The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-12
BRYAN ANALYZED.

bIllS IDOmBDb all Jfle lUulCdJIOlS pUl III
to the nomination for president of Mr.
Bryan IN 1908. Hence IL Is not only
right but II Is duty for every citizen
who loves his country, to analyze what
he says and try to anticipate results
In case his New York speech embodies
the platform which he would demand
should be framed for him to stand up.
on. We lind that II Is more Popullst
than Democratic, that while IL echoes
the old Democratic demand Tor the
abrogation OF the tariff and the smash
ing of the trusts IL goes farther; II
leans to general government owner.
ship of public utilities and holds out a
covert promise TO cure every wrong
and every supposed wrong by legisla'
tion. In addition II his purpose is not
to array every dissatisfied element In
the nation against the rich and pros
porous, and instil into every poor
mans mind belief that the reason
he Is poor Is because Of the wrongs
heaped upon him by the rich, then he
does not make his meaning plain.
Assuming that the rich can take
care OF themselves, we should try to
estimate what the effect would be up.
on the poor, could Mr.. Bryan's theory
of government be carried out.
In passing, we may remark that
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that he might assume that what OF
reforms the president is trying to
bring about are reforms stolen from
the Democracy or from Mr.. Bryan, is
altogether gratuitous, for the presi-
dents course was all outlined when a
boy In the New York legislature and
when he was police commissioner in
New York City. The president does
not borrow his principles.
We personally know that MIR.
Bryan's ideas Of the tariff correspond
exactly with those of Mr. Cleveland.
When Mr.. Cleveland became president
IN 1893, his first significant official act
was to dispatch his special Mr.. Blount
to Hawaii to haul down the American
flag His second was to call congress
IN special session 10 destroy silver as
money. We mean of course rimary
money, standard of values. In his
message TO congress he ascribed the
panic (which was precipitated to give
n no nj
SESSION. and stagnation to the fear of
capital that the country was about to
80 on silver basis.
After more than three months
struggle congress repealed the pur-
chasing clause Of the Sherman law and
placsd the country on gold basis.
But the promised revival did not
come. The threat of tariff reform"
was still lowering over the land. Fin.
ally Mr.. Wilson framed his bill and
pushed IL through the house. Had
the senate done the same, and the bill
had become law, the Democratic
party would have gone into liquidation
or at least into the hands of a receiv.
er.
AS il was Senator German tore the
thing TO pieces, covered 1t over with
protection patches and Mr.. Cleveland
was too angry TO sign it, leaving 1t to
become law by action Of time. Then
the nation resumed work. 1t is a
repetition OF that gloomy period that
Mr.. Bryan's plan foreshadows. How
do the poor of the land like the pros.
pect2
When 1t comes TO dealing with the
trusts and other combines OF capital,
Mr., Bryan does not promise or propose
to seek out the wrongs and correct
them, but to smash the combines. But
aside from the western miners and
farmers, nintenths Of the wage earn.
ers in the country look TO these same
combines for employment.
While the smashing of the combin
is going on where will those employ
ers get work.
AS for government ownership of
railroads we will, today, consider but
one phase of the question. We hear
men say every day that the govern
ment can own and operative rail.
road just as 1t can the postotiice. AS
that TO be true, what then?
What employee Of the postollice has
ever advanced one step above a clerk.
ship? Is an occupation that offers no
opportunity for promotion the one the
average American boy desires? Isl
a system which the labor unions of the
country desire to see inaugurated?
Can any honest laboring man see in
anything Mr. Bryan proposes any ben
eft 10 himself? But prices will be
reduced says one. VIII they? An