The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-04
BRYAN, THE REPUDIATOR
HIS SPACIOUS, APPEALS KINDLE
 PATRIOTIC REsENTMENT.


 His Role as n Demagogue Fully in Keep ing With the Tenets of the Faith of His Ilk-All Honorable Men Should Rise Up and Declare That This Land Is No Abid- ing Place for Socialists, Anarchists and Malefactors.
 New Haven, Sept. 1st, 1896, To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: What Is capital? What is labor? Labor is work; capital is the ability to pay for it. Without capital there would be no labor; for there would be no one to employ it; no wages; for there would be no one to pay them Bryan's proposition, therefore, to in crease work and advance wages by de- stroying capital is on par with all his other false and wicked utterances. As well might the crew of a vessel, if dis satisfied with their food, attempt to the provisions on board.
 The more capital there is, the more labor there will be. The highest, more over, will be wages; for if there be competition in capital there will be competition in securing skilled labor. If there wer4 two arms factories in New Haven instead of one, there would be double the opportunity for employ ment, and each company would vie with the other in attracting skilled labor by offering advanced wages. Destroy capital; drive it, or frighten it, out of the country, and you destroy la bor as effectually as you destroy life by withholding air and food.
 If labor be dependent upon capital for existence, TO less is capital depend- ent upon labor for continued existence. If man have hundred thousand dol lars put them in bank and live on them, he will find his capital decreas- ing, every year, until finally it is all gone and he is a pauper. If on the 
 in erecting a building, fitting it with machinery, employing mechanics and engaging in manufacturing, he may not only preserve his capital intact but add to it, while at the same time he is giving employment to deserving men. Or he may buy a store. stock it with goods. hire a sufficiency of clerks and devote himself to profitable job bing In the first case he must have mechanics to work for him; in the sec ond, clerks to serve him. Without their labor his capital would remain idle. No capital is SO vast that can long afford to remain idle. Idle capital feeds on itself, consumes itself, and disappears Capital and labor should, therefore, be on the best of terms and be the best of friends. The one cannot exist without the other. Each should be most considerate of the other. Cap ital should keep itself fully employed in behalf of labor. Labor should con- slider that capital is prudent, cautious, timid, easily frightened, driven away by the slightest alarm, withdrawing crab-like into it's shell at the first sign of danger.
 There is no fortune so large that 1t cannot be traced directly back to labor. Every fortune had its beginning in the saving of wages. If the original Astor ants would not be the naillionaires they are to-day If the original Vanderbilt had not saved the pennies he received for ferrying people about Staten Island his descendants might be as poor to- day as he was at the beginning of his career. There is luck, chance, skill, or anything else you choose to call it, in investing capital; but the first steps in acquiring capital require thrift, econo- my, temperance, perseverance. Two miners may save enough to buy a claim apiece. One may prove to be 
 absorb millions and not return pen ny. At the time MT. Astor was invest ing his accumulated wages in land on Manhattan Island other men, who thought themselves equally wise, iri- vested their surplus wages in Michi- gan, or in northern New York, where land to-day is worth no more than it was fifty years ago. It is conceivable that a fortune be the result of pure ac- cident, but history furnishes no exam pie. In order to draw prize in a lot tery you must first have saved money enough to buy ticket.
 In Europe there is distinctive la boring class. That Is class of people who have been laborers for genera tions; who have no expectation, or hope, of a change of condition; whose wages are so low that saving is impos- sible, and whose circumstances are So severe and depressing that they can do nothing but struggle along in hopeless penury and wretchedness till death terminates their misery Such class does not as yet exist in this country. Every hope and effort of patriotism should be against it's establishment. In this country, every day shows ex- amples of citizens emerging from the -c- i(ir, fY,rr t1af