The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12
MR. BRYAN IN NOTEWORTHY.

MIR. BRYAN IN MONTGOMERY 1 Mir. William J. Bryan's speech fin thi
 city last night was in line with those h
 has been delivering at other points in tn past few weeks. Under the guise of lecture on the "Moral Issue," he ad dressed an audience recently in New Yorl City. to which ministers were especiall, invited. If they went there expecting |, linear anything else than politics from thu Bryan view, they were sadly mistaken. H. stated his propositions. all of which wert kindred to those made by him from tht stump in every State in the Union in tho last eight years. and the political moral. he advocated and the political immortality and all that was wrong was with those who dared to hold opinions not in har- mony with his own. That's Political Morality from the Bryan standpoint, as developed here last night. :
 A few months ago, at a great religious meeting in the City of Washington. at which thousands of people were present, | the President of the United States deliv- cred an address. On the platform from which he spoke were high church dlgnita- ries from this and other countries. The burden of his talk was honesty, and he turned fin . most self-assured way to his clerical hearers and urged them to adyo- cate and teach honesty. as if they had not for years been doing so. The i'm pression created by that address on thou sands who heard it, was that the Presi- dent was posing as the one bright star of honesty, around which lesser lights should revolve. To hear Mir. Bryan one would suppose that all the political morality of the times centers in his per- son, with a small overflow for those who echo his sentiments.
 | It is greatly to be doubted if the most thick and thin supporter of Mir. Bryan in his two races for the Presidency will defend his attacks on the Deznoeratic ad- ministration chosen in 1892. He knows full well that in every local election there is certain amount of money needed" for actual expenses. As the field widens the need for larger sums for perfectly honest purposes is enlarged. If we mistake not he has contributed from his own earnings a sum for campaign purposes and while what he does himself in that line is politi- cal morality, 1t is dishonest commercial ism in others. Why should this twice de- feated Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party be. going about the ! AAR &t,n osk., k1 H.rH,t tnk hA professes to belong by attributing its suc- cess In 1892 to other than the true causes
 As The Chattanooga Times puts 1t:
 What does he expect to gain by assail- ing the honor and integrity of the Party that gave him all he has got, both of fame and wealth7 Is 1t the part of a true and loyal party man to engage in the business of publicly scandalizing its phesying evil of its future action2 Is 1t not time for Mir. Bryan to get off the stage? Has he not gone far enough to convince even his most idolatrous follow CTS that he has lost his head; that he has talked himself out, and that all he can accomplish now in the course he Is pur- suing is malicious mischief? He must see. even through his intense egotism, that he has lost the remotest chance he eyer had of having his peculiar fads re- affirmed by the St. Louis convention, and he must realize that his persistence in at- tacking the forces operating for the res union of the party is only weakening his own Influence and making 1t less possible for him to accomplish anything in the way Of opposition to either men or meas ures in that convention. '.
 MT. Bryan goes to the extent of chare ing. in his speeches that Mr. cleveland' second administration was turned oveI to syndicates and trusts" Yet Mir. Cleve land in his last annual message. Decem
 Der, 1896, denounced trusts ir the stronEes
 terms possible. declaring that their ten dency is to crush out individual independ ence and to hinder or prevent the free us, of human faculties and the full develop ment of human character" that "througl them the farmer, the artisan and the smal r trader Is in danger of dislodgment iron the proud position of being his own mas [ ter, watchful of all that touches his coun try's prosperity, in which he has an in dividual lot and interested in all that af } fects the advantages of business of whicl ? he is the factor, to be relegated to tn
 level of a mere appurtenance to a grea machine, with little free will, with n, duty but that of passive obedience anc l, with little hope or opportunity of rising fl the scale Irresponsible and helpful citi zenshfp." Mir. Cleveland further declared that though Congress had attempted tc , deal with trusts by legislation, the laws passed for that purpose had proved inef. fective, mot because of any lack of dis. position or attempt to enforce them but simply because the laws themselves as interpreted by the courts did not reach the difficulty"
 MT. Bryan. 1t seems. also takes great credit to himself for having fought M~. Cleveland earnestly because he (Mr. ClevelanO betrayed the Democratic Par ty and the common people," Neverthe- less. Mir. Cleveland did fully as much
 for ''the common people" and the country
 at large as any President we ever had,
 certainly any one in recent years, as h4s } record abundantly proves.
 During Mir. Cleveland's first adminls- triton there was paid on the public deot ) the vast sum of $341, AS, ,449 and at its close there was left in the Treasury a balance
 of $3SO,S4S9l6, including the gold reserve.
 At the close of Mir. Harrison's adminis-
 tration, March l. 1893, this balance. had
 dwindled to $162, ,45O,575 including the gold
 reserve, notwithstanding the payments ' | hA