The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-16

of conditions and of misstatements-
Of assertions. that is to say, which
had no application to the things
which he was talking about, of con-
fusion OF mind as to the meaning of
these things, and of falsehoods. The
first and second classes of Bryan's
obliquities are too numerous to be
mentioned here, says the Globe Dem
ocrat, but we will touch on a few of
the third class. "The idle man,"
says Bryan, sis the menace to the
man who has employment, and the
number of IDLE men must necessarily
increase if we have money system
which constantly raises the value of
the dollar and constantly lowers the
market of the products of labor"
There is a triple falsehood here,
for Bryan, of course, intended those
words to apply to existing condi-
tions. The number of idle men is
smaller than it was four months ago,
or four years ago. Everybody, in
Guiding Bryan, knows this. Our
money system does not constantly
raise the value of the dollar. The
dollar will not buy as much labor,
skilled or unskilled, as it did fifteen
or twenty years ago, or in more re-
cent times. Here is something
which every workIngman has to sell.
This thing will command more dol
lars than it did in 1873, when silver
was demonetized. 1t will command
more than it did in 1879 when gold
payments by the government were
restored. The prices of the products
of labor are not getting lower. They
are getting higher. Wheat is seventy
or eighty per cent higher than it was
when Bryan was running for presl-
dent, and when, for a time, there
seemed to be some danger that he
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hay, and hree-fourths of the other
products are higher than they were
then, and are steadily advancing.
Every mechanic or worker of any
sort who heard Bryan knew he was
telling a falsehood when he insinu-
ated that wages were gong down.
Everybody knew Bryan's insinua-
tion about the decline in products to
be false. Bryan himself knew both
insinuations to be false.
Injunctions, says Bryan, are "gen-
orally sought by employers who,
after combining among themselves,
endeavor to prevent cooperation
among their employees" This asser-
ton, too, Bryan knows to be untrue.
Not single instance in the whole
history of the labor disturbances of
1894 or 1897 can be cited in which
an employer has obtained an injunc-
ton to prevent the formation of
labor societies, or TO stop any other
sort of legitimate combination among
employees. No Injunction for any
such purpose has ever been asked by
ary one. No judge of any court,
state or federal, in the United States,
would grant an injunction on any
such plea. Injunctions have been
granted to prevent workmen who
wanted to work from beng mall
treated or intimidated, to protect
the persons or property of employers
that were in danger, and to prevent
strikers and agitators from commit
ting crime for which they would be
punished. For these reasons, and
only for these, as Bryan Is well
aware, have iDjunctions been issued.
During the last campaign de-
clares Bryan, 'san attempt was made
to rob the Australian ballot of much
of its usefulness. So-called sound
money clubs were organized by em
ployers among their employees. Men
working for wages were compelled to