Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-03
WHAT IT r'IlL NEAH
To Cas- Your Vote For Bryan
ana WnAt t4c reprej>n s.
BRIEF REsUME OF TIE SITUATION
Free Silve', Free T adc, Insult to our
Soldiers, rag Hauling la the PhilIp-
pines BryAnism Is Buaiuess Ruin nh
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Every Bryan vote is, first OF all, a
free silver vote. The 16 TO l ideL is
the one thing that Bryan insisted upon
in his Kansas City platform. 1n..C
was not only reiterated, as was the
entire Chicago platform, but it vas
repeated with peculiar emphas s, ana It
was done by his direct demand. En-
perience has proved that the Repuo-
lican policy he opposed four yea.s Il o,
and for which he predicted evsry p,s-
sible evil to the country, was full Of
benefit tc all the people.
A false prohpet four years ago, is
Bryan a bit better today in that wly?
Is his free silver peril any less now
than then? Are you ready to vote to
change the prosperity that has c-ne
by doing the things that Bryan de-
clared should not be done? If a free
silver vote was bad four years ago, as
worse now; for its evil effects will be
felt the more severely from reversing
present prosperity. The higher we are
up, the further we must fall. Why
vote for any fall at all?
Every Bryan vote is free trade
vote. His party has always held that
as a cardinal principle. He has advo-
Gated it as the one thing needful. In
fact, it was once his paramount is
sue. The Bryan Democracy can not be
true to itself or to it's platform if it
fails to attempt to put free trade back
into the statutes, where 1t did such
immense damage at the last expert
ment-the Wilson bill. That one act
helped the Sugar trust $40,000,OOO by
Bryan's direct VOTE but hundreds Of
millions will not measure its damage
to the general industries, and labor,
and farms of the country. 1t largely
produced the panic of 1898, with its
vast evils. It's re-enactment would re-
suit in the same way. But that is part
of the price the country must pay for
Organism. Are you ready to vote for
Bryan with free trade and hard times
as the inseparable consequences?
Another vast evil involved in every
Bryan vote is his insult to every
wearer Of the American uniform, in
the army or navy, by what he calls
"militarism." He acts and talks as if
our brave boys were hired Hessians,
professional mercenaries, with no pa
triotism in them, no interest IN the
welfare of their country, alien to all
American ideac, mere machines to be
used by some strange and superior
power against the liberties Of their
own country. AS every man in the
American service, whether on sea or
shore, whether in the regulars or vol
unteers, enlisted voluntarily and freely
from our firesides and homes, Mr.
Bryan and his followers can not repeat
their TRADES upon our soldiers with
out attacking and insulting every home
that sent these soldiers to the service
of their country.
The fact that the army as it stands
was raised to it's present strength by
the vote of the overwhelming major
ity of all of Bryan's own party in both
houses of congress, and that the entire
strength of the army, both at home
and abroad is too small, compared
with the entire number of our popula-
tion, to do anything of the dirty work
that he ascribes to them, unless our
own people are most miserably pusil-
luminous, Is ignored by him. The
smallness, relatively, of the army is
answer enough to "militarism" as he
tells about it; but a still deeper and
American people. Bryan, by his per-
sistent, systematic ignoring of the true
nature of our own citizenship, demon
strates most completely his utter un-
fitness to be the chief magistrate of
such a people.
Every Bryan ballot is a vote to en-
dorse his slander of "militarism" upon
the American people, is a vote of CEN
sure upon your own neighbors and
friends in the army and navy. Can
any man who thinks, for minute,
cast such a ballot? Should not this
alone, if there were nothing else, con-
denim him to the most absolute obliv-
ion ever put upon political aspirant
by an outraged sense of public justice?
Many other phases of the campaign
might be considered, for the number
of great and distinct issues involved
has never been equaled in any presi-
Dental contest. The differences be-
tween the two great parties were never
SO enormous nor SO marked. They are
fundamental, radical upon many ques-
tions, some OF which are new to our
voters, yet all OF them are of the
highest Importance. Among these, is
the question Of what is the best dispo-
sition to make of trade combinations,
commonly known as trusts. This is
a problem for the wisest to study
upon, because in it are largely in
volved the industrial activities of our
times.
That there are evils, genuine and
great, in some of the conditions con-
nected with these combinations, can