THE MORNING ' OKEGONIAN', TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1900.
B
ALL IN BRYANISM
Issues for Campaign Discus
sion included in the Word.
SOVERKOR' GEER AT ASHLAND
onnd American and Highly Inter-
estlns; Speech. Delivered Before
Iiargfe Audience.
lASHLANB. Or., Oct J. Governor Geer
opened the Bepublloan campaign In this
city last Saturday. He was favored by
one of the largest audiences that ever
gathered in this section on a like occa
sion. The speaker Tvas at his best, and
delivered a sound American and highly
Interesting: address, -which commanded
close attention throughout Governor
Geer's remarks were as follows:
The few Questions worth of discussion
in this campaign are fully Included in the
one word, "Bryanism." "Bryanlsm" is
tbe paramount Issue. A few years ago
there was a Populist party, that had well
dDflned ideas on some public questions,
and was clamoring loudly for their adop
tion. The land was filled with the- cries
of that organization for the issuance of
paper money by the general Government
"direct to the people," and material out
of which it was made was wholly imma
terial. All that was required was "the
ctamp Df the Government" and an
amount eaual to $50 per capita, and the
financial millennium was at hand. Back
In those-halcyon days there "was a con
vention held in Omaha by the National
Populist party, and for years thereafter
no political discussion was possible with
out an extended consideration of the de
mands of the "Omaha platform." "What
lias become of the Omaha platform, my
Populist brother? "Why, just at the time
when your party began to be a positive
factor in National politics, to control sev
eral .states, and to cause some very good
people to "view with alarm" Its steady
growth, Mr. Bryan appeared on the
scene, fused with, or. rather absorbed the
Populist party, discarded the Omaha plat
form, and today all there is of the Popu
list parts' Is embodied In the person "of
Mr. Bryan, and is descrmed by the word
Bryanism. That distinguished gentleman
has squelched the Populist party, de
stroyed the Omaha platform, and since
his ascendancy, not a word has been ut
tered in the United States by anybody,
on where, in favor of "paper money to
the amount of J50 per capita."
And so completely Is Bryanism the
paramount issue that not even does the
lay member of the Populist party venture
to talk about that cardinal, but discard
ed "paramountcy" of his old-time plat
form. But what of Democracy as it was onoe
known in this country? It has been so
completely absorbed within the last four
years by Bryanism that not a Democrat
in the entire country dares express an
Idea until he has consulted Mr. Bryan and
ascertained what he thinks about it The
Kansas City convention strongly desired
to leave the platform uncommitted to the
free-silver heresy, and would have done
bo, but for the fierce protestations of Mr.
Bryan, "who. at his home In Nebraska,
solemnly warned the convention that "in
that event they would nave to look else
where for a candidate. More than that
he did not propose to allow another can
didate nominated, but by telegraph in
formed the convention of trembling sub
jects that unless his imperial decree
should be recognized, he would appear on
the scene in person and force it into the
platform. This seemed to' bring the
otherwise unwilling convention to realiza
tion of its subserviency to the dictate
of the one man. and the free-silver Idea
was Indorsed, but not until ex-Senator
Hill aad" declared thar lie thought "Im
perialism as objectionable in a man as
In a nation."
Bryan an Imperial Dictator.
Even then it would have failed but for
the vote of Hawaii, one of our "colonial
dependencies" In the Pacific, where the
flag has gone without the Constitution.
This little child of destiny and Imperial
Ism alone made It possible for Mr. Bryan
to succeed In his role as imperial dicta
tor to 6,000,000 American freemen. So
Bryanism was triumphant and Mr. Hill
end his 46 per cent of dissenters from the
silver heresy went home and are being
governed without their consent on the
money auestlon, by an imperial decree
from JNebraska. Nothing like this has
perhaps before occurred In American his
tory. Men supposed to be free in thought
end action fall down before his commands
like abjeot vassals. During the Philip
pine "War the Cincinnati Enquirer, the
leading Democratic paper in the "West
said: . "Agulnaldo will have to behave
blmseif. The country will take no step
backwards. The Spaniards have hinted
that we are dealing with a people that
will have to be exterminated to keep them
from making trouble. -"Well, we cannot
stop now even at extermination."
"But Bryanism now says that the issue
of imperialism will probable carry more
votes than any other that could be
named, and the Enquirer changes base
and likens Agulnaldo to George Wash
Ington. And the New Tork Journal, which is
now the chief supporters of Bryanism In
the United States, said:
"Agulnaldo's men are now -attempting
to carry out a programme of savagery.
They ore making war by incendiarism
and assassination, and if they could gain
possession of Manila, a -carnival of ra,
pino, slaughter and conflagration would
horrify the world. We must crush this
hand of assassins once for all. Agulnaldo
and ils followers are simply bands of
Indians, and must be dealt -with as we
would deal with a tribe of renegate
Apaches."
But since Bryanism has said that it
will be necessary to erect a scarecrow of
imperialism in order to liave any chance
whatever to elect its chief to the Presi
dency, young Mr. Hearst hastens to com
pare the cause of Agulnaldo to that of the
Revolutionists of '76.
As the campaign proceeds, however, the
absurdity of the cry of "Imperialism" be
comes more apparent and is already los
ing Its interest to the general public Mr.
Bryan himself is drifting away from Its
discussion and essays to talk more and
more about trusts, as his record in the
matter of securing the ratification of the
treaty with Spain is being presented to
the people. His excuse for indorsing the
ratification of the treaty by the terms of
which we secured the absolute title to
the Philippines is that we would be In
better condition to deal with the Fili
pinos. But many of the followers of
Bryan are now claiming that when the
treaty was ratified the Filipinos had al
ready gained the possession of the
islands, and that Spain had nothing to
sell. But what Mr. Bryan was doing in
"Washington, securing all the Democratic
votes he could for a treaty paying $20,
000,000 to a power for something that
power did not own, has not yet been in
telligently jexplalned.
Portland "Anti-Imperialists."
There are a few men In Portland who
term themselves 'anti-lmperlalists," and
who recently essayed to reply to Presi
dent McKInley's letter of acceptance. In
the course of their effort the statement
Is made that "when President McKInley
instructed the Paris Commission to pur
chase the Philippine Islands from Spain,
Spain had possession of no part of them.
The Filipinos had themselves largely con
quered the possession of the entire archi
pelago, save the City and Bay of Manna,
and that was held by the United States."
And yet Mr. Bryan was so far led
astray from the facts in the case that
he urged with all his power the ratifica
tion of the treaty which purported to
jgurchase from Spain property, which she
. did not own! But Mr. Bryan was not led.
astray. His action was in exact accord
with, the deception which he always em
ploys. In his speech at Indianapolis ho
said "I believe we are" now in a better
condition to wage a successful war
against Imperialism than we would, have
been if the treaty had been rejected."
This sentence r,eyeals Bryanism in all its
varied characteristics. . According - to
Bryan, if there "had been no treaty with
Spahxjby -which we purchased the sover
eignty to. the Philippines, there would'
have beenno "imperialism" 'to "wage a
war against" He" knew we were buying
the absolute title to the Islands, and he
knew that if we let them alone there
would have been no chance for "a con
test against Imperialism." Did he want,
therefore, -a contest of that kind upon
which to make a demagogic Issue for the
Presidency, and did he Insist onspendlng
$20,000,000 on a nation that had nothing to
sell, for the purpose of buying an issue
upon which to "fool the people" in aiace
for the Presidency? Is that the sort of a
man the "reform forces" are trying to
foist upon the people as their Chief Ex
ecutive? But further on In the same speech no
gives as an additional reason for spend
ing $20,000,000 of the "people's money"
upon a nation that had no right to thej
thing paid for: "If the treaty had been
rejected, considerable time would neces
sarily have elapsed Defore a new treaty
could have been agreed upon, and during
that time the question would have been
agitating the public rolnd. The annals
of American politics reveal no more re
volting Instance of intentional duplicity
than this confession. Suppose the treaty
had been rejected; could not another have
been proposed leaving the Philippines en
tirely out of the consideration? And If
their acquisition was to mean imperial
ism and the overthrow of the Republic
and the destruction of our liberties, and
the general destruction of liberty on this
TVesternHemlsphere, would not a patriot
who really thought all this would follow
their purchase have preferred to let
"considerable time elapse" in the effort
to secure a treaty ignoring the islands
altogether? The objectionable feature of
the treaty, he said, was the acquisition
of the Philippines, and but for his ef
forts In "Washington It would have been
easily defeated, but he volunteered his
presence there in order to Insure the pay
ment of $20,000,000 for "an issue of imperi
alism," In order that there might be an
opportunity to '"wage a successful con
test against It"!
Bryan Ratines the Treaty.
And then his patriotic heart revolted
at the Idea that "the public mind would
be agitated" over the rejection of a treaty
that provided pajment of $20,000,000 for
an island that was directly to change
our form of government wTest our lib
erties from us, name all our sons" Absa
lom, destroy the principles of the Decla
ration of Independence and make slaves
of us alll How careful Mr. Bryan has
always been not to "agitate the public
mind!" In order to prevent such a
catastrophe he would journey all the way
to "Washington, labor diligently with his
fellow-Democrats in the Senate to secure
the ratification of a treaty that was to
lead to a "colonial policy" through Im
perialism and erect an empire on the
ruins of the Republic. And this was all
done through" a patriotic desire to avoid
"agitating the public mind!"
According to Colonel Bryan, when the
treaty was presented for ratification he
found himself confronted by a great re
sponsibility. Here was a treaty that di
rectly proposed to change the form of
our government and destroy the last ves
tige of liberty on this continent for our
Republic Is the hope of the continent
And It proposed to pay, for the privilege
of doing ltr $20,000,000 to a country that
had no such privilege to sell' This was
worse than anything else that could be
thought of, excepting one other thing, and
that was to "have "the public mind agi
tated." Now, since Mr. Bryan's aversion
to having the public mind agitated is' so
well known no one need be surprised that
he chose rather to pay $20,000,000 for a
despotism than continuance of a Republic
suported by a people whose mlhds, on
account of the rejection of -such-treaty,
might be "agitated." This is his rea
son for supporting the treaty, as lie ex
plains it to the public, and 1b as clear
as mud. It must be specially satisfac
tory to those who enjoy being humbugged
over and over again by the man who had
adopted running for tho Presidency as a
permanent job.
And no refuge from this sophistry can
be had behind the plea that it was done
in order that we could the better treat
with the Filipinos, for if they had al
ready vanquished Spain they did not need
any one to treat with them. If they
had already acquired their Independence
why did Mr. Bryan want to "deal with
them according to American principles?"
"Why pay $20,000,000 for an island, the peo
ple of which were free, in order to "deal
with them?" unless It was accompanied
with a desire to inject an issue of "lm
perialsm" Into American politics for par
tisan purposes.
Imperialism a lant Resort.
Since Mr. Bryan's reason for support
ing the treaty has been made public th
demagoguery which actuated him. If he
.ells the truth, stands ofut In bolder reliel
than ever. . It. is likely, however,- that
he was honest at the time and sincerely
desired, as-dld.thB Cincinnati Enquirer,
the New Tori? - Journal, Richard -Croker
and many other, leading Democrats at
tho time, the acquisition of the Philip
pines. The cry of Imperialism has been
raised as. a last resort in an otherwise
hopeless campaign. It has fallen fiat and
is growing more stale every day. There
is not a Democrat or Populist in the
United States who believes there Is any
danger of Imperialism in this country, nor
one who thinks he believes there is.
There is no semblance of it anywhere,
nor the shadow of a semblance. It is
the sheerest nonsense ever attempted to
be Injected Into a political campaign, and
since Mr. Bryan has attempted to give the
reasons for his alarm it has become ab
solutely ludicrous. It requires two peo
ple or parties who differ on some propo
sition to make an "issue," Neither one
man nor one party can arbitrarily make
a "paramount Issue." "We have a man
in the asylum, at Salem, who Imagines he
Is the President of the United States.
With him it is the paramount issue, and
he spends a great deal of time discussing
the question. When others are not too
busy with real Issues he is listened to
good naturedly, but the only question of
Importance, after all, to the management,
is to see that the fellow is properly re
strained. When, for humanity's sake war was be
gun against Spain, in Cuba, and the Asiat
ic squadron was ordered to the Philip
pine Islands and Dewey Instructed to
destroy the Spanish fleet, the procedure
was indorsed by every man, woman and
child In the United States, although It
was thousands of miles from where the
trouble existed we were fighting about
In the treaty of peace we paid $20,000,000
to Spain and took an absolute title to the
Islands under precisely the same cir
cumstances as we acquired Texas and
California Mr. Bryan made a sepclal
trip to Washington In order to "round
up" as many Democratic Senators as pos
sible In support of the proposition, which,
he now claims was a long stride to
wards the destruction of the Republic.
That "he was honest at that time in be
lieving it a good thing for the country
is probably true and that he has become
absolutely insincere In assuming his pres
ent attitude is quite certain. The proof
of this assertion consists In the many
declarations of his chief supporters, which
are a matter of record, that the acquisi
tion of the Philippines was to be highly
commended and was a wise piece of di
plomacy. In a speech at Wheeling, W.
Va., on September. 6, he said: "You ask
me who is responsible for the shedding of
American blood in the Philippines, and I
say that that party is responsible for
the shedding of American blood that is
responsible for a treaty that makes free
men of the Cubans and tried to make
vassals of the Filipinos." Yet he did as
much as any man In the United States
to secure the treaty and acknowledges It
In a speech .at Auburn, Neb., on Au
gust 22, he said: 1,We have no title to
the Philippine Islands according to the
'Declaration of Independence. In the first
place, Spain had no title, and, in the
second place we cannot buy people." Yet
he advocated the payment of $20,000,000
to a nation that "had no title" to convey,
with no better reason than -he can now
give, and an opportunity to shout "Im
perialism" In a Presidential campaign. In
the same speech he said: "I want the
American flag t6 come down from the
Philippine Islands in order that, the flag
of a republic might rise in. Its place." It
is here distinctly statea, that In his Opin
ion, the American flag Is not the flag
of a republic but Is already the emblem
of an empire. These repeated assaults on
our 'Institutions, indulged -In from day to
day by Mr. Bryan are largely responsible
for the continuation of the armed hostili
ties against 'the American Army in "the
Philippines. Only thevother day a couple
of returned soldiers from the Philippines
who were passing through the Willam
ette Valley on -their ,way East 'stated
that it was a common thing to see printed
notices on the trees there giving en
couragement to the rebels to hold out
until "their friend, Bryan," Is elected in
November, when he will see that their In
dependence is granted. These menstated
that the reports of Filipino hope for
Bryan's success are not made for cam
paign purposes, for they had seep, hun
dreds of such printed notices.
Indeed, "Mr. Bryan publicly announces
himself a sympathizer with them n their
hostility to the American flag, which he
declares is not the flag af a republic, and
gives all the comfort he can to those who
are firing -upon It and Its defenders. Why
any considerable portion, or any portion
of the American people will vote for a
man who makes such public utterances,
is difficult -to understand. For r precisely
such! work as this in 1853 President Lin
coln ordered Vallandlgham banished from
this country. There is no difference what
ever between the two cases. By the way.
It is to be observed that no reference to
this highly patroltlc action-, of Mr. Lin
coln has been made by Mr. Bryan. Val
landlgham had been denouncing the Gov
ernment In similar bitter terms as those
employed by Mr. Bryan, denouncing the
Army, the cause for which it was fightlpg,
as Mr. Bryan is, and discouraging the en
listment of volunteers, as Mr. Bryan is.
For this unpatriotic course he was ar
rested and sentenced to confinement In
some military fortress in the United
States. President. Lincoln commuted this
sentence to banishment among h,is friends
in the rebel states and he was sent thith
er. Horatio Seymour, who was at the
time the Democratic Governor of New
York, denounced the action of Mr. Lincoln
as one "which has brought dishonor on our
courtry," and added that "If this proceeding-is
approved by the Government
and sanctioned by the people it is not
merely a step toward revolution, it is
revolution. It will not only lead to mil
itary despotism, Is establishes military
despotism." And 4o show their utter con
tempt for Mr. Lincoln (whom the Demo
crats now profess to worship), the Demo
crats of Ohio nominated Mr. Vallandlgham
for Governor and sent a committee to
Washington and demanded of the Presi
dent the recall of their candidate But
he informed them that the proceedings
were "for pretention, not punishment
an injunction to stay an injury."
Lincoln Accnsed of Despotism.
The fact should not be lost sight of
here that Mr. Seymour, whom the Demo
crats afterward nominated for President,
accused Mr. Lincoln not only to taking a
step toward despotism, but of 'actually
"establishing" it Indeed, it is well to re
call that in those days Mr. Lincoln was
accused of every crime in the calendar
by the leading Democrats of the country.
Ho was called the "Illinois Ape" and a
buffoon because he was witty, a baboon
because he had long arms, and a bloody
tyrant because he prosecuted a war to
force the Southern States to be governed
without their consent
Mr. Bryan le no more badly frightened
at the Intentions of Mr. McKInley to es
tablish a despotism than Mr. Seymour
was at Mr. Lincoln's efforts in the same
direction. Mr. Bryan's father called Lin
coln worse names than the son does Mc
KInley. These attacks are nothing new.
But they entirely account for the fact
that Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, is now
stumping the country for McKInley, for
the reason, as she says, that her father
was a Union soldier, and these assaults
of Bryan on the Government itself sound
too much like the "copperheadlsm" of '63
to obtain her further support
If President McKInley should pursue
the same policy towards Mr. Bryan that
Lincoln did toward Vallandlgham for the
very same sort of persistent attack on
the Government and its Army and the
work it is doing, our good Democratic
brothers would have to go to the Philip
pines to hear the eloquent pleas of their
candidate for the lovable Agulnaldo.
The Filipinos are the avowed' enemies
of the United States, or they would not
be shooting down our soldiers who are
sent' there to do a certain thing by our
Government Mr. Bryan sympathizes
with these avowed enemies of the United
States, and says so every day. Section 3
of article 3 of the Constitution of the
"United States says: "Treason against the
United States shall consist only In' levy
ing war against them, or'in adhering to
their enemies, giving them aid and com
fort" Negroes' Political Rights.
It is gratifying to see that, without
doubt, the back of the Bryanite campaign
is already broken The condition of the
negroes in the Southern States as to their
political rights has conspicuously dis
armed the opposition in the matter of
shedding crocodile tears about the "con
sent of the governed" In the Philippines.
In their frantic efforts to show that "the
Constitution follows the flag," it has been
shown that while the flag floats over
every t city and village in the Southern
States," there are parts of the Constitu
tion, once fully observed, which are now
total strangers there. The Constitution
has been withdrawn, but the flag remains
And this has been done through confessed
fraud and violence. On the 23d of "Marcii,
of this year, Senator Tillman, of South"
Carolina, who, by the way, read the Dem
ocratic platform to the assembled con
vention in Kansas City, said:
"I propose now to recapitulate, briefly,
in the best way I can, the conditions
which brought about the necessity for
stuffing ballot-boxes, shooting negroes,
and for using violence and fraud in tak
ing charge of our government in South
Carolina We made up our minds that
the 14th and 15th amendments to the Con
stitution were null and void, that the acts
of Congress under them were null and
void; that oaths required by such laws
were null and void; and we resolved that
the wealth, Intelligence and patriotism,
belonging only to the white people of tho
state, should seize the government," etc.
(Cong Record, page 3218 )
On the same day he said:
"I want to ask the Senator this ques
tion in arithmetic: In my state there
were 135,000 negroes of voting age, and
some 35,000 white voters. Now, I want to
ask you how, with a free vote and a
fair count, you are going to beat 135,000
with 95,000. How are you going to do It?
You had set us an Impossible task."
On February 26 he said, In speaking of
the time when the negroes had possession
of the state government:
"We took the governemnt away. We
stuffed the ballot-boxes. We shot them'."
On February 24 he said, in answer to a
question of Senator Hoar:
"We' have a, governing class, just as
you would have in Massachusetts if 'you
had 750,000 negroes and only 500,000 whites.1
I do not deny and never have denied that
the 'white people In South Carolina con
trol the state" government, and' Intend vto
continue to control It We have aGod-'
given right to control It" '
Democrats Insincere.
From these confessions of one of the
representative men of the South it will
be seen how far the Democratic party Is
sincere In its professed regard for the
doctrine of "the consent of the governed"
and the other proposition that the Consti
tution follows the flag. Ballot-box stuf
fing and violence with the shotgun have
been practiced and openly boasted of as
an avowed means of governing the ne
groes without their consent There are
hundreds of thousands of Democrats to
day In the United States who drew all
their sustenance during the first months
of their early infancy from the breasts of
the" colored v"mammies"' of the Southern
plantations, who are supporting and justi
fying this "God-given right" to govern
the governed without their consent, who
grow absolutely hysterical oyer-the mere
suggestlonof extending theAauhorlty of
our beneficent Government oyer, he-, Fili
pinos without also'conferring',-ipoit,hem
the ..privilege , o? the electlve.franphlsei
This would not appear so reprehensible
but for the fact,, that no4 word of. con
demnation goes up" from Democratic
sources, while at the same time nearly
all the Democratic strength in the elec
toral college 'will come from the ' section
where this suppression of the consent, of
the goyerhed is practiced, supported and
defended. This condition of things shows
thafthat partyonly believes in the-appll-cation
of the'Deolaration of Independence
in 'spots, and that the Constitution should
only follow the flag into such - portions
of -"the country as the Democrats may
select
Having been compelled by 'the very "ab
surdity of his position on ' "the' consenf
of tho governed" proposition to 'abandon
it, Mr. Bryan for at least one week- es
sayed to be alarmed by the specter of
"militarism." This lasted only a week,
or until Teddy Roosevelt had time to get
after him and show that there was only
.85 of a 'soldier to every other thousand
of our population, and only one soldier to
every 60 square miles of our territory. In
correctly assuming that there are four
soldiers 'to every 1000 of our population,
(Mr. Bryan undertook to answer Mr.
Roosevelt's statement by saying at Chi
cago September 11: "It is not the four
men in 1000 that can terrify the thou
sand; it is that the 1000 men will permit
the four men "to live as professional sol
diers were one Is enough."
Now, the official figures show that our
Army of today Is no larger for our popu
lation than it was in a time of profound
peace under President "Monroe nor as large
as it was when President Jackson had
the Seminole War on his hands. But
what effect do these figures have in a
further than to force Mr. Bryan to shift
to the trusts. The average Democrat
shouts " 'Rah for Bryan!" just the'same.
So 'alarmed are tho Democrats as to the
preservation of the Republic against the
onslaughts of imperialism that an Bast
em Oregon Democratic paper actually fell
over itself in the throes of a genuine case
of flim-flams occasioned by the fact that
the late Carnival in4 Portland was opened
by a "make-belleveKIng and Queen." It
said "20,000 people shouted themselves
hoarse in honor of a make-believe -Klng
and Queen, who rodo in royal state, 'sur
mounted' by guards? pages and maids-of-honor
resplendent In the-gorgeous para
phernalia of an imaginary court"
Bryan as -a Prophet. '
But It doesn't take much to fr'ghten the
average Democrat into hysterics when a
Presidential year comes around.
But Mr.' Bryan's strong forte Is in
prophecy. That was his strong forte four
years ago. His prophecies have all been
along the line of -the "lamentations of
Jeremiah." Altogether, he has prophe
sied more hurtful things that would come
to pass that haven't, and more good things
that twould not come to pass that have,
than any other man in that particular
line of business that we know anything
about The factthat all his predictions
fall has no disheartening effect on his
buoyant and gladsome spirit .Not three
weeks ago he said In one of his speeches:
"If the Army has been Increased frpm
25,000 to 100,000 in four years of Republican
rule, are we not bound to believe that
It will be Increased from 100,000 to 400,000
in another four such years?"
Why, to be sure. If it snows a foot deep
on the 10th day of December, am I-not
bound to believe that it will snow 30 feet
deep during SO more such days? Surel
such a statement as this stamps Mr.
Bryan as a statesman specially to be ad
mired. This quotation is made simply to show
the childish twaddle of which Mr. Bry
an's later speeches ore composed. Their
very extravagance defeats their purpose.
In JUIy, J897, I heard him declare before
the Trans-MIssisslppl Congress in Salt
Lake that the gold standard was causing
the death of more people in the United
States every year than the entire Spanish
Army in Cuba. And the statement was the
occasion for almost the entire audience of
thousands to rise to their feet and shout
themselves hoarse, while the air was
filled with hats, canes and handkerchiefs.
After the uproar had subsided he said:
"And the gold standard lays waste more
acres every year in the United States
than the Spanish Army does In Cuba."
And this extravagantly absurd statement
was tumultuously applauded for several
minutes by the crazed audience
, But In the short space of three years
peace has come to Cuba, her people are
on the highway to prosperity, and the
"accursed" gold standard Is still killing
people In the United States and laying
waste their' desolate acres. But Mr.
Bryan Is shifty in resources. Having been
driven from his imperialistic specter and
his spook of militarism, and evidently
being afraid to mention the gold standard,
he essays to ridicule the "full dinner
pall" 4 situation. In a i recent speech he
said: "It, a man says, 1 haveideas in
my head,' the Republican party , says,
'What do you talk about your head for
if your stomach Is full'' " In the first
place, it is a violent assumption to sup
pose that a man "with ideas in his head"
would hesitate long in his determination
to vote for McKInley to make such a re
mark. Mr. Bran's otlier bright obser
vation on this subject Is to the effect that
when ou remind the worklngmen that
they now have a full dinner pall, you In
sult him, because you Imply that he Is
"all stomach " The fact Is recalled, how
ever, that Mr. Bryan's flippant Indiffer
ence to the condition of the worklngman's
stomach Is of comparatively recent or
igin His unconcern In that direction only
began with the full dinner pall Four
years ago the burden of his complaint was
that the gold standard was multiplying
tramps every day by the thousands. Now
the chief murmur of the tramp is ground
ed in hunger. He Is not "all stomach,"
to be sure, but what he has is as a rule
empty. And it Is true that during the
lost Democratic Administration his num
bers were Increasing regularly and rapid
ly. Mr. Bryan made repeated and feeling
reference to his stomach (I mean the
worklngman's) as being an aching void,
whose suffering condition demanded the
attention of the Nation, and that, too, at
once.
Tke Fall Dinner-Fall.
Suffice It to say briefly that the Re
publican party got control of the ma
chinery of the Government and proceeded
at once to relieve Mr. Bryan's heart by
filling the stomachs of the worklngmen.
And we have done a good job. A few
weeks ago a prominent Democrat of Ma
rlon County, who four years ago was
spending a lot of his time on the street
corners shouting for free silver, came to
me and Insisted on my detailing 10 men
from the penitentiary to go to his neigh
borhood and assist In hauling gravel on
the county road He explained that they
had money In the treasury of theroad
district, but could not get a man any
where to do the work. When I asked hlra
what had become of the tramps under
the gold standard, he said he was not
talking politics this year.
Tho fact Is that the number of convicts
in the Oregon state penitentiary has de
creased nearly one-half in r the last four
years. The number has become so small
that we hardly have men enough to run
the institution. " '
Four years ago the starvation that
stared the American' people in the face
was the text, the warp and th proof of
Mr. -Bryan's speeches, but now, if a Re
publican refers to the-full dinner-pall, he
exclaims, with an-1 injured indignation,
"Do you want to insult our worklngmen
by hinting that they -are all -stomach?"
To the average man, whose mind isnoti
twisted by Bryanistic prejudices, the
stomach is as important a part of the
Worklngman's anatomy as It, was during
the last Democratic Administration, when
he had to apply at the back kitchen door
or to the free souo house as .a means of
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the need of the free-coinage of silver,
four years ago, was "immediate."
(Mr. Bryan's heart is always bleeding
for the welfare of his country or, rather,
for the danger it is always in. Pour
years ago the gold standard was the
"octopus" that was gnawing at Its vitals
with deadly Intent; but since he has seen
that the country has never been in as
good condition as at present he "sees our
beloved Republic in the merciless grasp
of "empire." And during the past week
he has been In great trouble as to the
fate which has overtaken the young men
of the country. "What chance." he ex
claims, "has your son In these days of
trusts, militarism and Imperialism?" Sir.
Bryan's own career Is a sufficient answer.
Without any special opportunity or abil
ity of any kind, he has adopted as a pro
fession tho occupation of running for the
Presidency, and has done extremely well
at it ' Every other boy in the country
has the same opportunity. He need not
think for a moment that he has an option
ln.that line. When the trusts shall have
gobbled up every other aenue to finan
cial Independence, they will be compelled
to stand back In the humiliation of defeat
when they undertake to interfere with
the blessed privilege of running for the
Presidency on an alarm platform.
Yonns Men Are All Right.
Mr. Bryan's sympathies eo out for
young Absalom, and he pleads for him.
But serious people know that the young
Absaloms of the country are all right
When Abraham Lincoln v. as a good
sized boy he many times rode fifty miles
to mill on a horse with tho grist for a
saddle. Does Mr. Brjan know of any
young Absalom doing that kind of work
In these degenerate days of the "em
pire"? You will rather find him riding a
bicycle on his way to school, and meet
ing his brother Absalom on his way en
gaged in the free-delivery mail service.
Only a short time before Lincoln was 21
years of age he contracted with a neigh
bor woman to make her 400 rails for
every yard of brown Jeans she -would
weave for him, to be colored with whlto
walnut bark. Do any of my Democratic
brothers know of any young Absalom
making rails for brown jeans breeches?
Every blessed one of them Is going to
school supported by the munificence of
the state, or, if too old for school, is en
gaging in some business that will train
him for future usefulness. He gener
ally has a good buggy to ride to church
in, and does not trudge along the road
on foot, carrying his shoes in his hand,
as his grandfather and grandmother did,
only to be worn while m church. As a
rule, in these days, he has a good educa
tion, that was altogether beyond the
reach of the Absaloms of 50 years ago,
and he Is branching out In many useful
occupations that are helping the Indus
trial development of the world, and the
advancement of the entire race. In
other words, he is taking no stock in
Bryanism nor any of its repellant and
paralyzing tendencies.
The young Absaloms of this country are
all right, and in the energy and intelli
gence shown on every hand are display
ing an instructive object-lesson -Ahich
Mr. Bryan may study with profit after he
changes his present occupation, if he ever
does, and studies the institutions of his
country.
It Is more than likely, however, that the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency
has made a mistake in his text. Men
sometimes do. Being both a Populist and
a Democrat, it Is very probable that ne
Intended to refer to Miss Rachel, of
Scriptural fame, Instead of young Mr.
Absalom. It will be remembered that Ra
chel not only was uncomfortable, but
actually "refused to be comforted." That
Is the organic trouble with tho Populist
and latter-day Democrat He refuses to
be comforted. He worries because the
stomach of the worklngman Is empty.
The Republicans fill It, and then he wor
ries about the low prices prevailing
everywhere as the forerunner of indus
trial destruction. The Republicans main
tain a sound currency system, which
stimulates business, high prices come,
and the opposition statesmen declare that
the prevailing high prices are the product
of the trust octopus and means the en
slavement of the "tolling masses." He
joins the Army in a spasmodic fit of pa-
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several miles nearer home than the battle-field,
suddenly discovers the rising
specter of militarism, which threatens to
engulf the American people In the on
coming cruelty of a bayonet government
so he heroically resigns and reduces the
number of the standing Army by one I
He rushes frantically to Washington for
the purpose of securing the ratification of
a treaty with Spain which was to pay
520,000,000 to that country for a title to a
certain thing, presumably for the welfare
of the country, and then, in his Intense
desire to be uncomforted, parades himself
daily before the country, declaring that
Spain didn't own the thing we bought
anyway I He hugs Tillman and Aguln
aldo with both arms, each and severally,
and while Agulnaldo shouts heroically
for the Declaration of Independence and
the "consent of the governed," Tillman
shrieks Into the other ear, "We stuffed
the ballot-boxes, we shot them. How,
with a free vote and a fair count, ore
you going to beat 135.000 with S5.C0O?"
And Mr. Bryan supports ihem both and
they each support him. When tho price
of sheep ways low, it was because we had
destroyed the "money of the Constitu
tion"; and when tbe price is high, It Is
because of the Sulu treaty. When work
lngmen were Idle everywhere, it was be
cause of the "crime of '73"; but, now that
everybody is employed, it is tho result of
accident. Prosperity Is accounted for
and denied In the same breath. In 1833
we should deal with 'Agulnaldo as "we
would with a band of renegade Apaches."
because the honor of the country de
manded it, but this year it Is imperial
Ism for the sake of Bryanism.
So there you aTe! In this book of lam
entations it is wrong to apeal to young
Absalom. Miss Rachel, who refused to be
comforted, should furnish the proper text
I do not know much about her anteced
ents, but In her abrupt and fixed deter
mination to "not be comforted" she pre
sents the first credentials as a Demo-Pop-ullst
mentioned In history.
The Democratic party In its "earlier anJ
better days, when controlled by the
"fathers," was always In favor of ex
pansion to a greater degree than ha3 ever
characterized the Republican party. Its
history shows It In Its every page, even,
as Jefferson himself said, to the point of
"National aggrandizement" It was al
ways In favor of "militarism" to a
greater extent than that which exists
now, as was shown by facts and figures
open to every Inquirer. Never, since tho
organization of the Government, has a
political party undertaken to gain con
trol of the Nation with such a flimsy and
absurd collection of alleged "Issues" as
characterizes the effort now being made
by the parties that belong to Mr. Bryan.
The country Is prosperous beyond any
thing ever known before In Its history,
and, since there Is no excuse for every
voter not knowing that this spurious cry
of "imperialism, militarism and trusts" is
Intended to disguise the real issue of the
free coinage of silver, the election of Mr.
Bryan would be a calamity well calcu
lated to destroy one's faith In the Intelli
gent Judgment of the American people!
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