The Washington herald., 1908-01-20

Editor The Washington Herald:
Taking the speech of Judge Morgan J.
O'BTien and the letter of eX-President
Cleveland on Jackson Day, and compar-
) ing them with the words of Col. William
Jennings Bryan on the same day, where
do We find the most practical prosenta-
tion of facts, principles, and policies?
Judge O'Brien and Mr.. Cleveland seem
to float high up i'm the blue ether, where
eagles soar. buzzards fly. and wild geese
may approach. but where the vision OF
the ordinary individual can rarely dis
ceTningy reach. They deal in glitterng
generalities, couched I'm fine phrases, pre-
sentiug intangible ideals, and verbal pyro-
technics. After flashing such dazzling dis
play of rhetorical fireworks upon the be-
wildered, bedizened people, and patting
each other approvingly upon the back,
they sagely suggest if the Democrats are
seusible-that is, submit To their guild
Nance-they may succeed. If not. they will
merit the defeat so justly deserved and
So certain to ensue.
Literary Flights.
They employ expressions unintelugible
10 the unmtiatcd. though most familiar
10 the minds of the frenzied fnauciers-
those eagles who soar highest in the
financial heavens. They build their acries
where the eye of the ordinary everyday
man can never expect 10 peer, and where
his foot can never safely tread. There
they luNuriously line their nests with the
wool shorn from the simple sheep of the
plains below. while they feed upon the
hrsuiugs Of the nocks, leaving the heeced
= 'carcasses for the banker buzzards, the
natural scavengers, who follow ia their
wake, taking what is so generously flung
TO them. relieving the. eagles OF The bad
scent and SAVIOR which might otherwise
infect the atmosphere. while said banker
buzzards keep i'm touch with the wild
geese Of the stock exchange, who tap the
public purse All of which is done through
the mysteries of high finance made more
obscure and effective by the fine phrases.
Such men as Mr.. Cleveland and Judge
OBrieu stood with Benjamin Harrison
and the Republicans 20 defeat the Demo-
cratic party bv putting up such decOy
ducks as Palmer and Buckner because
the Democratic party declined 20 bow 90
the uue-man domination of Mr. Cleveland
and make themselves dependent upon
him. principle deprecated by Judge
O.Brieu in his speech, while he is guilty
iu the same speech of the gross iucou-
sistency of approving and applaudng Mr..
Cleveland, the only man who ever deib-
erateIy determined to dominate the party,
or else disrupt fl. as he did.
Obscurity To Cloak scheme.
These are facts And facts are things
such men as Mr., Cleveland and Judge
O'Brieu dislike most to face. They favor
ohscurity. behind which they can cloak
their schemes. Consequently. the facts,
as represented by Mr.. Bryan. are most
distastefuI 10 them.
Such men as Mr.. Cleveland and Judge
OBrien have deluded q small percentage
or the Democratic party. while men OF
the same stripe in the Republican ranks
have misled the majority of that party
and brought the country 10 a condition
of panic All this is clearly shown I'm d
few practical words i'm Mr.. Bryan's speech
on Jackson Day. when he said. The
Democrat desires TO bring the govern
ment as near the people as possible, while
his opponent wants 10 get the govern
ment as far from the people as possible,
the Democrat would add the power OF the
State governments To that of the ma
tional government 10 protect the people
from the greed of predatory wealth.
ManifestIy IL is easier 10 manipulate
one than forty-seven legislative bodies,
that is, each state government I'm addi-
ton TO the general government As Mr.
Bryan says. what better illustrates the
present situation, against which every
true Democrat indeed every real pa
tri0t. must declaim, than the way the
Republican leaders rushed to the rescue
Of the banks and the relief of the stock
exchange pirates and gamblers. And
which banks2 Why the New York banks.
10 the exclusion OF an others; and those
banks that stood back OF the stock
exchange gamblers-banks which had
brought on the stringency from which
the country was suffering by their un-
business-liSe methods, to put II mildly.
Jackson on Financial Piracy.
Attorney General jackson. in his in
vestigation Of these New York banks.
declares ne never met as many men who
ought To- be in Jail The lawless methods
of these pirate bankers. he asserted be-
fore the Brownsville Board of Trade in
Brooklyn. constitute a chapter in the
history 0l high finance which can prop
erly be compared only TO the operation Of
the Tweed ring or the traction gang
Mr.. Hryaus power with the people re-
sides not so much iu his eIoqueuce as in
the plain tru,Ffalnsss rf lis statements
made in simple words and uninvoIved
sentences which go direct Co tGe heads
and hearts uf lis hearers and end I1de-
meut iu their minds because they can
understand and think them over nteDI-
gently while such Cleveland phrases as
"nuocuous desuetuue' coupled with the
millions n figures dealt iu by his allies
the high fuaucicrs mystfy and fail to
liuf1m and satisfy tie ordinary mind
Comparison of Purposes.
Tn fact. MT Bryan seems To- desire 10
c.ucidate. tine others to obscure Tho one
IS working FOR the good Of the many. the
others of the select few The oEo rep
ressnts patriotism. the others paternalism
Can thsre Dee a more objectionable form
of pateruaIsm than 20 give % any banks
but more especially the banks that
brought ON the panic the use of gov
Crument funds free. and allow them TO
got from Joe PEP cent down on the same?
The objection is if possible, intensified
10y the fact that the government paid
3 per cent for the money loaned these
banks for nothing, while these banks In
turn took care of the Stock Exchange
gamblers. who did not then. and VIII not
again, hesitate 10 pTecipitate the same
condition, If it suits them.
Cogsider what would have been the con-
sequences had not the country been I'm
such prosperous condition as enabled the
banks in small country towns and cities
20 protect themselves and so save the