Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-19
tBy MARK suLLIvAN)

WASdlNSfIoN. u. u. req lS--'pH
= recent day in this town there were
two signs of the times. In the morn
ing at our homes, a good many of us
received thru the mails Il pamphlet
whose vivid cover shrieked out the
Subject. common sense or the clot on
the brain of the body polite" by the
author OF Coins Financial School,
and then. few hours later, as We
moved about the streets, we found
the newsboys selling copy OF Henry
Fords weekly paper, the Dearborn In
dependent, the cover OF which besought
you to read Cheap Gold. the money
mystery"
Mr.. Ford and his ideas are recent and
familiar, but who now remembers the
author and propaganda of the other
pamphlet To those whose memories
are long enough it recalls the carly
Bryan days, when heaven only know
how many copies of COINS Financial
School, flooded the farms and the
0uestion-and answer form in which
its catechism on money was phrased
provided the substance for thousands
of debates in country school houses
and millions of oracular declamations
from the cracker barrels OF cross road
stores. Looked at from this distance,
1t has the glamour of romance, the
echo OF vivid and stirring days. Prob
ably most of us had thought that the
man who was christened William Fl.
Harvey. but came to be called Coin
Harvey" had gone the way of Sock
less Jerry" Simpson, Mary Ellen Lease.
Carrie Nation. the he-whiskered Pef
fer, and all those others whose obees
sious contributed the picturesque
drama of the days news TO those peace
full days in the a0's before even that
bush-league war we had with Spain
was dreamed OF. And now Coin
fzr1 liz
ing It Monte Ne. Benton county. Ark.
and once more some crusading inetinct
tells him that again tho times are ripe
for him.
I don't know what It portends: and
= good many of the persons who know
most within the field of fiscal theories,
coinage and the like laughed at the
suggestion that IT means anything.
When we first went into the war. and
began the fiscal operations attending
It, plenty OF persons expected that We
were in for thoro going initiation all
the way up to the dizzy top. and that,
In the reaction. we should have to face
all the chaos that attends such
course and the heresies that arise out
OF the comeback. But we didn't let
our initiation go on to the wilder
heights. We began to check II in the
summer of 1920 and everybody thought
ws were saved from tho consequences
OF monetary 1ambore~.
Who could have foretell that an ad-
ministration in power with an election
facing II in a few months would have
had the courage to begin deflation with
all its pains and unpopularity. This
and other aspects of the mana cement
Of our postwar finance on the part
OF President Wilson and Secretaries
Glass and Houston constituted ono OF
the finest examples OF intellectual in
tsgrity and political courage in our
history. II Is chiefly this we shall have
to thank II we get thru without seri-
Gus contest with financial heresies.
Most persons think we Will escape. but
who can be sure that what is going on
in several OF the countries of Europe
will leave us completely immune?
There is no likelihood of its affecting
our governmental or business prac-
tees but can We be sure II Will not
infect tho minds OF the dreamers. the
enthusiasts and the fanatics? Can We
he sure We will not have political
campaign with something like the
battle OF rs to l. fought over again?
There is no denying the alluring. Sc
ductive quality of monetary heresies
TO mind unframed in clear thinking or
otherwise touched with inexactness.
Probably the answer Hes where most
answers lie in the question of whether
a leader shall appear. II any one
should turn up with tho picturesque
and magnetic personality that Bryan
had in those early days, and with an
ambition to be president of the United
States We might well have 80 and
ssome variation OF Sixteen TO one
all over again. Henry Ford Is a very
different personality from William
Jennings Bryan. and yet. he has the
same characteristics Of being led on
BY instinct and dominated by inspira-
tion from within himself
Furthermore, while he has none OF
that richly flowing magnetism that
made Bryan SO fascinating so multi
iudes of people there Is. never-the-less.
no DENYING that nearly everything he
does from day to day catches the i'm
sg,nation OF thousands. who como TO
think OF him ss man who makes
automobiles cheaper than anybody
else, who raised his wages when othe-
ers are reducing them, who buys
aou., yafiroad and makes 4.