The broad ax., 1900-10-06
COL. BRYAN'S LETTER
SPEAKS TO The POINT ON
EVERY ISSUE.
The MaInteasace OF the Present Gold
standard a heavy Burden for the
People 90 Bear-A Clear statement Of
Facts.

by the Kansas City convention, onue
more proves his profound mastery If
public issues, and his wonderful skill
debated question. His utterances are
as direct as rife bull cts. and in every
paragraph, We can find an aDhorism.
In his speech of acceptance at In
dianapolis he confined himself almos;
wholly TO IN subject Of imperialism.
whereupon a. ose the cry from Repub-
lican leaders and organs that he was
lodging all the other platform issues.
and particularly the silver one. They
knew better. for il here is one thing
more than "nother The American peo-
PIE admire Bryan fer, il is GiEectness
and the &C rage to speak the thing
he will" No other man with his re-
sponsibilit IS, in Our public life today.
is politica ly so brave and honest as
he. Men ally and morally he is so
framed that he cannot hesitate or
dodge or fawn, and il is the general
Acknow edgment of these Characters
{ cs that make his character public AMI
private, un2ssailable, and gives him
In popular estimation the attributes of
hero. How & ffer Mt, although in
high station, does his competitor in
the national rCcs look 20 the pubic
eye. Versatile Only in change. and
content only in ignoring pain duty. d"
Mckinley. politically. is = cipher and
regarded by the masses rs SIMPLY a
proxy for Mark Ha ma creature
ever ready. at the dictlt,5 of the
trusts Ito crook the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift may follow
fawning."
Bryan's letter is a public PAPER
worthy to be brackstad with his In
dianapoiis speech. Ii oveTlouks no
topic that thoughtful voters are talk
ing about, and the Republican high
binders who comp.a ned that he was
lodging the silver, income tax, and
other vital issues, are now themselves
lodging the solar plexus blows his ac-
ceptanoe letter deals ont. Unable to
answer his logic and trenchsnt argu-
ments and battered by his proofs OF
their duplicity and rascality they are
now saying he covered too much
ground, and that he ought to have con-
fined hin S IF to what they hypocri;ica,-
~ PROFOUND as the paramount issue
that of silver. But even on that point,
he has much more tn an they Re isl
or can refute. He exposes the double
dealing of the Republican party in
financial matters, and shows that while
they have conspired to establish a gold
standard. they were too cowardly to
declare their purpose until they felt
that they had the people at their
mercy, and could safe'y pursue a
policy of robbery at home IN connec-
ton with the glamour OF expansion
and military glory abroad. Mr.. Bryan
shows that the currency system now
upheld by the Republican party in
wolves a permanent and increasing
debt. and adds lit is hardly conceiv-
able that the American people will de-
liberately turn from the debt paying
policy, to the dangerous doctrine OF
perpetual bonds"
or trusts he pithily says that "a pri-
vate monopo y has always been an out
law. No defense can be made OF an
industrial system in which one. or n
few men. can control for their own
profit the output or price of any arti-
Gle of merchandise
He is equally explicit and pointed in
his treatment of government by in
junction, in denunci3tion of employees
blacklists; In a demand for arbitration
as a prevention of strikes, and the
establishment Of a government depart
ment of labor. with a cabinet officer
al its head; in insisting that pension
laws should be construed according TO
the generous spirit which prompted
their passage; in favoring the imme.
diate construction, ownership and con-
troll Of the Nicaragua canal by the
United States, and asserting the right
to close il against any hostile power.
for to rati. v the Eay-I n-efCts treaty
would be to lessen its commercial
value and convert it into a positive |
menace in time OF war. The entire
letter is as meaty as a nut. and worthy
CI MS reputation as fearless and
acute political thinker. Here are a
few sentences from il:
The weak and qualified condemna- |
{ on of trusts to be found in the Re- !
publican platform is designed to dis |
tract attention while industrial des-
potism is completing its work"
1T is a significant fact that the Re- |
publican party should accept the Eu- /
ropean idea Of a protectorate, at the !
time it adopts a European colonia. |
policy"
The principle Of direct legislation |
res upon the sound theory that the |
people can be trusted and that the |
more responsive the government is to |
the will Of the people. the more free
II will be from misuse and abuse"
THE abol.t ton Of government by in
junction is as necessary for the pro-
lection of the reputation Of the court
as 1t is for the security Of the citizen"
In the hour of danger the govern
ment can draft the citizen; II ought to
be able u draft IN p cketbook as well. 4
Unless money Is more precious than /
A.