The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-06-14

since then it must be conceded that ut
has carried himself with a prudence ano
aplomb, intimating to thoughtful op'
servers the growing, rather than the
waning, man.
The Nebraskan is at the height OF his
powers. If the party cannot be united
on him, upon whom else2 There Is living
hope among the Democratic rankand'
file that we can carry the next election
and latent fear that the chance Of
doing SO may be blighted by possible
factionism, muddled by misleading IN
fuences, perhaps by corruptand corrupt
| ing influences. These Democrats REFUSE
to take to bites at a cherry MIR. Bryan
is as good now as he will be two years
hence. They intend to say So They dc
not intend to wait What he will most
need will be moral support, and this
they mean to heap up in sufficient meas
ure and in advance. AS consequence
each State, at least in the West and
South, which meets in Convention for
any purpose from now onward will fol
low the lead of Missouri, Arkansas, and
Indiana, naming him rs the standard
bearer for 1908.
SO much for the more or less superficial
and party aspects OF the case. But, be-
hind them and below them, there lie,
yet half. hidden, forces unreasonable
and momentous. The people have lost
the control of their Government, and
they begin to feel it, 70 see it, to know
it. The Free Silver emotion, for it was
little else, was merely the manifestation
of distemper of whose real nature and
extent, in 1896, the country was not full,
" advised. Something allied it. 1t cried
aloud and, in answer to its cry, various
doctors appeared; many of them stran-
gers, but all Of them urging a nostrum
which, rs everybody ought now to
realize was not remedy at all.
If Mr. Bryan had been elected in 1896
and the Free Silver cure-all could have
been tried ii would have brought no re-
lief. On the contrary, it would have
resulted in overwhelming disappointment
and reaction. Just as the trend Of no.
dern thought had set against slavery the
middle of the last century had the same
trend set against the double standard at
the close of it. Slavery had become i'm,
possible, and it went its way. Free
Silver was equally impossible, and 1t has
gone its way. Its disappearance makes
Democracy whole again. 1t brings
Democrats together once more precisely
~ after the War of Sections they came
together, all factions and fractional
issues removed, the bond of agreement
yet vital and eternal; the pact of the
masses against the classes; the Militia
against the Regulars the Government
of the people, for the people and by the
people, seeking the greatest good to the
greatest number, against the organized
power of dishonest money getting
through favoritism and privilege, the
Government of the Syndicates. by the
Syndicates and for the Syndicates.
This latter we now surely know rules
in the two Houses of Congress at Wash
ington if not in the White House, where
II yet problematic character is playing
queer politicsand pursuing devious ways
to what finality no man can plainly say
or see, but, rs Democrats everywhere
feel and believe, bodng no good to any
real or lasting reform.
The Republican party is n mammoth
Trust II is the greatest of all the Svndi-
Gates. 1t could not if it would, mend
any of the abuses which have grown up
under its ministration and which appear
in every department of the political,
commercial and economic arena. 1t il
responsible for the conversion of the
public highways to private uses for the
diversion of the taxes from purposes of
revenue to purposes of emolument; for
the consolidation of all official power to
Il few hands at Washington, the con-
centration of all financial power to a few
hands in few money -centers for the
elimination of the spirit and sense of
accountability from the party fabric
for the corruption Of the very sources of
the political fabric in the Legislatures
and the Electorate from one end of the
land to the other.
This IL not an over. statement 1t is
not a prejudiced statement II is fully
substantiated by the revelations of the
year gone by the revelations incident to
the Insurance inquiry, the revelations
incident to the proceedings of Congress,
the revelations incident to the exposure
of the Corporations beginning with
Standard Oil and ending with the
Pennsylvania Railway.
There is IA moral awakening. There
are popular Revision and uprising.
There must be u thorough oyerhauling
OF the System, u complete change of
parties in the Government, and no mat,
ter how attractive the President may
appear in the character of a Reformer.
or how successfully he may shape the
elements so as to force his party to ac.
cept him, or defeat, in 1908, there is
prevalent belief which may prove ir-