The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-23
BRYAN AN AGITATOR.
HIS EFFORT ALONG THE LINE
IS TO STIR UP STRIFE.
Apostle of Discomfort who Seeks to Ar
ray Class Against Glass.

ray Class Against Glass.
Mr. Bryan apparently started out with
the intention of discussing the coinage
question as a question of pure finance
and craftsmanship. In his Madison
Square Garden speech he said nothing
which could be construed as an appeal TO
prejudice. unless perhaps it was his dec
laration that 'there can be no sympathy
or cooperation between the advocates of
q universal gold standard and the advo-
Gates of bimetalliSm. Between bmetal-
lism-whether independent or internation-
al-and gold standard there is an inl-
passable gulf" The question at issue
In the present campaign is not. as MIR.
Bryan would have the public believe, be-
tween bimetaliSm and the gold stand
ard; it is between bmetallism and the
silver standard. But when Mr.. Bryan
commenced speaking without notes the
undertone of haired and diSsensiOn which
characterizes his pubic utterances be-
gan to be distinctly audible.
BY the time that he reached Syracuse
he was in a frame of mind which led
him to assert that men who do not favor
silver monometallsm are ''enemies of
this country who think they are greater
than the government and can make the
government their instrument for private
gain. the greatest enemies that this coun-
ry has He called them "plunderers
of the industrial masses. in behalf of the
money corporations of this country and
Europe
At Erie Pennsylvania. he acknowledge
ed that he depended more upon an ap-
peal to the emotions than 20 the intellectS
Of his hearers. when he said:
1.-The heart is the place where conduct
is determined. and if YOU want to find out
where a man is in this fight do not look
at his brain; that would find a reason for
whatever his heart wants to do. Look
at his heart. and find out where his SYM
pathies are Show me the sym
pathes of man and l will mark out
his conduct Show me Il man
whose sympathieS are with the idle hold
ers of idle capital. and l will show you
man who wants Us little money as pos
sible and puts it on the ground that he
loves his neghbor better than himself.
Show me Il man whose sympathies are
with the struggling masses. and l will
show you a man who will never stand
up for syndcates and consent to let them
control the financial policy of the United
States
By the time that he reached Buffalo he
began TO Sneep 1T his opponents. as. for
instance. in the declaration that when
the Creator made man, he did not use
any superior kind of mud when he made
fnanciers.v 1t was here that he said:
Advocates of bimeiallism she should
have said silver monometalliSm} are
called demagogues. There has never been
statesman whose heart beat in sympa-
thy with the struggling masses who has
not been called demagogue by those
who opposed him. Young man, do you
want to know how TO keep from being
called a demagogue: l will give you a
certain method Get in the employ of
some great corporation. and then call all
the people anarchists. and you win be a
statesman amOng your employers"
At L1eckport. New York, he became de
nunciatory. and said. They have driv-
en- down the price of your products, they
have increased the burden of your debts.
they have foreclosed your mortgages
they are degrading and lowering the
standard of civilization by driving people
who want to work out upon the Streets
and their dleness breeds crime, and
crime menaces the safety of every citizen
of the land He expressed the belief
that 1.-The gold standard has made more
misery for the human race than wars
and pestiienee aud famines: more misery
than human mind can conceive or hui
man tongue can tell He began his ap-
peal to the passions of his hearers in the
words: THE PRONUNCIATION of the gold
standard is an attack upon your homes
and upon your firesides. and you have
As much right to resist it as you have to
resist an army marching to take your
children captive and burn your roof over
your head Since man has a right to
resist an army by force the only possible
inference is that the friends of silver
monometalism would be justified in
resort TO violence 10 prevent the continu-
ance of the present monetary system of
the United States.
At Tonawanda he said that ''the Chica-
60 platform means that every man shall
be defended in the enjoyment of that
which he earns. but that no man shall be
permitted to enjoy that which somebody
else has earned and which is taken from
him by vicious legislation This is
palpable threat of spoliation of the rich
1.-The platform" he continued, sis a men,
ace to the wrong -doer-not the small
wrong-doer only, but also the larger trans
greSSor. who attempts to use the govern
ment as his instrument to wrong Others
This is an attack upon government and
upon the principle of self-government. If
the platform is menace what would the
election of Mr.. Bryan be?
At Toledo he gave the workingmen
some very bad and immoral advice in
the words:
II will not ask him to anything which
may endanger his position. Let him wear
the opposition button if he will. Let him
put his name on their club list if he must
lie; him contribute to their fund if he
will. But let him remember there is one
day in the year when he is his own mas
ter and can use a pencil as he pleasPs. l
am willing for you to be Republicans ev-
cry day in the year if you will just be
Democrats on election day. l am willing
for you to wear gold-bug buttons all the
rest of the time if. when you enter the
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