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The Commoner.
13
All Sorts of Opinions.
Hereinafter, The Commoner repro
duces extracts from editorials relating
to Mr. Bryan's announcement with
respect to the government ownership
of railroads.
The Kansas City Journal (republi
can) says that Mr. Bryan's statements
make him as a socialist and that in
stead of voting for Parker, ho should
vote for Debs.
' The Des Moines. Io'wa, Capital (rep.)
says: "Mr. Bryan must at least bef
commended for His iranxness. Tnose
people who have always regarded Mr.
Bryan as nothing more nor less than
a socialist will now feel that they
have been fully vindicated. Certainly
no bolder bid for the support or the
socialist olement could be made. No
one denies that there is a constantly
increasing socialistic element in this
country. It could not be otherwise so
long as the tide of foreign Immigra
tion continues at its flood. "We have
no idea that socialism will ever pre
vail in the United States. It will be
met and handled the same as popu
lism and all other isms are met and
handled by true Americans. Democ
racy and socialism will eventually ap
pear under one head and in that form
the issue will bo fougnt out In the
arena of American public opinion. The
prospect may seem to be a gloomy one
to conservative members of the demo
cratic party, but they can not deny
that these observations and conclu
sions are warranted. The democratic
party has truckled, ana pandered to
socialism and panderea to populism.
It was less than two years ago that
even the democracy or tno empire
state crawled in the dust bofore the
socialism propagandists and adopted a
platform demanding the purchaso of
the coal mining properties by the fed
eral government. Parties liko indi
viduals usually reap according as they
sow. The character or ruturo demo
cratic harvests is not difficult to determine."
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The New York Evening Fost that Is
now supporting the democratic na
tional ticket, says: "The post-convention
utterances of Mr. Bryan have not
raised a ripple. The public attitude
towards him has been the extremo of
Indifference -'I wonder that you will
still be talking, Signior Benedick; no
body marks you.' Even his yester
day's deliverence has interest only as
an individual instance or pathological
psychology. "While leader of his par
ty, Mr. Bryan did not, so he tells us,
feel at liberty to "engrart new doc
trines upon the party creed"; but now
that he is only a memDer in the ranks,
he feels free to undertake the organi
zation of the radical and progressive
element in the democratic party! We
have all along harbored the delusion
that it was this radical element which
had foisted Bryanism on the party in
the last two campaigns. A momen
tary gleam of sanity is to bo detected
in the averment that "the people can,
not be brought at this time to con
sider the various phases of the money
question," hut the new issues which
Mr. Bryan intends to bring forward
leave little hope of his recovering his
political health. After two weeks'
study of the railroad question, The
Commoner declares for public owner
ship, not by the federal government,
but by the states. This plan will
avoid the dangers of centralization.
But all who appreciate the magnitude
of interstate railway traffic will pro
nounce such a scheme the wildest lun
acy. The postofllce, on the other
hand, according to Mr. Biyan, is to ab
sorb the telegraph system. How this
can be done without giving an Impetus
to centralization we are not told. Mu
nicipal ownership of municipal fran
chises, for which Mr. Bryan also con
tends, he fails to define. In fact,
his utterances, except for their indica
tion of malevolent spite against the
present democratic standard bearer,
have nothing to do with present politics."
The Boston Herald says that it was
"audacious" for Mr. Bryan to present
his reform plan, and said:
"Now the majority has gone over to
the conservative side, Mr. Bryan meets
this condition by proclaiming a new
crusade within the party for radical
ism, and adds to his former articles of
doctrine sundry new ones government
ownership of railroads, municipal own
ership of municipal franchises and a
postal telegraph system, with reaffirm
ation of certain parts or the platforms
of 1896 and 1900 left out of the plat
form of 1904 to conciliate eastern sen
timent. "He hopes for the election of Judge
Parker because that would make a be
ginning. It would, 'In his belief, settle
two issues. 'It will rid us of imperial
ism and of the threat of a race issue;
and give us greater freedom in taking
up economic questions.' This is quite
uncertain. It might check or moderate
the temper of imperialism in certain
executive manifestations; but if he in
cludes colonial government of peoples
in the island possessions, it is a matter
about Which congress must be con
sulted. And how is a race lssuo to be
avoided if one race, aa a race, under
takes to oppress and degrade another
race? Judgo Parker's o:cction will no
more settle the race issue than Frank
lin Pierce's election settled tho ques
tion of slavery extension. It will per
sist as long as there are different races
in America and one oj- lAcm is treated
with studied injustlco and wrong.
What Judge Parker's election would
do would be to put fioutiiern democrats
with their peculiar views and preju
dices concerning tho raco question, In
power for four years to cea: with a
question which is national in Its scope.
That might aggravato tho issue in
stead of settling it. Who knows?
"Bryan's proclaimed purposes make
Judgo Parker's course more difficult
and his prospects less favorable. They
make it more necessary for him iu
utter his own opinions fully, distinct
ly and emphatically. Tho country
waits impatiently for his expected de
liverance, and Is more interested than
it ever has been beforo for the first
words of a candidate. Other men
have been nominated for the presiden
cy of whose political specific opinions
little was known in advance; but they
were not expected to bo really party
leaders only tho instruments of a
policy formulated by others. Tnat
was before tho custom or elaborate
formal acceptances omamed.
"Judge Parker can not safely follow
the cxamplo of these, fjommoplaces
of gratitude, patriotism ana good In
tentions will not servo for him. His
one definite utterance nas aroused an
extraordinary expectation on the part
of all who aro undecided concerning
their vote in November. They aro
anxious to learn whether that expres
sion was exceptional or characteristic;
whether ho is as positive and firmly
resolved on all issues as on the one
issue regarding which he has spoken,
Ho has made tho standard by which
he will bo judged.
"His nomination does not settle tho
question of his leadership or his mas
tery of the democratic party. Mr.
Bryan's pronunclamento is a chal
lenge, and, from what wo know of
him, we may expect it to be reiterated.
Wo do not expect Judgo Parker to en
ter into a controversy with Mr. Bry
an. We do hope that he will make it
quite clear that he has no sympathy
with that order of statesmanship and
that purpose of politics; that ho has
no mind to make his administration,
if ho is elected, servo as the introduc
tion to an experience of Bryan in the
white house."
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(rep.) says:
"Mr. Bryan, who some time ago gave
notice that ho Intends to reorganize
the reorganizers if he can, haa now
favored the public with his program.
That program has a depided squint
towards state socialism with limita
tions. Thus, ho thinks ownership of
the railroads by tho states is to be
preferred to ownership by tho United
States. Yet herein Mr. Bryan hesi
tates, for ho declares that government
ownership of railroads will exert a
tremendous influence toward the de
struction of private monopoly, and he
is after private monopoly with a sharp
stick.
"Mr. Bryan does not pause In tho
flow of his eloquence to give us his
definition of private monopoly, possi
bly because the term sounds better
unaccompanied by an embarrassing
explanation. The monopolizing of any
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