Show HONEST EH1 Thls precious bit of Information was supplied on Monday to the Herald I readers I No man who scans the record will hcsl tato to honor Bryans straightforward ness whether he agrees with him or not Ho has taught the politicians that It Is good policy as well as good morals to bo honest In politics an In all the other walks of life Ills greatest hope of success to Qr SUCCCJ9 day Is because of this very quality When It comes down to straightforwardness straight-forwardness let us seel Assuming that Mr Bryan was honest four years ago in demanding the money of the Constitution the gold and silver of the fathers the standard money necessary to advance prices what can his best friends think of him this year He Insisted on having n 16 to 1 plank put In one of his platforms but he took from it the essential of four years ago that it should be a legal tender for all debts and liabilities In his Kansas City platform he added to it this plank We demand the retirement retire-ment of national bank notes as fast as Government paper or silver certificates certifi-cates can substituted for them The silver certificates could not be added faster than 200000000 per annum an-num with all the silver that could be obtained in this country and Mexico I will require 3000000000 to do that business and to have It produced as fast as paper or sliver certificates can be substituted would require the Immediate Issue of about 3000 millions I of greenbacks That would drive gold and silver Into 1 retirement rater than it went when the grett l warcame on I he was honest four years ago ale what I is i he this year When he holds up to the people In the Rocky mountains that he stands on silver as he did four years agowhat does he mean except ex-cept that he was dishonest four years I ago and where he talked silver he meant greenbacks I greenbncts But when l he telegraphed that 16 to I I 1 must go into the platform or he would not be n candidate he was already al-ready the accepted candidate on another an-other platform which he himself supervised su-pervised That has one plank which reads this way Wo pledge anew the Peoples party never to cense tho agitation until this eighth financial conspiracy Is blotted I I from the statute books tho Lincoln green I backs restored Iho bonds till paid and all I corporation money forever retired The next plank demanded the reopening re-opening of the mints the immediate increase in the volume of silver coins and certificates those created to be substituted dollar for dollar for the bank notes Issued by private corporations corpora-tions under special privileges granted by the lav of March U 1000 this I year and prior national bank lathe la-the remaining portion of the banknotes bank-notes to be replaced with more legal I tender Government paper money and Its volume so controlled as to maintain I main-tain at all times 3 standard money market and a stable price level Fur j I ther on it demands the ownership and operation of all the railroads in the 1 I United Slates That would require a volume jot money so great that It i could hardly be comprehended and to i flood the country with that amount of i Irredqcmable paper currency would j I simply mean chats When Mr Bryan I declared that unless1C to 1 wnsput in his Kansaqiiy platform he Svould I not be oanUldate 1 his idea was to j run on Ihisolhcr oter platform altogether I i The aubJilanceof it all Is that hehas been juggling with the people on the i financial question ever since he supported sup-ported Gen Weaver and his extravagant extrava-gant platform of eight years ago That Is he does not believe In the gold standard or a gold and silver standard stand-ard He does not believe in bimetallic money Ills Idea is to make money a mere convenience and to reduce trade In effect to simply barter So much I for his honesty on the money question I With wearisome reiteration ho has done his utmost ever since his nomination nomina-tion to impress the people of the country coun-try the farmers out on their farms and the men working in shops with tho fact that in some Inscrutable way they nro being oppressed by the money I power He has declared his war upon all monopolies and all combines of cap monopoles ital and yet on the first invitation he I I went to New York as the guest of avery a-very rich man who has never made an honest dollar In his life He has accumulated I accu-mulated his millions by methods us sinister ns those of a highwayman Indeed In-deed they lack the courage which the I I highwayman manifests when ho holds up the stage coach lie feasted with I him and at the conclusion of the feast I said Great is Tammany and Croker Is Its prophet and by the way Tammany I Tam-many Is an organisation that has I robbed the city of New York of money I enough In the last fifty years to found an empire as rich as some of the principalities I prin-cipalities of Europe and its leader I I now the one on whom Mr Bryan leans I as his agent to carry tho great Empire State for him Is as we describe him I above that character of thief which I I accumulates money not by holding upI people on the highway but by levying blackmail upon the gamblers and the saloons and the prostitutes of New York and by corrupting courts In usch a way that ho can reap the benefits through the stock exchanges Suppose Mr McKinley weie to do anything like that would tho Herald call him honest hon-est Again is It honest for a candidate for President of the United States to give out to the men In the stockyards of Chicago very many of them foreign born that It Is the purpose of the owners own-ers of those yards to drive them all out very soon and to substitute colored I men In their places and then within a week appeal to the colored men of I West Virginia to support him for President Pres-ident l because of his sympathy with the downtrodden and oppressed colored races in the Philippines Was It honest of him to resign his place in the army go to Washington and turn his influence as L probable candidate for President In favor of the ratification of the Partis treaty and then so soon a I was ratified so soon as It became the Presidents duty to execute the laws in the Philippines Just as ho would have to do If he were President was It honest for him then to make the cry of imperialism and to charge that the purpose of the President Presi-dent and his advisers was to convert this into an empire and steal from the people their liberties Is It honest of him who for a season at least wore the uniform of the United States army to now declare that the purpose is to convert con-vert that army Into a great machine wjth which to stamp out and grind top to-p del the liberties of this country What would he have said to such a I statement while ho wore the uniform Would ho not have declared that the army of tho United I States educated in the free schools of the United States and filled with the memories of the soldiers sol-diers of the Republic that have carried the Hag for one hundred and fifteen years would be the first to turn their bayonets against any proposition of that kind Intended to I curtail In the least the liberties of the American people Is It honest In him to quote mlsjoinLcd sentences from the great men in the past and try to give the people a meaning to their words that was never Intended a Is easily shown by the full record Is it honest In him Americanborn one who has been blessed above his fellows and Infinitely above his qualifications is it honest in I him to seek to arouse the baser passions pas-sions and bitter prejudices of his fellowmen fel-lowmen against that class of men who arc giving the dally laborers of the I country their employment and who are making a market for those who with a little capital and their work aChe aC-he countrys producers Putting it the other WrY suppose he wore dls Jionost and 3 demagogue who was anxious anx-ious only for votes what different plan would he pursue than the plan which he has pursued during the past fOUl weeks Finally gather 1 he has said In the last month put It In a book and then let any man read it not knowing who the author was and what man is there who would say that such a man has either the capacity the sense of justice or the hlghmlndednesu to be named as President of the United States |