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BRYAN AN AGITATOR. HIS EFFORT ALONG THE LINE IS TO STIR UP STRIFE. aunt of III Knl Kli( Ktr-linn An ApiMtleuf IHvoiili-iil w ho NiMka to A r ray flu A ilnst CU Mr. Hryati :i;i.ir.'ii.ly started out with the Intention of disclosing lid' Coinage question :is a unction of pure Il nance lid saili'sinaii-Vp. In Irs Madison Square (iardcii kmv1i lie said nothing which could he construed as an ap'al lo projudiiv. unless M'lups it wan his div laratioti that "i ln'tv can lii' no sympathy or v-ivr.iiiii lietxxeeti the advocates of a universal gold standard ami the advo cates of bimetallism. Hotwivu b inota'.-lism-whoilier independent or Intcniat'ion-1-aiul a pil l staiularil there is an im passible gulf." Tlu question at issue In tin' present campaign is not. ns -Mr. Hryan would have :In public believe, le twivu bimetallism anil the gold stand ard; it is In-ixvccu bimetallism and tho silver stand inl. Hut when Mr. Hryan cominoiuvd shaking without uahst th undertone of hatred and dissension xvhich character;! s bis public uttermiivs lie gau to Is- distinctly aiiiliblt'. Ilv the time that In1 reach (1 Syracuse he whs in a frame of mind which Ktl him to assert tluit meii who tin not favor silver monometallism art "eiiemli's of this country, who think they are greater than the government aiul ran make the government ilicir iiistniineiit for privato gain, th.' gn alest enemies that tins conn try has." He called them "plunderers of the industrial masses. In behalf of the money coris'iatious of this country ami Kitrojie." At Krie, retinsylvania. he aoknoxxied ed that he di'ia'udod more innm an a- leal to the emotions than to the Intellects of his Uiiirers, when he said: "The hear; is the place w here conduct Is determined, and if yon want to find out w here ft mail is in this light do not look at his brain: that would tind a reason for whatever his heart wants to do. Ixik at his heart, and tind out where his sym pathies arc. show me the sym pathies of a man and I will mark out his conduct. show me a man whose hj nmailiii-s are with the Idle hold ers of Idle capital, and I will show you man who wants as little money an pos sible, and puts it on the ground tliat h loves his m-ighlior letter than himself. Show me a man whose gynipatlilut are with tlH struggling masses, and I will show you a man who will never stand tip for syndicates and consent to let them ooutrol the liuancial policy of the Luitetl States. By the time that he reached Buffalo he began to sneer at his opixiueuts, as, for Instance, in ihe declaration that "wheD the Creator made man. he did uot use any sins-rior kind of mud when he made fiuanciers." It was here that he slid: "Advocates of bimetallism (he should bare said s;lver monometallism) are calltsl demagogues. There has never been a statesman whose heart beat in sympa thy with the struggling masses who has not beeu nihil a demagogue by those who opimscd him. Young man. do you want tn know- how to keep from being called a demagogue? I will give you a certain niethcul. liet in the employ of mate treat i-or n-atlou, and then call all the people anarchists, and you will be a statesman :i iiniiiir your employers." At IiOckiori. New York, be became de nunciatory, and said: "They have driv en down tile price of your products, they have increased the burden of your debts, they have foreclosed your mortgages, they are degrading and lowering the utaudard of civilization by driving eopo who want to work out uism the streets, and their idleness breeds crime, and crime menaces the safi'ty of every citizen of the land." He expressed the belief that "(lie gold standard has made more misery for the human race than wars and pestilence and famines: more misery than human mind ran conceive or hu man tongue tell." He b-gan his ap ieal to the passions of his hearers in the words: "The promulgation of the gold standard is an attack iiui your homes and upon ymtr lliTsldi-s, ami you have as much right to resist it as you have to resist an tinny marching to take your children captive aud burn your roof over your head." .Since a man has a right to resist an army by force, the only possible inference is that the friends of silver monometallism would be Justified In a resort to violence to prevent the continu ance of the present monetary system of the United .States. At Tonawanda he said that "the Chica go platform means that every man shall be defended In the enjoyment of that which be earns, but that no man shall be permitted to enjoy that which somebody else has earned and which is taken from him by vicious legislation." This is a palpable threat of spoliation of the rich. "The platform," he continued, "Is a men ace to the wrong-doer not the small wrong-doer only, but also the larger trans gressor, who attempts to use the govern ment as his instrument to wrong others." This Is an attack upon government and upon the principle of self-government If the platform is a menace what would the election of .Mr. P.ryan be? At Toledo he gave the worklngmen gome very bad aud immoral advice In the words: "I will not ask him to anything which may endanger his position. Iet aim wear the opposition button If he will. Let him Kit his name on their club list if be must. IiPt him contribute to their fund If he will. But let him rememlK-r there Is one day In the year when he Ls his own mas ter aud can use a pencil as he pleases. I am willing for you to be Republicans ev ery day in the year if you will Just be lomocrats on election day. 1 am willing for you to wear gold-bug buttons all the rest of the time if, when you enter the liooth, you will remember that the gold standard never conferred a benefit upon those who toil, and that It was never In dorsed of approved or sanctioned by any Iwdy of the people except those who hold fixed investments and trade In money or profit by the extremities of the govern ment." This was equivalent to advising work lngmen, whose friend he claims to be, to make of themselves liars, traitors, hypo crites and cowards, If only they would vote for him on the third of November. ;Iu the same speech he took a defiant at 'tilnde aud said: "If I am elected the gold standard will not remain the stand ard of this country one moment longer than 1 can help to get rid of It." At Toli-do he said: "A Kepulillenn suc cess would simply mean Hint while the people a iv liiuiuiiiilly fiw they will be hewers of wood and drawers of water for those who control Hie money supply of the world." And again: " The pimple w ho intend lo strike dow n olio-half of nil the standard money of the world simply mean to do wl,h yon and your property what the Meets of the world and the armies of the world would do tr they came to destroy one-half of all your pos sessions." At Milwaukee he dosorllied the present vlltical campaign ns a struggle over the nuestion whether (be people will "allow the bust of the gold standard to enslave Tn.um.mm f people, w hite and black. In tins country. Ho stud further: "Ihey say thai we are arraying one class of so ciety against another. I deny It. Hut. my friends. If a burglar conies to my home I have a right to call all my fami ly to keep him out. and It il-vs not make me mad If. when lie starts away, he tin us around and shouts to mo that I am trying to array iny family against him. When men array themselves against so ciety, so lely has a right lo array itself against them. 'Hie success of the Chicago ticket Is dangerous only to the min who wants to cat the bread that soiuelkHly else earns." In his sp.vcli at Lincoln, Nebraska, ae ocpiing the nomination of the silver Ke- piiblleans. ho Mid: "I believe that th. gold standard is a ciMispiracy against th' human race. I would no sooner join the ranks of those whose punioso it Is to fasten it iiviii the people th.iu enlist in an army that was marching to attack my home and destroy my family." These extracts from Mr. Hryati'a liar- rangues g:ve u fair Idea of him as an agitator and fomeuter of mpular discord and commotion -a man who would risk the horrors of an armed contllct between cltiviis of the republic rather than fail of his election to the chair which he as pires to occupy. I; Is ditlicult to know whether he Is to W taken seriously. II is either dangerous or absurd; dangerous if he smvmls In reaching the height of his ambition, but absurd if he fails of au election. WHAT BRYAN SAID AND M'KIN LEY DID. An Ohjf-rt IMon for flu rit Wurkrr. What Hryan SAID on tin plate: Mr. Haines, of New York: "When the industry of till plate Is established lu the I'nited States and three months ago there was not a gentleman on that side wtio would admit that there was or would lie a tiu plate factory lu the I'uil- ed States- Mr. Hryan: "We will not admit It to day, sir." Sxivh iu House of Itepre sontativos. March lii, ls'.ij.) What McKiulcy DID for tin plate: Ton. Amcrtmn tin plate manufactured ls!r. Aiiicrh-aii (la pliites plaUsl. 1SD2 1M5 12.000 Actual product In four jir 212.000 KstluintMl product for IKC IM.000 Tout. I'rartlral results of MeKlnlrr's rsMisiruetlve legtsiatiou after ttre tears. 3.v.oon Value of that Industry during tula lime io tue luueu ntatea .t.niu.i"i" Number nf wace earnera employed at the present time -40.000 A vernse par of men In mills. . .$2.50 per day Nnmlier of tin ilnte mills. Itirlud- me tiiiiiiK miii. urUK"i iiiiu exlstenie 200 Result Money kept nt home, addi tional employment for American lalwr and a product chi-.i"r and better than we have ever had N-fore. and the buyers of tin plale won over lo the wisdom of McKlnley's protection jxilicy. Hryan slid we could not make tin plate. McKinliy has established the in dustry, and given employment to Ameri can workmen at good wages. Uilsirlug men! Which do you want: What Bryan SAID or McKlnlcy DID? WACES AND COST OF LIVING IN JAPAN. There are no more painstaking, method ical, accurate statisticians in the world than those of the new Japanese empire. Japan has published a nanirt of the nim- nilttce appoiuted to investigate its mone tary system, which shows lu various parts or the empire tne average prices paid for all sorts of commodities for a long series of years past. A correspond ent of the Cleveland World lu Tokio, has taken the trouble to examine this report with care, and has furnished to that Jour nal a table in detail showing the general rise in the cost of living in Tokio and Osaka Mace 187:!. Taking the prices paid in is?; I as a unit and calling It 100, his table shows that In 1H!W the price of rice must lie stated at Km, of miso, 151); of table stilt, 1)1; of soy, 158; of firewood. HI; of charcoal, 150; of cotton, lis; of rent, ITJS; of bath charges, 'i. These are the principal Items lu the cost of liv ing In Japan, and It is said that lu 11)4 Ihe total onst of living Is expressed by the figure K12 as compared with 100 in 1S73. This is equivalent to saying that the cost of living has Increased during twenty-one years by 12 per cent, on the average. Ihe rise in prices ls due to the decline In the purchasing power of sil ver which Is turn is due to Its deprecia tion In comparison with gold, or more properly (qieaking, to the greatly In- tensed output of silver compared with the output of gold. The effect of this rise In prices itiion persons with fixed Income is stated as follows: "It will lie seen that a petty otlieinl who could subsist iu l.ST.'S on ten yen a month required at the beginning of l.X!H, yen Ki.20 to live in prntKirt Innate style, while a person who lived on 14.40 yen a month In 1KM re- luired 20.20 yen eight years later. It is, therefore, easy to see that people living on petty fixed Income, such as clerks In government service, whose Income Is practically stationary, must now be ex- iiericiicuig considerable (blllculty In mak ing ends meet, especially since house rent, which constitutes the largest Item in the cost of living, ls steadily going up ward." The same correspondent prints a table of wages of mechanics upon the same plan, which shows that If the average wage paid in IS .J was vhk tho average wage paid in 18!)4 was 133, that is to ay, wages had increased by one-third, or a little more than one-half as much as the cost of living. This statement Is in teresting and luiiortant In Its relation to the fierce discussion now In progress be tween American worklngmen In favor of the election of Hryan and those In favor of tho elivtlon of McKlnlcy, as to Hut ef fect of (ho five coinage- of sliver at ltl to I Unm their orsoiial pecuniary Inter ests. On the one hand, it Is claimed that while free coinage will result in an In crease hi the prices demanded for com modities, wages will rise in proiMrtlon, so that a worklngniaii for his dally or wvckly :lMml can purchase as much comfort as he Is able to purchase now. This Is die claim of the Hryan men. The McKlnlcy nu n deny It, and .Tsscrt on the contrary, that while wages may rise slightly, tin y w ill not double ns It Is sup poml that die prices of commodities will; therefore the woiklngiiiau, while he may rcivlvo a larger suin of money in re turn for his lalmr, tho money will have less purchasing power and he will there by receive less of comfort. Ills condition. Instead of being Improved, will bo worse than il now Is. The experience of Japan siiuv IS i :i gin s to show that the Mekln ley men have the best of ihe argument, ami ill's experience is eoimruici ny tno experience of ill other countries on a all- tor nasi, iu w men wages ami prices nave, i.scn m i-un'.cpieiioo hi .iiooiauoil of Ihe of silver. Wages never rise In proimrtlon to piliis. I'm- this reason the li'iv win age of sliver at M to 1 would lie au In jury and not a ben. -tit to the working meii of the I'nited Stales. MR. BRYAN'S TARIFF DODGING, Tho refusal of Mr. Hryan to discuss the tariff question is causing comment unfavorable to him. Iu view of the fact that while lu congress Mr. Hryan was one of the most radical advocates of tariff reduction. In order to cheapen prices for the benefit of the people, whereas now he Is urging that pnevs are too low. very naturally suggests that he was either Insincere then m his plea for the people or he Is Insl i cere now. Cheapness was then the great desideratum with him. He railed against the "tariff robbers" and urged that a reduction of duties was necessary to give the people neode l re lief In lower prices for what tlicy con sumed. It was not the currency, but the economic policy of the Republican party which Mr. Hryan then eogurded as the source of all Ills. In a speech lu the House of Representatives In 1Vi2 Mr. Hryan characterized prot"otloit as a cannibal tree which had crushed tho fanners within lis folds nud declared, that the only thing needed to give re lief to the farmers and to the masses; of the people was tariff reform. Theiv was no trouble with the currency, which was the some then that It Is now. The whole trouble was with the tariff. Referring to the attitude of Mr. Hry - an when iu Congress ami ins present attitude, the New lork Times says: "For some years and up to a recent date, Mr. Hryan, In and out of Con gress, earnestly and constantly de manded n great reduction of tariff duties aud urged that ninny dutiable products should be placed upon the frve list. Ix'cause, as he contended, the prices of the necessaries of life ought to le reduced for the benefit of the people. The tariff, he said, made prices unwarrantably and unjustly high; the interests of the masses rv- (iiired that these prices and the cost of living should be cut down. Now he nsscrts that the prices of the necessar ies of life are very much too low and that they were too low at tne very time when he was saying that they were too high and was exerting his In- llueiiee to reduce them. He proclaims: the doctrine that the cost of those! things by which life Is sustained should be Increased not decreased by legislation and advocates a policy de signed to Increase It. It was, he .said, for the benefit of the masses that be then called for legislation that would decrease this cost; It Is, he says, for the benefit of the masses that he now demands legislation that will Increase it. Why should lie nut desire to avoid any discussion or any expression of opinion that would exhibit this differ ence ami this evidence of Inconsis tency? Mr. Hryan In 1M1I2 and In 1H!I did his part and did It well lu deluding the people regarding the tariff and bt I does not now dare attempt a defense of i hls course, the disastrous effects of which are known to everylxsly. He if now engaged In another effort to de- lude and mislead the people, but what! that there Is. and must In ssjiilly til- he now proposes Is far more dangeroim ! w-ays bp. bitter and relentless war lie to the welfare and prosperity of the ! twecn the employer and the employed; country than the policy of tariff reduc tion he advocated In Congress, In ordei to reduce prices. That policy has done great harm to all Interests and esnec tally to the agricultural and the labot Interests, but It Is trifling In compari son to the Injury that would be wrought by the free coinage of silver. Mr. Hryan has the very best of reason for avoiding discussion of the tariff question. He cannot defend the re sults of the policy for which he 's Id part responsible. Having deceived the people once, to their Immeasurable loss, will he be allowed to do io again' No one can think so who hag any faith lu popular Intelligence. Omaha Bee. AN ADVOCATE OF ANARCHY. The silver Demix raU and the Popu lists do not say very much about the "Anarchy plank" In their platforms. Yet Mr. Hryan declared In his lettsi of acceptance that he approves of that plank with all the rest. Here are the planks as they appear In the two plat forms. The first Is the Chicago nlank and the second Is the St. Ixuls plank; We denounce a The arbitrary course of the courts In assum ing t o Imprison cltlzena for Indi rect contempt and ruling by in junction slioubl be prevented hf proper leglsla tlon. bitrary lnterfrenci by federal authori ties In local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States nnd crime against free Institutions. and we especially ob ject to government by Injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression. "I have carefully considered the plat form adopted by the Democratic Na tional convention, and unqualified!; Indorse every plank thereon," says Mr Hryan. In his Labor day address, Mr Hryan told worklngmen that the gov eminent should provide some way Ir which they could settle their differ dices with capital "instead of resort lug to violence to settle them." Nf he declares violence one means of set tlemeuL Thus he proclaims himself beyond all doubt or cavil, nn nil vocal of anarchy. Huffalo, (N. Y.) News, POWDERLY AT COOPER UNION It was not atrange that an organ Ixc effort was made to disturb the proceei logs at Cooper I ti Ion at Ihe w-igo c.ii'ti ors' meeting mi Thursday evening, nn by riotous Interruptions prevent .Mr I'owilerly from obtaining a hearing Not strange at all. but entirely clianie terlslic of the niethoils ami th man tiers of ihat faction In the labor move incut w hich has been striving for year to prostitute and degrade the mini nient for their own selllsh puiposiM, I'hey are mitrketable, n ml both viclnii and lawless. It has not beeu the p'-.u it liv, even In our most exciting pnli'lon cainptilgns, for the emissaries of nu u position parly to Invade the nieci'iig of their opponents in turbulent an disorderly gangs with the side view ol creating disturbance and melting i lot I Hut the fellows w ho endeavored I i 1 1 1. ,i L- iitk tin f'.kniii,! I ' ii I. ill lm.ililtL , ,llss)lH n(, lilNV,H ,.,,., , I ,.,,,,, , .,,, ,,,,,, ,, , ,,,, , ..uizciis r,.m hearing Mr !W ( , ., .MW,,r .. i.... ,v, 1 either heard or read It must inlinll was a perfectly calm, logical and sonable exposition of Hie issues nf III I campaign, w ere of the pew order I political disputants the sort enge'i deled by the doctrines of the CI b"ig platform, and noeuralely represent I bv the Hov Hralor and his aiiiin bl-it i following. Their highest coin cpiloi of nolltlcnl discussion consists In drowning the arguments of their i-pp i uenls by unmeaning noise; thole ciilv answer to cnlin ami Intelligent hint liietit Is lawlessness and disorder. The only purpose of these lUSi'tnic of the Hov Oralor was to prevent Mr I'owderly from obtaining a heating. In so doing they wore only exemplifying the principles of the Chicago platf.d-ii onlv following, and bettering in but small degree, the Instructions of tin candidate who has for Ihe last two months been engaged In Inciting just such demonstrations by appeals to the Ignorance and the lawless passion ol those whom lie calls the tolling masses. Hut why should Ihey m iki this violent and disgraceful Iciim.i stnitlon against Mr. rowdetly? Tbej pretend to be laboring men. and to be actuated by a sincere desire pn mote the Interest of laboring iii-mi: t make labor Itself not only worthy II hire from a material point of view. Inn deserving of the highest conaldcriilhm. both from Its Inestimable coiiseiiien e as the most important factor lu tin world's progress and from the lutein genee with which Its respoiislldltleii I are weighed and Its duties considered ' They pretend, lu short, to be the r-pec ; lal advis'iitcs of the rights, ami ,lo champions of the dignity of lao-ir. It was under color of this advocacy, nnd by virtue of this championship, tout tliev set themselves on Thursih.y nlg.it in Cmiht I'lilon not to listen to the ar guments of an opponent, of their own class, in order to lie able to .mswei thetn nor. Indeed, to answer ihein mi the spot with some show of order and plan but simply to suppress his argu incut by lawless disorder nnd howl or hlsa him down unhejird, by mere nolsi And who Is Terotuv V. I'owdeiiy, tluit these so-called and self-styled lid vocatcs of the rights of labor should with such diillieriilloii and set purpose undertake to howl and hiss down it n community whose Ixiast Is the freedom of speech, which under law I acinnled and by law protected? Ills record as ,i lalsir leader answers the lniiilry. He was for many years the highest i.flb'er of the organization of Knights of Iji- Isir, the most successful association nf Its kind ever known In this country. I'nder his administration It was the most respected and Influential. No combination of workmen had ever commanded such respect, and ceitiilnl.t none had ever made Its Intliiciiro an. I power so universally felt, as fie Knights of Ijilwir under his admiuls tration. Self poised nnd linn, he was no loss conservative and conciliatory, aud his administration was marked by more real advancement for the cause of labor and more actual nchlevt nt lu Its behalf than were ever known before or since. His policy was i,p- posed by the demagogues and agl'nt r In the labor movement whose only conception of the labor question 'a between capital and labor. Out of such constant contention these men made their living. Ijibor strikes wero ami are their opportunities. Reconcilia tions and mutual understandings were aud are the destruction of their busl liess as agitators, and consequently the bane of their existence. They pul I'owderly out In 18!).'l. Since then that queer counterpart of the Hoy Orator, Mr. Sovereign, has been wabbling round in his place, making more noise In a minute than I'owderly did In a year, and doing a thousand tlnins more mischief In the same time I'owilerly ever did. The labor movement has been tllvlcl Ml Into two distinct parties ?ver sln-e I'owderly wns deposed. Howderly ad dressed with his own method anil his own line of argument one of the--e di visions the other night at Coop.-r Union. The other division met him In their own way, with their own milli ners, and by their own ami only meth od. The result was that Mr. I'owderly wag heard, and his disturbers hnd to be ejected by the police. The lesson can not be lost upon honest In burl in; men, who desire to hear both sides and form their own Judgments upon political questions and do not believe In the sup pression of free speech. New York Tribune. M'KINLEY EXCELS HIMSELF. The Rteel nnd Iron Industry has been quoted as the barometer of trade, nnd It Is true that when the steel rail mills, the forges, the grenl foundries, the nail mills, the huge establishments in which structural Iron and the thous and household articles nnd Implements of agriculture or of mechanics are busy the-whole community Is prosperous. There may be exceptional causes lend ing to exceptional activity In one or two of the many branches of the great Iron and steel Industry while th,,- gen eral 'Commerce of the nation lan guishes, but It universally Is true that when all the branches of the Iron trade are vigorous the whole country Is pros porous, nnd when all of them nre life less the xvhole country is prostrated. This condition gives peculiar signifi cance to the visit made to Major Mc Klnlcy by 2,000 wage-earuors from the aleel works at Hraddoek, rennsylvanl The voice of these men Is represeiil live In the voice of the nation. 'I hey are moil who have passed through season of adversity; (hoy bare kiCTci mI I from reduced wages and from Iosnciii hours of work; the savings of ihe pin ileiit have moiled In Hie slow lire enforced Idleness. These men have ill ngilosed llielr own case correctly lb know "uhat Is Ihe mailer." Tin have boon prosperous under protection and uiipiospcrous under reiiineii nn Ill's. Tliev went to nn experienced inn syinpntlielle physician In quest of remedial prescription. Thev talked lo Mckinley nud he nu swoiod tlieni lu til words: "I bid von welcome lo niv city am tollivhonie. I ill II well appl'eclal" wl Hie tt'oi kliigmoli of llils count i v shoul have a deep and profound luleiest lu the outcome of the present ualloiiiil contest. I cannot full to reiiieuiln that one thing which stands bclttee your labor and the labor of I '.mope the olio thing which sliimls betttee tour workshops and the workshops oi Ihe old world It Is a wise, paliiotli Ainoiicau protocllvo policy. There me ttto 111111 III Ii-m Ihat stilt for pre eminence III the nature nf la or McKlnlcy sound 10111100.1 son and uninfected bioihelly feeling low aid those whom Mr. Hrtaii d'iigbls 1 ill "Ihe plain common people." as If Ihey were of a class to which be spsips from the height of a real or siippo-l llnusly lulelleiiliat supremacy but I whom and of whom McKlnlcy alwat speaks as my fellow citizens 1 n,-. Itto eharitolclisllcs never bate been more lliielv displayed than In his ad liess lo the Iron and steel Workers. All isteiilalloiis man would hate aclxci the opportunity for a display of hi scholarship In economics, nnd In so do lug would hnve "multiplied word without wisdom." The Itepilbllcaii nominee went right to die ro.,i of th inntter In lens than twenty words: We know that the present itioiielaty standard has not stood lu the nay our prosperity In the past." it'iies ol "No. 110; free trade hns."l Ihe extreme gohl men nnd Ihe r Ireiue silver men alike are lu eiinr 'The present monetary standard ha not stisid lu the way of our piosperl'.t In the past." Nor will It ill the future Il Is an excellent system; It makes tin silver dollars as good us gold fur tin purchase of all things nud for the pay un lit of all debts; Il prevents the pn per currency from becoming depiechl I or irredeemable. The Republican party Is pledged lo Its maintenance Ihe Democratic parly Is pledged lo lis destruction. After this display of tin- soundest piallly of sound sense tin- distinguish ed host of the visiting workmen gati Utterance to sentiments of the truest patriotism ami of Hie most Implicit onlbleiice In the good Intent of his oliutryuien: 'My fellow citizens, It Is gratifying to ine to be assured by your spoki-Hiii iii nud my old comrade -It will he Innplr lug to the whole muntry that tin voliv of labor here tn-dar declares that no party which degrades the honor of the nation, no imrty which stands op Hsed to law and order, or which seeks to array the masses against the classes. shall receive its vote and support. I Jnlilol! words are these, which will strike a chord lu every American 11. no where virtue dwells and truth n'diles 'We have this year resting upon us ns citizens a grave responsibility. Th,. mntry has never fulled or fullered In the past to meet everv crisis. It will 110I falter or fall now to imhohl Ho- Ilgulty ami Independence of labor and the honor and stability of the gov. in nient. that It may still further exall Ihe American name." Here is no deuingoglc llntterv of "ihi. Intelligence of the plain common pe.,. e, mi shiMlily rhetoric uimu "ihe eru- lllxloli of latmr." but lllsl n inaiilv un pen I to the patriotism nnd good hoiihc of his fellow citizens nnd lilt vnt-ita. hi mi or eoriiwwHv n t ,. .rvi .r tnein at Ihe coming election. MiCnr .McKlnlcy has done well In all his ef rts, but hi his addri -as to the I ri in ni-.l Steel workers he excelled himself. Chicago Inter (Icean. BRYAN IS PREACHING TREASON. Attorney Ceuerul Harmon turns it,,. flank of llryiiiilsui ueiiilv ui quotes Senator Daniel of Irglubt against Chairman Dnu- Hie l'opis-ratl volition lu relation to the subject of "Kedernl In terference," oo-cnilcd, with the assumed rights of mobs to violate the laws of (he I'nited States. Senator Daniel Introduced In the sen ate that ringing resolution which upheld Mr. Cleveland In his suppn-ssion by mil Itary force of the Interference of lawless men "with the transortntlon of the malls of Ihe United Stab s nnd with nu ens- among the slati-s." It was Senator Dan iel who presided over that maniac con volition that propounded the assurance that the president had no constliutloual right to do that very thing which Seun tor Daniel formally and vigorously up. proved his doing. It requires some little patience on the part of men familiar with tho organic law of the Union to gravely moot and refute the wild assertion of 'ignoramuses and blatherskites, but Mr. Harmon has simply to submit sections ,V.2!7 and ft,a'iH of Hie revised statutes to prove the obli gation on Die president to employ fnrco against unlawful obstruct Ions "hi what ever state or territory thereof the laws of the United Stales may bo forcibly opposed or the execution thereof i,l striieted." The ilis-trlne laid down l.i- Aligeld, adopted by the I'lnss-nicy and linn imiucn iroiu ine stump tiy Hryan tin attorney general lightly declares to be more dangerous thai Ihe doctrine of sis'es- s,oii. i no oniy pica for Hryan and his earnest followers s that of shameful Ig norance or tno taw. Igiioram-e of the law, however, Is not a valil defen-u. This man Is preaching treason and fools are applauding him because they know llo better.-New York Commercial Adver tiser. Tlii. Old Hong. Young Hewnll made a api-prh or two lli fiiro the .Mai hp oli-etlon. IP- liilki'd ngiilnsl I he silver crnza And told nt Ida delli'i'llini. Ills Mee, his ihi-jr wen- lieurd and ri-iul Tin y esiiai-d Hie hiista In i.i t hup - TIll'JF lllll'll III) HO.KSI Vllll-H, ' "And the blow It near klllisl fatlior." It Is all right to make a caiiinnh'ri ,.r education. Hut the effort of the Demo cratic leaders to array the pooi- against the rich, nnd make lalH)r and capital enemies, Is evil, and wholly evil HIIYAN ANI) THKTAIUF'. Ctindlitiile llrynn shows kll. shlfiy shrewdness In his tivoldiin.v r Kk Issue which bis parly h is mnde Ihe f iiiim In every campaign for iiwn) ninny years, uiiill now. lb' iys: ever may Is- Ihe Individual vletta of clil Kens 11a 10 ihe rehllvc ineiits of prolec tlon nnd laiif refoiin, nil must room lile that until the money qinsillon l '""X ami lllillll.t sell led. Ihe A licatl people will in 'I consent lo II sl.lciiill f nn v other luiniaiit question " If I"' M'l said Hull Hie American people, having ill.-. I l.uilf reform, nud dislated llieui sites very, very sick of II, nnd worn do teriutii.-d to r'iiliil lo Hie principles of proicciloii ami siay I here, he would havt come much ikiii -)' Ihe ll'lllh. but then lis would hue round Ihe mull cliibiirrnss Ing. lis usual. Then-foil-, he aeleil Khiewill.t, according lo bis slaiiibird of piaotlcal pruilciiiv hi siting as Hill as p.w hie mi the ulieil and nuking that Utile take tin- f.001 of a diilm Hint Ihe p.nplo are lml llilcn -led III Ibo ub JlVl Neti-iiu lcs.. the l. in s-ralle parly stands pl.'.l:. 'l by in. mi pi ml,- In iiiaiiy nail il pl.iifoiins lo opi ihe prods- lite principle, an. I remains ' milled by Its in Him of i ins It in. ne i h i ii four .tears ago lo Ihe c.n trine ih.il pr ilis'lloll is ti in s oi I ! 1 1 : l in.i t and luii'l I Xllrpnt cd r'l ninl br.iinii V p.u V iiiiiuol lii.itigo Us pun. I -I- a a in in can i hangs his slin i, etci t lime a change m-.-iu to Ixi cinii.irll,t ii.m euli m A pnly U re- IK'U-dhlc fur lis hMoi.t au. I lis .hilars lions In the p.i-d lis wi ll a in ihe til It may lu.l.-nl uinl. rgo il-telop ui.-iil. giott ih and gin. bi d change, lull only as nu iiiilltliliial.il)- rational pro i vii i and III :liv,i'l.ini o ttlil n l.lllolia of oaii-o ninl i rf.vl. A pony I'liinml. inert ly by ignoring a iih.i I nr saying animv tiling ii.iii iniiimlllal alum; II. ivlli-vo It s-If of all rosp-iiiilbilii t fur who; II hat said nud done In n-laiLiii io Ihil mailer through all lis prctiou .o n. .- Tin- t.ullf question la nts- regarding which Auicrc.iii toleis an- d.vplv Inirr- ested III Ibis i n uipalgli an. I millions of I hem an- Impatiently looking townrd lo .Nut cinlior .'!. next. a the lime when they will hate a i hain e lo ri pl'isis lllclliiti-s on the -Olhl.vt it III Imlli.l l,x No malt, r ls-w mo. h this nr's mil. I!. I. Ho ,ir ihe laf-oili'iu-y on tho I iiiih t.iiv lli ki l lint li t io rim I XX .IT llllil hide fl. Ill Ibe I It id ipXKlllll. the voters w ill lml fnigel Hull he la tho aiiilid ile of n ii.ii t x it till ti sinii. I ibslged by uiiri'pealcd plalfnliu ib-i hir- ulloiis lo turn otor I In- markeia of Mils onui rv io the inip--.il nn. . I isiiu'tllion of roi-clgii capllal ami I il"r. nud thai th aig million. -I lmlii-til.it Btagiiaiioti la this eiiiinlry has f. .1 1. nx au attempt of Ihe I leiuoerallc part.t lo carry out It si lieuii'4 lu that r. oiss'i: an iittciniit which ihe parly leiulers hate ibsinml to Is i hi l,v tin- llrst atep lu ihe way Hist they Inlelid the oniiiiiy lo Ir.itel ltu oil Ailiertis-r. THE FREEDOM OF 8PKECH. The fnssloni of speech nud right la country like Ihe l ulled Sinii. whera every cllUeii has his any, can only r maintained by Jealously guarding th public littoral a. It should U- ib-em- ed a menace to everyone ttlu-u any In dividual ibsxi-iiils lo incendiary or an archistic talk to ncciinipllsli a purism. iiliyoiie violates this principle. It should always he taken agnliial him, and in the ni' of a h,Iiii, ,il caiiilldnio. should dofeiil IiIiii. na the ihmiiiI uuiiot afford to liu-l nu liiieiuperals or nu liieeiiillaiy mini, and ibex don't lieeil lii. The illfleleiico Is-ltteeu phP iiestuess and aiian lit lu speech is so leiiliy ili-ll mil Unit there Heed I BO mlsiako. hen Hryan. In his speech at Chlrs go, said burn down your cities, etc, h gate tjie key to his whole scheme ami luir.icli-r. If the public trusts him f. r such a nolo of warning It must ex- icct an liii-eiiillart gut cinmeiit. dan- geroiiH nt nil limes nil he to nieiul ami foe. llrynn will un.lnuliteilly l- beat en by his own party. It Is Justly iishamisl of liliu. He is imt i-ti'U a Deims'iiil. His party found It neces sary lo get away fnou him entirely and hold another couteiitlon uinl amn Inale a lieiiiiH-rnt to get away from Ihe stampede ami rli.t at Clileiigo Hint iiilopteil a pbitform thai must sink any ciiudlilnle thnl sliunls on II. Nexi-r mind III van's promises for free slhi-r to all voters if he is Dot to be Irilsled by Ills own party. If a bad mail tried lo assure us of a gixxt thing we would all be slow to believe him. Here la mini Hisliig as n iN'UiiH'mt without any liomocnioy and s laid Hint tb bitt men lu his own Hirly eaniHit and will not trust him. bin lln.i It necessary to go and hold a mnventlon nnd nom inate a Democrat so as to heal him If possible. Instead of preaching to Ih public Mr. Hryan should privately and religiously try to make ponce wlt'h and satisfy the good men of his own parly that he mid his lit to I and his anarchy and burn down your cities is right. HI IMMsltloii before the country nl the pres ent time Is that of a mail utterly dis credit,.,! I,y tin. t-sl men in what ho claims Is his own Democratic parly, many of them tried nnd trusted Dem ocrats and patriots befon- he was old enough to Mill. The pledges, promise and llireiiia of audi a mini as Hryan must fall tint In the face of such facts. Hryan's boasted eloquence must be de void of sense ami arg nt when b nn tmt convince millions of conceded rats that he Is not a menace to the country nud Us business Interests. He must hate tried It on the dog at Chicago to stampede (he ivm vcnllon, but the medicine Is no gixxl when offer ed to real Deinocrnls. iin.l il,., ,...i Deiuoonils In the Chicago convention 'v 'ehellcl. We are told level head ed people cm t . hypn .e(, Mlt hat certain subjects can. 'o ran ens- I'1' Hryan among th,- hypnotist when he handled et g, suiieets at ( hleago to got nominated ami r,. n(ll before n level headed crowd here Such a man. with such a nerve, could' only succeed like Sveiigull.-Ncw York Dispatch. lil That l ax In II,. NlKlit. Hryan's boom seems to bo ,rirtin. In splinters toward Salt Hlvcr-Ncw York Commercial Advertiser. It Is not well to lose sight of the fact V1"1 "clcnoy In the treasury un- der Ihe Wilson tarirf is steadily In creasing. And the matter of raising revenue has nothing to do with th quesllon of coinage. Oili'Vi.iAl, Nl'MUI'ilt 0.NK.)