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Show Speaking of Mr. Bryan, his disappointments seem to have unsettled his former steady judgment. judg-ment. He is almost insane on the subject of combined com-bined capital, but were he president how could he attack capital unless it could be shown that by its combining it was working a hardship on the public? In that case how could he add to the present law or add to the vigor of its enforcement. After all the experience which the country nas had Mr. Bryan is at heart a free trader, and when he speaks of tariff reform he has in thought such a reform as Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cleveland sought to make ten years ago. On the subject of imperialism he tells the public pub-lic that our government is working the same, or more, hardships upon the Filipinos than caused our fathers to rebel. In this he outrages both history and common sense, because he places in his comparison com-parison our fathers on the same plain with the murderous thugs of the islands and quite ignores the fact that the government is giving peace and order to the quiet people there and planting school houses and employing teachers to open to that race the book of knowledge. It would add to Mr. Bryan's reputation if he could lose his voice for six months to come. |
