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Show MR. BRYAN'S CANDIDACY. Missouri has declared for Mr. Bryan in 1908. One of the Dakotas has practically done the same. He is the strongest man among his party adherents in Indiana and Illinois, and their claim is in those States that a great many Eastern Democrats that have opposed Mr. Bryan in the past will accept him, now that he is the legitimate candidate of their party, and would take up the work that President Roosevelt has. been engaged in against the trusts and carry it on. . The only trouble is, it Is a year or two too soon, and further, that while no one doubts the personal honesty of Mr. Bryan, they do doubt his level-head-edness and his ability to maintain with honor'the great office of President. There are many things besides a disposition to tear dqwn required by the President of this country. For instance, Mr. Bryan believes a protective tariff is a crime against the people. His fatherwas a sturdy old Democrat of the Calhoun school, and the principles that guided the life of that father are absolutely incorporated in the brain of William J. Bryan. If President, he would want to take up again the free-trade plank in the dead Confederacy, fumigate fumi-gate and sterilize it and gild it until it to the outsider out-sider would look like gold, and incorporate it in his jftatforfn as its most important plank. He would want the present tariff revised on the lines marked out by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cleveland, and, notwithstanding that whenever that has been tried the result has been prostration of business from sea to sea, he would want to try it again; because he holds as an abstract proposition that to tax the people of this country for the benefit of the manufacturer manu-facturer is a crime, and he knows the fact that because be-cause of such taxation in the past our country has become one of the foremost manufacturing countries coun-tries in the world and has gathered to it more wealth than any other-country possesses, except Great Britain, and all the time has paid its laborers 100 per cent more than is paid in England and 125 to 150 per cent more than is paid on the Continent. Perfectly clear as he was on the silver question, he still ignores the fact that it is infinitely rbetter to keep the money which is created in this country in circulation here than to send it abroad to buy what can be purchased here from foreigners, and he puts aside as of no importance the fact that this country has never tried free trade in the past that it has not within three years been drained of money, with every warehouse in the land crammed with foreign for-eign goods, and the skilled workingmen of the country, coun-try, denied employment, have been reduced to the humiliation of eating free soup. Hence his election would be a calamity to the United States, if with him there should be elected a Democratic Senate and House. |