The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-05
SEATTLE. WEDNESDAY,, sErr. 5.
Contrast.


Gov. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan on La
Dor day win repay comparative study.
These two men are candidates for high
office. The occasion was one that
called for at least formal truce to
politics. Good taste required that par
tisaa feeling should not be appealed to;
ana each man was expected to say
what word was IN him for the enlIght-
eminent and encouragement of labor.
II will be excellent campaign work.
however, TO persuade the intelligent
workInsman to make note OF these two
speeches and compare their tone and
tendency.
Mr. Dryan, ~ usual. devoted practice
ally his entire time TO real or aIleEed
grievances OF labor. II II his occupa-
tion to foment III feeling and promote
discontent; and this opportunity was
one too favorable TO be let slip. Scarce
" section Of his sneech falls to make
open or overt appeal to prejudice or
worse. "The attempt TO use the In
junction Of court to deprive tho la
boring man of trial by Jury should
alarm all our people Ia a case In point.
MIR. Bryan knows because he must
know. that this ID an tnnuendo which
conveys deliberate falsehood. An In
Junction IL an order OF court forbidding
the doing OF an act Judged TO be IL
legal. II operates sometimes to pre-
vent the contamination of injustice
which. once committed. would be ir-
reparabie. n can be and has some
times. In our opinion. been employed
unnecessarily and carried too far. But
II II not and cannot be used to de-
prive the labering man or any other
man OF the right 20 trial by Jury.
guaranteed by the constitution, The
quarrel which the Bryanites have with
u Is that II Is strong preventive OF
riot and anarchy. The reference made
20 n in this connection with labor BY
Mr. bryan was an open insult to every
worklngman.
All thu other issues. real OF supposed.
were dragged into AIR. Bryan's speech
by the hair OF the head. He Is excus-
able for passing hastily over the gold
standard and the currency act, for
these his party opposes bitterly. while
they have brought TO the worklngman
steady employment and good wages
raid In honest dollars Then ne turns
twin hogies IL tho campaign at which
tho whole country Is laughing Against
the dangers 81 these he warns the la
boFer, IA the interest 81 his mock plat
form. and that Is all. Not one word
~ there Va the whole address OF help
fal counsel, applied 10 actual cend-
tions. II the workngnan turns 90 this
labor day speech Tor bread he win
find something rather worse than a
ssone; dFaugAs o. the poison 81 envy
and dlscontent tia, degredex men and
makes the best Institutions unstable
Prem the address ef Gov. Roosevelt
these qualities arc cenapieaously alb
sent Its words are exactly what they
oasAs 60 be for the occasion. No man
IL more Interested Ia the political issues
Of the aay. none reader or Abier 10 up
hold that view OF thcsn represented BY
the sreat party whose candidate he Ia,
hat good Judgment. good taste. respect
for the day ana for bis hearers forbade.
Not oue word of his could be twisted
into resemblance 10 political scroea.
lila talk Is one 81 plain words to plain
men. and they eouid have received no
sauer or more helpful counsel In
these days ef bitterness and unrest.
and particularly Of the shauldering up
on laws ana associations ~ those re-
sponsibliities that the Individual cam
not renoance, Il Is a word in due sea-
son. IL u a srsech whose every word