Show MISDIRECTED CRITICISM V Mr 11 Bryan is traveling in ut South America The Th Thelast last 11 heard ar from t from him im he was in Peru peu The Providenc Provi Provi- dence Journal J gives him a a. a notice i It suggests that tha he perhaps had better run for office among th the theLi Li tills thinks his style of oratory would suit them then an and closes Wit with l this paragraph The Nebraska Nebrask leaders leader's viO views soI on fi finance l nce would be more acceptable in South America merica than thais they have proved to be ii in inthe inthe the northern half of this hemisphere and alto alto- geUl r it seems as as if a large and a attractive ra tive opportunity opportunity tu ity awaited him at Lima Quito or La Paz By B the th expenditure of an fan immense i amount o of money and a It good deal of cheating the northern half of this hen hemisphere re decided that 11 1 Bryan Bryana yan 3 views ou not such as they hey wanted But is not that a rather subject sensitive sensitive I subject for foi New Now d newspapers to sneer at Y V Will ill th the J Journal in hi Providence go to the manufacturers in ir Rl Rhode de Island who formerly sold their goods to the tin orient brient and and ask them how things are arc Y Mr 11 Bryan Bran in 1893 told the people of the United States that the elimination of silver as primary money would Some ome back to plague them through all time Was V as not there more real prophecy in ir that than all that was said by all the other orators that year yearY 7 Is it not true that the export trade of the United States to al all oriental countries has been beer killed with quite half the inhabitants of the earth eath Y Has it not resulted in c confused business settle settle- in all Spanish America 4 in all southern Europe Eu Eu- rope rOllY Is not riot the silver question more morel acute right at this moment than it was avas in 1896 Y And is not nol the alternative presented either cither to silver silver slIver sil slI- sil- sil ver 01 or move our great manufactories to China 1 Y YAnd And in that case what of our skilled working men What will Providence depend upon for support 1 What What will become of the Providence's Journals Journal's J 3 subscribers 1 There were certain bondholders and national bankers in ill New York City in 1896 1806 that told the people that if silver silv was restored d we should be flooded with it and the people including the Providence Journal without knowing why accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac that and Vand have clung to it ever since And what has has been the result Y las Has the country been bettered by it Y V The first sinister result was the ruin of two two- thirds of the working men of the United States who had ad a little capital and by their capital and labor 1 J bor hoped looped to get along The second result is that it has closed the ports of the orient against all allour allour allour our exports and the ships that formerly ran to China and aud Japan are swinging idly on their chains an jn in San Francisco and Seattle harbors and and the tho manufacturers of Rhode Island who made articles that they could sell in China make them no more moro for that trade while the orient can sell its products products products prod prod- measured in gold at a discount of 60 per percent percent cent over over 1896 Cannot the Journal see that we weare wesie sie are rc fast rist becoming what Japan was when Commodore Commodore Commo Commo- dore Perry went there in 5 4 54 a a closed countr country against half the earth By a tremendous effort by the expenditure of millions of dollars by the influence of a great and misguided press Mr Bryan Br-an was turned down in 96 06 But what has been accomplished since 1 Gold has lost half its value m measured by what men eat and wear weal The awful bugaboo amounts to ounces of silver silvera I a year not enough to buy the eggs egg and amI chickens hickens that New York City consumes and our finances hang han at the will of half a dozen in New Now York and the cry is Down with the tho trusts thit are arc ruining the people V What have we wex we to boast of over the defeat of Mr 11 rr Bryan Br an What proof have we that he lie had load not nota notA A clearer vision ision of what was to come than any other man who was a candidate for office that year The Journal should go slow in its criticisms until it has has something to show that the election of Mr l Bryan would have been a misfortune that is that the country did not make any mistake in turning him down V What have hae his opponents accomplished since None of them are satisfied with the tariff We have lave no merchant marine which was promised We Vc have lave no safe and honest currency system In n truth we wo have haye nothing in the way of legislation that hat is not l dictated by the moneyed aristocracy in New York and Boston and which is the meanest aristocracy that any country ever fell feU under because because be be- calise cause it is made up in great part of shoddy creatures crea crea- tures turcs wh who never had anything and never thought of any high question of national importance but who have moved all their lives as the bird of prey an l l the beast of prey move move to to find something to minister to their cupidity The Journal should go goslow goslow goslow slow before belorO it criticises the past in view of the present situation |