The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-02
Mr.. Bryan's Tusk.

! pie fighting the odds that William Jen-
nings Bryan faces, with little or nothing
TO back him but his integrity, his intel
lect, and his patriotism, devoted to an
| attempt to rescue the liberties and insti-
| tutions of the country from the grasp of
! a combination bent upon their destruction.
| He is leading and directing a fight which,
| at the outset, seemed hopeless, with great
| chances of victory. But 1t is fight of
single champion against an army with
| banners.
Do the American people realize to what
forces this young man from their ranks
opposes himself, with but scant help aside
| from his own strength and the justice Of
| his plea? The whole measureless power
| Of the Federal Government, in the hands
of men who would make our country an
oligarchy, semi-dependent upon Great
Britain, is against him He is met by the
arrogant confidence of the party of the
trusts, which has the impetus of the cor
rupt and largely fraudulent victory of
1896 behind it, and to which may be added
the effects of four years of unbridled
power and public plumber.
Mr.. Bryan's opponents, the trusts and
the political organization they own and
operate for their own purposes. are re-
enforced by the profits their contributory
beneficiaries have derived from iniquitous
class legislation enacted in the Fifty-sixth
Congress. controlled, as to both of its
houses, by the trusts. They are entrench-
ed behind the millions that, since the
beginning of the Hanna Mckinley Admin
istration, they have known they could
draw from the trusts. with other millions
in sight II needed, to buy, bride, or steal
their candidate through in 1900. Mr.. Bry-
an has been, until recently, confronted
with a traditional, and more or less wide
which has conducted a successful war and
added to the territorial possessions Of the
nation, other things being equal. ought
to be accorded second term. This con-
sideration, however, lately has been
swept away by indignation over the vio-
lation of the Constitution in Porto Rico.
the erection Of a corrupt and footing car
petbag regime in the Philippines, and the
outrage upon our flag in Alaska.
Again, the campaign Of the trusts
against the masses has been fortified by
the fear of banks. entertained by small
merchants and traders, some of whom are
terror stricken by the idea that an ex-
hibition of American manhood might lead
to loss of credit and personal persecu-
ton. Cowardice, natural consequence
of economic as well as of other types Of
slavery, has been and is a factor in the
campaign.
What have the great body of the Amer
Jean people-the farmers, artisans, miners,
and laborers of the Union-to present in
opposition to the combined power of the |
financial and monopolistic, governmental,
and social forces We have listed? Nothing |
worth speaking of, but a poor man,
forty years old, who stands for JUS
tice. liberty, and our sacred institutions. |
against the consolidated hosts of oppres-
sion. trust loot, and Imperialism! William |
Jennings Bryan, when the present cam
paign opened, was called upon to lead the
scattered remnant Of party, disrupted and
under the last Cleveland Adj
with no effective organiza-
ton to start with; with the sores of intes-
final strife yet unhealed and fostering;
with no patronage anywhere, save In one
,r two cities. and with no money for the
legitimate purposes o. The canvass, pres
mt or prospective.
The worst political foe of this candidate
this second Lincoln-must admit that it
IS to the eloquence, unassailable logic,
|
,ings Bryan. and to the confidence in and
owe for him that the masses everywhere
'lane of a forlorn hope to that of possible
md even probable success. The trusts
ave once. twice, and thrice poured their
ll-gotten millions into the Republican cor
upton fund to raise dam of gold against
he tidal wave Of popular sentiment and
etermnation that has flowed steadily In
he footsteps of the Prophet Of Liberty.
gain and again the dam has broken, and
lama, Its architect and constructor, has
ach time demanded more bags Of gold h,
cst to repair it and raise its crest 1t is q
lied mountain high In the path Of the 4
bod, but the tide still rises! The issue c
the trusts and their gold against the a
an. the Constitution, and the People las =.
ecome not paramount, but sole.
That issue is in the hands of the people.
Ill they be free or will they sell them
Ives into slavery? Next Tuesday they :,
i'll decide the question for themselves. I,
International MarriaRes.
The action Of the Paris court adjudg- Il
& Count Boni di Castellane a spend Al
rift and appointing George J. Gould the ei
Administrator OF his sisters estate pre- Al
nts an impressive object lesson here :,
T American heiresses who have any >,
to marry foreign noblemen =,