The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-22
BRYAN AN AGITATOR.
HIS EFFORT ALONG THE LINE
is TO STIR UP STRIFE.
Some of His Red Flag Expressions-An
Apostle of Discomfort who Seeks TO Ar
ray Glass Against Class.

ray Class Against Glass.
Mr.. Bryan apparently started out VIII
the intention Of discussing the coinage
question as question of pure finance
and craftsmanship. In his Madison
Square Garden speech he said nothing
which could b. construed as an appeal &c
prejudice unless perhaps 1t was his dec
laraton that There can be no sympathy
or co-operaiion between the advocates OF
a universal gold standard and the adVO-
Gates of bimptallism. Between b.metai-
lsn-Whcthrr independent or internaIolf'
al-and a gold standard there is an I'M
pasSable gulf" The question at issue
in the present campaign is not. as MI
BRYAN would have The public believe. be
tween bimctalliSm ana the gold stand
ard: it is between bimetallism and the
silver standrd. But when Mr.. Bryan
commenced speaking without notes the
UNDERGONE of haired and diSsension which
characterizcs his public utterances be
gan to be distinctly audible.
BY the time that he reached Syracuse
he was III Il frame of mind which led
him to assert that men who do not favor
silver recommendation are enemies OF
this country who think they are greater
than the government and can make the
government their instrument for private
gain. the greatest enemies that this cOun-
uv has" He called them ''plunderers
of the industrial masses, in behalf of the
money corporations of this country and
Europe.
At Erie. Pennsylvania. he acknowledge
ed that he depended more upon an ap-
peal to the emotions than 10 the intellects
of his hearers when he said:
The hpart is the place where conduct
is determined and if you want to find out
where man is in this fight do not look
at his brain: that would find a reason for
whatever his heart wants to do. Look
at his heart and find out where his SYM
nathieS are. Show me the sym
pathes of man and | will mark out
his conduc,. Show me 4 man
whose SympathiPs are with the idle hold
erS of idle capital and | will show you a
man who wants as little money as pos
Sible and puts it on the ground that he
loves his neighbOr better than himself.
Show me Il man whose sympathieS are
with the struggling masses, and | will
show YOU man who will never stand
up for SyndicatpS and consent to let them
control the financial policy of the United
States
BY the time that he reached Buffalo he
began to sheer ut his opponents, as. for
instance, in the declaration that when
the Creator made man, he did not use
any superior kind of mud when he made
tinancers.' 1t was here that he said:
"AdvocatcS of bmetallism he should
have said silver monometalism) are
called demag0gueS There has never been
Il statesman whose heart beat in sympa-
thy with the struggling masses who has
not been called a demagOgue by those
who opposed him. Young man. do You
want to know how to keep from being
called demagogue? | will give you Il
certain method Get in the employ of
some great corporation, and then call all
The people anarchists, and you will be Il
statesman among your employers.
At LOckport New York. he became de
mandatory. and said: They have driv-
en- down the price Of your products. they
have increased the burden of your debts.
they have f0reclosed your mortgages.
they are degrading and lowering the
standard of civilization by driving people
who want To work out upon the streets.
and their idlpneSs breeds crime. and
crime menacCS the safety of every citizen
of the land. He expressed the belief
that 1.-The gold standard has made more
misery for the human race than wars
and peStlence and famineS: more misery
than human mind can conceive or hui
man tongue can tell" He began his APP
peal to the passions of his hearers in the
words: The PRONUNCIATION of the gold
standard is an attack upon your homes
and upon your iiresideS, and YOU have
as much right to resist it as you have TO
resist an army marching to take your
children captive and burn your roof over
YOUR head" Since 4 man has a right to
resist an army by force, the only possible
inference is that the friends of silver
mOnometalliSm would be justified in a
resort to violence TO prevent the contnu-
ance of the present monetary system of
the United States.
At Tonawanda he said that ''the Chica-
go platform means that every man shall
be defended in the enjoyment of that
which he earns, but that no man shall be
permitted to enjoy that which somebody
else has earned and which is taken from
him by vicious legislation" This is 4
palpable threat of spoliation of the rich.
The PLATFORM he continued. lis a men
ace to the wrong -doer-not the small
wrong-doer only. but also the larger trans
greSSor, who attempts to use the govern.
ment as his instrument to wrong others -
This is an attack upon government and
upon the principle of disagreement. II
the platform is a menace what would the
election of Mr.. Bryan be?
At Toledo he gave the workincmer
some very bad and immoral advice il
the words:
Il will not ask him to anything which
may endanger his position Let him wpa,
the opposition button if he will. Let hin
put his name on their club list if he must
Let him contribute to their fund if h,
will. But let him remember there is on,
day in the year when he is his own mas
Ter and can use pencil as he pleases.
am willing for you to be Republicans ey
cry day in the year if you viii Just b,
Democrats on election day. | am willin.
for you to wear gold-bug buttons all III
rest of the time if, when you enter tn
booth. you will remember that the gol,