Show BRYAN REVERSES HIMSELF impertinence and effrontery eliat I 1 would shame a street fakir A year ago W J bryan was traveling back and forth across the american con declaring that the law of supply and demand had nothing whatever to do with the prices of american products and J tha that t the only hope for advance advancement ment out of the condition of industrial prostration was through the tree free and unlimited coinage of silver now he is campaigning among the same people with the unreserved declaration that government policies legislation financial systems etc have nothing whatever to do with the price of products but that they are governed solely by the law of supply and bemand demand it would not be so bad if mr bryan remained content with reversing himself but with an impertinence and effrontery that would mate make a patent medicine fakir ashamed of himself he proceeds to reverse all of the american people who did not agree with his theory of a year ago everywhere and opan all oc the republicans insisted during the campaign of 1890 1896 that the price of products was governed by the law of supply and demand now mr bryan is striving to make it appear that the republicans have abandoned their contention of a year ago and are claiming that the advance in the price of wheat and corn is solely ole due to republican legislation and not to the operations of the law of supply and demand this is false andar and mr bryan knows it is false because he be has come over on to republican ground is no reason why he should seek to drive the republicans pu public blicaus ans on to populist ground which he has abandoned kansas city journal trusts and pree free trade under protection when business thrives and confidence reigns men do not wait long iong to compete with and break down a trust which charges exorbitant prices under free trade wilen when business is paralyzed I 1 and confidence blasted men do not put their money into new enterprises and consequently those who are already established dished in any business have things all their own way with what business is left to them they have bare no fear of competing rivals to kill their trade when the demand is light the cotton tie trust acted on this knowledge and the result was per bundle for ties which they are willing to zell sell today to day for TO 70 cenal per bundle it is time for the tree free traders to drop their cry that a protective tariff fosters trusts not because the facts are arc against them that is never any reason for a free trader to drop a charge but because the facts arc getting ting too well known to let t the he lie go longer undetected by the people at large A contrast what a marked mark 41 contrast contract exists between conditions in in the united states today to day and those of the corresponding period of president cleveland s last term four years a ago go w with ith a low tariff suring staring the manufacturers rs of the country in the face business ne s was going to everlasting smash banks breaking railroads going into the hands of receivers factories facto rieb clo closing sinz and workingmen wor borkin kingmon men thrown out of emp cyment by the hundreds of thousands now hundreds of thousands of workingmen ar are L finding additional employment railroads are ordering thousands of new cars to meet the demand upon them for tr tranis por tation of manufactures mech andio and pram grain the banks report larger deposits depo itis and larger clearings than in in many years cars and instead of silent factories there are clouds of smoke and the hum of busy wheels everywhere the shipping question shipping is is the one industry that en eng land protects shipping is is the one industry that ape the united states does not protect last year the total tonnage of non new vessels launched by great britain was over a million tons the total houna ge of new vessels launched by the united states was less than one fifth of that of great britain no wonder england is is mistress of the seas sea it certainly certai nl is high time for us u s to take a lesson from englard and to protect our merchant marine and so dispute depute with england her control of the carrying trade of the world a ds we are already beginning to dispute her supremacy in the markets of tile the world in in the sale of manufactured products protection in the south the growth of protective sentiment ut in the south shown by the election of senator mclaurin in south carolina is no S surprise se to thus those e who have studied the situation in that section the new york sun whose editors scan the political lb horizon ori pretty closely in a recent article points out the growth of republicanism in that section and says it is to be an aa important field for the party in future I 1 I 1 I 1 |