The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-09-29
. a CHANGE 81 BASE.
nryanites Are shifting to New
Frauds and FollIes.

Frauds and Follies. "a
"The most remarkable part of Bryan's
speech remarked ex-senator Ingalls,
facesiously. referring to Bryan's talk
ut Atchison, was the part which he
omitted. He was silent about free and
unlimited coinage, about the per capita,
and about the indissoluble communion
ship between silver and wheat" Sen
ator Foraker says: Bryan is not dis
cussing politics this year; he is simply
explaining. He is having an uphill job.
IL the discussion were in order. the sight
Of a sheaf of wheat standing on end
would scare him off the platform" In
fact, Bryan's silence about wheat and
silver has attacked nearly every leader
on his side. Those things, whether
singly or in conjunction, are inspiring
the popocratic chieftains with terror.
Just at present the labor disturbances
are furnishing the popocrats with
topics. OF course, in handling this ques-
ton they contrive to work off great
deal of misrepresentation Bryan him
self has several times said that injunc-
tions are resorted to for "the suppress
sion of strikes" Everybody, except
fnnatical or ignorant persons, knows
that there is no truth in such an asser-
ton. No injunction was ever granted
for any such purpose. None was ever
4 applied for with any such design. In
Functions have been obtained to prevent
strikers from interfering with other
lpeople who want to work, to avert de-
struction of life and property, and to
4 head off violence and lawlessness Of
4 different sorts. Bryan knows all this
but Misrepresentation is part of his
programme to array class against class
to incite discomfort and disturbance
and to utilize these conditions for parti
san purposes.
In the Chicago platform of 1896, to b.
sure, what the demagogues call "gov
ernment by injunction" was mentioned
and assailed, but it attracted very littl
attention in the canvass. Free coinage
the pretended union between silver ant
wheat in the markets, and the terrible
disaster which was sure to befall tn
country if Bryan was beaten, were tn
burden of the popocratic talks on tn
stump and in the press. All these sham
have been exposed by the country's ex
, perience in the past few months, and
new set of frauds and follies have to b
created. The labor troubles will fur
nish an issue for the time, but as tn
labor troubles are almost at an end, an
( as the business revival is likely to aver
: such disturbances for the next fey
: years, how are Bryan and his advocate
r going to fire the popocratic heart
a Long before the congressional electio
e of 1898 the government by injunction
e pretense will be as dead as the silver
d wheat price fraud. Most of the pope
e Gratis want government ownership
r railroads, telegraphs and telephone
i and many of them would like to see tn
il government control nearly all sorts
n industries and business operations, an
h become the general employer and supe
Q visor of everybody. Undoubtedly tn
d popocratic programme Of 1900 will
e farther in the direction of state s.
cialism than any considerable numb'
Of people have ever seriously thought
going in the United States.-St. Lou
,e Globe-Democrat.