The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24

Ave cents now. On q silver basis would
sell for nine cents: so that really on a sill
yer basis II would need higher wages to
give the workingman one OF these small
loaves than II now needs to give him this
large one. Compare the big gold loaf and
the little silver loaf. and then let the wage
Garner himself decide which II is best that
he should have for the same amount OF his
earnings. Mr.. Bryan says that the gold
dollar has grown too fat; let him remem-
her that IL the workingman can only earn
lean dollar he can only buy lean loaf.
MANY OF the arguments OF our foes are
difficult TO meet. simply because they are
so absurd that II is hard to speak patiently
about them. One of these Is the talk about
what the lunatic portion of our opponents
are fond OF calling the crime OF 1873. when
as they say silver was 'demonetized' by
stealth. As a matter of fact the bill which
demonetized silver was before the two
houses Of congress for over two years; Il
was printed Is differ ent times, and the pro-
ceedings in relation to II occupied nearly
$50 pages Of the Congressional Globe. II
was passed by large votes after full de-
bate. during which very able speeches In
Its behalf we're made, among others by
Senators Jones and Stewart, OF Nevada.
who are now among the least rational or
the friends of silver. 1t was scattered
broadcast throughout the country. and
opinions as to it's value, obtained from
was stealthy' then every law that was
ever enacted by congress from the alien
and sedition acts In Adams administra-
ton to the Wilson Gorpan tariff OF Cleve-
lands administration was passed by
stealth AS for its being a crime, you
might just as nationally speak OF the
crime of the demonstration OF iron In
Sparta about 300 Il. G. or the demonetiza-
ton of cattle in Italy about 1000 b. c. The
first act demonetizing silver was passed In
1906 under President Jefferson. We were
first given q gold currency by the gold act
of 1884. under President Jackson. IL We
should use the Technology of the popn-
lists these acts would figure respectively
as the crimes of 1896 and 1884; and most
assured]y were jefferson and Jackson
alive to-day they would be read out OF the
party. They were honest men:
they believed In their country and were
jealous of her honor; and they would be
strikingly out of place in the company OF
the men who to-day are striving to make
the nation a shorer in their own infamy.
Talks About the Nations Debt.
"Mr. Bryan is fond of denouncing not
only those who lend to private individuals
what these private individuals urgently
need, but also those who in the time of the
nations need loaned the nation itself the
money with which to carry on the national
business. 1t is true that we had to pay al
together too high a rate of interest for
some of the bonds which have recently
been issued, but this was due, more than
to any other one cause, to the TACT that
Mr. Bryan and his precious associates of
the reputation stamp by their antics made
the loan dangerous. nation so foolish
as TO have Mr., Bryan anywhere in Its coiin-
ellis by Just so much weakens its credit and
in consequence has 10 pay more for what
ever il borrows. With a proper tariff and
a proper financial system We would not
80. hn- NJ n
was necessary to borrow, we could borrow
al a low rate of interest only IL u was
absolutely certain that We would repay to
the full what was loaned us. Nr. Bryan
and his associates then insisted and now
insist that we ought TO cheat the men who
loaned money to the government out OF
half their loan. Just so long as there is
a possibility of the American people pos
sessing sense of honor so blunted as to
make such a man president, just so loug
will they have 20 pay high price for their
folly. When the special champion of dis
honesty runs for the presidency the nation
will have 20 pay heavier If 1t wishes to bor-
row. The foolish advocate OF dishonesty
is terror to the honest banker, but he Is
source of profit 10 the INSCRIPTIONS specu-
lator. The foolish knave is always the tootI
Of the smart knave.
Mr.. Bryan conducts a campaign of de-
nunciation He is especially fond of de-
by nonproduceTs men who do not work
with their hands? Lincoln and Grant, Sher-
man and Farraglit rendered the country
some service at time when they were
not working with their hands. So, in an
other way, did Emerson and Lowell ana
and yet I'm another way did
Fulton and Morse and Edison. Does Mr..
Bryan really believe that all these men
were useless to the country? Is he so
lost to all sense Of patriotism that ne does
not glory in their service 20 the nation?
Take again his dcnunciation of capital
lists. There are good capitalists and bad
capitalists, just as there are good work
ingmen and bad workingmer, honest bank
cashiers and dishonest bank cashiers,
reputable and disreputable newspaper
men. straight and crooked politicians
bad capitalist Is worse than u bad man
without capital because he can do more
mischief; just as a bad man OF ability Is
worse than bad man of no ability This
no more justifes general assault on all
capitalists than a general assault on all
men of ability. There are in this country
but very snail number of great capital
lists. i am not concerned in them. l am
concerned fer the great body of our peo-
pie, because know that the people can
rot afford to go wrong. / wish them
to refrain from wronging others, chiefly
because by so doing they would wrong
no one so much as themselves. What IS
n capitalist, anyhow? Every man who
saves money is capitalist. good capt.
talist who employs his money and his
leisure Alright is often the most useful man
in the community The extreme socialist,
the champion OF the type of government
which found its highest expression in the
Paris commune, objects to the man who
puts a few dollars month in a savings
bank on the ground that he thereby be-
comes a capitalist Mr.. Bryan is well on
his way toward this position. Moreover,
the capitalist and the wage-earner are
often one Seventy per cent Of the peo-
pie of the United States earn wages and
receive salaries. Mr.. Bryans success
would at one blow strike off half the value
OF the earnings of these men.
Gospel of Sectional Hatred.
I'm truth, in their attempt to stir up
what they are pleased to call class hatred
and to arouse one set of American citizens
against another Mr.. Bryan and his col
leagues are rapidly finding out that their
doctrines lead them into queer positions.
III you try to help one class by allowing
II to repudiate its debts and cut down the
wages of labor and then as an offset OFFER
to the laborer free riot, all you do is to
insure the degradation of every class in
the community.
Mr.. Bryan and his supporters. Messrs