Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-08-26
HOW TO START THE WHEELS.
The Business Men Must Start Them-Not
the Orators and DemagOgues.

Popullst-"A revival of the industries
of the nation"
R.-"How would a revival of the in
dustries affect the West?'
PIT would make demand for their
agricultural products and consequently
raise the price
R.-"What will you do in this cam
paign to assist in bringing about tins re-
sult?''
Pr will vote and work for the cleo
ton of Bryan, and such congressman as
are in sympathy with his views.
R.-"What are his yiewsT
P.-"Mr. Bryan favors the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver"
R.-"What are the views of the men
who are expected to start these INDUS
tries? | mean the manufacturers and
the heads of enterprises where labor is
employed"
P-'"They are against the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver until an inter-
national agreement can be secured.
R.-''You say that Bryan fayors free
silver and these business men oppose 1t:
Bryan believes that free silver would
start the industries, but the men who
control and manage the industries believe
that free silver would still further smash
them. If Bryan is elected. will these
men who have already suffered heavy
losses in the last three years, then put in
in the face of a financial policy which
they believe to be still more ruinous!
Can an industry be revived against the
judgment and consent of the owner!
Would an engineer who had suffered
wreck because of defective rail mount
his engine again and start the train when
he knew that there was another rail just
ahead which was still more defective?
Or would he not stand still and re-
fuse to bulge until the track is made safe
and sound?
And suppose that some eloquent
young orator should suddenly appear be-
fore that engineer and should make an
enthusiastic speech, and suppose that
some farmers and laboring men from
the surrounding country would gather
about that wreck and should cheer the
speech? Would that start the train|
P.-'But these men whom you say con-
troll the industries are goldbugs and plu-
tocrats.
R-''You apply these epithets. but cpl
thets are not arguments. An epithet
hurled at 4 business man will not cause
him to engage in an enterprise or to in
vest money when he believes the invest
ment is unsafe. If the farmers and
laboring men gathered around a wrecked
train. would call the engineer goldbug;
would that change his mind? And sup
pose these farmers and laborers, being
aroused by the speech. should call a con-
vention and pass resolutions denOunclng
the engineer, the superintendent and
the president of the road; would that
start the train?
start the industries of this nation so
long as the men who manage these in
dustries are afraid to start?'
P.-"But | am in favor of the United
States managing her own affairs with
out the consent of any other nation on
earth.
R-"This reference to the consent of
other nations is pure demagogism and
is used by Mr.. Bryan and his followers
simply as a catch phrase to make them
appear patriotic and to arouse the frenzy
of unthinking people.
Every man in the United States wants
this government to manage its own af
fairs and every intelligent man knows
that it has always done 50.
But every intelligent man also knows
that the men who run the workshops and
factories of this country are not for
eigners and that they are not asking the
consent of other nations to start the fac
tories. but they are consulting their own
judgment, and they will not start these
industries, for they cannot unless the
finances of this nation are on u sound
basis.
Put is not free silver a sound
of this country do not think So
P.-''But the people think So This is
q government of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people The people GER
tainiy know what they want and their
demands must be respected"
R.-"Hes. this is a government of the
people, but who are the people?''
P.-"We are the people"
R.-"1es, you are the people who in
vent catchy phrases and sensational the
cries, but did you ever invent an industry
that gave employment to idle men? Did
you ever invent thought or doctrine
which aroused confidence? Is there q
single wheel in all these idle factories
that you can put in motion? You can
strike industry with the paralysis of
death, but you cannot revive it. You are
the people who talk, but you are not the
people who revive industries The silver
tipped tongue of your free silver orator.
is the sting that stings industry to death
That is just what ails the country now
There have been toe many sensational
speech makers who can organize and con-
oil conventions, but they cannot organize
industry, they cannot control capital, eX-
cept to make it hide away in fear
Bring out your free silver orator and
let him make a speech.
Let him soar his catchy phrases
around the ruins of one of these smoke
less factories, and see if there is a single
wheel that he can turn
P.-"But this country will never be
dominated by the plutocrat or the gold
bug"
R.-'It never has, and it never will be
dominated by the plutocrat or the gold
bug, and neither will it ever be domi-
mated by the Popocrat, the slverbug.
the political tumblebug, or the visionary
humbug. but it will be dominated by
the cool-headed business men, the cool
headed farmers and laboring men of
this country, who are in the majority,
and WHO are aroused this year as they
never were before, to save this country
to all the people. to keep the silver dol
lar and the gold dollar side by side in
circulation among the people, to put the
laboring man back into the job he lost
three years ago, so that he can buy more
bread and meat from the farmers of
Kansas and Nebraska"
Hon. W. j. Bryan and Free Wool.
The wool crop last year was valued at
about S70000,000 while the value of the
corn. wheat and oats raised that year,
without mentioning the other crops of the
farm, amounted to $1.572. 1874. 206. Three
of thp far "