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Show Public Enemies. A spirit of lawlessness Is spreading over this great republic of ours, and a feeling that no man has any rights which his neighbor is bound to respect, re-spect, which is filled with portents of evil. In every state, at least in every northern and western state, this spirit is being intensified by an incendiary press and public speakers. Take the cartoons In Mr. Hearst's home paper a week ago last Sunday, and try to explain their meaning mean-ing to a child and see If anything can be made out of them except that if ono man has something : valuable and another man has not, the man who is destitute has a right to despoil the man ol substance. ; Again, sift ono of Mr. Bryan's speeches down ; to paragraphs and read thoso paragraphs, giving them tho accepted meaning of common English words, and what do they teach? "A protective tariff is robbery." Tho inference infer-ence is tho tariff must bo smashed. Very well, then what are tho millions of men who are obtaining ob-taining work at better wages than men over bo-fore bo-fore received for that kind of work going to do? . ' The answer Is found in the next paragraph: "All monopolies aro odious." What then? Why, they must bo smashed. If they have accu- j mulatod wealth, it is through wronging the people, peo-ple, hence tho wealth they have of right belongs to the people. Can his words be construed any other way? 1 Mr. Bryan owns a newspaper. He employs (" upon it wo will say six men and ho sells It for $2 per annum. We will suppose that two other similar papers are owned in adjoining counties. v j I'JfimSHf ow suPP0Sg that Mr. Bryan makes a combination !jjijn9BH' vflth the other two, that one paper is issued in- JffiHHHD stead of the three, that the one is larger and rajfllBl hotter than either of the three was, but the price ililjMHHp is advanced to $2.25 per annum, though tho labor ill'iBIHw of six men s dispensed with. fHDB According to Mr. Bryan's theory that paper PItoIHB las become a monopoly and is odious, and the ' 'llMH ofllce should be razed, the presses and linotype 'f 'ifflflHRBI machines thrown into the river, and the em- 119181 ployees turned out to hunt new jobs. 'tfSHHw There are more profound lawyers and abler Hfi8Bra editors than Mr. Bryan. But Mr. Bryan has cer- fnlH tdin attilbutes of voice and bearing and manner !1S9Hb which causes men to like to hear him speak. U'lflHHB They are willing to pay to listen to him. From jlwHHR that source Mr. Bryan has gathered a fortune, K'lfiHBKK some say a large fortune. Ask Mr. Bryan and he ' TIHBh would answer that all he has he honestly earned. 1 JlmHH But aslc llim aljout n man llkG Mr- Carnesie, ''iiHUH for instance ancl 110 would tel1 you in(leed be fflMiHI tells th0 People In al1 sections of this country, ffi iTBHn lmt mon lllce Mr Carnegie are enemies of their HI i IMWt country because they have a monopoly and grind WW ''WsfUBEi the poor. Let us see. Mr. Carnegie started poorer HI HHbB tllan did Mr Bryan for Mn Bryan was Een an ittl MiBIB education. But Mr. Carnegie was given two rare H ' 'wSmBi attributes. One was a mechanical intuition and H 'ffwIIR tllG otner tlle constructive faculty that enabled H V 'flHB him to plan, build Up and carry on a mighty in- H ' '4jBiiiHjH dustrial enterprise to a splendid success. He did H . yfllHBI not spring Into fame by one burst of eloquence D ' l' 4 J HmH delivered beforo a great concourse of frenzied R -''111888 men His was work o a iifetinie- And he Bi t ' hH had to weavo vastly more brain into the work ':jf''iflHB tlian Mv Bryan lms eyer een able to command. H VfiHIK And all the time he was paying first a few, then I JIuHBB hundreds, then thousands of men the highest HfiflH wages ever paid laborers in that capacity. "What H.jMHB he made was one of the most necessary metals 'llflBBi tliat tlle world lcnoWs anything about. And -filHr while doing this ho was at last able to reduce the 'JtluHfil cost of tllls metal to the consumer 50 per cent, t $1 HIE Now by wliat rlght does Mr Bryan discunt ilBiB the brains of a Carnegie and advertise him as a Hill public enemy? And in a land like ours, by what WKHKIl right does any man or journal go about preaching ll&SB tlie do011'1116 of discontent and seeking to offer a premium on indolence or incompetency and to supply excuses for the crime? |