Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-01
HOW A GREAT ENGLISH BANKER
 SEES IT.

SdBac1OuS ana SucceSSlul OL hOiluOn
 bankers, writing from Chicago on the 18th instant to the London Times, after cool, careful discussion and weighing of all the claims and probabilities in the case, very evidently considered MT. Bry- ans prospects of election much better, even then, than McKinley's. He based his view on the opinions expressed by such extreme opponents of MT. Bryan as the eastern press, Bourke Cochran and
 J. Serling Morton, on the one side. and on the other his own observations in diff ferent localities and the statements of the democratic chairman, Senator J. K. Jones.
 This letter, though just published, was written, as already stated, full two weeks ago. Since then, the masterly and unan- 2livered in New York, and circulated broadcast in every direction, has not only vindicated him and the democratic party and platform against the fiercest assaults made upon them by their enemies, but has wonderfully attracted and attached
 the masses of the workingmen and far mers of the land to the democratic stand ard and nominees Within the same
 time, too, MT Bryan has made his won- derful campaign from Tennessee to Du- luth and from Pennsylvania to North Dakota-a campaign impossible, and all most inconceivable to any other man, meeting and winning everywhere thous- ands of supporters, finding his friends al- ready enthusiastic, and leaving them still more intensely enthusiastic, more nu-
 merous and more aggressive. All the while the whole area of the great politi- cal battle-ground of the central west has been crowded with ardent advocates of a cause which appeals not merely to the in- terests of the masses, but to their reason,
 consciences, patriotism and pride as well;
 and who have been answered only by
 malignant vituperation, false assertions
 and hypocritical clap-trap and cant. Those two weeks have also witnessed the
 almost unanimous consolidation of or
 ganzed labor in support of MT. Bryan, against the upholders of federal interfer- ence in local matters and government by injunction. Since Frewen wrote, MT. Bryan's prospects have improved and frightened far beyond expectations at l that time.
 l The scoffs and gibes, the flouts and | jeers of hireling word-mongers and ye- | neered aliens, like Cochran and Schurz, l the insulting epithets and cartoons of a | mercenary press, the insolent informed ! lings of pampered, bloated and pharisaic 1 clergy, and the despicable treacheries and | deceptions of political turn-coats, para ! sites and traitors, have reused the greai I masses of the real people of the coun- | try to a sense of their danger, and to the | resentment of the outrages upon them | so long perpetrated in the names of both democracy and republicanism, for the | benefit of a favored few They feel that American freedom the priceless heritage left them by their fathers, is in imminent deadly peril, from which 1t must be res cued or forever perish. It is for this that the fountains of the great political deep are broken up as never before in this country and that true men everywhere are breaking the bonds of party as Sam son did the Philistine withes. and stand. ing forth in unshackled might. as lovers of liberty and country more than lovers of party. It was the mere rising on the horizon of this phenomenon-this politi- cal upheava1 and reyolution-which is covering the whole heavens, that has inn pressed upon the intelligent and cautious Englshman the conviction that next Tuesdays election will begin a new order of things in these United States, by the election of MT. Bryan, the re-opening of our hints to the free coinage of silver and the restoration generally of our con.
 stitutional government, in practice as
 well as theory, so administered as to se-
 cure equal rights to every one-peculiar privileges to none
 That we have nothing to fear, but much to hope. from this, and that no one can be injured by ft-not even our British cous- ins-in the judgment of this experienced financier, his closing words to 'The Thun- derer'' most clearly show. Hear and think on them. He says:
 "At such a crisis 1t is the part of wis
 dom for the Brnish press to advise our investors not to be one whit dismayed if MT. Bryan Is elected. Let them recall the occurrence of 1893 The depreciation of the silver currency of Mexico, we were told, wold destroy the sterling value of Mexican Central bonds. Yet these cent.
 ''It would not be difficult to show that free coinage at to IS is likely to raise the price of silver to parity and fhere maintain 1t; but even if the worst hap pens, and there results some moderate gold premium. nothing will be more ef- fective than the premium to give the
 needed stimulus to all that America ex- ports, to reduce her imports and give heI that favorable balance of trade, for wan' of which she Is now bleeding to death.
 "The election of MT. Bryan. if our peo' pie did but know 1t. is the fnevita bie pre- cursor of good times. Yours faithfully:
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