The Saint Paul globe., 1896-10-16

MI. Bryan is now spreading himself
upon the third issue that he has sprung
to the front as the all-important and
decisive one of this campaign. This
gentleman is as facile in trading, issues
as he is in moving with a hop, skip
and jump from one argument to an
other whenever he gets the worst Of
1t. At the outset it was free silver or
nothing. There was nothing else worth
talking about but free coinage at Is
to l. That being granted, all other
blessings conceivable followed by a
natural process. That being denied,
we must perforce remain steeped in
misery and Woe Mr. Bryan's argu
ments in favor of free silver. as pre-
sented at the Madison Square garden
meeting and elaborated by him in his
New England speeches. turned hin,
speedily into ridicule The weakest of
his opponents were able to rise m
and meek him, and no day passed in
which some of his own addresses on
the silver question could not be used
to contradict some. other Per-
celving this after a time. or rather
perceiving that it was not doing his
cause any good, he shifted from argu-
ment to denunciation. He began the
appeal to the class issue For manv
days of his pilgrimage enly chance
illusions were found in his speeches
TO Tree coinage, and all the rest con-
sisted in holding up to execration the
man who owned property, whether oh
tanned by honest labor or bv fraud
ana IN lauding the man who does not
and covets, whether he proposes to OH
tain possession by fair means or fou1
AT each stopping place he urged those
within reach of his voice to consider the
thlngs which they wanted and did not
have. and to ask what right others had
to enjoy those delights from which tbav
were debarred.
That, however, appeared likely to ba
a non-productive issue, and it was
looked upon by all thoughtful peonIe
as an incitement, not to reform brt
to revolution. 1t was that ahhorrent
and Infamous thing, never before
brought to the front in this country.
the attempt to create permanent lines
of division among our people. to de-
stroy equality and the belief in and
hope of equality, to light the fire of
envy, hatred and malice. to substitute
mutual enmity and the desire to in
jure for mutual good will and helnful-
ness, and thus to sow. the seeds of q
dissension that must, whatever tbe
event, be ultimately fatal to the state.
Again Mr. Bryan began to perceive
dinly that this did not pay. When If
called forth such remonstranee as is
contained in the open letter of Arch
bishop Ireland, when men whose choice
it is to take part in active politics are
compelled to oppose a political candi-
date, not because he represents one
party or the other, but because his
success means revolution and the SUBJ
version of social order. the dimmest in
telligerice feels that it is time to call
a halt
Now, for his third trial, Mr.. Bryan
has fallen back upon the fiat. stale
and demonstrated falsehood that the
Republican cause is profiting by the
coercion of employees through their
employers. This is likely to be no more
fruitful than his other endeayor. TT
is. at the outset, an insult to labor it.
self. The workingman is not to he
dominated by considerations like these.
and thanks no one for limiting that he
is not free. As a matter of fact. in
no other country in the world and at
no other time in the history Of this