Arizona daily citizen., 1901-09-28
FREE SPEECH AND ANARCHY.

Kansas City journal, attempts +
Justify its monstrous insinnatio
that Mr.. Bryan had in public &C
dresses advised or suggested vic
lence against public officials an
trust magnatcs, The Journal says
The Arizona Citizen champion
Mr.. Bryan with much vehemonce
and denounccs anarchy will
much apparent earnestness. We
are disposed to think that tn
editor of Tho Citizen has not beeu
close student ofthe public utter
ances of the late Democratic lead
er. For the benefit of our Tucson
contemporary We will quote few
extracts from speeches made by
Mr. Bryan on different occasions
Said Mr. Bryan:
Those men who have now be
come the great apostles, preaching
in the interest of the laboring
men, my friends, these men who
stand at the head of the gold cru .
sade, are the men who have pre-
vented the arbitration of difficult
les between laborers and their en-
pIoyers, These are the men who,
by The formation of great trusts,
have stihed competition complete
ly and driven the small competi-
tors out of business and then
preyed upon society with no one
to restrain them or make them
afraid" And again:
Assuming to be statesmen
they disregard every law of
trade, every law of economics,
every law of nature and every law
of God. There is not law. human
or devine, they respect because
they think they are bigger than
government and greater than the
Almighty" And again:
And you tell me that it is just
to have a system OF Legislation
that takes away from the parent
the possibility of educating his
children as he would, and that he
is compensated for it by giving
money undeserved into the hands
Of those who by machination cor
ner the money market and spend
the money by buying foreign titles
for their daughters?'
The Journal has also discovered
after prolonged rummaging of
it's files that Mr. Bryan declared
at certain farmers picnic that
''the issue today is an issue be-
tween the idle holders of idle
money and the struggling masses,
who produce the wealth and pay
the taxes of the country. Again
it finds that he told some good
people atSyracuseN. Y, that "all
the honors that are in the hands
of the people are before you. Ii
you can have it understood that
the people, and not the corpora
tions and syndicates, have a right
to choose their officials.
1t is the sapient conclusion Of
our unfair and bigoted contem-
porary that these righteous and
patriotic utterances "had q dis
tinct tendency to array class
against class without reference to
consequences" and to "inhame
weak minds to the point of crimi-
nal acts" The journal reinforces
these brilliant observations by a
quotation from Harpers Weekly,
the personal property and mouth
piece of the archmonopolist of the (
country. Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan!
The logic of these amazing ut
serances is, that, although this is
to be free country, no
President THAT is, no Republican
President), no Wall-St. magnate,
no oppressor of labor, must be
criticised by public speaker or
writer lest some murderous crank {
may conclude TO shoot him, in
which event the critic must be re-
yarded as an accessory to the
Iced.
1t is flattcry to call such rot as
this yellow journalism. 1t is,
perhaps, what might be expected
from newspaper which has al .
ways licked the boots of power +,
and wealth in order to receive oc- !.
crumbs from their tables.
But 1t 10 none the less disheart-
oning that this amazing doctrine
should be preached in a country {
IA which freedom Of thought aud :
epeech has always been it's ohief- .
- Messing and safeguard. It
nhouM Be understood. however,
thst he Journal does not object