The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-10-27
BRYAN'S IHREPUTABLE
DEFENSE OF WILSON.
Continued from page ~

. ping the carrying trade of the ocean
. Because of scarcity Of ships and be
cause of increased risks, it has some
l times cost us seven times as much tt
/ carry a bale of cotton across tn,
, ocean as it lost before the war.
know Of one case where a man boush'
a ship, and the freight rates collect
ed on one cargo more than paid for
the shin. q
Mr.. Hughe. Opposes s.Hour Law.
Mr.. Hughes, although he declares
himself in favor of an eight-hour
day, says that the President was
wrong in proposing this law; he in
sists the law should not have been
passed without investigation. Well,
the republicans, by keeping me out
of Office. have left me free to keep an
eye on republicans in office, and
have been busy. Mr.. Hughes hap
pens to be one of the republicans
whom l have watched. When he. as
governor of New York, vetoed the
two-cent railway fare bill, he gave as
a reason that there had not been time
for Investigation. And now they are
still investigating down there after
eight years have passed. Now he
says the eight-hour law ought not to
have been passed, that they ought to
have investigated. Have they not
been investigating all these years?
The trouble with Mr.. Hughes is that
Ll:e takes the side of those who have
ANOTHER REMEDY and is against
those who have NO OTHER REM
EDI. Let me illustrate: Had he
signed the two-cent fare law in New
York the railroads could have gone
into the courts, and if they could
have shown that an injustice had
oeen done them they could have sus-
pended its operation. When, there
fore, he vetoed the two-cent fare
measure, he took the eside of those
who had another remedy and could
not have been injured even had he
signed the bill, but when he opposed
the patrons of the road he decided
aagnist those who had no other rem
edy, for they could not go into the
courts 70 secure justice.
And so on this question, he says
the President vas wrong-t h a t
means that, if he had been president,
he would have taken the side of the
ailroads; he would have taken the
ide of those who HAVE A REMEDY
md would have opposed those who
have no remedy except the law that
WAS proposed, or a strike. The rail-
roads that they will test
this law IN the courts. If the courts
decide that the law is unjust it will
he suspended. When the President
took the side of the railroad men he
! did no injustice to the railroads. be-
rause they have the courts to protect
them. He took the side of the men
| who needed a friend in the White
house.
Why do Mr.. Hughes and President
Wilson differ so radically on public
questions? 1t is because they view
public questions from opposite stano-
POINTS. There is only one line chat
! can be drawn through society always
and everywhere, namely, the line that
separates the man who is at heart q
democrat from the man who is at
heart an aristocrat. I do not use the
word democrat in a partisan sense.
The word is more than two thousand
years older than the democratic
party. 1t describes an attitude of
the human heart. Nine-tenths of
those who call themselves republi-
cans are at heart democratic and
some who call themselves democrats
are at heart aristocratic.
Democrat or Aristocrat, Which?
The democrat believes that society
is built from the bottom, the aristo-
crat thinks society is suspended from
the top. The democrat says: Leg.
islate for all the people, for he be-
lieves that the prosperity of the mass.
es will find its way up through all
the classes that rest upon the masses
The a%ristocrat, believing that society
is suspended from the top, says, and
he says il honestly-for he believes
it: LegisIate for the wcll-to-de ant
then be patient and wait until then
prosperity leaks through on those be
low. This explains why Mr.. Hughes
took the side of the railroads on tn,
two-cent fare bill, why he vetoed thu
bill giving the poor of New York /
f~ve-cent rate to Coney Island, VIII!
he took the side of the big tax dod
gers on the income tax amendment
why he took the side of the shipping
trust on the new shipping law, ant