The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-10-24

American who thinks as we do would
dream OF making II. but Mr.. Bryan and
his kind have shown ms that there are un-
fortunately some Americans who need 10
be taught the buseness aud folly OF the at
tack on those who have won success ir
letters or science or business
Hryan's Position Defined.
"The American whose good fortune Il
has been TO have college training would
never dream for a moment OF claiming
any superiority on that account; but he
Is bound 70 demand that neither shah
IL be held against him. Mr.. Bryan seem
ingly thinks Il should be. He stands on
his own feet as other Americans stand.
III I'm spite OF his advantages he goes
wrong let him be unsparingly judged, but
II because OF his college training he can
do better In his profession. or can do more
good TO his fellows, then he has right
20 the credit OF such success or such
achievement. lie has a right 20 demand
that exactly as he is given no advantage
so shall he be put at no disadvantage
II the best men among us are men wholly
without training we demand that they
shall be given the places OF highest honor.
If. on the other hand, they have had that
training, we again demand that they shall
lie given the places for which their ability
fits them. The two greatest OF all Ameri-
cans. the two Americans who left the
indelible impress OF their Individuality
upon the history OF the world for all time
TO come. were Washington. who founded
the republic. and Lincoln. who saved and
perpetuated IT. What man, in dealing
with those, the mightiest OF our country
men, is himself so small as 10 Judge them
by aught save those high abilities and
virtues which have made not only our
nation but all mankind forever their
debtors? Who cares which OF them IL
was that trained himself while splitting
rails and handling a fiatboat and which
one got his training while managing his
Inherited estate? In passing final judg
ment on their services, what is either fact
TO us. who rever and honor and take pride
In them and who strive. however feeble.
10 follow In the path where these giants
OF our people first painfully trod the way?
Instead OF a government OF the people,
for the people. and by the people, which
we now have, Mr.. Bryan would substitute
government or a mob. by the demagogue,
for the shiftless and disorderly and the
criminal and the seml-crminal. The fight
for free sliver-that IS, the fight for that
species OF dishonest money which its ad
vocates euphoniously call cheap money
is, after all. only one phase OF the fight
against civilization which Is being waged
by the opponents OF decent government
in this campaign. There are, of course
many sincere and honest men who follow
Mr. Bryan's standard because they believe
that the coinage of free silver would
help the economic situation and consider
this the overshadowlng issue OF the cam
paign. But these men by themselves
would no. be formidable foes They do not
MAKE mp the bulk even OF those who fol-
low Mr. Bryan on the financial issue alone.
siIvorites Are FIatists.
with the ma jority OF the men who want
cheap money the silver dollar Is desired,
not because CT any abstruse theories about
NJ Inn all az ~
II Is the FIRST step toward fiat money. Mr..
Bland Mr.. Weaver, and all the old time
grecnbackere, or soft-money men, whose
motto was to wipe out the national debt
as with a sponge. form the backbone
OF those supporters OF Mr. Bryan who are
drawn 10 him by his financial theories.
These men champion q silver dollar be-
cause H. Is cheaper than the gold dollar,
Just az they would champion a copper
dollar rather than one Of silver IL copper
could be made an issue at the moment.
What they really want Is iredeemabie
paper money. In other words these curi-
ors beings who sometimes possess good
hearts and sometimes not, but who always
possess foggy brains. think that the money
~ OF value precisely az the ratio Of SIS
being valueless Gold and It's equivalents
possessing tho greatest value. and form
ing. therefore, the currency OF all prosper
GUS civilized communities seem 10 them
undesirable. They want money that Is
cheap. that Is not so valuable. They Ike
a silver dollar. as compared 20 a gold doll
lar, because IL is worth only half as much:
but they Ike paper dollar even more be-
cause 4 ~ not worth anything. They
feem 20 have curious Inverted idea that
the minute we can get money that is not
worth anything Il VIII turn out to be able
60 purchase everything
IF there was anything In their theory
one or the most prosperous communities
that ever existed should have been the con-
fedcrate states lust before the collapse or
the confedcracy There was any amount OF
money. such as Il was. In the confederacy
then and prices were on n scale which
should surely have satisfied all who wished
TO see them high 4 pair OF boots cost 81, 600
and carpenters wife who went market
ing had 60 fill her basket entirely full OF
fat money IL she expected 70 bring IL home
half fun of anything else Nevertheless
tire people were IN condition OF wretched-
ness and starvation such as we now can
hardly conceive. lt really does not mat
ter much as TO the quantity Of the money
IN country. /. Is the quality OF the money
that Is Of Importance and the circum-
stances of the people The real point IS that
the credit of the country should be good
and that Il should contain those things
Of which money IS merely the measure or
value
want DECEASED judiciary.
But the Bryanites do not depend and
cannot depend only upon the cry for cheap
money Dishonest finance Is only one OF
their rallying cries. they wish also a de-
based judiciary and an executive pledge
not TO interfere with violent mobs. WHAT
they appeal 10 is the spirit OF social un-
resi-, the spirit OF discomfort. They nave
invoked the aid OF the mean and somber
Vices OF envy. Of hatred for the weil-to-do,
and OF class and OF sectional jealousy. Mr..
Bryan and the men who stand at his right
and his left hands-Altgeld Tillman,
CoNcy, Debs. and the rest OF the crcw-aro
ht representatives OF those forces which
simmer beneath the surface OF every
civilized community and which, II they
could break out, would destroy not only
property and civilization. but finally even
themselves, leaving after them mere
Durnt-out waste, as cooled lava over
How becomes mere Stag and clnders. They
seek 10 rally TO their banners all the forces
that make for social disorder and national
destruction. They hold out lures TO the
honest man who, through no fault OF his
own, has met with crushing disaster, and
who strikes at what Ia raIIa tho conditions