Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1898 — OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. [ARTICLE]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

th«t southern soldiers get back from this war and resume voting there are likely to be some surprises in the anti-McKinley camp.—San Francisco Chronicle. ET’Col. Bryan ought to be sent right down to Santiago to reason with those native merchants who refuse to have anything to do with American silver dollars. —Chicago Record. ETThe dudes and the millionaires have made a report in this War, but Eugene V. Debs, Gen. Coxey and a few more such “patriots” are yet to be heard from.—lowa State Register. OW little more than three months hence a new house of representatives will be elected. In 1896 Missouri sent 12 democrats to congress, but it will not happen again. Missouri will not be caught twice by the pullbacks.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. silverites will have something to think about when they hear of American dollars made of silver going nt 50 per cent, of their face value. There is a lesson in that worth more than a ream of arguments.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. country has found President McKinley a safe man to trust. It has trusted him all through this war, and it trusts him now. He will consent to no terms of peace with Spain which will not do honor and justice to the government of which he is the chief executive. —Baltimore American. ETThe administration at Washington may be trusted to pursue a wise and Just course. And meanwhile it is well to bear in mind, in the face of democratic opposition to “imperialism," that there is on record abundant precedents showing democratic authority for taking territory “and no questions Times. ETThe main cause of the present prosperity Is doubtless to be found In the disappearance of what was the main cause of the panic in 1893 and of the stagnation of subsequent years—the “free silver” specter. Its disappearance, or decline, from the position of a dominant issue, menacing every interest, is the cardinal faetdr of the revived confidence of which we see so many signs. It Is felt now on every hand that "silver is dend" and enterprise in consequence now lifts Its head. —Baltimore Sun.