New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-06
DANGERS OF BRYANISM.
JAMES H. ECKELS TELLS LABORING MEN
WHY THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO SUP
PORT THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

Chicago, Oct 5.-James II. Eckels Controller OF
the Currency under President Cleveland. spoke IN
the Auditorium tonight to audience that packed
the great hall as tightly it could be packed hun
dreds of persons being turned away.
The meeting was under the auspices Of the Bust
ness Mems Sound Money Association. and
braced men of all parties who oppose the 1s 70
plank OF the Democratic platform. Mr.. Eckels
was introduced by William Davis, Of Chicago
president Of the Amalgamated Association Of Iron
ana Steel Workers, who made short address.
Inc iron and steel industries strongly repre-
scented at the meeting
Mr.. Eckels said in part:
sjnI propose T,iI n this campaign Democrat to
RepubIican na1t M tne 9G 5 Pees az
once Th and on that behalf am upon this platform
t zen OF every lahoTing man that nowhere do
n ng declarations Of principles Of the Democrats
the Democrats candidate appeal to any business
In every section Of the country business men. no
matter matter what the calling. rePudate them as VIC;
destructive of those underlying principles upon
mercai World mTst rest ON 81 anaivsS ne Iaborin
man will find that this almost universal rejection
anatrs OF finance, OF manufacturing, OF trade and
are giving the largest measure OF employment to
labor. does not arise from selfish. political or
lieye. because neither enters into the forming of
1t is their knowledge. of the subject. gained
through study. and their knowledge gained through
uniformly unite in a verdict against the issue pro
legal responsibility, to pay less than their just
plOyes or to deal unfairly with the public. They
want only stahlity IN money equity IN law ana
They distrust Mr. Bryan because he has made It
Impossible for them to trust him
WHO HAS MOST AT STAKE?
The question which I submit with confidence to
the laboring man is, Who has most at stake in this
country: the business man. whose energy. thrift
nd venture of capital have made possible its great
and down the country preaching gospel Of dis
content arrayiIg class against class. and proclaim
spread and far reaching disaster upon every in
the employment of labor? Who to-day are employ
ing the thousands upon thousands of men in mine
and the waters in store and Sfce9 Are theT the
BrEans or the Tillmans, the Altgelds the Weav-
ers, the Fownes or the Crokers? call your atten-
ton to the fact that these men and all their as
cles ana control the action OF the Democratic party
as to-day that party reveals itself who |
ing to the support Of their fellows beyond the |
emouments of such political offices they may by
they will find. Othello-hke. their occupation gone
assert that these men are not as well equipped
labor as are those who in the daily life OF bust
phass that any party which. b. wedding itself TO
unsoAnd and destructive doctrines has so com
councils. and made impossible their support Of its
candidates. is not to be trusted with the power to
eg1slate Tor either labor or capital Its influence
would be injurious TO the interests OF both its
nance or the integrity of which is essential to the
weilbeins of all Remember, you citizens who |
country, beg OF you to remember before you give
in adhesion to the cause Of Mr. Bryan and his |
that by so doing you embrace the tenets of party
benefit of politicians and by politicians alone do
not believe as business proposition you can, from
those dependent upon YOU afford to take the risk
to which you are invited. am certain, despite |
some individual injustice here and individual In
justice there. you better off at present. and |
will be In the future by acting with those who |
employ labor and not making common cause with |
men WHO neither themselves labor, outside OF the |
give employment to others
BRYANs MASS OF MIsINFoRMAT1oN.
The difficulty with Mr. Bryan's craftsmanship is
that 1t is statesmanshp OF prejudice, class dis
tinetions and INSTRUMENTATION 1t is craftsmanship
tents itself with the political advantage of to-day
American political annals there never has appeared
questions With so mHch s9 a s9
ershp OF Mr.; Bryan found its origin In the peculiar
years since. 1t has maintained itself because in
me b Bryanlzing Of the organization the Democracy
sa gaeity and high political principle. 1t has now
stion In the last ST anays tS ~
Bryan demonstrates itself TO begin and end in a /
6enu1caJOn Of the existing order Of things Is It
hng to ae Had GE Who a au ERo sees aPe
spiracy and dishonesty upon great numbers of peo
waO II tS Ss FS a?aT What 10 ih
CURING citizen will from a knowledge of MIR.
mount economic problems believe him capable of
bringing about a proper solution of present ones?
the Democratic candidate. changing from the issue
announced at the opening paramount. has taken
misstate the fact I think when say he is discuss
ing this issue in the manner which has character
ICED all the other discussions with which ne has
into the merit Of the question for that would not
eliminate the political advantage which he seeks for
his party to his own advancement, and therefore
makes is addressed to prejudice. backed up by mis-.
statements, Illogical in presentation and unfair in
deduction. There is no man OF any prominence
to-day standing in defence of Illegal combinations
OF capital whether great or small. formed for the
price of articles of consumption and burdening the
people. But there are vast number who recog-
of business to be obtained through aggregated /
capital properly brought together and wisely man
the consumer or the labOrer They 90 further
and assert with emphasis TO be mistaken /
are, the contrary, productive of good most of /
all 70 the laboring man.
SO-CALLED TRUSTS NOT TRUSTS AT ALI
The misnformation which is on every hand upon
this subject has arisen from an insistence upon a
instead Of In that of economic truth and history /
II those VINO are now protesting vigorously /
sO-Called trusts would better inform themselves /
we would have more reason and less defamation
define the term when l say that what they call /
a trust is not trust at all, but merely the /
labor, for specific. legitimate purpose IL is tbe
unhcation OF the resources of many for the common
form of government in finance it results In svsteTnS
of banking, upholding the transactions of the bust
railroads and steamboat lines; industrialIy il evil
dences itself in manufacturing plants in mines ana
make Tor an advanced state OF civilization II is
assert. the highest development of a Complicated |