Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-17
HOAV prices l$s
VAN CLEAvE IN
CRITICAL MOOD
HE ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER
GREAT NEBRASKAN
Goes into Verbose Analysis Of Demo-
cratic Injunction, Tariff and
Banking Planks-Asks
Questions Galore
BY Associated Press.

| BY Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1e.-James w. Van
Cleave, president of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, today issued
an answer to a recent reply by William
]. Bryan to an article by Mr.. Van
! Cleave a few weeks ago which pointed
out certain especial reasons why, ac-
cording to Mr.. Van Cleave, business
men should vote against Mr.. Bryan.
Speaking today, also for business
men, he says the injunction, tariff and
banking planks of the Denver platform
assail the interest of every man In the
country who is engaged in any sort
of trade. ...
"The falsity of the insinuation in the
Denver platform that labor unions are
outlawed." Mr.. Van Cleave says, lis
shown by the fact that their members
continue in their regular employments
| on every working day in the year In
every town in the United States.
EVERY member of the Lincoln Typo
graphical union, at whose banquet he
was a guest on the evening before his
formal notification of his nomination,
could have told Mr.. Bryan that there Is
| not a Vestige of truth in the pretense
than any act of congress or any ruling
of any federal court ever forbade q
| labor union to organize, to ask such
| wages from employers as the union saw
! fit to ask, or to make any terms of
| employment which would be agreeable
to both parties"
Asks Odd Question
He then asks: "Does not Mr.. Bryan,
as lawyer and a public man, know
| that his platform charges are false?"
| He tells Mr.. Bryan that the National
| Association of Manufacturers, like the
courts, has always recognized the
rights of the unions to get any terms
! from employers in which amicaole
| agreement could be gained, but tnat
the association always opposed the IN
timidation and violence which, he says
have sometimes been practiced py
some of the unions.
"Does he personally favor the legan-
zation of the boycott?" Mr.. Van Cleave
asks, and he adds the country Is
| interested in getting a plain, olrect
answer from Mr.. Bryan on this point
and getting it just as quickly as ne can
give it.
Speaking of the guaranty fund which
the Denver platform urges for the
payment of depositors of insolvent ma
tional or state banks, Mr. van CiedVe
asks:
docs not Mr.. Bryan know THIS
vicious provision would penalize the
honest and careful banker for the oen-
eft of the banker who Is dishonest and
reckless?
And More Questions
"Can he not see that this scheme
would remove all the safeguards which
our present laws have raised up
against plungers and grafters who
have worked their way into control of
many of our banks; that It would i'm
mediately and immensely increase the
nunher Of such bankers and that 1t
would precipitate an era of extrava-
gance. wild speculation and corruption
which would wreck our whole hnanciai
system? -
as not Mr.. Bryan aware that his
wildcat banking scheme OF 1908 would
bring chaos and ruin to the country
even quicker and in larger measure
than his silver debasement of the cur
rency Of 1896 apd 1900 would have
brought it?"