Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-17
Bryan Touches Up Mr.. ingalls,.

the author of letter to railroad en-
ployees, which points out how free
silver would adversely affect their
interests. Here is precisely what
Mr.. Bryan said in reply:
81 am willing that each man shall
have whatever influence his neigh
bors are willing to give to him, but
object to any man using his official
position TO coerce other people who
have opinions of their own. | have
had my attention called in this State
to an interview given out by the
President Of great railway to the
employees of that road, furnished
when they received their pay.
want to say to you that if the
object of the managers of the road
was merely to instruct the employees
on the money question, we have en-.
tered upon new era, when the EN-.
plOyer becomes school-teacher, set
ting up school of political economy
and becoming instructor to all those
who work for him.
But if the object of that circular
was to show the employee that if he
wanted to hold his position he must
make his views conform TO the views
of the employers, then it is merely
the revival Of the old idea that
might makes right, and that power
can be used without regard to con.
science or public good. / want t.
remind employees of the railroads
that in this State they have the Aus
tralian ballot, whose blessings they
did not obtain through the aid Of the
Presidents of the railroads.
l have had men tell me that they
were under compulsion to join Re.
publican clubs and wear the insignia
of Republicans. | shall not COM
plain if they do. l appreciate the
condition of the man who feels his
wife and children Juggling at his gar
ments, and who knows that want
may stare in the faces those whom
he loves if he daroS to assert the SOW
ereign right Of an American citizen.
| recognize the embarrassment Of his
position.
L will not ask him to do anything
which may endanger that position.
Let him wear the opposition button
If he will. Let him enroll his name
on their club list, if he must. Let
him contribute to the campaign fund,
if they will it, but let him remem-
Der there is one day in the year when
he is his own master and can use a
pencil as he pleases. am willing
for you to be Republicans. / am
willing for you to be Republicans
every other day in the year, if you
will just be Democrats on election
day. am willing for you to wear
gold-bug buttons all the rest of the
time, if when you enter the booth,
you will remember that the gold
standard never conferred a benefit
upon those who toll, and that it was
never endorsed or approved or sane
toned by any body of people except
those who hold fixed investments
and trade il money or profit by the
eXtremities of the government"
OLD MAN PALMER IN lS92.-A
few years ago old man Palmer, the
Boilers nominee for President, for
many years Republican, then a
Greenbacker, and now Democrat
so-called, was shouting like Kansas
Populist for the silver dollar. Like
Mckinley, Elkins and his Republic
can associates generally in this cam
paign he has Topped around so often
that no one can tell when or on what
question he entertains an honest
conviction. Here are some extracts
from his speech in the Senate in 1892
on the Homested riots:
Scratch an opponent of the coin.
age of silver and you will find sup
porter of the national bank system,
and you won't have to scratch very
hard"
Or this from the same:
at is all very we'll to abuse the
friends of the silver dollar as infla-
tionists, thieves, regulators and all
sorts of things, but really the friends
Of the gold dollar ought to pay the
same attention to the members of
the convention who framed the
United States Constitution, and who
made the silver dollar the unit and
standard Of value in this country"
Or this:
If there is any dollar more hon.
est than the silver dollar of 37l4
grains (of pure silver it has not been
discovered in the century or more
that the nation has existed. If there
can be any such thing as a dishonest
dollar. that miserable sham trick and
travesty Of coin, a gold dollar, ex-
actly fills that designation"
just now the old bolter is essaying
to lead the forlorn hope Of the gold
bug contingent.
HON. II. NJ. HARRIS, Of Harris.
vile, father of John II. Harris, pri-
vate secretary to Senator Elkins,