The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-13

rather IMAM 10 permit the CoutiuuSu
growth of existing abuses to hurry the
country on TO remedies more radical
and more drastic" This is about the
most ingenious of Bryan's arguments.
His remedy is blood letting. Better
let me bleed you now; I'll bleed you
twice as hard four years from now"
| He ignores the fact that there is a
safer and surer method of cure.
One thing should be distinctly MOTTO
ed In not one instance has Bryan
attacked Roosevelt or Taft. In all his
speech he has been afraid to attack
Roosevelt's policies.
Mr.. Bryan might have mentioned
the fact that the trusts arose and
commenced their abuse of law in
Clevelands administration. His char
ges against the republican party are
in the light of Theodore Roosevelt's
administrations unfounded and unjust.
And the fact that ne does not prove
the reactionary portion of the repub-
lican party in control of the govern
ment and the fact that he can not
prove it. makes his whole argument
fall from want of a connecting link.
| AS to Bryan's insistance on the cleo
ton of senators by popular vote that
is matter which would make neces-
sary the amendment of the constitu-
ton. The amendment would take
long and tedious time. 1t is difficult
to see why Bryan would combat pres
ent evils by such an indirect method
unless it be to have something to lay
his failure to in case of election. In
any case the election of senators by
the people can not be effected by the
mere election Of Bryan. Hence this
view of his becomes the personal
opinion which he so hated in Tafts
speech.
The rules of the house of represen-
tatives may need change. But the de-
mand of Mr.. Bryan that it be turned
again into a deliberative body is abb
surd. 1t is so large that it can not
be deliberative body. 1t was easy
enough in the early days for the
house of representatives to meet sim
ply and with 'out a committee and to
carry on the simple business of the
young republic. But the business of
those early days and the business of
today are two widely different things.
The small number Of representatives
made debate possible on every sub
ject Today, if debate were INDUCED
in on any but the most important sub
jects. no legislation could be carried
on.
The increase of repre- sentatives has
destroyed the deliberative body and
has made the modern rules nece ssary.
The rules have not caused the
trouble.
There are three examples of the
perversion and juggling of Mr. Bryan.
Such a man cannot be taken seriously
except as a menace to our country
The whole speech is such a mass of
innuendo, so irresponsible, so illogical
thta it can hardly be compared with
with the mastery speech at Cincin.
natl. Taft was for all the people, rich
and poor, for labor and capital, for
the Westerner and for the dweller
along the Atlantic seaboard. Bryan
has tried by high sounding phrases tc
std up feeling between classes, be
tween the rich and the poor, between
capital and labor, between the West
and the East.
. Prosperity and the public welfare
cannot come from misunderstanding
nor from trouble stirred up by dema
gogues. Labor and capital must have
the same interests. the country should
be national in it's aspect Bryan's
speech is shallow and provincial
Taft'S speech is sound and national