| Show EDITORIAL MOTES it is not at all surprising that the supreme court held the election law valid the only wonder ig that anybody should have been willing to take the responsibility of attacking it while there may have been weak point no court would overturn an election upon euch grounds as were up in this case the legislature leei slature can now amend the law U it thinks amendment is needed but in the meantime there will be no contusion caused by betting aside the clearly expressed will of the people baiao statesman general washington the civil and military leader of the american revolution carried on with varying and uncertain for eight years the bame kind of a war that gomez and and garcia have been conducing against spanish rule in anbi in the last years of he struggle a frenchman by the name ot la fayette who had stolen into the country in about the same manner as garcin got into cuba contributed hia skill as a tactician to the success of the colonial arms washington carried the seat of government in his hat for a good portion of the time an innovation which scandalized the feelings fee linga of the european nobility in a grievous wanner the american colonies in their for fredom passed through very similar experiences to those endured by the cubans of today they found it difficult to get recognition as belligerents mr cleveland in dealing with the question has had to prescribe harsh necessities not because it his inclination cli but because the methods and rules of intercourse beewen nations were all worked out and absented iq before he was bora two republic if bryan had been elected and mckinley had been defeated in the recent contest what hu milies the goldate press and the of the money power would now utter regarding the recent bank failures in chicago and st paul we would be told thai the success ot free coinage had destroyed confidence and alie hope ot prosperity and that the collapse of these institutions was only a jaural consequence of the defeat of the eold standard movement they would say in ayery kind of type and aery one of voice that if mckinley had been elected there would have been a general resumption of business throughout the length and breadth of the land and that the dismal record of failures which has accompanied the conspiracy to strike down silver under the present administration would have ended on election day nu doubt they will now endeavor to dodge the issue by using all the try at their command to make people believe that these failures are not of much consequence anyway and were caused merely by bad banking methods instead ot a continuation of the general depression which has prevailed in this country ever since the bankers panic of 1893 if the free coinage agitation was the only cause of our business troubles as all the goodites gold ites steadfastly maintained during the last campaign we would like to know why the success achieved by the gold standard movement at the polls on election day did not bring on the prosperity which we were assured was certain to follow that event everybody knows that there is no likel bood that alver will be restored to ita old and just place and value aa bonev during j the next four years aad hence ft cannot tie held now that the possibility ot is what causes failures to multiply and bank clearings clea rines and railway earning to decrease at this time it is possible and no doubt probable that if bryan had been elected the failures would have occurred in chicago and st paul but at least the country would have the certainty of better times ahead through an assured ex bannion of the volume of currency on account of prospective free coinage whereas now there is no ench hopeful outlook ard no likelihood that the general level of prices will advance until some is adopted for alie ment of pur money supply the entire campaign belf styled sound money forces was based on false pretenses from first to last and positive proof of the correctness 0 this assertion is found in the fact that general business conditions the country are about as bad now as they have been at any previous time since the panic of 1893 denver republican |
