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Show BRYAN ANALYZED. Whllo no ono can safely predict wli at will liapn"rf wo years hence, at tils moment all the indications point to the nomination for president of Mr. Hryan in 1003. Hence It Is not only right but It is a duty for c ery cltbcn who loves his country, toanalyc what he says and try to anticipate results In case his New York speech embodies tho platform which he would demand should be framed for him to stand upon. up-on. Wo Hnd that it is more Populist than Democratic, that while It echoes the old Democratic demand tor tho abrogation of the tariff and the smashing smash-ing of the trusts It goes farther; It leans to a gencial government ownership owner-ship of public utilities and holds out a covert promise to cure every wrong and every supposed wtong by legislation. legisla-tion. In addition If his purpose Is not to array every dlssatlsllcd element In tho nation against the rich and prosperous, pros-perous, and instill Into every poor man's mind a belief that the reason he Is poor Is because of tho wrongs heaped upon him by the rich, then he docs not make his meaning plain. Assuming that tho rich can tako care of themselves, we should try to estimate what tho effect would be upon up-on tho poor, could Mr. Hryan's theory of government be carried out. In passing, wo may remark that Mr. Hryan's prabo of Mr. Hoosevclt that he might assume that what of reforms tho president Is trying to bring about are reforms stolen from the Democracy or from Mr. Ilryan, Is altogether gratuitous, for tho president's presi-dent's course was all outlined when a boy In tho New York legislature and when he was a police commissioner In 'ow York City The piesldcnt does not borrow his principles Wo personally know that Mr. Hryan's Ideas of the tariff con cspond exactly with those of Mr Cleveland. When Mr. Cleveland became president hi le'J.I, his llrst slgnltlc.-nt otllclal act was to dispatch his special Mr. Blount to Hawaii to haul down the American Hag Ills second was to call congress in special session to destroy silver as money. Wo mean of course jrlmary money, a standard of values. In his message to congress ho ascribed tho yanlo (which was precipitated to give him an excuse for calling the special session) and stagnation to tho fear of capital that the country was about to go on a silver basis. After a more than three months struggle congress repealed the purchasing pur-chasing clause of the Sherman law and placsd tho country on a gold basis. Hut the promised revival did not come. The threat of "tariff reform" was stll hovering over tho land. Finally Fin-ally Mr. Wilson framed his bill and pushed it through the house. Had the senate done the same, and the bill had becomo a law, tho Democratic party would have gone Into liquidation or at least into the hands of a receiver. receiv-er. As It was Senator Gorman toro the thing to pieces, covered It over with protection patches and Mr Cleveland was too angry to sign It, leaving it to become a law by action of time. Then tho nation resumed work. It Is a repetition of that gloomy period that Mr. Hryan's plan foreshadows. How do the poor of tho land like the prospect? When It comes to dealing with tho trusts and other combines of capital, Mr. Ilryan does not promise or proposo to seek out tho wrongs and correct them, but to smash tho combines Hut aside from tho western minors and farmers, nintcnths of the wage earners earn-ers In the country look to these same combines for employment Whllo tho smashing of the combines Is going on whore will those cmploi-crs cmploi-crs get work? As for government ownership of rajlroads we will, today, consider but one phaso of the question. Wo hear men say every da) that the government govern-ment can own and operative a railroad rail-road Just as It can the postofllcc. Assuming As-suming that to be true, what then? What employee of tho postolllco has ever advanced ono step above a clerkship? clerk-ship? Is an occupation that oilers no opportunity for promotion tho one tho average American boy desires? Is It a system which the labor unions of tho countiy deslrn to see Inaugurated? Can- any honest laboring man seo In anything Mr. Hryan proposes any ben-ctlt ben-ctlt to himself? ' Hut prices will bo reduced," says one. Will they? An old man could buy half a sheep in Hos- ton for half a dollar In 18T7, but nobody no-body had tho half dollar." That explains tlio case exactly. High prices aro due to two causes One Is the vast volume of money in thecoun-try thecoun-try and the state of business which keeps allithe money in uso. Hut let Mr. Hryan's program be carried car-ried out, let It becomo apparent that it is about to be carried out. and three tilings would swiftly succeed Tho works that employ millions of men would bo closed down; tho surplus capital of tho country would at once gravltato to safety deposit boxes, and prices would fall. Hut In what kind of a fix would the poor bo In to take advantage of the fall? Tho country may become crazy again as it did In 181)2, but wo do not bellovothat Itwlll. Goodwin's Weekly. |