The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-01

ways suffered as the Just Hl+d suHGfs, accepting every lash as an inpiration and his crown of thorns as crown of giorJ.
 As We now, after ten years, see our leader hailed by admiring thousands, yes millions. his days of bitterness may be forgotten by all save those who made the wounds. It happens often that prophets and unbelieYers standing yesterday where he hal led, but to few men is it given to draw them up to where he stands to-day
 Bryan is not changed excep1 by growing in the faith, widening in the views and broadening in the enthusi- asm which marked hiT as leader of the people ten years ago.
 Many changes have taken place in public sentiment since 1896, but a1 the end of every new path we find Bryan blazing the way. It is in the field which Bryan plowed that Roosevelt has reaped; give each his due. Have you forgotten the humiliation, the abuse, which were thrown upon him out of the muck heaps of the usucers? Yet he appears to-day clean an6 rndc- filed while some of the bltterest ene- mics of 1896 are in dread of she pen!- tentiary. They are exposed, but not |until the department of justice is taken from their hands and put into the hands of Bryan will they get their de- serts.
 We are told that oven now the mas ters of high finance are considering whether Bryan be not the less of two evils and it may be true that, if Bryan could not for any reason be the candi- date of the democratic party in 1905 lhis place would be taken by more radical candidate. It is testimony of the confidence of our people in this qnan that they accept him as he is in lperfeot confidence, that as new de- mands arise he will meet them with sole regard to the welfare of the pro- ducers and toilers of the land
 They know well that under him no syndicates of bankers will operate the United States treasury, the railroads will not regulate the postal service. and ,buccaneer upon the highways of com merce. nor will the great criminals nominate judges and prosecuting attor- lneys.
 No one will dispute that of late years 1.-the men of great wealtht have been Fastening their grip upon the machine Try of industry and concentrating the power of capital in their own hands. If our party has no purpose except the tinkering of tariff schedules, it may as well go out of existence. It is higher function in securing to the laborer a just share in his product, protecting the small tradesman from .mmolatior by giant combinations and giving the Legitimate business man free fled ir wbich to compete for trade.
 The department of justice, driven hJ public opinion, Is now prosecuting tho great trade monopolists for securing Irates of freight lower than thos' Igranted to their competitors. w know that these practices have existed Ifor thirty years or more and it require merely a ohild's arithmetic to prov Ithat monopoly is the inevitable produc Iof such discrimination. So long as tn, railroads are privately conducted the! Twill exact from industry all the trafft, Twill bear they will maintain their con Itrol of politics; they will pacl. the leg Ilslatures; they will continue to corrup our politics, our government, our law land our trade.
 The time Is ripe for us to follow il the tracks of the majority of civilized nations and to own as a people tn highways of commerce. Such is tn grand programme which our leader ha
 declared as his future policy,
 Tn 1896 we had positive and aggres
 sive programme and conducted tn
 mots potable campaign in the histor.
 of the democratic party,
 In 1904 We assumed the attitude of
 party of passive opposition and went t , fgnominiou defeat. The real democrat
 of the land will hear with joy the dec llaratfon of our leader for construc
 tive programme which invites thou sands of men from the republica ; ranks and cannot alienate single ma
 who is entitled to the name of demo 1 crat.
 , Let us be grateful to-day that for , eign travel and the study of foreign in stitu4ions have confirmed the faith c : Jour great leader in American institu
 tions and in the ability of our peopl
 to conduct their own business withou
 the intervention of any aristocrac
 whether of family or wealth.
 As we have caught his enthusiasm
 before let us now receive it, grateft
 that we are no longer to be dragge
 down to the level of concession an ; compromise, but are to be lifted up b Jan inspiring and ennobHng leadership
 x-Congressnnan Lentz made strong speech, which was well receiy ed. His speech was largely eulogis tic of Mir. Bryan. He said that his at , ditors had gathered to greet the great est private citizen that the Unite
 States had produced. God, he said, Ina
 lin his providence given during ou
 earlier history leaders like. Jefferson
 Jackson and later Lincoln to elevai