Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
A rr...onah,e Movement.

From the New York Sun.
It becomes more and more evident as
the Bryan canvass proceeds that its chief
reliance is upon exciting sectional en-
mites and breeding the spirit of social
revolution. The is to theory Is merely
a pretense used to disguise Its real pur-
pose of stirring up sedition.
Hence the reasonable arguments, show
ing that the proposed free coinage OF Sill
yer, and consequent debasement OF our
monetary standard would produce certain
financial panic and business disaster, are
left without any attempt at answer. The
Bryanites themselves acknowledge that
such would be the consequence or their
scheme, at least Immediately; but it Is a
result that they welcome rather than Ia
ment. They want to stir up social disor-
der. They want to increase discomfort.
and thus to kindle the revolutionary spirit.
The confidence in the election of Mckinley,
which Is proving to be so strong tonic
for the financial and other markets, is a
disappointment to them. They hoped TO
see panic and smash, distress. angry dis
content. confusion, and blind readiness
to accept any proffered means OF getting
out of the scrape on the ground that
nothing worse than the existing condition
Of things could occur. They wanted to
provoke hopelessness.
Hence Archbishop Ireland Is amply just
ified in saying that 1.-The monetary ques-
tion is, indeed, a secondary issue in this
campaign" the prime and real issue be-
ing the disruption of our whole political
and social system. These words of the
archbishop deserve the most serious con-
sideration of all patriotic people:
The movement which had its expression
In the Chicago convention and which now
seeks by means of popular suffrage to en-
throne itself in the capital of the nation
is, in Its logical effect, against the United
. hn nf
1861, which our soldiers believed they had
consigned to eternal death at Appoma-
tox. but which demands again recognition
from the American people. The declara-
tion in the Chicago platform has and can
have no other meaning.
I'm these words there is told the seces-
sion doctrine that states are independent
of the national government at Washing
ton; there is the annulment of the Union:
there Is notice served upon the flag of
America that outside the District of Col
umbia it is without power of self-assertion
or self-defense. The president of the
United States is told that to enforce ma
tional laws and protect national property
he cannot march his troops into any state
without the authorization of the governor
of that state"
The Bryanite attempt is to ally the West
with the old Confederate South in a con-
spiracy to pervert our institutions, and
pracucaily TO destroy the Union. To that
end a sedulous effort is made to provoke
and exasperate sectional prejudice and to
inflame it into actual and bitter sectional
animosity and hatred.
1t is reasonable enterprise and the
whole patriotism of the Union must be
united resolutely against the seditious con-
spiracy to destroy the foundations of
American liberty. Every traitor is with
Bryan, and alas! so also is many a de-
luded patriot; but the movement of which
he is the leader is distinctly reasonable.
AS Archbishop Ireland says, it is, "in its
logical effect, against the United States.''
Bryanism means more than financial
and business ruin. 1t means political and
social disntegration.
Unite. unite, to crush the venomous con-
spiracy!