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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1900)
3 What Baseness Deserves. Portland Orsgonian. William J. Bryan is the most un worthy aspirant and dangerous candi date for the presidency 01 the United States offered by ono of tno dominant parties within tbo memory of living man. Wo have had candidates with mistaken view; we ' have had men with cangerou policies; but we havs never had a man whoo perversion of truth wad ho shameless; whose stock in trade consisted of appeals to class prejudice; whose hope of success lay wholly in ministering to the basest passions of human nature. It is past comprehension how any man wiio values truth before falsehood and sets law before anaichy can ally himself with this most conscienceless of dema gogues and most pernicious of agita tors. Wo printed the other day a letter that showed irrefutably that Bryan had taken a message of Abraham Lin coln's, written to rebuke the owner ship of capital in human labor, and so perverted it ai to make it apjxjar to be an indorsement of Bryan's senseless ravings against capital in its relations with free labor. It was an act pal pably and unmiligatedly dishonest, that should find, as it has found, no defenders, and that should foreverde bar Bryan from the confidence and support of men of principle. Why did Bryan urge ratification of the peace treaty? For the purpose of putting the Republicans in a bole. It is the act of a cheap politician; it is not the act of a statesman. Bryan went about the 2ountry in l&SXj predicting all manner of catas trophes if wo kept the gold standard If he knew better, he is a knave. If he didn't know belter, he is a fool. 1 He talks silver at the West, anti imperialism at thvi East, anti-trusts at the South., He is for anything that will get votes. Ho wants us to rtturn to th simple dignity of the Fathers, yet he scurries about the country to receive super fluous nominations and spouts his speeches into a phonograph. Be denounces autocratic rule, yet he is himself the most dictatorial of liv ing politicians. Lie holds up Washington and Lin coln as ex. m tuples, and yet be has done nothing for four years but pursue with unblushing and unwearied ambition the Democratic nomination for Presi dent. Now, a man may be a cheap poli tician and au arrant demagogue and still bo sound at heart. But the base ness of Bryan's purpose is clearly ap parent from the nature of his appeal If a many is contented, Bryan will do his best to make him discontented. If a man defies the law with riot, Bryan pats him on the back. If a man is poor, Bryan tolls him the gov eminent is to blame; Bryan encour ages him to call down imprecations on the rich. Here is a man who goes about the country stirring up the poor against tbo successful; tho idle against the busy; the laborer against the employer; the rioter against tho courts; the property less against property; the dis orderly against order; the lawless against law. Every man that is enraged at the existing order; every man that is en vious of hia neighbor's progress; every man that blames society, for his own I Incompetence; every man that feels' like taking the law into his own bands to redress his grievances against capi tal; every socialist, communist, an archist and rioter; every enemy of progress and prosperity; every croak ing raven of calamity; every apostle of discontent; every prophet of des pair, recognizes a friend in Bryan, and recognizes truly, because bis whole appeal, overt or covert, is addressed to these basest elements and most dan gerous foes of our civilization. Such a man is out of place in the United States. Such a man is at vari ance with American ideals of liberty and law, individual enterprise and re sponsibility. He is the enemy of the doctrine of fair play, which insures to each the fruits of his labor. He offers us despair for hope; discontent for de termination; bitterness for ambition, despondency for courage. Sucb a man is dangerous, not only and not so grievously because he perverts his tory, palms off humbug as philosophy and menaces business and order, but because he seeks to poison at its very source the fountain of our national life. He seeks to substitute for a vir- iie self-reliance, obedience to law and resolution to press forward, a spirit oi anarchist rage and bitter complaint that belongs only in the decadent civ ilization of the Old World. The difference between Bryan and all j his predecessors is not one of degree, but of kind. We have never had a man before who sought to build him self up on the ruins of prosperity, and j not wily that, hut on the wreck of in dividual courage and manly endeavor. The answer of our sterling young American manhood to this bass ap peal should bo decisive and over whel mi tig. Ladies, when you are looking for beau tiful gloves of all shades and the best make don't overlook the stock at The Monogram. 37-2 Post & Kinn lost a big stock in the fire but they have another just as good. Fine liquors and cigars ; A. B. C. beer. Under the opera house. 23 A big invoice of fine Old Bourbon Whisky has just arrived in Lakeview. These goods were bottled expressly for Post & King by Hilbert Bro's., Louis ville, Ky. It is in pocket shaiied pints, with nickel drinking cup. This is said to be the finest bottled goods ever shipped to this section. 37-tf LOOK OUT For any one killing' or steal in? atocit belonging to the South Eastern Oregon Live Stock Association $500 REWARD Will be given for the arrest and conviction of any per son or persons stealing- any stock belonging to members of this Association. J. I. COUGHLIN, J. 31. INNKS, President. Secretary. I s PI PI n Successor to ' f 1L-L,L'i BIEBER & FIELD. I am always Pleased to meet THE DOUBTFUL MAN I Welcome His Inspection of Both Goods and Prices! I want Your Confidence with Your Pat rouage. Sea my New Line of Goods Jujt Received. J. S. FIELD. KLONDIKE BARBER SHOP HH1TII A AVlltAUXKTE, Props One door south of Opera Ilouoe Geo. II. Avres. H. C. Whitworth. We Have Moved Down into our new and commodious store at The Old Stand Our Elegant Stock of Goods cannot be surpassed in this section. Come and See Us M Atoms B J .