The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02
A CHANGE OF BASE.
Organizes Are Shifting to New
Frauds and FolIies.

Brynnitcs Are Shifting 10 Ne"
Frauds and Foiiies.
1.-THE most remarkable part of Bryan's
speech" remarked ex-senator Ingalls,
facetiously, referring to Bryan's talk
at Atchison, twas 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 10 simply
explaining. He is having an uphill job.
II the discussion were in order the sight
OF 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
fanatical 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
applied for with any such design. In
functions have been obtained to prevent
strikers from interfering with other
people who want to work, to avert de-
struction of life and property, and to
head of violence and lawlessness of
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 be
sure, what the demagogues call gov
eminent by injunction" was mentioned
and assailed, butt attracted very little
attention in the canvass. Free coinage,
the pretended union between silver and
wheat in the markets, and the terrible
disaster which was sure to befall the
country if Bryan was beaten, were the
burden of the popocratic talks on the
stump and in the press. All these shams
have been exposed by the country's ex-
perience in the past few months. and q
new set of frauds and follies have to be
created. The labor troubles will fur
nish IN issue for the time, but as the
labor troubles are almost at an end and
as the business revival is likely to avert
such disturbances for the next few
years, how are Bryan and his advocates
going to fire the popocratic heart?
Long before the congressional election
of 1898 the government by injunction"
pretense will be as dead as the silver
wheat price fraud. Most of the popo-
Gratis want government ownership of
railroads, telegraphs and telephones,
and many of them would like to see the
government control nearly all sorts Of
industries and business operations, and
become the general employer and super
visor of everybody. Undoubtedly the
popocratic programme of 1900 will go
farther in the direction of state So
cialism than any considerable number
of people have ever seriously thought of
going in the United States.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.