Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-02
Heap Radical Talk;
But Wall St. Grins

Washington, D. c., July 2.-(Spe-
cial 1.-The fact that the most highly
paid Chautauqua artist in Wilson's
cabinet, Secretary of State. W. ].
Bryan, the fake radical and terror
of Wall Street" has been playing dol
lar diplomacy straight into the hands
of the big New York international
banking interests, has done more to
the eyes of those who havesup to this
time considered it to be an honest re-
form administration than any one
other fact. For political reasons pure
ly the, Senate has started a little
furry about the Colombian and Nicara
guam loans, but not much will be un-
covered by an investigation by the
Senate, for a reafinquiry would re
veal things which would discredit all
three parties-the Republicans, the
Democrats and the Bull Moose. I.
Wilson began his term in Office with
sensational statement in which he
told the country that he was throwing
dollar diplomacy overheard by not in
viting the Wall Street interests to
Dartake in-the Chinese loan. The Wal
Street interests thereupon pretended
be very much offended, and a popu
/ lar chorus OF approval went up from
he stupid press of the country. s-Dol
ar diplomacy was dead. and Wilson
had killed it with his little Ratchet.
DeIuson Prevailed.
For some time this delusion pre-
vailed. Finally it was discovered that
the State Department had been using
| the lied Cross as a catspaw to negoti-
tie. big industrial loan to China.
| The rich Euai River valley was the
prize which the American bankers
wanted to ge THEIR fingers into, and
| he officials of the United States gov
ornment kept the cable between
Washington and China hot in order to
be sure that the United States beat
| the other greedy capitalists sailing
under various foreign flags to the
Oriental goal. The United States won
hanks to Bryan and Mabel Boardman,
Taft's friend who runs the Red Cross
raI%s lornler private Secretary, Chas
D. Norton, member of the Red Cross
Board and an official of the National
| city Bank in New York, also had a
finger in the undertaking.
Now come the Nicaraguan and Col
1
| sively that Bryan had been hand in
glove with his exploiting friends in
New York in the little game of SUBJ
4 lies" to the domination of Wall Street.
Should Explode Bryan Myth.
these revelations" said an astute
political observer in Washington the
other day, should be the beginning of
h0 WI ell q
the Bryan myth should result in the
driving of Bryan out from public life.
Bryan is probably not corrupt in the
way of taking rakeoffs for himself -
he can make enough by merely open
ing and shutting his mouth in Chau-
tauqua tent to keep him reasonably
honest and prosperous. Bryan's game
is deeper. He is at heart a. Civic
Federationist-he thinks that capital
and labor can lie down together and
be perfectly happy. He has at his
tongues end few-a very few-old-
fashioned radical reforms which in
clude idrect election of senators, the
initiative and referendum, and the
abolition of what he Acalls pluto
cracy." But Bryan doesn't even know
plutocracy when he sees it, or he
wouldn't surrender the helpless little
republics of South America to the I'm
tender mercies of Brown, Seligmna,
ct al don't like to CALI Bryan a
fool, but I cannot hip concluding that
] the very best thing that can be said
for him is that he is a fake There
is not and never has been a single
really revolutionary plank in his plat
form-witness how promptly he side
stepped government ownership of rail
roads few years ago.. If the people
of the country knew him as we in
Washington know Bryan, they would
turn the entire Democratic party out
of Office for letting itself be dominated
by one such man."