The San Francisco call., 1898-02-15
OUT OF TONNE.

N1 R. TONNE has opened the silver campaign E at the south end of the State. Ills speech at Los Angeles is that of the politician whose vocation of office holding is gone, and IS Deing pur sued in its in the hope ot overtaking It oy attacking all other vacations He arraigns every n- and every industry Success in any IS to nm sign of infany and evidence of oppression. Raising high his banner inscribed with free coinage ot silver at Io to he summons his hearers to do battle under it, because every business enterprise, every wage paying industry, every profitable occupation in the country is arrayed against it. He enlists all who have failed and all who have made effort, and there fore have not rsked ailure and all politicians who banker after power, and have not found favor with their party An observer of events must be impressed by the prospective effect of such politics upon the community The generation of men just coming upon the active stage told that it is no use to strive their fathers strove; that confronting the battle of life they must lay down their arms without striking blow that education and the qualities of self-control, thrift and temperance, industry and honor, will not avail any more They are told that all the successes they see around them won by the generation that preceded them, are the spells of craft and crime; that government is fraud law threat, Judges juggers and business an offense against the rights of man.
 When the young taught that success was open to morality and self-denial; that fortune was the good mans prize; that, given health and spurred by industry, the world open to achievement; that no man could carry the pathway to fortune with him as he walked its length, but must leave it to be pressed by the feet of every generation that fol- lowd him, the tendency to cultivate in men the known elements which led to success As these consistent with honesty and squared with honor and maniness, generation after generation passed in Wh ed
 Now there has arisen this new school of politicians who impeach every human activity and denounce every human effort that has paid the wages of labor and prohted by success They codde every man who fails, for he IS victim of the criminal success of another. They enter the home of content to destroy its peace by exciting greeds and grudges. They set men against men, They incite labor against its employer, and advise that he be ruined A percent age of those just entering active life will take them at their word that business is criminal occu- patton and will enter it in that spirit. Others will lag at the beginning and survive recruit the army of theoretical or practical anarchy. Whenever the old moralities and the old manhood can be driven out of their place the promoters of contented lives they will be expelled
 Now, who are these who making this campaign against the structure of social health and propose to tear down society and rebuild upon the lOunQdllOH or US 1alluIeS ana us diseases! MT. Bryan and Mr. Towne are the leaders of that school What industries have they founded? What wages have they paid, what men have they employed? What hands have had labor and what mouths have been fed by anything they have done?
 Have they so far experimented with the industrial and financial status which they impeach as to till farm, start a shop, employ labor, or pay wages? They are both lawyers, and have both practiced. Did they succeed in their profession? Are they not doing better now agtators than they ever did as lawyers? What practical experience have they in business enterprises that makes them the judges of the world and enables them to condemn every man who has taken risks, who has borne the cares and anxieties of business who has strengthened his manhood, sharpened his ingenuity and has found, in his experiences kindness and not condemnation for his fellow-nen?
 They draw black picture of existing conditions and declare that its repulsive aspect will pass away under free coinage of silver at I6 to How do they know that? If every evil they pretend to see were upon the country, how would their plan cure? Is there anything in conditions in Mexico, China and the other silver countries to prove what they say? If the full habiment of silver and its free coinage as money can create the Utopan conditions they prophecy for their policy they point to present historical example to prove it? Can their free coinage scheme make business virtuous, men honest courts upright and legislation pure? If so, where has it done these things where has it worked thes. transformations?
 There be those among their followers who are honest but deceived while the promoters of the movement who give it impulse everywhere are simply agents of the deception in the hope that 1t will bring them office and power