The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-19
COCHRAN ANSWERS BRYAN.


NOOntnued from First Bage,l
Inevitable consequence, vi the doctrines
which he breaches that his own hands
would be the very first to tear down the
platform on which he stands. We all must
remember that lurid rhetoric which
plowed as dercely In the western skies as
that sunlight which through the past week
foretoid the torrid heat of the ensuing Hay,
and here upon this platform we lind chat
same rhetoric as mild, as insipid, as the
waters of a stagnant pool.
"He Is q candidate who was swept into
the nomination by wave of popular en-
thusiasm awakened by appeals to preju-
dice and greed. He Is candidate who,
declaring that this was a revolutionary
movement, no sooner found himself face
to face with the American feeling than he
realized that this soil is not propitious to
revolution that the people of this country
will not change the institutions which
have stood the tests and experiences of a
century for institutions based upon the
fantastic dreams of Populist agitatorS
that the American nation viii never con
sent TO substitute for the republic of Wash
inRtun of Jefferson and of Jackson the
republic of an Altgeld, Trlman or IA
Bryan.
Whatever change may have come over
his manner asa candidate, however much
the vehemcnce of his eloquence may have
been reduced, two things for which he
stands remain unaltered. On this plat
form he defended the most revolutionary
plank of the Chicago convention in
speeches vehement but not less earnest
than that in which he supported their
adoption. On this platform he defended
the POpulistic program of overthrowing
the integrity of the supreme court. If
there be any fruit which has grown for the
benefit Of all mankind out of the estab-
lishment of our republic, 1t has been the
demonstration that it is possible by the
| organization of an independent tribunal
to safeguard the rights of every citizen and
protect those natural privileges against
any invasion from whatever source or
however powerful might be the antagoniz-
ing elements
The Insult to the Supreme Court.
''The very existence of that power pre-
supposes the existence of an Independent
tribunal, yet we have this Populist CON
vention, because a Populist measure was
condemned as unconstitutional, propos-
ing, not to amend the constitution in the
ordinary way prescribed by that instru-
ment itself, but proposing TO pack the
court so that it will pronounce those laws
to be constitutional which the constltu-
tlon itself COndemsn, a proposal TO make
the courts of law Instruments of lawess-
ness; to violate that sacred compact be-
tween the states on which the security OF
| this nation rests to profane the temple
erected for its protection by the hands OF
false priests who though sworn to defend,
it will be appointed to destroy it,
Il am a little puzzled to decide just
what Mr.. Bryan himself imagines will be
the fruit of a change in the standard Of
value throughout this country. If Mr..
Bryan could show me that by any means
wages will be increased l will be ready to
| support him, because | know of no test Of
| prosperity absolutely infallible except the
rate Of wages paid to labOrers. No man
! can tell how or where or when the wages
! of the workingmen are to be increased,
! but anyone who examines the scheme can
see that the inevitable tendency, the in
| evitablo consequence of a debasement in
the standard of value must be reduction
in the rate of wages, and that is the con
| spiracy III which the Populists Is engaged.
Mr.. Bryan tells us that he wants to
cheaper the dollar; that he wants to in
/ crease the volume of money. do not be-
lieve that any man who ever lived could
quite understand a Populist's notion of
what money is, further than that he be-
lieves it is desirable thing to get, and
that he is not very particular about the
means by which he can get his hands on it.
Nothing is more common than the
mistake that money and property are
identical They are not. There may be
L., e 1o In, N
and very great poverty. The issue of paper
money simply is no more an increase OF
wealth than the issue by an individual of
his promissory note would show an in.
crease in property, but may be strong
proof of IA decrease in wealth. 1t is not
the volume of mo -ey, but the activity OF
money that counts
The Basis Of Sound Trade.
"The basis of sound trade is sound money
money which is intrinsically valuable
Money like the gold coinage of this coun
try, the government cannot affect if il
tried Co | can take IA ten dollar gold piece
and l can defy all the power Of all thegov
erhments of this earth to take five cents O
value from it. Having earned it by tn,
sweat of my brow, having earned itby th,
exercise of my brain, having earned it by
the exchange of my commodities, | cal
go TO the uttermost ends of the earth, anC
wherever present it its value will be un
Questioned and unchallenged. The golC
dollar, this meeting, the Democratic party
the honest masses Of this country withou
distinction of party divisions, demanC
shall be paid to the laborer when he earn
it, and that no power on earth shall chea
him of the sweat Of his brow.
at is perfectly clear that the purpose O
the Populist is to put up the prices Of Ger
tain commodities Mr.. Bryan language /