Show rOMP SOME TIMELY QUESTIONS A subscriber asks the following timely questions 1 Why should the government of this glorious country with its boundless I bound-less wealth and unlimited natural j I resources in an attitude of abject prostration ask alms of any other nation I ask because Messrs Mc Ki ley Co deem this position an eminently proper and becoming one 2 Why should England assuming the attitude of a philanthropist consent con-sent to accept a 50 per cent reduction on money owing it when it is perfectly j per-fectly well aware that it can legally collect 100 per cent in excess of the just debt W S What is a radical free silverite 4 During the antislavery agitation I agita-tion which culminated in our late civil t war was not the cause declared to be an issue in municipal campaigns and were not the people unequivocally divided upon that Issue 5 Is the cause of the white slave less vital less worthy than that of his colored brother that it should be ignored in the present campaign 6 Is it not singular that many of the heroes who fought and bled for the emancipation of the colored race should be straining their energies to the utmost In the effort to deliver their own Into a bondage more cruel more unyielding and more hopeless 7 Is there any reason why the Democrats should fail to make a clean I sweep at the coming election This country should not ask alms of any other country The reason McKinley Mc-Kinley Co deem an attitude of abject ab-ject prostration before other nations so far as the money question is concerned con-cerned proper is because they were elected on and stand on the St Louis platform and its position on the money question is abject in the extreme ex-treme England is looking out for her interests in-terests and no one elses It is to her interest to make other nations believe that her interest is theirs and she has succeeded most admirably in the case ofthe United States She has succeeded suc-ceeded in making the government at Washington believe that It is morally financially right to pay all debts in gold when they were contracted to be paid in coin coin meaning either gold or silver For this purpose England has made use of the money power in this country which is absolutely impartial im-partial in sacrificing this or any other country for gold A radical free silverite is one who believes that the silver question is paramount in politics to all others and never wavers in this belief According Ac-cording to the Tribune a radical free silverite is one who doesnt believe that McKinley is as staunch a friend of silver as Bryan is During tIle antislavery agitation which preceded the civil war that question was the one dominating issue Is-sue The people certainly were divided di-vided on that issue The cause of the white slave is no I less worthy than was thi cause of the black man and it should not be Ignored and will not be As emancipation emanci-pation finally came to the black slave so will it eventually come to the white slave But there is this difference between be-tween the slavery of antebellum da3 < sand s-and that of today the former was sectional today it is universal and it knows no color linen line-n is both strange and inexplicable that men who fought and bled that their colored brethren might enjoy the blessings of liberty the same as themselves them-selves should be willing to forge the chains upon their brothers even upon their comrades in arms vet it 5s true that some of them are Why they are no one can say stIH every one knows that a man may be a hero at one time and at another a craven that his I soul is moved to pity in some cases and to cruelty in others Man 1s not I a consistent being and that Is about all that can he predicted of him There is no reason why the Democrats Demo-crats should not carry the coming election They have the broadest best most American platform of any party while upon that platform stand candidates candi-dates who are the equals of any other candidates and the sui > eri6rs of the most of them If the cause of free silver sil-ver if the cause of the people is to triumph then will the Democratic ticket be elected in Its entirety |