Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-09-03
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1908.

BRYAN IS UNFAIRNEss AND INSIN.
CERITY OF ARGUMENT.
We heard Bryan's brief speech at
Crookston Tuesday evening and
though the time was too short in
which to make any thorough discus
sion of the issues it was long enough
for him to say some things which to
our mind at least either shows lack
of sincerity or deficiency in sound.
logical reasoning powers. either OF
which or both combined make him
an unsafe man. to place at the head
OF this nation. and no wonder that
he has twice been rejected by large
majority Of the American people.
He utterly lacks the judicial temper
ament of Gov. John A. Johnosn. the
faculty to weigh and consider Ques-
tions of import. discern consequences
and form correct conclusions. Bryan
is a master at "playing politics"
and his manner of reasoning by dark
hints. innuendoes. and suggestions is
such that it will blind for a mo-
ment. bewilder and appeal to the
unthinking, but can be easily seen
through by all who want to arrive
at the real truth of the matter and
are not blinded by partisanship. Take
for instance the question he pro-
pounded in his speech at Crookston.
"What has the Republican party
ever done for the farmers?" BY
asking this question he makes the
inference that the Republican party
has done nothing at all for the
farmers. that all it's efforts have been
spent in legislating for the corpora
tions, trusts and monopolies to the
detriment of the farmers. Now
every person who knows anything
at all of our country's history knows
that such an insinuation is entirely
false, yet to the unthinking it may
appear, as an unanswerabIe argu-
ment. The question is short one
but to show it's falsity it is necessary
to enter into long explanation tell
ing exactly what the Republican
party actually has done for the far
mers. This requires some know
ledge of history. and memory of
facts. because people. even we'll in
formed people. are prone to forget.
and do not keep distinctly in their
minds occurrences of even a few
years back. The unfairness of this
subtle innuendo reasoning. and the
diffic ultv of meeting it. can be seen
10y propounding question like this:
''What has the Christian religion
eversdone for mankind?' Everyone
can see how easy it is to cast doubt
upon it's beneticence and especially
If the question is ACCOMPANIED by
declaration that it entails upon the
people an enormous and needless
expense in building churches and
supporting an army. of ministers
leading life of idleness. an extrava-
:gance if it please. Now in order to
answer this question and thoroughly
refute the insinuation. it is neces-
sary to 20 into a long explanation
showing the benefits of Christianity
to the world. To do that effectively
requires some knowledge of both pro-
fame and chulch history. and even
then it may be impossible to remove
the doubt which such question
would raise in the human soul. 1t is
the same with Bryan's slurs and in
nuendos concerning the Republican
party. Is there any fair minded. we
might almost say sane. person, who
believes that the Republican party
during the forty years it has been
entrusted with power. has never
done anything for the benefit of
the farmer? Is it possible that the
party of Lincoln. Grant. Blaine.
Logan. Garfield, Sherman. Mckinley
and Teddy Roosevelt. and scores of
other illustrious names. has never
done a single thing for the farmer?
And yet the farmers have returned
this party to power again and again
for more than 40 years! Bryan asserts,
too much-his assertion is not true.
Now it is a fact that if there is any
class to which the Republican party
has pandered. and gone out of it's way
to favor even to the extent of being
charged with espousing socialistic
ideas, it is the farmers. We will not
attempt in the scope of this article