The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1908-09-24
Bryan Has Not Answered.

Inc IrOuOle aOOuL MT. bTydh 10 tual
his facility of speech makes il too easy
for him 10 say things about which salts
factory explanations may be difficult
James Van Cleave is one Of those in
convenient fellows TO have around when
one is too profuse, or too unguarded, in
his utterances. He is one OF those fell
lows who wants TO know, seems TO think
the asking of questions proper way to
gain information, and has asked Mr.,
Bryan several questions which remain
unanswered, Mr.. Van Cleaye says;
Business men and the country in gen
eral would be interested in getting a
plain, direct answer from Mr.. Bryan on
these points, and in getting it just as
quickly as he can give it,
ARTICLES entering into competition
with trust controlled products should
be placed on the free list, and
graduate reductions should be made in
such other schedules as may be neces'
sary to restore the tariff to revenue
basis" This expression from the tariff
plank OF his platform is not tariff re
form, " which his platform pretends TO
want, but tariff annihiIatiOn AS neal
ly every sort Of business which is CON
Quoted on u large scale throughout the
country would come under the Bryanito
definition OF a trust, what does Mr..
Bryan propose 10 do with the factories
which his policy would close? Where
does he suppose The millions OF wage
workers whom he would thus force into
idleness could obtain employmenty
Unless he proposes to allow those per.
sons to starye, how much does he sup.
pose it would cost the country for poor
houses in which to keep them? Where
does he imagine the United States,
now far in the lead OF all other cOun-
tries OF the world, in the volume and
the variety OF its industries, would land
if his Industrial program
would ever go into operation?
Mr.. Bryan asks: HAS the manuiac-
turer an interest so distinct from those
whom he employs, and through whose
labor he produces, that he has a vital
concern in opposing legislation beneh'
cial to his employees Where are the
manufacturers who are opposing any
legislation calculated to benefit their
employees? What legislation does he
mean? Let him point out the legisla-
tion and the manufacturers that he re-
fers TO.
"Are not rates, rebates and discrimt-
nations q matter Of concern 10 the busi-
ness man. he asks, in speaking about
the railroad question. Does Mr.. Bryan
remember the Hepburn rate equation
amendment OF 1906 to the interstate
commerce law Of 1887? He knew about
that act at the time, for he praised II
repeatedly, Has he forgotten 1t? Does
he know also that rebates and discrim'
nations are forbidden by law, and that
the law against them is being enforced:
Says Mr., Bryan: Every man who Is
engaged 10 work which is useful tc
society is business man; every mar
who contributes, by brain or muscle, tC
the nations wealth or the nation prog
ress is a business man. Can it be sale
that all who are engaged in any honor
able or helpful work have a vital con
Germ in the defeat OF the Democratic
party?"
Let me tell Mr.. Bryan that | have
every one of these men in mind wher
pointing out the reasons why all OF then
should vote against him. appeal Il
every business man in the United
States, regardless OF calling, location
or party, TO aid in burying Bryan ant
Organism under such an avalanche o
votes in 1908 that the work will no
have TO be done over again in 1912, o
ever.