The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-27
Bryan on Cooperation
New York Journal.)

bonds aid in increasing the interest
bearing debt by fighting each other?
Our Federal taxes are collected en-
tirely from import duties and internal
revenue duties both systems bearing
more heavily upon the poor than upon
the rich. The Republicans refuse to
grulgt the relief which could be secured
through an amendment TO the Consti-
tuition providing for an income tax.
Should those vino favor an income tax
oppose this needed reform by fighting
each other?
TRUSTS MUST GO
Trusts are being organized on every
hand. and THE political as well as the
Industrial welfare of the country is
being menaced by these great aggre-
CATIONS of capital. Should those who
oppose trusts aid in perpetunting their
existence by fighting each other?
Government by injunction has, ever!
since the election of 1896, developed
new dangers, and to-day threatens the
existence of trial by jury. Should
those who oppose government by in
junction aid in making it a permanent
part of our judicial system by fighting
each other?
Recent events have shown the neces-
sity for arbitration as a means OF set
Ting difficulties between labor and
capital. and the Federal government,
by applying the principle to carriers
engaged i'm interstate commerce, would
set a most Salutary example TO the
States. Should those who favor arbl-
tration, by fighting each other, deny to
the laboring men this great boon?
Ii the questions above presented have
lost none of their Importance, it would
seem that cooperation is proper now, II
proper eighteen months ago, unless it
can be shown that the parties which
could trust each other then cannot do
so now.
As there has been no National con-
vention since 1896, it is impossible to
judge of the present intentions of the
three parties unless we take for our
criterion the actions of those who
stand in representative capacity.
The Democrats, the Populists and the
Silver Republicans who in 1896 favored
the reforms which | have mentioned
favor thSm to-day. There is not
prominent man of any of the parties
which united in 1896 who has abandoned
any of the reforms which drew the par
ties together.
THE GOLD MEN WILL BE UNI
TED.
The advocates of tire gold standard,
the enemies of independent bimetal-
lisnl. the opponents of the greenbacks,
the friends of national bank notes, the
defenders of trusts, the supporters OF
government by injunction, and those
who object to ARBITRATION and an in
come tax-all these find no difficulty in
uniting on the main issues, no matter
how much they may differ upon minor
ones. Shall the friends of reform show
less earnestness or less Sagacity? Re-
forms are often delayed by an attempt
to secure too much, while PROCESS is
usually made little at a time. If one
cherishes the hope of laying up a COM
potency for old age, he does not refuse
to save anything until he can save all
that he desires. II he rs wise he lays
aside @ little each day, and makes 1T the
foundation for his fortune. Society
moves forward slowly. Circumstances
make it possible to rise to a plane
little higher than that occupied before,
and from this new vantage ground the
fight is renewed for the capture of some
greater height. Holland has expressed
an idea which may we'll be applied to
to the uncsasing contest waged by those
who would Improve the condition of So
human race He says:
Heaven is not gained by n single
bound:
We build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies,
And mount to dts summit round by
round"