New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-17
BRYAN IN NEW-YORK.

BRYAN IN NEH-IORh.
Mr.. Bryan last evening opened his address to
the enemys country in distinctly apologize
tone Standing in the presence of Richard
Croker. surrounded by the Matchmaking. vice
protecting Tammany politicians who have made
the official corruption of this city byword
for the world. he said:
I am glad to defend our cause in this great
centre of population, of industry and Of wealth.
To say that the people gathered here who sup
port our cause are the enemies of honest wealth
is SANDER which could not be uttered without
the one who uttered it knew it TO be false.
We are not opposed to that wealth. Whlch
comes the reward OF honest toll and is en-
joyed by those who give to society something III
return for that which society bestows upon
them. The Democratic party to-day is not only
cratic party to-day is the best friend OF that
wealth that represents ability of muscle or or
mind employed in its accumulation
This was his attempt to reassure the bust
ness and commerce of the East repealed by the
free silver and cheap money doctrines which
were rejected four years ago, to which he is
thoroughly committed now, but of which last
night at Madison Square Garden he did not dare
to utter single word We do not know of
Presidential candidate ever before having been
driven to such straits that, after he had in
sisted on particular plank for his platform as
essential he was compelled to bury from the
sight Of the voters of the chief city Of the Union
the issue forced TO the front by himself. After
having repeatedly declared that he stands on
the money question where be did in 1896 he
seeks to put off NEWCOMERS, anxious to know
what his election would mean with regard TO
silver payments. with the empty phrase that he
| is not the enemy of honest wealth
He could not however, get well started with
his speech before he revealed to every thought
full man that he was an enemy, and danger
GUS enemy to social order. Almost from the
beginning he launched out into appeals to pas
sion and class hatred, trying to arouse the poor
against the rich because some men even in
time of relative prosperity do not get rich as
fast as others. "Take the farmer" he said,
land take the prices that prevail, and see how
long it would take farmer to accumulate a
portion that would be large enough to class
him among the rich men of the Nation. Take
"the laboring man and see how long it would
take him, working at the wages he gets, to
earn enough to make him independent" That
| is Socialism and nothing less. It is the doctrine
| that the ditch digger who stupidity plods be-
cause he doesn't know enough to do anything
| else, should share alike with him whose brain
| plans and controls vast and benefcent enter
! prises 1t is doctrine which demagogues often
| preach for votes but doctrine that reverses
every American individualstic idea and means
| the death of ambition.
As measured by his own utterances last even
ing, Mr.. Bryan is an even more dangerous man
than he appeared to be as the apostle of re-
pudiation and ffty-cent dollars in 1896. He is
now the apostle of claptrap and appeals to
/ ignorance. 1t must be confessed he is a clever
! one. His phrases are well turned to create
| laugh. He has the advocates gift of fencing
| with dangerous topics but no serious man will
| read Mr.. Bryan's Madison Square Garden
| speech without being impressed with its super
! lative shallowness and insincerity. Never by
| any chance does he seriously discuss a point.
| His thought is always to create an effect with
| some trick of phrase or fallacy Of argument.
! For the most part his speech n repetition
| Of well worn sentences uttered elsewhere. He
once more told the laboring man that the Re
! pubcans intended to build fort here to sup
| press by force the discomfort which should be
| remedied by legislation He showed consider
/ able dexterity in lodging the Ice Trust matter
| while mentioning it. and more than consider
able dishonesty in blaming Governor Roosevelt
| for the trusts continued existence, when he
| knows perfectly we'll that the Republican adj
| ministration is doing all that can be done under
| the law TO suppress it and is making rapid
| progress as clever Ice Trust attorneys and the
| orderly processes of the courts will allow. We
take it that in spite of his low estimate of the
! Supreme Court and its inviolability Mr. Bryan
| does not expect Republican officials to suppress
| trusts by tramplng the courts under foot
Altogether Mr.. Bryan exhibited himself as
| a most facile and deXtrOus player on the pretu-
dices and ignorances of men. But after he is
through New-YOrk is still uniformed of his
! purposes Will he pay bonds in silver? Will
| he force cheap money on the country? They
! are no wiser than before. All they can do is
TO judge him by his previous declarations as
the determined enemy of sound money. the
heart and soul advocate of the Chicago plat
| form and all Of danger and dishonor that that
| meant and means.