The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-09-14

lightened craftsmanship again to go
down before the passions Of the mob7
The country is certainly in no pres
ent mood for revolution. The people
| at large do not want or need revolu-
ton. They are so pleased by the per-
fumed goosc-grease Theodore Roose-
welt has been Sticking over the surface
of affairs that many Of them who do
not discriminate are talking about
keeping him where he is. How much
stronger the argument for putting Mr..
Bryan in his place, in case Mr.. Bryan
offers them the simon-pure as against
the Spurious7
Public ownership of the railways
involves not only revolution, but a
preposterous revolution. 1t means CEN
tralization, federalism, officialism
carried to lengths undreamed of by
Frederick, by Napoleon and by Ham
ilton. 1t would work change as
sweeping as the abolition of property
i'll land, or the lection of the Presi-
dent for life. Was Mr.. Bryan bound
to open up such discussion with the
situation full of living issues to meet
and dispose of Can he think that
the support of the faction Of Socialists
who strike out so heedlessly and make
so muck noise. is essential to our
success in 1905? Is not the field a
it is sufficient to our hand without
going to the wood for timber, quitting
the ready pillow to take to the waiting
| AK handle. Have we not the last ten
years made breaks enough7 Or, must
we go on for ever mistaking icebergs
for whales?
The Cuurier-Journal wishes to
speak with proper courtesy, kindness
and respect: but also with becoming
sincerity and carncstneSs:; because we
accept Mr.. Bryan S leadership unre-
| Scrvedly, have considered no alter
native. shall labor increasingly for his
election and truly want him elected.
That he never can be elected, and
ought not t" be nominated. on a plat
form of public ownership is our fixed
belief. 1t is Il remedy with no exist
lny evil. 1t is at war with the philoso-
nhy taught by jefferson. by jackson
IN by Mr. Bryan himself. The sug-
,">tion is enough to moke the Sage Of
M"mlirrll" turn over in his grave, Old
Hickory /" sit up in his coffin. angels
t" weep and demons to laugh: a con-
summation impossible of attainment
except through despotism, degradation
and ruin: Gov. Folk has told us how
it was in Missouri. So would it be on
IA gigantic scale in the country at large
No. no, a thousand times no, Mr.
Bryan. Say at once to the tempter,
Get behind me, Satan' There
| stands Theodore Roosevelt. Go for
him. There he stands on the bridge
of the pirate ship Subsidy. Every
thing for the classes, nothing for the
masses. In the hold below lie hidden
| all the old shams and scarecrows wait
ing till the storm blows over. Go af-
ter them.
Lord, what an ominous gatherum !!
There is the Tariff Baron who knows
his anger and is will to eXude still
more of his fat-though he likcth NOT
the confinement. There is the Railway
Magnatc, truculcnt but silent, relying
on the gray wolves of the Senate to
see him through. There are the kings
of finance. the lords of trustism, with
! their stupid stare ont of Steel-black
eyes. stall-fcd and sugar-refined, who
would be glad to swear but dare not.
The big stick" laid them low in 1904
and keeps them in their cages now.
And. there is Old GunnybagS. sleek
and Shinying, who says to the others,
"Thc President will save us. never
frar,' and murmurS, ''pass the
plate.'
Every now and then Teddy himself
down and whispers, "You lie still
you fools don't you see what am do
ing for you7' And, then they all echo
the words of the song the winds sing
''Onc term more
For Theodorc,'
hoping soon to set it the music OF
drum and fife, and march to it.
Maybe, and again maybe not; but
whether Roosevelt continue upon the
bridge. or gives way to another skip
per, he is no Flying Dutchman, nor il
any phantom bridge.
TO continue the nautical illustra
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