Show OLD AND PRESENT ISSUES When Deweys fleet In two fateful hour destroyed Montljos fleet and the flying squadron and Sampsons fleet I In three hours converted the ships I of Cervera Into smoking hulks along the shore the two events were such that not only was the civilized ized world thrilled by the story but tho echo of It penetrated the depths I of the semlclvlllzed nations with the I result that trade Increased as It never had bcVore and to tho smallest city and 1 hamlet In America benefits came with that Increased trade and that Increased prestige The American going abroad found new courtesies waiting him and I new respect Suddenly on the world there dawned the truth that a power I Invincible in strength Illimitable in energy and all sufllclcnt In skill and courage had appeared on the scene and that henceforth In every consid I I erable International consideration the United Stales of America must be consulted I con-sulted The first note of dissent the Jlrst discounting of the bcneflts that have come through that unavoidable upheaval came from the Democratic I party In the United States the party j I of Inconsistency and Incapacity A I glance at almost any Democratic paper will reveal the above For years the purchase of Alaska was denounced by the Democratic press now the holding l oC our own in the Philippines Is with j like ferocity denounced but in negotiations negotia-tions for settlement of a disputed boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia as a basis to work from the surveyors have run a provisional pro-visional line which If adhered to in the final treaty would take from Alaska about O square miles of territory Although Al-though this cannot be done until Congress Con-gress acts upon it the mere fact of running run-ning that line Is seized upon by the Democratic press of this country as an outrage so monstrOus that a change of Administration Is deemed necessary and some papers would before giving It up notwithstanding their fear of Imperialism Im-perialism and militarism go to war with Great Britain We may say In passing that the Democracy made the campaign of 1S44 on the proposition of 54 degrees 40 minutes or fight then when In power backed down flat or Great Britain would have been shutout shut-out from the Pacific coast altogether The campaign of 187C was fought through on the old lines but In addition the Democratic candidate who was himself an old railroad wrecker and who beginning with nothing had laid up for himself In money and property much of which last was unearned Increment twelve millions oCdollars started out asa re former to have the Governmentof the United States run on a purer bails The campaign of 1SSO was run on 3 question ques-tion of purity In politics The Democracy De-mocracy selected for a candidate for 1SS4 a gentleman who had long lived In t certain city who had been Mayor of that city but who did not have entro Into any gentlemans house In that city but the Democracy gathered around him and elected him 11m and that man so dominated his party that they could find no one else to serve U their candidate for the next eight ears This year the Issues which the candidate candi-date of that party Is trying to present are the fear that our liberties will betaken i be-taken away tho fear that all the money I will go to a few people and the poor wjll starve the desire to flood the country with an Irredeemable currency to so fix the laws that the courts will not have Jurisdiction when riots are In proS In short as the tariff was formerly the paramount Issue then the morals of the Nation an issue then the silver question an issue this year the bellyache of the Nation Is the Issue and every man who has a grievance real or affected has suddenly become a patriot The real question Is whether this Nation shall go on with the progress prog-ress that It has growing In momentum and grandeur every day for three year past or whether It shall go back and offer L reward to every man who In the general progress thinks that he In some way has been neglected |