| Show I PURE DEfilAGUGISM Assuming that the Bryan dispatch to I the World relative to the Boers la genuine gen-uine It is the first specimen of pure demagoglsm that the gentleman has I thus far perpetralcd In his soul Mr 1 Bryan cares no more for the Boers than he does for the Finns or Greeks or Poles His assertion that hp would olcome them to thin country is all I right This country welcomes all com icirijrof thv Caucasian race unless In 11 native land they established ihwlr unfitness un-fitness to receive a welcome but when In effect he lues In a nrplnmiod belief e that to exchange such men as President McKinley and Bishop Potter and Prof Schurman and Judge Taft and Admiral Dewey for the Boers he merely shows how low he IB wiling to stoop In the I I hopo of appealing to the baser prejudices i pre-judices of certain men In this country for voles Again when he Indirectly I charges that there Is any class of men In this country thit hnvi any do j signs upon the Filipinos except lo better bet-ter their condition to lift them up into i the full light of liberty and open to j them every right which Americans enjoy en-joy he either advertises the icasonless I prejudice in his own soul or gives away I the fact that he has not taken the trouble I trou-ble to keep In touch with the facts as they day by i day have been presented pre-sented I I Of course we must not forget that Mr Bryan Ir In a close plnce He had four ringing slogan to years ago one rnging present to the people but he Is shrewd I enough to sec that what he demanded four years ago has In another form I I been granted and thai not a State In I the Union could be carried on that issue t all his appeals I sue this year and so al I be U the prejudices of I this year must prejudies Ithe people but that does not excuse i uLler demagoglsm on his part for It I he was not consumed by his ambition I he would ee that aurh appeals will from sensible men away drive more emllbl mtn I < d and him than It will draw prejudiced ignorant men lo him i I |
