Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-15
AGAINST BRYAN.
Business Mind of the Country for
the Party of Law and Order.
The Two Classes of the Voting Popula-
tion and the Ballots Zach VIII
Castillo rClass to Which
Bryan Appeals.


of Mr.. Bryan depends upon the separa
ton Of the voting population into two
great classes which may be designated
by the the two words, order and dis
order.
In the one class are the men who have
property or who have plans by which
they expect to achieve property or
means. In the other class to which
Mr.. Bryan constantly appeals, are gath
cred the men who are actuated more by
hate and prejudice than by judgment
and who are determined to use the bal
lot in this election to create as much con
fusion as possible, hoping that in gen.
eral upheaval they will come out better
off than they went in.
When great country like this reaches
a point where one-half of the people are
willing to see a general apheayal and to
take their chances on the result, the sit
uation is very serious. In such a crisis
party lines become as straws. AS the
one class more and more exhibits its
recklessness, the other more and more
throws off its party ties and puts itself
into the breach to check disorder and to
restore confidence and security. The
man who has property and who is work.
ing with his mind and his plans expect.
ing to achieve something for his old age,
sees in this general upheaval the de
struction of values and the battling OF
plans.
The security of people in their prop
erty and their plans depends on the Sc
curity of the government. The danger
to government lies in the restlessness
of the masses; that is, that part Of the
people who do ot work with mind or
with plan, but ly with their hands in
an uncertain incontinuous, undirected
way, with no goal to reach, no definite
thing to az hieye, except to live as easy as
possible, and to have as much license
with their liberty as they can get out Of
the laws OF the country.
Mr.. Bryan, realizing that the last
three years of depression have brought
many men into a reckless state OF mind,
appeals to This reckless mind in PROPOSE
tons that are catchy with the reckless
voter, and as these catchy theories
arouse the reckless enthusiasm Of the
one class and the decided opposition OF
the other, he cheers on the conflict with
the holiness of a maurader leading
host Of plunderers against a castle
where booty is to be secured.
In one of his speeches in Ohio he said:
They say we are anarchists. but the
man who got his property honestly need
not be afraid" Mr.. Bryans friends de-
fend him in this statement by saying
that he did not mean ii as an invitation
to plumber. But how arc we TO judge
of what man means except by what he
says2 And how are we to know the
Interpretation put upon this statement
except by the demonstrations of APP
enough to applaud II? Does Mr.. Bryan
mean that when he gets into power
process Of law will he inaugurated
which will redistribute the property,
taking away from those who have not
achieved honestly? And who is TO be
the Judge whence this process of dis
trihution commences, between honestly
and dishonesty acquired property? In
the same breath with which he utters
At4Aa NtSttb Aa dGnQuiGtS I0il-
roads, banks and all centralized bust
ness forces because they oppose his cleo
ton. Does he mean that legislation
viii be inaugurated that viii seize these
great business interests and take their
property. ON the theory that they have
dishonesty acquired them?
What does Il mean when the entire
business, financial and industrial inter-
csts of the country are arrayed against
this bold young orator and his plansa
Tie says that it means that the business
men OF the country are dishonest: that
they want to plumber the people. But
the people, the thinking people, know
that the business mind of this country
is against Mr.. Bryan because tits afraid
of him and because its business iudg-
menf condemns him and his plans as un-
safe.
Here is this business mind. this great
engine Of thought that has evolved all
thu plans, that has built up View York.
Chicago and all the great eenters of
commerce. that has built all the great
railroad systems anl developed the
great uorthW ST, tl!at has founded all
the Industries aege there is employ
ment for labor and market for produce,
here il is in Al Ks mind power. to cree
ate and to dii astonishing the world
with It's achi ments in the last quar-
ter of a censuty, and this young man
Genounces it as dishonest and as an
enemy Of the people. lie says it must be
dethroned; that It's power must be
taken away by majorities and votes, and
that the Industries, the material life Of
the country. must be taken out of the
control of this great mind force and put
into the control OF a reckless, unthink-
ing mass Of men who have no ability to
direct or hold together that which has
been created, even If they desired to
do So.
The governmental situation always
controls the business and industrial sit
uation. When the government is in
safe hards then this great thought