight enough to last He I i says Mr Bryans adherents are supporting I I sup-porting him with great vociferation but between now and November there I will have been considerable educational work accomplished Almost anybody who looks at the situation sanely and reasonably declares the colonel must be opposed to Bryan and the others I will be educated to that view between now and November If that be correct S then the inference must be drawn that I i a large majority of the American people peo-ple are not looking at the situation sanely The colonel may be right we i 1 do not say he is not but less than I three months is a short time in which I to educate a nation of 70000000 people into the right way of thinking on the I money question especially when it is remembered that for twentythree I years they have been learning their financial lesson in the hard school of experience Still the colonel may be right I The chief value of the colonels views is the fact that he has just arrived from Europe and he brings the very I latest European view of the political I I situation in the United States and shows the danger to America of Americans I Amer-icans managing their own affairs |