The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-22
A SAMPLE OF BRYANIsM.

From the Philadelphia Press.
In q speech delivered in Quincy, ILL.,, Oct. Q,
Mr. Bryan gave utterance to the following:
As pass along the street, and as
I look into the faces Of some Of the
careworn women who never get
chance to take q summer vacation
at some pleasant watering place, I
wonder how the husbands and sons
Of these women can find it in their
hearts to support the policies which
are today amassing great wealth in
the hands of tho few people with a
rapfdity never known before in the
history Of the world.
1t is easy to imagine the tone Of voice and the
manner and look Mr.. Bryan assumed while speak.
ing in this lugubrious strain His hearers could
doubtless detect the tears in his voice, while the
rnournful cast Of his countcnance and his dis
couragcd behavior must have been visible to
every one. But ii he imagined he was making
a favorable impression on his hearers he was
doubtless mistaken. The American wives of
American workingnen, whether nativc-born or
adopted. are not in such condition as to call
for any tears or lamentations from Mr. Bryan.
They do not ask for his sympathy or commiser.
ation They are too well cared for and too self
respecting. This is the case whether u special
standard. Looking at the general situation first,
it is found that there is no call for Mr.. Bryan's
lamentations. No better gage of the material
condition OF the workingmen OF the United
States can be gained than through the reports
OF the mutual savings banks. The comptroller
OF the currency at Washington reported the con.
dition OF these institutions on June 80, 1900, as
follows:
Total deposits mutual savings banks,
1oU ............... ,96O, IO3 l3l
Total deposits mutual savings banks,
1000 ................. ............ 2,134, 1so
Increase in deposits, one year 173, 762 939
Average deposits, 1900 .............. 1856. 90
Average deposits, 1900 ............. 391.47
Total depositors mutual savings
banks, 1909 ....................... 5o7o,7a2
Total depostors mutual savings
banks, 1900 ...................... $3.50, 100
Increase in depositors .............. 300,ST7
o.
This report will give an indication OF the con.
dtion of the workingman in general. Taking
Quincy, ILL.,, the place where MIR. Bryan uttered
his lugubrious wall, as a special case it is found
that there Is no more reason there for his dis.
couraging claim that in the country at large.
The Chicago Times. Herald gives some facts con.
taned in speech delivered by Joseph BrIckner,
editor of the Illinois Staats.Zetung in Quincy,
a few days ago in which the industrial conditions
OF that city were outlined. Three banks had
increased their loans nearly $30OO.OOO and their
deposits over s2,0O0OOO since Oct. /, 1906 In
one factory employing ten or twelve men work.
ing only three or four day week in 1895 forty
are employed, all working six days week and
sometimes overtime. There are six other small
factories employing 2S3 men now, against 1872 in
September, 1896, and turning out s44,453 a month
this year, against $3s,41 in 1896. Another fac.
tory which employed sixty-four men and turned
out $4,000 worth Of business in August, 1898,
now employs ninety men and did business to the
amount OF $2s,ss0 for the corresponding month
this year.
With such conditions existing among the work
ing people of Quincy is it not likely that the
wives OF the workinSmen are more subject to
care than the wives ofsthe workingmen in gen.
eral, and they will not thank Mr.. Bryan for
trying to make them objects of pity. But Mr..
Bryan's remarks in Quincy are only sample Of
the whole tone Of his campaign. There is moth.
ing in it to suggest hope or progress. 1t is u
vail Of despair and failure.