El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-18
Some Pertinent Comparison
of Bryan's Prophecies
With the Facts as
They Are.
DISASTER is CERTAIN
In the Event of the Election of WILL
liam Jennings Bryan.-The Fool
lsh Cry of "Militarism."


mental policy which has brought this
country TO the ighest pitch OF pros
perity ~ home, and which has kept
the national honor unssained. both at
home and abroad. To deliberately
undo she work would be to dishonor
the oaIioual reputation and TO throw
Us into dreadful Industrial chaos. The
Ksnsas City platform commits our
opponents TO policy which means
material disaster and moral disgrace;
which means violent panic in the
business world. and therefore wide
spread and prolonged misery among
all our people; which further meaus
upsetting the courts, the violstion OF
the nations faith in inancial matters,
and the un worthy abandonment OF our
duty abroad.
A FEARFUL PRICE TO PAY.
II you shink am using strong Ian
Ruage, let me read you from Mr.. CAL
Schurz's speech In Chicago. Septemb Der
5. 1896, in which he ssye:
"And at what price will the ulti-
mate results be gained Ia case OF Mr..
Bryan's election? AT the price OF the
most violent and destructive crisis on
record, such q crisis as eau only be
brought on by . sudden subversion Of
the standard Of values and Of the whole
business credit. At the price OF In
definite busioess paralysis and distress.
At the price of the RUTHLESS spoilAtion
of the savings accumulated by the
toilinR N asses. AT the price OF robb-
ing our war veterans Of half the value OF
their pensions. At the price of reatly
increasing the number Of unemployed
by discouraging enterprise, ana OF
curtailing the value OF wages Of those
remaining at work. At tue price OF
the respect of the world for our INTEL
Hgence and practical sense. And
worse, far worse, than all this, At she
price of something that has never been
forfeited since this republic was
born-st the price of the greatest good
. nation can possess, and for the pre-
servstion of which il should sned It's
last drop of blood-st the price of our
national honor. For this nation, so
rich and powerful, would stand before
the world as q wanton, reckless re-
pudiator, as nothing better than .
fraudulent bankrupt. This will be
the cost OF the experiment. Are you
willing TO pay this price,"
Fellow-cisizens, It is Q grave matter,
. matter OF vital import to the existence
Of this nation. The public men who
Teach such moral principles 10 the
PEOPLE educate the people for the con-
tempt and Adherence OF mankind. The
nation that accepts such moral prin-
ciples Cannot live. 1t will ros TO death
in she losshsome stew of tie own cor
ruption. II the NATION adopting such
moral principles be this republic, f.
will deal . deathblow to the credit OF
democratic Institutions, from which
the cause OF free government will not
recover for centuries.
THE SAME PLATFORM.
Now, mind you, the platform on
which Mr.. Bryan stood in 1896 hss
b=eu resffirmed without the alteration
OF a letter, and with an eSplicis re.
Affirmation of the free silver plank to
which Mr.. SchurZ particularly refer
red. Mr.. Schurz told the exact truth
In his scathing speech of 1896, and
therefore what he ssid then Is, of
course, the exact truth today. In this |
paign she Issues involve ed strike at |
the root OF our prosperity and national |
honor. Ii the American people are |
true TO themselves, they
must in the most un- |
equivocal manner repudiste the popu- |
listic and communistic doctrines enun- |
oiated In the Kansas City plstform |
exactly az they repudiated them In |
1896. The existence of any consider |
able arty which affirms and reaffirms |
these doctrines 10 in itself q serious |
menace to the atoms moral and mate
rial Welfare, and we have q right TO |
appeal TO every far-siRhted and patrio-
Ito mau, whatever his political ath.ia-
ton In the past, from no matter what |
section of the country he comes, TO
stand with US In this struggle for ma
tional integrity.
We have . right TO insist upon both
vision and sincerity in the leaders of |
any party who appeal for popular
Now, let Us see IL We can
trust the wisdom of our present op-
po aents, by com pairing their proph e.
Giles in 1896 wish tho actual events
since.
BRYAN'S PROPHECIES VS.. FACTS.
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan insisted thst
''plutocracy was on one side and dem
ocracy on she other" tspeech Of Octo-
Der III, and that II he was beaten
"the wAge-worker could not prosper"
Well, as Q matter of fact, the wage.
worker, during the past four years, has
Is never before: land the same
is true of all our citizens. % Septem-
Der 10 of that year Mr.. Bryan said:
''If we are defeated In this cam psien
h ere 10 nothing before the people
but four years more OF hard times aud
greater agitation. That statement
,srries with 10 its own reply. Mr..
Bryan continued in the same speech.
cup OF rorrow TO its dreRs? No, my
friends. you cannot Get limit TO the
present nard times But, as a matter
of fact, they did set q limit, for the
INIT was set a. soon as Mr.. Brysn's
iefeat WAS secured, and the limits
would be instantly removed IL he were
low elected. We would all return at
,nce into the very condition from which
he election Of president Mckinley res