The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-29
PREACHING HATE AND DESPAIR.

The larger part of the recent speeches
of Mr.. Bryan are appeals to the prejudice
and passions of wage-earners to distrust
and hate those who employ. This sort Of
cemagogy has become so large part Of
Mr.. Bryan's oratory that papers not Re
publican have protested against his at
tempts to array one class of the people
against another. The Washington Post Is
one Of these papers which have turned up
on Mr.. Bryan for the vicious character of
his speeches. as follows:
He has conspicuously failed to keep up TO
the standard OF his notification speech He
has given ground for the charge made by
a distinguished gold standard Democrat
that Mr.. Bryan is preaching the gospel
of hate Voicing that. he appeals to the en-
vious, the discOntented, the improyident.
the incompetent. and the unworthy idle"
Sometimes ignoring, at other times deny
ing. the stupendous fact or such prosper
ity as this nor any other country ever
saw before. Mr.. Bryan goes whirling
through the States making speeches In
tended to array class against class. the
poor against the rich, the wage-worker
that time and events have annihilated all
the theories of his 1895 campaign, and
swept away all of the predictions he made
In advocacy of free silver, he now appears
with other theories still more untenable.
other prophecies even more sinister.
Speaking TO the farmers. who have certain
ly had their full share of the prosperity of
the last three years, he says: THE man
who drove black slaves years ago is not
half merciless the man who drives
white slaves to-day with his mortgages"
The man who is said to have a controlling
interest In the Post is Democratic ex-
congressman from Ohio, and there is every
reason TO believe he would gladly support
conservative Democratic candidate, but
he cannot silently listen to Mr.. Bryan, now
that ''he appears with other theories more
untenable'' than the free coinage of silver
and ''other prophecies even more sinister.
The Post, noting the facts showing ''the
presence of an all-pervading and abound
ing prosperity" asks Mr.. Bryan why he
makes such remarks as these:
man can't be blamed if he is compelled
TO keep his nose on the grindstone. but he
can be blamed if he keeps his nose on the
| grindstone of his own accord.
The poor are coming to the Democratic
party because the Democratic party wants
| to make it possible for a poor man to look
| forward TO the day when he can be an in
dependent man and have enough laid by
for a rainy day.
1t is unnecessary to dwell upon the fall
| lacy and the wickedness of such remarks
| as the foregoing. They carry the impress
| sion that all labor is evil to be escaped
that, by some means which involves tho
| avoidance of labor and the destruction oil
| Industrial conditions. all men may have q
competency with idleness. Some one has
| called such mischievous and WICKED ut
terances 'the gospel of hate" 1t is rattle,
| the battlecry of discomfort and desciation
taking joy and hope from the human hear
and substituting despair and the evil pas
sions which are its offspring. 1t is the ap
| peal to lawlessness out of which come.
| anarchy. Believed by communities tn
Bryan declarations would destroy co-opera
ton between labor and capital, banishin:
| all good will and harmony. Such seeds
as Mr.. Bryan is sowing, falling into ig
norant and Unbalanced minds. lead them t.
| regard the employer as an enemy to b,
| destroyed