The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
ARTHUR f1'EWEN ATTACKS BRYAN.

press of the country has gleefully an
nounced that the New York journal
has turned its back upon William j
Bryan, and, in a signed editorial" re-
pudiated his leadership.1--is the Jour
] nal was the only influential newspaper
in the far east that supported Mr..
Bryan last year, this signed editorial
story has attracted wide attention and
aroused much comment. But it now
turns out that the Journal published
no editorial, signed or unsigned. reflect
ing upon or referring to Mr.. Bryan.
The article over which Mckinley Re
publicans have made such a great ado
was a communication addressed to the
editor of the Journal and signed by
Arthur McEwan, which was published
along with other contributions from
various people. on various topics. AL
though Mr.. McEwan holds a position
on the editorial staff, his communica-
ton is merely an expression of indfvid-
ual opinion and does not in any sense
commit the Journal to his views. A
series of communications on kindred
topics have been published by the
Journal and McEwan was simply &C
other contributors. His letter follows;
To the Editor of the Journal:
AS a Bryan Democrat 1 have to con-
fess that l grow weary OF Mr. bryan;
And this is important, because l find
myself in a constantly increasing COM
pany. With these other Bryan Demo-
Gratis I am coming to believe that he
is not large enough to be the leader or
the cause which is known by his name.
Of his energy and his brilliance as a
popular speaker as high an opinion
must be held as when he made that
marvellous tour of the Union, rouSlng
the people everywhere with his earnest
and flashing eloquence. But he no
longer inpresses as a great man, nor
as one of the highest sincerity.
He is showing narrowneSs, or ira
tional obstinacy, either of which should
be detrimental to his ambition and
must be hurtful TO the immediate pros
poets of the movement ne represents.
The persistence with which he clings
to Is to /. as if that were not only the
solitary tenet in the Democratic creed,
but the axis of the revolving cosmos,
betrays either Mr. Bryans incapacity
to comprehend Organism, or a logged
disposition that refuses to acknowledge
what is presented to his eyes and those
of every other intelligent man in the
y,
Chicago platform of the new Democ-
racy.
Consider what Organism, real Bry
anism. means. That word stands now
in the United States for the whole bat
tie of the many against tyranny and
spoilation at the hands of the few. 1T
is a declaration of war upon the plu-
tocracy-nOt against property, but
against the aggressions of property
upon the rights of the people. The
same fight has been going on ever since
the strong were first attempted to OPP
press and plumber the weak; ever, that
is to say, since mankind has lived upon
the earth But the appalling duration
of this war is no reason why it should
be abandoned as hopeless by the vic
tins. 1t is because the victims, through
countless generations, have maintained
the struggle that we possess whatever
has been gained for liberty. Immense
progress toward justice has been made,
and the many are stronger now for
the carrying on of the war than ever
before, since their intelligence is
greater and their right to fight recog-
nized by the intellect and conscience
of the world. Each foot won is a de-
parting point for further advances.
There is a long way to go yet ere the
goal shall be arrived at-a civilization
rooted in justice under which nc man
shall own anything to which he is not
honestly entitled, and every man shall
be secure in the Possession of what his
hands and brains produce. Yet that
way, the whole of it, must be travelled
before we shall have peace. In every
generation the fight is against the most
obnoxious contemporaneous intrencn-
ments of the plutocracy Here in the
United States we have disposed of the
monarchy and nobility and primogeni-
ture and entail. but the spirit and
power of wealth manifest themselves
in the monopolization of natural re-
sources, concentration of manufactures
and commerce into trusts, the owner
ship of the national highways, by toll
extorting individuals, and, over all, in
the possession of the government by
the plutocracy, which makes laws and
has them interpreted in its own in
terest
The cure? The socialists say it is to
be found in the naturalization of all
capital all industry. The George phil
Osophy says it lies in the Appropriation
of land values for public purposes.
Others look for relief to legislation
against the trusts, and the abolition of
the protective tariff. which levies pub
lie taxes for private profit Others turn
to Christianity, and hope by moral
suasion to raise the individual above
the sin Of larceny no matter how
long sanctified by time and usage
the form of theft may be. Others
trust to the forces of blind
evolution to emancipate the masses
from wrong and poverty. Others. the
ma ority of the comfortable give it UP
and humbly submit to the will of Provi-
dence, which for its own beneficent
ends has chosen them to WELD the
shears, and their poorer fellow crea-
lures to yield the wool. The braVest
spirits take the stand that while it may
not yet be clear what the remedy is.
every true man and good citizen should
be resolved to aid in doing anything
and everything that experience shows
to be required for the solution of the
social problem-for the cure of the So
cial disease of poverty.
Mr.. Bryan appears to believe that /
the free coinage of silver at the ratio I
of is to l will do it.
And the intelligent and educated and {
owning classes of the country
rise and clamor against him in wrath
and terror. as if they, too, believed he /
has touched the button
Also millions of men who hope for, |
instead of dread, the inauguration of /
a squarer deal, agree with Mr.. Bryan !
on the principle, for the most part, that /
It is better to try any remedy than :
none.
A mining camp that should rebel /
7gainst a cheating faro bank and then |
content itself with changing the color |
Of the chips. while leaving the box and |
cards in possession of the dealer to 30 /
With the game. would have a ilattering
likeness to Mr.. Bryan.
A sound currency is important No
body will deny that. And so long as
)ur money must have a metallic lasis
t is better that it should have Two
metals than one. An approaching doll