The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-04
THOU SHALT NOT.

of the great trusts are in agony. The
practical politicians have become
prophets of evil, and papers that profit
by the sale of editorial influence to
professional plunderers are shrieking
forth their displensure. Bryan is be.
ing denounced as red-fagger. Jack
Cade, veritable Anacharsis Cloots, OF
political Anabaptist by those whose
private snaps at public expense his
candidacy endangers: yet his most un-
compromising enemies grudgingly ad-
nit that he is exceptionally able and
incorruptibly honest. How in the
name of all the gods at once can the
best interests of this country be sub
verified by placing an able and honest
man at the head of its affairs?
The Conscript Fathers were not deter
red by the frantic abuse heaped upon
them by the Danas and Belos of their
day. Finding that they could no more
stem the rising tide than any other bad
smell could stop a thunderbolt, some
of the loyal subjects of his most gra-
cious majesty" attached themselves to
the continental army-in the capacity
of sutlers-while others, caught trying
to betray their neighbors to British
vengeance, were given a short shift
and hair halter. Those "conserva-
tives" now crying peace, peace" will
find there can be no peace until the
people are the rulers de facto, as they
are de jure, of this mighty nation-that
they did not cease to be British sub
jects only to become industrial serfs.
They will find that they can no more
check with their phrenetic calamity
clack this uprising against ring rule
than could King Canute prevent the
majestic ocean rolling in the wake of
the silver moon. They will find that
brazen robbery in the realm of indus
try is doomed-that a cabal of multi
millionaires will not much longer be
permitted either to dictate national
polity or fix the price of the farmers
products.
The cry is raised that Bryan is too
young. Fortunately, the defect is not
constitutional-with the blessing of
God he will get over it. l regret ex-
ceedingly that his complaint isn't con-
tagious- What difference does it make,
forsooth, how young he may be, so
long as his very opponents admit his
great ability? The idea that wisdom
comes only with age is the merest
moonshine. Shakespeare wrote Ham
let" at Sc, and at that age Lord Byron
laid down the burthens of life. At 80
Lord Give was conquering India for
the British crown, and at 33 Alexander
the Great gave up the ghost At %
Napoleon took command of the army
of Italy, and at 80 jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence. At 81
Webster was holding his own with
such intellectual Titans as Clay and
Calhoun, and at that age the best
essays of Macaulay had been written.
Pitt was chancellor of the exchequer at
%, and at that age Fox resigned
the Office of lord of the admiralty.
Whether in art or literature, in war or
statecraft, in commerce or industry.
the great bulk of the worlds best work
has been done by men for whom life's
shadows were still falling towards the
west. Youth boldly faces the unsolved
enigma of the future; age turns its face
regretfully to the past. The first seeks
improvements; the latter looks to prece-
dent. Youth stands for progress and
age for petrification.
1t is time we sent to Washington
man whose heart is with the toiling
Millions and who can not be lulled by
the golden sirens of greed-one with
courage to say to those who make the
national temple a den of thieves,
Thou shalt not.''-Brann's Iconoclast.