The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-08-29

see Bryan whenever he appears! No
candidate has been so popular since
Abraham Lincoln"
Huh! Do you suppose that all the
people who reach for Bryan's hand are
silverites? You might as we'll say that
everybody who goes out to Burlington
Beach to see balloon go up is an aero
naut."
II tell you it does not make any diff
ference il the newspapers are against
him, the people are for him."
MY friend"-and a man never says
my friend when he feels friendly
newspapers are as directly dependent
upon the people as butcher shop is up
it's customers. The editorials and the
jokes are the beef the people want or
they would not be printed. 1t is con
coded that something like 16a demo
cratic newspapers, from all parts OF the
union. from the Empire state out to the
wilds Of Arizona, have bolted the demo
cratic ticket on July 10th last, or within
twelve hours Of the nomination being
rendered to William Jennings Bryan.
Thus, five weeks have elapsed, and not
one of the 'fioppers' has turned. What
is the deduction? These newspapers
represent many millions OF readers.
The editorial department is necessarily
dependent upon the business depart
ment, which is directly in touch with
the subscribers. Journalism is, after
all, a business, and the managers will
not court martyrdon. II the course that
they have adopted and since pursued
did not meet with the approval and
favor of their subscribers and readers,
the fact would have been shown by a
dwindling circulation and marked
falling off in the advertising columns.
That this has not taken place must be
accepted as prima facie evidence that
those that have espoused the cause OF
sound money have the backing OF their
constituents and their readers generally.
The silverites, in making their idle
boasts, should take the foregoing and
absolute facts into consideration. They
tell tale that the opinions of few
m n, or. for that matter, OF thousands
Of shcuters, cannot gainsay.
In no country in the world have the
working classes more in their favor
than they have in America. Think one
moment and count the consequences
that would result from the defeat OF the
gold standard. At a very fair, albeit
not exaggerated estimate, We owe some
thing like s4,OOO,OOO,O0O in Europe.
Mark you. this has been for money lent,
either directly or indirectly through the
purchase of goods or through the bal
ance OF trade, and if we were to go on
silver basis, instead Of paying back
"a. 100000 600 gold, or selling our secur-
tiles, or giving to Europe our cereals,
our cotton. or the results Of our manu-
facturers, We should, because OF the
contraction OF credits. have to return
nearly s9OOO,OOO.GOO in silver. With
our crops. which promise the largest
prospective harvests of COIN ever raised,
a yield Of upward OF 2,OOO.OOO,OOO BUSH
els, and cotton, on an average crop, SELL
ing at gratifying prices. we should.
nevertheless. be unable to liquidate the
claims that are against us. 1t is only
generation or 80 ago that South Amer
lean republic repuliated it's obligations,
or, in other words, passed from a gold to
a silver basis. What was the outcome?
PanIcs in the civilized world. 1t was a
panic caused by the loss Of confidence
that shook the business centres Of the