Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-09-30

But He Who Champions the Cause or Flu
 tocraey Is a statesnaau- -Obloquy Always
 Heaped on Those Who Value Humanity
 Higher Than Wealth.
 They call that man statesman whose ear is tuned to catch the slightest pull sations of pocketbook and denounce as q Genagogue any one who dares to lis ten to the heartbeat of humanity. William J. Bryan in House of Repro sentatives.
 Eternal truth gives to this epigram it's telling force = truth that shines brightly from the records of men at all times since the people were given share in government, truth which may be discovered today i'll the columns of rabid newspapers that denounce as an archists and denagogues the men now enlisted with Democracy in the battle against plutocracy. Always i'll the his tory of the world the men who have at tackled the possessors of special priyi- le9es, the leaders who have ranked hu- manity higher than wealth, have met the charge If demagogy. Cromwell and Ills IOilOMEIE AGIG AlGIlStf3AE III bAAN estimation of the lords and gentlemen of England, and the cavalier of that time ridiculed the closely cropped head of the Puritan much as the brilliant journalist of today entertains himself, if not his readers, with shafts of wit aimed at tEe flowing hair and whiskers of what he is pleased to describe as the s=fIV focbjnnG change, but the style of argument em- ployed to defend an indefensible cause is the same in all ages. Jefferson met bravely the reproach of demagogy when as a member of the Virginia house of burgesses he checked, as he believed for all time, the development of an American aristocraey by prohibiting laws in recognition of entail and pri- mogeniture The world has never har. bored more conspicuous demagogues than William Lloyd Garrison and Wen dell Phillips, TOT in the crisis of today are tho prosperous Tory merchants of Boston more harmoniously united in antagenism to the men who are fighting for the freedom of all labor than were they in 1858 to these who preached from dingy printing offices and on street corners the revolutionary doctrine that black men should not be enslaved.
 How many of our politicians have en- ioyed sudden apotheosis and become statesmen by virtue of their quick at- tention to the pulsations of a pookot- book Is it worth while to enumerate them? Have the masses of the people of New York yet forgotten how suddenly the wealthy classes. who had for years yituperated and denounced David B. Hill, became his fervent adulators and hailed him as the greatest exponent of l true Democracy when he rose in the United States senate as the chief oppo- nent of the income tax? The present high esteem of Thomas c. Platt is typical. IL covers the whole case. He IS q spells politician, the builder and the operator of a corrupt political machine. By his control of country legislators he mis. governs New orB city at his pleasure. lie invades the rights and liberties of the citizens, enriches his own son by a shrewdly devised scheme of legislation and for years has stood as the type of all that the citizen who believes in hon. est politics and good government holds abhorrent. Suddenly Plat6 is put upon a pedestal. lie is no longer described as the boss, but as a statesman. By a few days work ill behalf of the gold standard at the St. Louis convention he has blinded the eyes of all the possessors of special privileges to his record and to his political character. His sins are forgotten. He has done penance to the pocketbook and is absolved
 The men who are enlisted this year on the side of the great uncounted mil lions striving for justice and for wider measure of freedom may well bear with indifference the reproaches of their ad- yersaries. They stand in good company, for the most shining names of history became immortal i'll the face of just such obloquy as they have now to bear The statesmen responsive to the pulsations of the pocketbook have raised for us an issue greater and more stimulating than any reform of the currency system. They have welded together in solid pha- lanx the forces of capitalism and the agents of monopoly They have raised the question whether men or money shall govern this nation. They have of fered to the people of self governing nation, nation founded upon the prin- ciple that every man shall be protected i'll his right to vote as he will, the spec taele of employers striving to control the votes of their employees, of credit