The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
APPEALS TO PASSION.
Candidate Bryan is Seeking to Ar
ray One Glass of People
Against Another.
SENSE, NOT 0RATORY WANTED
The Men Who Handle the Nation
Business Affairs Distrust
This Agitator

If Republicans should call Mr.. Bryan
coward and a mischief-maker his
friends would denounce it as persecution.
But is II not cOwardly and miscellaneous
for a man to seek office and self-prOmO-
ton by playing on the prejudces of the
people and in seeking to arouse the hate
of one class against another? Can the
nation ever return to prosperous and
peaceful times so long as the labOring
man hates his employer and the farmer
hates the business man? Prosperity can
exist only when there is mutual conf
dence between the classes and between
the different sections of the country.
Can the West prosper while its honesty
and good sense is distrusted by the
East? Can the South prosper and en-
while it arrays itself against the East
and demands a free-silver policy which
makes every bank hoard its money and
every capitalist hide his capital in
safety vault? The laboring men may
crowd about Mr. Bryan in Chicago on
little posies which are distributed among
them by Mr.. Bryan's family. and the
Associated press may send out to the
readers of this country long and interest
ing descriptions of these enthusiastic
demonstrations. but the mighty engine of
Chicago and directed the development of
the great Northwest is afraid of this
shrewd agitatOr and of the little pOsies
which are distributed from his car.
When. before. in the history of the cOun-
try. did any brave and manly statesman
seek to OpOn the door of opportunity to
himself by means which he knew would
close it against the labOrer whom he Sc
duced with t1attery and flowers? Would
it not be more manly and stateSman-like
if Mr.. Bryan would seek to cool the fe-
yer of hate and incipient revolution
which is in Chicago. rather than to urge
it on! What does it signify, as Il prom
Use of better times. if fifty men or fifty
thousand men gather about the car and
struggle for n sight of the boy orator.
if every word he utters sends a thrill
of doubt into the business mind of Chi
The idle men of Chicago may believe
in Mr. Bryan. but what the country
needs is a man whom the busy men
believe in.
When the busy men of the country
believe in the President. his cabinet
and his Congress. they will enlarge their
business and make room for others to
be busy, but when the busy men are
afraid of the President and his Con-
gress, then they will busy themselves in
making what they have already achieved
as secure as possible. without reaching
out and charging their operations.
Nebraska and Kansas need new popu-
latiOn and an enlargement of their local
industries to build up their home mar
kets and give value to their property.
These things can come back to these
states only when confidence comes back
in the minds of such men as are able
to bring such things about. Eastern
farmers with money will not come to
these Western states to buy these mort
God for that bninr fnro-
closed until the industries of the nation
are set in motion and the farmers mar
ket is restored. Can these who gather
around the Bryan car to receive the pO-
sizes. can they evolve Il plan? Can they
furnish the mind force which must lead
the country out of this wilderness of
dispute and diScOrd into which these
talking politicians have led us? Who
will the nation look to for the restora
ton of its industrial enterprises when
this campaign is over! Will it look to
those who gather around the Bryan
car with shouts and demonstrations? Or
will it not appeal, as every nation al
ways has and always will appeal, to
those who. with trained minds and cool
Judgment. sit in the counting houses, to
direct with mind force the energies of
this country? The business men of Chi
cagO and of the other commercial centers
of the country believe in Mckinley and
the men who are backing him, but they
don't believe in Bryan and the men
who urge free coinage in this campaign.
What does it avail for Senator Stewart
of Nevada to talk to the people of New
York and Pennsylvania. if the indus
tries of New York and Pennsylvania
are dependent for direction upon the
business men of those states, and if
those business men are afraid of Sen
ator Stewart and his 5O-cent silver dol
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