Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-31
THE BRYAN TRIUMPH
EDITORS VIEWS ON NEW YORK
DEMONSTRATION.
Metropolitan Dailies Shy at the Gov
eminent Ownership Of Railroads
Parts of Speech Commended.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
brings back to America a pref tc:irn for
two foreign ideas-an income tax and gov
eminent ownership and operation of the
railways A tax on incomes, involving an
nquisition into every man } private affairs,
may work well enough under :nonarchical
governments. but it would be out Of place
in this republic. Government ownership
and management of railways may likewise
be practicable in an empire like Germany,
with its compact little area OF :HO, 900 square
miles and its $1,000 miles Of lines Even on
that miniature scale. with poorly paid OPP
eratives, the service is inferior to our own
and the charges are much higher.
The ownership and operation Of the 220-
600 miles of lines, spread like network over
our 600 600 square miles O.. territory, would
be another matter. There are now more
political operation the number would be
doubled. Fancy two million more voters
directly under the thumb of a national par
tisan administration! MI. Bryan may well
express doubt whethc: the country Is yet
ripe for a change. Government. regulation
Is essential, government ownership an unde-
sirable and remote possibility, but govern
ment management-never.
In the Saddle.
From the New York Tribune
Mr.. Bryan came into his own last night
with all the eclat Of a Cincinnatus waylaid
at the pillow or a Prospero summoned by
wireless telegraph from his enchanted
island. No hero making good In the fifth
act could have had latter part or
played 1t more to the satisfaction Of an adj
miring multitude. One reason for this was
of course, that the multitude gathered in
Madison Square Garden had gone there
with a fixed determination to be satisfied.
The fifty-seven varieties of democracy rep
resented had resolved to become one va
riety. Having voted in advance to accept
Mr.. Bryan's leadership, they were prepared
to indorse anything he said as pure and
unadulterated wisdom. Democrats of all
shades of opinion have admitted that Mr..
Bryan Is the sole surviving hope Of the
party of Jefferson apd Jackson. He Is its
guide, its counsellor, it's friend, its idol.
What he says Is, therefore, as good as law,
and, though there may be some democrats
left who differ with him on minor particu-
lars of policy, like the single gold standard,
compulsory arbitration of labor difficulties.
public ownership and operation of the rail-
roads and of municipal utilities. the levy
ing of an income tax, strict supervision by
the government of all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce and the general SUBJ
lection of business and industry to strin-
gent federal regulation, the Madison Square
Garden apotheosis seems to show that such
doubters are no longer inclined to strain at
either gnats or camels. In politics, as in
the stockyards the hide and the horns 60
with the carcass, and, If the democratic
party is to take the Bryan cure for general
debility, why should it not, 1t sensibly ar
CUES, take what's something to 1t in doses
three fingers high?