The farmer and mechanic., 1906-11-27
THE BRYAN RESOLUTIONS WON.

Mr. John Z. Irish, of California, OBJ
Bourke Cochran type. but he lacked
Bourke's thrift and at bottom belief
in Democracy. He held office under
cleveland and with the President bolt
ed the party in 1896, Mckinley gave
him office and he has since acted with
the Republicans. This was the man
put up by the Roots and the other
agents in the Trans Mississippi Con-
gress to antagOnize MIR. Bryan's reso-
lutiOns RoCt and Shaw had talked in
favor of giving subsidies to steamships
owned by the shipping trust and other
government faVoritism, but they had
talked chiefly to men riding on free
passes and enjoying the favor CT trusts
and protected interests. The Congress
became a thing of life when Bryan
spoke and there was the introduction
of an element of government by the
people and of the people and for the
people" that it had lacked before the
Ncbraskan began to speak. Up to
that time the Roots and the ShaWs had
been in undisputcd control, and they
=
the purpose of committing the Con-
gress to schemes Of spOliatiOn and ia
NOritiSm Mr.. Bryan introduced two
rcsOlutions-just tWO-One in favor of
international arbitration that had car
ricd the London International Parlia-
ment by storm IN spite of the soft tread
of f~the diplomats Who talked arbtra-
ton that was ineffective and built
ships and armed men to protect the
English in stealing the land of the
Beers and the Americans in buying
FilipinOs from Spain at so much per
head and then shooting them for dis
scnting from the trade, and the
other opposition to trusts and mOpOpo-
lies. These simple resolutions were
like bonbs in the camp Of the Smooth
ItAWay trust orators, and their pack
ed committee determined to suppress
them both, and when the Resolutions
Committee reported all the schemes of
special interests were endorsed but no
reference was made to arbitration or
to the oVershadoWing trust question.
\ St Louis business man sharply
called attention to the omission of the
Bryan resolutions and demanded CON
sideration. Then il was that Orator
Irish was put up to attack the only
two vital matters before the Congress.
What reason did he offer for his oppo-
sition to the Decentralization and ant
trust resolutions? 4 oppose" he said.
the Bryan resolutions because of the
views Of Mr.. Bryan expressed in his
New York Speech Could anything be
more pUerile? If Mr.. Bryan had of
fered resolutions favoring government
tai oWncrships of Railroads.&c. view
Mr. Bryan holds only as ultimate il
government control fails)-the argu-
ment Of Col Irish would have been ap-
proprlatc. but to lug it in Us a reason
for opposing arbitration and anti-trus
resolutions was SO far-fCtchcd that i
couldn't even fool the folks who want
cd a plausible excuse for voting agains
the Bryan resolutions. After the de
bate both the Bryan resolutions, in fl
Nor of universal peace and for com
mercial fair dealing were passed
The Resolutions Committee is too OF
ten the place for the intermcnt of vi
tai resolutions. and but for the cour
age of Mr.. Irvine, of st. Louis the
would have afforded Sepulchre fo
the only resolutions that touch In
greatest problems the American pee
pie must decide.
Mr.. Shaw and MI Root went IL
against Mr.. Bryan once too often.