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Show HEREDITARY PREJUDICES. ' jH Thore is no one thing more natural than envy M of wealth. No matter how honestly it may bo gained, no matter if the gaining of wealth is the lm absorbing dream and chief exertion of mankind, M when once a man has acquired it he is pointed out as a public enemy. Every demagogue alms M his javelin at him and tells the poor how he has wropged them. No matter If he employes more laborers at better wages than anyone else, if he M with his investment, his machinery, and his r brains, makqs more money in a twelve-month than the tramp whom he employes as a messen ger, there is a large contingent of the human"' iH family ready to picture him as a public enemy H It is this perversity of human nature that Mr. fl Bryan for four years has worked upon to keep fl himself in fayor with what he believes to be the H majority of the voters of the United States. e H denounces the tariff and shrieks wildly that "It Is H the mother of Ijrusts." He knows that trusts H werq originated in free trade England, that 'the combination of capital is as natural as It was for M him to move out of his barn into his house. He has seed the effect of sudden acquisitions of for- fl tunes in his friends Hogg and Mills of Texas, fl Towne of Minnesota, and many others, but still M refuses to admit that if a man's labor is worth H ?250 per annum; if a man possesses $100,000, his '1 capital Is equal to four hundred men, He de- nounces trusts and refuses to discriminate b t m , JB H tween them. If a man has a little ractory and em- H ploys titty men, paying them each $3.00 per day, H his heart warms toward him. Put if fifty such H manufacturers combine and employ twenty-five H hundred men at $4.00 per day, he is incensed H and cries out, "See how the poor are robbed!" H If the spirit over elects a President of the Unit- H ed States, it will be a great misfortune. H The taritf has been a question of more or less Hp importance at every Presidential electloa since Hi 1830 for quite seventy years. On at least three H occasion, the nation has decided to put the free Hu trade theory into actual practice. It swamped the HfS' business of the country in 1837, again in 1857, H despite the mighty influx of gold from California, Hv and again in 1893 when Mr. Cleveland had both ' ' houses of Congress with him. Each triumph of H( free trade has created the industry of free soup H houses but still Mr. Bryan raves for a revised H tariff, that the trusts may be annihilated? No H doubt a return to a tariff for revenue only would H eliminate many of the trusts, but it would be 'as H it always has been, a depression that would par- H alize business, the filling of the highways of the H nation with tramps, the luin of all men who H owned 40 per cent of the value of their property. H It is the most singular or all political phenom- H ena, Mr. Bryan and his co-workers profess, in 1 and out of season, that they are Jeffersonian Dem- B ocrats. Jefferson was a strong advocate of a pro- teclive tariff. He did not believe in giving a bale H of j raw cotton for a bolt of English cotton mixed H with a little British brain. The Irish societies M ( of-New York protest against Mr. Hay's manage- K' i ment ot the State Department, asserting that he M has always conducted it in the interest of Great . Britain, a charge as false as it is ridiculous, but V every member .of those societies would vote for B i any Democratic candidate for President, though 'f the effect, judging the future by the past, would M be to double England's sale of goods to the Unit ed States and turn a large proportion of the members mem-bers of those societies into free soup-eaters. The only consistent organization which is offering of-fering a bid for public support is the Socialist party. Their platform is that as money is the tyrant of the Republic, the only thing to do is to make money valueless; to assume that the land of the Republic like the water and air, is a free gift to humanity; that governments are formed to see to it that money can carry no advantages to its possesor, and that mankind shall start once more on a dead level. |