The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-09
NARkowNess OF BRYAN.
Does Not Understand the Principle Of
Unity of Interest.

Does Not Understand the Principle Of
Unity of Interest.
In order to find out how dangerous
MAJ William j. Bryan is we need but
10 study his public utterances. He has
no conception of this country as
unit. Ills mind Is not broad enough to
understand the great principles of unity
oI interest. He looks upon the man
VINO mas money as a public enemy
VINO deserves no protection and who
is entitled to no rights. Witness these
statements take-l from a speech de-
nvered by Bryan in the house of rep
resentatives on Jan. 80, 1896:
WHO Is 1t that most needs a navy? ?.
is 1t the farmer who plods along behind
his plow upon his farm, or is IL the man
whose property is situated in some
great seaport, where it could be
reached by an enemy's guns? Who is
1t demands standing army? Is it the
poor man who goes about his work, or
is 1t the capitalist who wants that
army to supplement the local govern
ment In protecting that property, when
ne enters contest with his employes?"
one almost has to rub his eyes to
make sure that he has not been dream
ing that this man is a candidate for
the presidency. Why, his conception
or the country is as narrow as was the
King of Slams knowledge of the uni
verse when he refused to believe that
water could become solid because he
had never seen ice. This mighty ma
ton, stretching from ocean to ocean
and from the great lakes to the gulf
is as firmly bound together and as in
ter-dependent as are the various parts
OF the human body. If one part is af-
fected the whole is more or less dis
eased.
If a great fleet were to anchor off
New York harbor and shell the me-
tropolis, 1T would, in Bryan's opinion,
make no difference to the farmers in
Iowa or to the employe in Cedar Rap
ids. He seems to think that because
modern guns have not yet been per-
fected to such an extent that they can
hurl solid shot from New York to the
Mississippi valley, that therefore we
should have no adequate protection for
our seaport towns.
Small benefit has it been to Mr.. Bry-
an to attend church regularly. He
evidently has never heard or needed
this text of Scripture:
For If the body is not one member,
but many.
IF the foot shall say, because am
not the hand, 1 am not the body is it
therefore not of the body?
IF the whole body were an eye where
were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing where were the smelling?
But now are there many members
yet but one body.
And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, L have no need of thee nor
again, the head to the feet, L have no |
need of thee.
"And whether one member suffer all |
the members suffer with it, or one |
member be honored, all the members |
rejoice with it,"
We commend Mr.. Bryan to the study |
of these words. The country is one |
body. New York cannot say to the |
west, we have no need of thee or the |
west cannot say to the east, we have |
no need of thee
If this country were all laborers and |
ITO capitalists labor would have no ver-
led employments. We need our farms |
and we need our banks. We need our
factories and we need our factory men.
The man who seeks to array one |
cl;Lss against the other and who thinks
the interests of one section are hostile
to the interests of the other is not fit |
to be road supervisor, let alone presi-
dent of the United States.-Cedar Rap
ids Oa.) Republican.