The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-04


 | wage-payers, but who are taking the first steps in the accomplishment of their desire, nothing can be more abso- lutely Indispensable than fixed values, | Without fixed values how can they
 mark progress how can they know whether they are advancing or re-
 treating? To this, the very best, the
 most valuable, class of American citi-
 zens, the issues of the campaign are vital. Yet lis very class which em-
 braces the vast progressive body of the
 people Is entirely ignored by Bryan,
 He Is apparently not aware of its ex- istence His theories are based on the
 supposition that it has no existence, For the purpose of his railings society
 must be made up of but two bodies the | classes" and the masses" The 1 masses" being composed of perma-
 nent paupers hirelings, serfs, and the
 classes" of idle millionaires, whose pleasure and occupation it is to op-
 press, plunder, swindle, eheat and rob | the ''masses;" to live by the sweat of | their brow, to accumulate their earn | ings and to feast sumptuously and | eternally while the masses" are starv | ing. He first creates in his imagina l tion bodies which do not exist and then
 places them in hostile array
 1 Bryan is mee ting still other difficult | ties. He has @ double part to play which will severely tax his cunning,
 To his eastern audiences he must ap- l pear a meek and mild hammered milk 1 sop who would not deprive the obnox- ious millionaire of an atom of wealth. who would uphold existing institutions l and who only differs from his sound
 money democratic "friends"-as he dares to call thenl--on the compara- | lively insignificant notion of value | In the east. he must preach that free
 coinage will raise the value of silver to parity with gold. This will be here | sy to silver audiences. Besides, he must appear before them as the true hyena Of their desires. He must show | himself to be more of an anarchist than Altgeld; for he was preferred to Alt | geld; more of blatherskite than Till l man; fer his tongue not Tillman's, | won the day; more of a lunatic than | Bland: for he was promoted and Bland | was left. In the east he Is asking to be l regarded with the consideration with l which he pretends to regard those with | whom he differs. If he be right. then 1 his friends" are tyrants, usurers, per- secutors. If his friends be right; | then he is a hypocritical scoundrel, a consprator against his country, a mal- l efactor who should be apprehended | and lodged in Jail before he be allowed | to again open his vile mouth in public. No compromise is possible. There Is | no c | the earth where he would be allowed to | prosecute his nefarious calling; where he would not long since have met the l just punishment of his reasonable ut terances. Unless his pictures belle him he has a tremendous capacity for hate and a large latent force for cruelty. If repudiated he will be the most hydro | phobic of his ribald crew If elected. | he will be brutal tyrant A success full lie, or even hopeful lie, may be hidden beneath a smiling countenance but baff1ed liars and exposed tricksters l are rabid and most dangerous.
 To affect belief in Bryan's sinceri- ty is unpardonable. The word .ssin-
 cere" does not apply to lunatics, or felons. Bryan may have so schooled | himself in lies as to believe them. But
 that condition of mind does not consti-
 ute sincerity. Sincerity is of truth.
 He should be ostracised from all re-
 spectable recognition and considera- 1 ton. It is certainly high time for the
 American people to declare their de- | nominations, and in no uncertain or
 Wavering terms Is a century's growth | of republican institutions to be imper- | lied by the raving of a creature who at
 best is but an unreasoning fool? Shall
 he be allowed to continue at large, dis tillfng the venom of his teachings into 1 the ears of the ignorant and the un- happy? Cannot a republic protect it.
 self from foes within as well as against
 foes without? All the republics of his- l tory have done SO; why should not the | United States? Altgeld should not be
 allowed to enter; Bryans should be
 banished. Authority is not disused
 word It seems extraordinary that
 some one of the patriotic governors. of | the Union has not already barred his
 state against the traitor, or surrounded | him in tfansitu with a posse commita- 1 tus to keep his mouth shut against in vitations to treason! Are there no linn it's to freedom of speech! May not the
 people justly conclude that if speech be | permitted, it must therefore be harm less; that if doctrines be proclaimed, | they must therefore be within the lim- l it of mere political differences? No
 state can permit freedom of speech to
 those who are plotting it's destruction. | When the government was founded no | provision was made for the existence
 of such creatures as Debs, Altgeld, | Bryan & Go. The species was not in
 esse, nor in the future anticipations of
 the drafters of the constitution. The | possibility of internal reasonable con- 1 spiracy was not conceived as possible. | The early statesmen were even reluc-
 tant to provide for proclaimed and ac-
 tive treason. The constitution limits | treason to levying war against the | United States, to adhearing to their en- | emies and to giving them aid and com-
 fort. The wording is from an old Eng | fish act of the time of Edward III. | Under strict and democratic construc- 1 tion there can technically be no treason 1 until war be actually levied; until men | have not only been brought together
 and armed for the purpose of making war upon the union, but until they 1 have engaged in overt acts of warfare.
 Rebellion must be far advanced to l render such gatherings possible within
 the limits of the United States. In the l meantime is the executive to sit with | folded hands and silent lips? If incen- diaries threaten openly to burn, must