The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17

| tne opposing forces, huddled together In
| uoupt ana undecision, arguing, shouting,
winning, swearing, debating stood the great
half- witted throng OF wealth producers the
| farmers and laborers, the mechanics and
| the retail traders, the clerks and salarisl
| employees of monopoly IN short all who
lived on the fruits OF their own labor. or so
| much thereof as the majesty of the law VAS
! pleased to leave them. These. by the sheer
| weight OF their numbers, held the balance
of power, and straightway came the bone
| OF contention, an unenyiable distinction
| they enjoyed to the end. Already the sin
| gle gold standard was floating in the breeze.
| Thus the issues were declared. the line OF
| battle drawn up, and the campaign opened.
! And now. at once and together became
| manifest to all eyes the appalling bascneSs
and the transcending greatness OF the hui
| man heart, the abysmal depths to which it
can sink, the empyrean heights to which
| 1t may rise
Were all tho dogs of he'll let loose at
| once and their attack concentrated on a
| single victim. they could not Guido in blind
| fury and savage malice the combined on
| slaught which plutocracy and its depend
| ents, its hirelings and Its Hessians its
pimps and its parasites made upon the free
silver candidate Ridicue calumny. mock
| cry, falsehood the whole vocabulary Of
insulting epthets every engine known to
every age. by which the soul might be
mont ,,nhinsod ,ho ,o,,ra,. i,sto5 - t,,,.,.
were hurled Inv thousands or varsl s,a,,tS >
bounds against the one public man who,
beyond all others. might be the pride AMI
glory OF any nation that was not unfi. 10
tender oonscjence of nlutocrncv having en-
far forgnttnn ito o,vn ,yolr,yb naturn &c Ia
momentarily lapse into the scmblance OF
virtue under the spell of the man now
marked for it's prey. was fastening to make
weakness n had shown and tho sin n hnd
committed Let us hone thai it sucreedei
in mailing its neocc
How was the friohtfuI story NJ tie m
slaurht withs,ood2 mid The shafts ~ r,dt-
Guile find their mark pii the poisoned ar
rows of ,-alumnv nIerco the soul ,hev we're
moan, 10 luie ma 40 ,ving choraa ~ ~
ing tho nine owners. hircIipr hTeol, tho
heart II was Intended m crush Nil the
unutterable meanness rom which ema.
mated tho cbar~e ot nIarIar;sr, hesr,;rcb
The character IL was tcped 10 sullyp bid
tho nameloss crime of being ''bov orator"
doom its perpetrator to ignoIninious OK
Tin ction9 Did the charges of dishonesty
anarchy. regulation. wound the sensitive
feelings and kindle the fires of anger and
resentment? In a word, did all that 1t
deemed characteristic OF incarnate yillainv
succeed in its murdcrous intent9
Oh, friends, was ever leader like VIII
liam Jennings Bryant Oh is Il not good
to live and follow men like him, Calm as
the sea girt rock. bright and warm as the
morning sun. clear and pure as the crystal
brook true as tho needle to the mole he
held the even tenor OF his wav. never
swerving for a moment to the right or to
the left. always argumentatiye and cool
always appealing 10 reason. never arous
ing passion or prejudice. astonishing the
world with his Intellectual richness and
physical endurance and. most wonderful of
ali never making one false sten NV which
he might stumble and fall n prey TO the
ravcning wolves that pursued him. No
wonder that then our homes were high
and no wonder. our homes being dashed
that we are now sad and sick al heart
Who defeated Bryan? who betrayed the
cause OF humanIty9 Who sold the mass to
the social cannibals? Let the Galveston
News make answer. There are some things
on which II il good authority and this is
one OF them:
CREDIT TO THE SOUND MONEY
WoRKINGMAN.