Show BRYANS SPECIAL PLEADING Replying to some ramblings of Henry Clews of New York who by tho way represents Henry Clews only and who never wa lovelhcaded Mr Bryan In his Commoner says This does not resemble lie Hlaleiiientn made by Mr Claws and l his fellow bunker telow lunker politicians In tho campaign of 1500 Then we wero told that the interests I of capital and labor were Identical and that tho great corporations which nnl been per l mlttiHl to Grow fat by tho faVor of the Re I publican party and at time cxpcnso of Iho people of tho United State wore fully I alive to the requIrements of the laboring mun Wo were told that Jlho rages of Die laborer would keep pace with iho profits of the great corporation by which ho was I employed And yet at this moment when these corporations are thriving as they novor thrived before their employees find It necessary to engage In it strife In fnd 01 I tier to obtain even Iho right of organiza I otgnlzn lon and Mr Clews Informs UH that 1 compromise between tho two Idcfl Ms impossible Ho no louder Inslottt thnf I tho interests o labor and capital thor I Identical but declares that either the one I Ijarty or the other imist hold a distinct 1 ascendency of power I IM difficult for Homo to t understand I why theao great corporations after huv at obtained at tIme hands or tho Govern J l mcnt favors and privileges bY which they are enabled to roll yp enormous profits on comparatively small InvcBtmiiUof capital I reiuso to rmilo theIr employees fair privileges I There Is more of thcTsame stuff but the abovo is siifllalont To wrltclt Mr Bryan as unual had to assume a state of facts which does not exist and had to construe the words of Mr Clews Inn in-n way not meant by the writer of them There was no possible trouble about wages or hours in the steel works The I men who struck were receiving more j i than they could obtain anywhere else j on earth Neither did the steel combine i oppose any union or any attempt to I unionize their employees I But Mr Shaffer Insisted that the company com-pany Itself should unionize all It mills I and this demand wns declined Then the strike wns ordered and the advice I given the men that their allegiance to the association was moro binding on them than their contracts and It wos their right to break those contracts I He placed himself on untenable ground in the beginning ground that the labor unions throughout the country coun-try repudiated he has been floundering ever since and has alienated the sympathy sym-pathy of all classes of people save those who like Mr Bryan would If possible make political capital out ot the strike As to the words of Clews about ascendency he meant nothing I of course except that no man or company I com-pany could give up the control and I I conduct of his or Ha business to 0 labor I union that the owner must have some little Sn as to the men employed I so long as the buses had to be relied re-lied upon to pay the laborers and that Is no repudiation of cue fact that labor I and capital interdependent on plal aro upon t i each other Mr Bryans simulated love I for the laboring man and the poor Is becoming somewhat tedious and threatens threat-ens to become ridiculous |