The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02

constitution of Jefferson, We must not forget that the earning power of cap- ital has decreased third in the last quarter of century, and that wages have increased one-third nominally and doubled in purchasing power. In this great struggle for the subjugation of nature, labor, ability and capital have been the trusted captains of the people and it is my opinion that the man that tries to bribe the one into the betray- al of the other two, with debased views, has his counter part in history.
 It is capital and ability that have made it possible for the carpenter to have more of the luxuries of life than the rich could get when the carpenter made his shingles as he laid them. It is capital and ability that have made it possible for the mechanic to give his children better educations than the colleges afforded fifty years ago. It possible for the former to ride to lis work and do more in one day than five men could in the days of rye bread and hard cider.
 MT. Bryan thinks that he is on solid rock when he tells the poor that their poverty is due to the dishonesty of capital I trust the day will soon come when the wage earner will see that the manufacturer who employs thousands of his fellow men at the best price his market will afford is as true a friend to the wage earner as the blatant dem- agogue that stands on the street cor Ter calling on the poor to destroy the rich The law that will chain the masses to sorrow and poverty is the law that chains ambition. Tell the boy that he can build no more castles in the air and he will build hovel on the earth.
 The populist proclaims that $1.0O put at interest during the lives of six men will buy the nations of the earth. Why have not six lives done this? We must remember that there are no purses in the pockets of the dead. and that the man that lives in palace has paid the mason and the carpenter for comfor- table place to die in. We must remem- Der that capital and the inventor let alone have leveled the great fortunes and monopolies of the past as the cy- clone levels the forest.
 My grandfather wrote his sermons by a whale-oil light and dreaded his return to the tallow dip upon the depletion of the whale crop Since his day capital and ability, secure in the promise of profit to themselves, have made the night to shine as the day for rich and poor. And for every dollar they have saved the masses have received tens of thousands.
 Fifty years ago it was the rich that rode in chaises; now an unseen power draws the chariot of the masses and the inventor of the bicycle has given to the poor the veritable wings of the morning.
 Ability and capital have carried us by the mile stone of necessity The man that can earn fifteen cents an hour can earn in six hours a better existence than he could earn in twelve, fifty years ago. If you should take Adam by his collar and throw him back into the Eden of Genesis he wouldn't stay there. because he can have a better time in Connecticut if he can earn a dollar day.
 The masses can march triumphantly from the constitution of Jefferson to the constitution of Bryan and from the constitution of Bryan to the constitu- tion of Bellamy, but if they could have revealed to them the awful horror of the counter-march from revolution to order they would dread paternalisn as they now profess to dread anarchy. It was the old cry of Rosseau and France believed in him, and it cost France a million lives to get back from anarchy to empire. and from empire to the re- public
 The republican party does not say, Thou shalt not, to any man. But the republican party believes that the American people cannot muff1e the heel of liberty with the rags of confiscation. The republican party believes that the hand that will unfold to the nations of the earth the white robe Of justice openly is the hand of the honest man.
 MT. Bryan tells the masses that the republican party will lead them into worse than negro slavery. l call the attention of the masses to the fact that during the years when this irresisiti- ble tongue of populism was hunting forbidden jam pots in his mothers pam try the leader of the republican party and his comrades carried an emanci- patton proclamation on their bayonet tips from the Potomac to the Gulf and wrapped it, drenched in their own blood, around the broken shackles of the negro.
 The republican party challenges MT. Bryan's right to pose as the friend of labor. The republican party always has and always will contend that no nation can prosper where labor suffers an injustice We believe in honest men, honest money and the American market. The republican party believes in the Union and loves liberty, order and prosperity, and we know that the people of this nation will never choose the path that will lead to panic, dis trust and revolution. They will see upon one side of this contest an elo- quent boy burning with ambition, bearing red flag in one hand any any thing he can get in the other.
 They will see upon the other side a statesman tried and true, as poor as MT. Bryan and as honest as the dollar he would pay to the wage -earner. Above the clouds of doubt and repudia- tion the masses will see his face and trust him. for they know that he is the best friend the laboring man ever had in the United States of America.
 MURRAY HILL BANK FAILURE.