New-York tribune., 1900-10-27

the farmers had not had their proportonate share
| It happens that we have the figures showing how
much prosperity has come TO the farmers.
creased @ per Cents cent. and nd II Mr. Bryan is right in
saying that the farmers have not had their proper
| share-that Is. that they are below the average
the average must be high indeed. and. in that
the prosperity had not been very much after all?
No my fellow countrymen. we have had good
nj in the only way in which it is possible to help
try
PROSPERITY FOR ALL
Mr.. Bryan has for years been practising that
most dangerous doctrine, the doctrine of some
men down" and our doctrine is "al men up"
Mr. Bryan speaks of prosperity to our people. that
some can rise at the expense of others He tells
the wage worker to be discontented because though
Bryan, as some one else Gentlemen come back in
times came in 1888? whom did they spare? No
one. When hard times came they came to all Of
us felt the lift The only way in which it is pos
IS by g 10 sbam to any m p man 9 m
puohc or private life, who breaches the doctrine
appeals to the worst, the basest passions of man
kind: who says to our people: You all better
off than others ask those who nave prosperity
Ior the sake of reducing all alike to common
Mr.. Bryan seeks to SOW seeds of malice and envy
ea them cbo he ba has ne night 4 to R% HEN er
He Is pupil Of that most dangerous political
were the teachers No greater evil oh, my fellow
countrymen, can be doneto this Nation of ours
than TO teach any group of Americans that their
attitude should be one of sullen hatred and dis
That teaching means to nullify the work of a
century and a quarter Of statesmen who have
there had been so-called republics. in which the
rich oppressed the poor; there had been so-Ganed
has been our boast that IN this great Republic
each man stands on his rights as man. demand
no chance to receive.
BRYAN DOCTRINE THE ONLY DANGER.
Woe to our people, woe to the Nation. II ever
coin; If ever we wander apart from the path that
they trod into the dark and devious way that
to class strife. that leads ultimately the loss of
under the law which we have Inherited from our
forefathers has as it's most dangerous enemy
opponents % n ST. talk Of the dangers Of iimpersism
country. and that would be by the general preya
lence Of the doctrines the seeds of which Mr. Bryan
be chance Of losing the liberty that we have in
her1ted rte nn1 from those who went before so us ~
perty; he asks us to dishonor the flag; he asks us
what? For the sake of the most shadowy ghost
that eyer WAS was r. raised to frghen poitic4 . chill l.
this building week ago Mr.. Bryan repeated what
lutte sIander When he said that our little army had
been created with the purpose of putting it into
cities Gentlemen there are sixty-tye thousand and
Greater NeW-YorR would be entitled. according to
population, about twenty-five hundred regular
soldiers. less than third of the police in the
city Gentlemen five years ago. when ] was Police
Commissioner undeTs tand that several of my fell
low citizens remember the fact-when [ was Police
Commissioner | asked for and obtained an increase
of two thousand members OF the force for the
| present Borough of Manhattan alone. asked for
| and obtained, without word of protest or a
thought from any one that his liberties were t. he
endangered much larger body of men than would
have been obtained now by giving the Borough Of
Manhattan its proportionate share Of the Regular
Army and no human being has any right to feel
afraid those soldiers unless he is also afraid of
the police.
PLENTY OF FORTS AROUND NETWORK.
Gentlemen Mr.. Bryan may not know that ever
since we became a Nation have had several
forts around New-York. We have mad soldiers in
those forts. Mr.. Bryan said that the soldiers in
the forts are to be used to coerce workingmen.
Those soldiers have been in the forts here, they
and their predecessors and their predecessors for
l1S years. Ever since the city evacuated we
have had troops in the forts near WORK. and
never once from that time have we seen a single
soldier OF the Regular Army appear In the streets
of New York in Connection with any labor troub1ee
whatsoever Sixty-hve thousand regular soldiers
and seventy-fve millions of u.s. EighJy-siX hum
dredths of regular soldier TO reVery thousand OF
us Each ons OF you here sentitled only TO so
much terror as he can have out OF one ounce and
half of a Regular soldier! .
Gentlemen, Mr.. Bryans appeal would be comic. II
il We're tragic, that any man whom one or the
two great parties deems At for the highest office in
the gift Of people should be capable OF making
it. Mr.. Bryan has spoken of the Regular Army as