Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
Bryan's Eloquent Wind

WHEN blackguard speaks or
-2l'tes, the public take his talk or
ting for what it is worth, for they
l11w his talk is only string of
aodsive language without any facts
% support what he says That is the
slsson blackguardism is good for
uothing, except to condemn the man
Tio INDUCES in it. Bat there is an
:ler kind Of wind eloquent wind
which is not 50 repulslve to the
ears, and not generally so repulsive
IS blackguard wind. But in point
i ruth it is worse than the black
-.srd wind for it misleads many
ht-minded people, while the black
ards wind has only the black
. lard people for a following, and the
olackgoards are always at a discount.
hey are always below par Eloquent
ind may be as far from the facts as
=. blackguard's statement and there
i lies the danger. Having been elo-
luently stated, it is accepted as
act, while it may be as far from the
ruth as the coarse talk of the black
euard. Bryan the nominee of the
.n-calied Democratic National Con-
Tention for the Presidency is repre-
-anted IS an eloquent public speak
Il. The speech he mads in the Con-
.ortion that nominated him, contain
/ few general highly polished sen
tences around which he clustered
-tatemenls that are not facts, and
therefore worthless, except as that
Iruch verbage with which to con-
.emn himself We have only space
low to point out one of his mis-
5atements through which he at
sempts to prejudice the western peo-
re against the eastern people on the
money question. He attempts to con
vince, the western people that they al g
crushed oy the money people OF the
east That the west is crushed by
by moneyed men of the east
and by bonds and mortgages
On which they have TO pay inter
est, aud that it is the west only
that thus suffers. There is where
his eloquent false wind comes into
play to the injury of the people who
believe it, for they believe what is
not true. The west is doubtless
heavily mortgaged, but the truth is
it is not as heavily mortgaged as the
east. Bryan is circulating danger
GUS falsehoods on the question of
money. and by his eloquent use
OF words, is proving that he is only u
wind-bag. talking regardless of facts,
and without having given the sutj ject
the attention that the truth requires
If when he was eloquently talking
about how the west is dominated by
the east, he had stated the facts, how
much better he would now appear
before the country. If he had told
the Convention that nominated him
that according to the United States
census department.
The percentage of mortgage
OF farms i'll Pennsylvania is about Il
per cent; while 10 Nebraska, the state
in which Mr.. Bryan resides, it is on
ly 32 per cent. The mortgages on
Pennsylvania farms is almost 8 per
cent heavier than on the farms in Ne.
braska. If he had looked at the
mortgages on the farms of New York,
he would have learned that they are
43 per cent of their value while Ia
Iowa they are only 33 percent. The
per cent of mortgages in New York
is 10 per cent higher than in Iowa
L. is not necessary to go into Bryan
money question further, to prove
how utterly worthless his statements
are when compared with the facts
Reader what do you thiak of a Presi
dental candidate, who will eloquent.
iy misstate facts as he has done to in
fuercc the west against the east
Bryan is blatherskite. He has 8
number of other blatherskite mis-
statements in the speech that he
made to the Convention before il
nominated him, but of them by and
by.