Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-17
j. w. Van Cleave Brands as
False Assertion That Labor
is Outlawed
GUARANTEE PLAN AssA'LED
Head Of. National Manufacturers De-
clares Proposed Fund Would Wreck
tho Whole Financial System - Says
Guarantee Plan is Vicious-General
News.

st. Louis Aug. Thames w. Van
Cleave, president of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, yesterday is
sued answer to a recent reply by Will
liam j. 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, he says, for bus
the injunction, tariff and banking
planks of the Denver platform assail
the interests of every man in the coun-
try who is engaged in any sort Of
trade.
THE falsity of the nsinuation in the
Denver platform that labor unions are
outlawed," Mr.. Van Cleaye 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 nomination,
could have told Mr.. Bryan that there
is not vestige of truth in the pre-
tense that any act of congress or any
ruling of any federal court ever for
babe any labor union to organize, to
ask such wages from employers as the
union saw fit to ask, or to make any
terms with employers which would be
agreeable to both parties"
Mr.. Van Cleave then asks:
Does not Mr. Bryan, as a lawyer
and public man, know that his plat
form charge is 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 which, in amicable
agreement, could be gained. but that
the association always opposed the in
timidation and violence which, he says.
have sometimes been practiced by some
of the unions. 'Does he personally ia
vor the organization of the boycott%'
Mr.. Van Cleave asks, and he adds that
the country is interested in getting
a plain, direct answer from Mr.. Bryan
on this point, and in getting it just as
quickly as he can give it,
Calls Guarantee Vicious.
Speaking of the guarantee fund
which the Denver platform urges for
the payment of depositors of insolvent
Nn ~
Cleave asks:
Does not Mr.. Bryan know that this
vicious provision would penalize the
honest and careful banker for the ben
eft of the banker who is dishonest
and reckless? Can he not see that this
scheme would remove all the safe
guards which our present laws have
raised UP against such plungers and
grafters as have worked their way in
to the control of many of our banks,
that 1t would Immediately and i'm
mensely increase the number of such
bankers, and that it would precipitate
an era of extravaganza, wild specula-
ton and corruption which would wreck
our whole financial system? Is not Mr..
Bryan aware that his wildcat banking
ruin to the country even quicker and
in larger measure than his silver de-
basement of the currency of 1896 and
1900 would have brought?"
Accepting Mr.. Bryan's definition that
"every man who is engaged in a work
which is useful to society is a BUSH
ness man, every man who contributes
by brain or muscle to the nations
wealth or to the nations progress is a
business man, and that every man who
is engaged in any honorable or help
full work is also business man." Mr..
Van Cleave REGIONS:
Let me tell Mr.. Bryan that I have
every one of those men in MIND when
pointing out the reasons why believe
all of them should vote against him."
THE WEEKS TRADE,