The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-21

Amid the crash of falling worlds,
tumblng about the ears of Mr. VIM. J.
Bryan, which would never fail to col
lapse by the dozen every time of late
that he makes a public utterance, the
Star is glad to hear the still, small
voice of that welf-edited paper, the
Pensacola Journal, which like the
Star, thinks Mr.. Bryan yet has a right
to be heard. While his views do not
often suit the influential men who
now claim to control the democratic
party, they have by no means lost all
their weight with the rank and file
The Journal says:
Now that the first paroxysm over
the ryan-Underwood controversy has
subsidized, many of those who jumped
to an early conclusion in the criticism
of Mr. Bryan are inclined to take a
saner view of the matter. The more
they study it also the more clearly it
appears that Mr.. Bryan's position is
not altogether without justification.
The facts in the case are simply
these: The democratic party for the
first time in nearly a generation has
control of the revenueraising branch
of the national government This is
the branch in which the tariff burdens
are either increased or decreased and
where protected interests are permit
ted to enjoy the unholy advantages
of special privilege or are shorn of
their ability TO do so.
"One of the most oppressive monop-
olies which the world has ever known.
either in the United States or else
where. is the steel trust. Its profits
have been made by the help of special
legislation. Its burden of watered
stock has been fastened on the backs
of the people in this country through
either connivance or neglect on the
part of the political administrations,
under which the trust has grown
great
Under this condition, with a reform
party in control of Congress. the peo-
pie have a right 10 expect that one of
the first things to claim the consid-
Grafton of that party would be the
matter of relief from the burden which
the steel trust has fastened upon the
people Has the democratic party in
Congress under Mr.. Underwood's lead
ership lifted finger or spoken a
work in recognition of the party's OBJ
legation TO the people in the case OF
the steel trust?
failure of some one within the dem
ocratic party TO point out that fact
and attempt TO put the party Straight
on that question. does any one ina CINE
that the republican platform and re-
publican campaign orators next year
will overlook it? And. are We going
to wait and allow the party TO be
trapped by short-sighted leaders into
the necessity of eXpla lining these
things when the presidential campaign
comes on in 1912?
The fact is, Mr.. Bryan has placed
spot in the present democratic pro-
gram and he has riveted the attention
of the country upon the Importance of
dealing with the steel trust and doing
so quickly and eoncIusively
mfr. Underwood's ready explanation
to the effect that he had requested the
ways and means committee to take ur
the iron and steel schedule first be-
cause most of his investments were in
that industry, and because he wished
to avoid any suspicion on the part OF
the public that failure on his para
TO act might be attributed to a selfish
motive. has all of the earmarks of q
frame-up, or at least of a previously
arranged plan. If he really wanted
,be committee to handle the iron and
stee, schedule first does anyone i'm
acme that the committee would havt
failed to do so?
mfr Rryau has done his party and
the country a service is pointing Out
Tho vital Importance Of action on the
steel and iron schedule and 1t IS 10 Dc