Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-02
FROM BRYAN'S HOME.
Political Notes and Observations
from the Popoorat Candi-
dates Own City.
HIS PLATFORM ANAlYzED.

VvO tkNtbVSU NNeseeOs
A Constant Appeal to Glass Preju-
dice in the interest Of Sill
YER Mine Owners.
Business men are studying the money
question. Mr.. Bryan has seen fit to
tell his audiences over and over again
that the business men of the country are
against free silver partly because they
don't know anything about the question
and partly because they are dishonest.
In this Mr.. Bryan misleads his follow
ers and misrepresents the business men.
It may be true that what is called free
sifver agitation started first among the
farmers rather than among the business
men, but later the business men have
read the free-silver literature, have read
both sides of the question, until at the
present time the business men OF the
nation are thoroughly informed from
business standpoint and from nonpar-
tisan standpoint on the money question.
It is probably true that the politicians
chat oppose silver are moved by prejudice
1nd self.interest to certain degree just
as the politicians who favor free silver
are moved by self-interest to certain
degree; but the business men, honaea the men
Of the country, the bankers, and the
financiers have made it a part of their
business to read up on the money Ques-
don, to become thoroughly informed, and
they have passed upon the question from
business and not from political ahs stand ,,,n.
ii force of the business judgment of the
country and knowing that this business
Judgment condemns free coinage as
dangerous thing, seeks to discredit the
business mind Of the country by denounc-
ING money e. q Question. es Mr. Mr. Bryan processes
to desire a restoration of the industries
Of this country. At the same time he
denounces the business men Of the coun>
try and proposes q plan which he knows
they are afraid of.
The threat of free trade in the cam
Aaign of '92 and in the election of '92,
frightened the business mind of the coun-
try, first into distrust and doubt and then
into panic, the effect of which is still
On. The question above all others at
this time is how to remove this business
depression from the business mind. Mr..
Bryan says that free coinage will revive
the industries, but at the same time he
admits that the business mind is against
It and is afraid of it. The effect Of this
threat Of free coinage is to make every
capitalist hide his money, to make every
banker afraid of investments, to make
every dollar creep into the darkest corner
Of the safety vault, and by this process of
money hiding and money boarding which
10 now going on all over the United
States, the circulating money of the
country ia 1ico nj ooksx,
faster than all the government mints
could coin new money if they were now
under free coinage law.
Laboring men are crowding around
Mr.. Bryan to hear his speeches and.
with what he says. He talks kindly to
the laboring man and his words are as
sweet as honey. But the thinking labor
Ing man knows that so long as industry,
that is, the mind force which is man
aging industry, is afraid of free coinage,
that all plans for the enlargement of in
oustry or the employment of labor are
suspended, pending the discussion of
the money question, and that these plans
will be taken up and carried into eXecu-
ton only when the business mind of
the country is assured by the election of
Mckinley that there is to be a sound
business policy in the government of this
nation.
George Groot. chairman of the Nation
Neb., on September Il. from the stems of
the state capitol building, with Mr..
Bryan sitting near him, denounced the
6ankers as the enemies of society. and
DECLARED that the financiers of Wall
street should be hung to the telegraph
poles. On the evening of September h,
In front of the Hotel Lincoln. in Lin.
coin. Neb.. 1gnatius Donnelly of Min
1esota. denounced the bankers and the
nnanclers of this country as the enemies
OF the people. enemies of prosperity.
and @ declared that their influence upon
this country ought to be set aside. Now,
what do the followers of Mr.. BRYAN ex,
pect to happen to the laboring men and
TO the farmers of this country. when
!ney, by reason of their superior num-
per. nave voted out the banker and the
business man and have voted in this
neW system of finance? What force
mind force when it has been displaceds ;
When the country has struck down its
present bankers. its present fnanciers
ITS present business men, its present
managers of industries and commerce.
when the common people by majority
vote have paralyzed this business power
what other force will take it's place
labor, for the carrying on Of commerce @ 20
md md for the management of all the indus
trial forces which give vitality to the
material body of the nation? s.e
On the afternoon of September in
front OF the state capitol building at
Lincoln, Mr.. Bryan, after denounc;ne no
the business element of the country be-.
cause it is against him in this contast
eensratulated himself that the laborins ln.
ss 9en OF the country believed in him and
shat Ss en- enough of the farmers believed in
this election would enable him % to sWeen IN
the country in November. This he char.
r will bring them better times. It Iusy may
s sbe very pleasing to Mr.. BRYAN when he
and farmers who applaud such speeches %
ts this, but what reason have these Ia.
boring men and farmers to expect bet
Ter times through the election of Mr.
Bryan, when he himself admits that tn the
business men of this nation regard his
election as menace to business and
prosperity? Cnn YOU revive hnsiness hs.