The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30

potism Is merely nightmare, induced by
too much of free silver's indigestible tneo-
ries--a nightmare that will pass with the
pleasant morning of prosperity, when the
Republican sun shall have risen again and
the dark night of Democracy be passed.
What excuse have you, Governor Aitgeld,
for calling from Appomattox this ghost of
treason? Do you answer. as you did III
New York. that the workingmen. the
masses who toll, demand 1t? deny 1t. 1t
was the producing millions who made us
Nation 1t was the workingman and far
mer who spilled the tea in Boston narDor,
who fired the world-reverberating SHOT at
Lexington, who starved and froze at Valley
Forge, who fell like the storm or COO
eternal wrath upon the enemy at Trenton
ward swept in blue battalions when sumter
called to answer with their lives the very
question you have put again. The toiler
welded every loyal sword, carried every
patriotic muSket, and, In the hell OF Dattle
at Gettysburg, at Missionary Ridge, the
very men behind whose names you hide,
voiced with their cries victory and death,
and wrote, with their sacred blood, their
testimony against you Every grave on
Shiloh's field, every tattered Union battle
flag is a rebuke to you from patriot lips
now yoiceleSs: and every time we look on
fathers musket and fathers sword; every cry.
proud tears upon the old blue uniform upon
the wall, we sons and brothers of the'work-
1ngmen who fought, and some OF whom
died, to settle the very question with which
you vex the land once more, know the deep
damnation of your masquerade in labor's
Il deny that the genuine toilers of the
land are lawless and, therefore, fear the
who let slip the dogs of riot and bear the
torch of arson and hurl the bombs of an
organize. 1 assert its right to strike; but
wher it strikes / insist that the lawless
deeds of furies and of thugs made possible
by the temporizing of local authorities,
shall not be laid at labors door Law is
labor's only, friend, and when the law is
tvs breath of life and when law is strang-
led liberty has persisted. Laws noble mis-
sion is to protect the poor and weak; the
rich and powerful protect themselves. The
ancient lord in his castle strong needed no
law-his sword was his statute: but the
came between him and oppression. The
modern millionaire can live without law
his money is his might: but you and are
not even citizens without it. And law,
which protects and blesses all--law which
makes you and me the equal of Wander
bilt in our remedies and rights-that law
must be obeyed by all. or its power to bless
and to protect is gone. and with it justice,
equality, liberty and civilization.
Assault on all wealth is made in order
to light the fires of prejudice, and thus di-
vert men from the real issue involved. But
States rights? I am not here 10 defend the
abuses OF wealth 1t has its vices, but it
has it's virtues too. Wealth is the fuel that
drives the engine of human progress along
the shining rails of development: and labor
is the engine itself The engine must not
empty it's fire-box and tender and the heat
must not consume the engine Everybody
knows that concentrated capital is neces-
sary for every achievement of mankind.
MIR. BRYAN'S INFAMY.
1--WE defend not that abuse of wealth
which all men loathe-that malign disease
of greed whose occasional oppression and
malodorous ostentation have given black
hearted demagogues Of this campaign the
xybi oh hoy
pei Of discomfort; which have given to Bry-
an the crutches with which he mends the
limp Of his logic, the intoxicant with which
he tries to stupefy the public conscience.
And Mr.. Bryans infamy is in making no
distinction, but in trying to lead all poverty
as a class against all wealth as a class-in
sowing the seeds of general destruction,
without care or regard to the harvest of
general ruin we must reap Let us be sane;
let us be honest Let US admit wealth's
virtues and abuses, and encourage the
one and correct the other. There are ways
is not one of them. Revolution is not one
OF them. And when Mr.. Bryan holds to the
lips of the American people his goblet of
silver. filed to the brim with revolutions
blood-red wine, the American people will
dash it to the earth they would cup
of cobra's deadly poison. Anything rather
than the sacrifice of American manhood on
the altar of revenge. Anything, rather than
the crucifixion of American honor on the
against class in this Republic; whoever in
cites section against section, is "a traitor to
the flag.
Governor Altgeld is not the issue. his
official acts or omissions are not the issue.
The principle implied is the issue-an issue
that appeals to every American heart We
are told the President acted too ouicl<Iv
When should he act? When the forces OF
destruction are gathering, or not until the
red glow in the West told him that the
names of arson were already wrapping Chi
cago in its winding sheet of fire? And. if
be injured by the governments prompt
action. The stars and stripes never yets
heid any horror to law-abiding men, And
the laboring men were law-abiding-that
fact was then. has always been, will always
be the common peoples refuge. But the
PROFESSIONALLY th iawless. those who in Hay
the opportunity to do their fiendsh work
when the blame would be laid at the doors
hag's approach, as crime fears justice
These are the forces with which YOU cannot
tenporize; these are the forces that respect
only counter and superior force. And /
say that the head of the Republic is a .ra1-
tor to his trust, it,, when he sees the condi-
tons forming under which anarchy acts
he does not draw about that Threatened
spot the magic circle of his constitutional
power. You want no aid of government to
ext1nguish fires once lighted; you went the
protection of government to prevent the
lighting of those fires at all. Temporize
with n.a riot and it will grow until lives are
sacrificed to suppress it,. Act when its
first murmurs rise and the hurricane is
huShed in its first harmless breath: and
after they are hushed the very ones who
in the passion of the hour might have
been lawless, will thank you for saving
them from themselves. When local reyo-
luton hurls broadcast the brands of de-
struction he who dallies with it is a das-
tard, and he who doubts is damned
THE SUPREME COURT.
1.-THE power of the general government, as
Washington understood it, as Jackson I'M
derstood it, as Lincoln understood it-this.
and the integrity of our Supreme Court un-
tranmeled, unprecedented, unawed-these
your Governor calls the 'blighting sisters
CT the Republic. Are they, felow-citizens
of the American Nation? At the ballot
box you must decide whether we will have
jelE-fsh general government and a
weather-vane Supreme Court-whether To-
cal paralysis shall make your general COW
eminent living death when it attempts to
act within its own domnions and whether
the DEGREES of caucuses and the resolutions
of political conventions. l am for a living
government and an impartial Supreme
Court. Think of the Nation as Bryan would
make it-a beggar, hat in hand, knocking
at the door of Delaware or Nevada for per-
mission to paSS--a federal mendcant n no.
litical tramp. Think of the Supreme Court
as he would reform it; Coxey in the seat
of Marshall, Hogg in the seat of Storey.
Altgeld prosecuting the pleas of the gov
eminent before them, while on the statue
of justice above the door the raven OF Pom
ulism sits and croaks with meaning. New