The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-31
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Cot. Pessy 0. wilson Draws His fire Tipped
Pen Against tho Peerless.

yesterday Billy Bryan braveiy preached
his bloody broillng breast before thu British
lion In behalf OF India.
Then Thomas Hughes, NJ. p, asked why
ar. Bryan did not first inform himself on the
subjsct. MIR. Hughes ought to know by this
time that the peerless leader always talks
before informing himself. contrary to the rule
laid down by Bulwer.
In the instance given Mr.. Bryan had no
wish to inform himself. even had Il been his
custom TO do 40. He simply wanted to breach
his bloody broillng breast and have certain
OF bis Anglomaniao followers point with
pride TO the man who. like an armed war
rior. like . plumed knight could walk into
the very den OF the lion and twist his tail.
Then. as In such cases made and provided.
the claqueurs at home were to cry, In q sweet
resonance: Where now are the. great deeds
Of Jack Horneri" while Grim Forgetfulness
was to be set forth as sitting upon the be-
dlnmed. bedamned and fallen fame Of our
childhood's frst hero. the plum catcher.
Among tho many good things which Brit
ain has lone for India was one evil thing In
particular. which Bryan not only wished to
be perpetuated there but also to be imposed
upon his own c~ountry-that 10, the unlimited
coinage Of silver. The weight Of tina losses
to India. caused by her dancing dollar. or
rupee. became unbearable, and from o sense
Of Justice, or Of expedienoy. or both, England
placed the prop Of her own credit under the
rupee. india, at least. was never q silver
producing country. and the single silver
standard ought never to have been imposed
upon her, when. since Queen Eizabeth's
time. II had been known that there IL no fixed
or heavenly ratio between silver and gold.
but that from the time Of william the Con-
oueror--r mean the Norman and not tho
Hebrask9n--the ratio has been increasing
And the Drioe of eilyer derllnin0
Bryan 10 the most exasperating OF dema-
gogues. because he 10 at once the most I'M
pudent and the most dishonest 90 well as
the most plausible Of his band. And that
which makes him a more dangerous dema-
gogue than he 10 thought to be-even by
those that know him TO be one-is the fact
that he 10 believed TO be sincere. He 10 sin
cere In one thing only: the desire to be Presl-
dent.
He Is treaoherous to the Democratic party,
yet cunning enough to pass 90 a Democrat
TO many Democrats and as o Socialist to
Socialists; politically INSCRIPTIONS 40 he 10
treaoherous; q would-be dictator, yet an
uncomfortable lawyer. who instead OF pratt
fng about when I was q law student. > should
blush TO remember that he has ever been
admitted 70 the bar.
Full of what Milton calls ragged notions
and babblements. : forever carping and can't
u oDOut uSbiTluk 3 uO EOOu, nc nae HeNeT
done any good. at least since 1892. not even
to labor. : which he adores, neither standing
up for the right Of men to labor, nor for tho
right Of associations to slay those who do not
set an appropriate price Upon their hbors.
In one campaign he cried out that prices
were falling. and too low: In another that
they were too high. and rising.
He shouts about hls modesty. while. like
Jezebel. he goes about with painted face
that no one may fail to observe him. Per-
hsps q better comparison would be TO that
immortal monkey Of song and story which
touched himself up or The larboard quarter
with red paint. declaring II to be neat but
not gaudy.' Carlyle says that whore q man
wears two faces be comes TO be unable TO dis
tinguish the real from the false one. Doubt
less Bryan the Brave sees himself as Fielding
p~ortrays Squire Allworthy In tom JONES'
as he walks out to view the rising SUN Of q
serene May morning: "A human being
replete with benevolence. meditatiug In what
manner be might render himself most ac-
ceptable to his Crestor by doing most good
to His creatureA'
Having driven the Democratic boat upon
the rocks Of false doctrine, he might have
the grace TO follow Eneass rector. Palinurus.
mi cast himself into the sea. or at least sur
render his pilots license. Why. the vote
which Judge Parker had cast for Bryan In
previous campaigns did more TO beat him
than all the thunder Of the captains and the
shouting on San Juan Hill, when -over the
valley. with speed like the wind. all the steeds
were a-galloping.- To the Socialists who
have crept and climbed and intruded into
the Democratic fold. believing. as Milton says.
that the womb Of teeming Truth IL to be
closed up, II she presume TO bring forth aught
which sorts not with their unchewed notions
and suppositions." Bryan may be q conven-
lent temporary agent to aid them to some want
age ground. 10 Democrats who know the In.
raoy Of old-of Jefferson. Jackson. Clinton.
Van Buren, and seypour-hs can never be
anything but q sham.
To conscientious men who desire TO be
Democrats but are dsluded by the talk Of
-entire change Of programme every four
years" and we must be progressive In some
Of the prevailing styles and Bryan 10 the only
real modesto" / would quote the words OF
another hero Of another hill than Ban Juan:
Whom. therefore. ye isnorantly worship.
him declare I unto you"-declare him as too
cowardly to come out O. an open Socialist,
as his doctrines make him; too superficial
and too selfish to know. or care TO know,
conservatism L. the essential Of the
qualified Democracy Of the United States.
Of Jefferson and Seymour. This was In
tended not to be an absolute democracy,
blown hither and thither by every wind OF
doctrine. like the incopstant mob at viewing
sweet C@ear'e Wounds but to Be sta yed by
some such prin ciple as that which Bacon sets
forth In his Doctrine Of All the Motions in
Nature" namely:
The political motion 10 that by which tho parts
OF q body are restrained from their own immediate
~eppetites end teudepcies, TO unite In such q state
as may preserve the existence OF tho whole body.
the spirit, which exlsts In all living bodies,
kecps all the parts In due subsection: when II es.
capes tho body decomposes when Inc
spirit which he'd the parts together escapes, all
things are dissolved and return TO their own natures
or principles; the oily parts TO themselves, the
aqueous to themselves, 40, upon which necessarily
ensues that confusion of parts observable In putrs.
The guardianship OF the Constitution and
the note which rings out from the Tenth
Amendment 10 the spirit which held the parts
Of the Democratic party together 90 long
seems to have escaped.
DENVER. July 70. POSER 8. WILSON,
American Mineral Water.