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John W. Kern on Government Ownership
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John W. Kern, the well known, demo
crat of Indianapolis and well known
to democrats throughout the country,
has written for tho Indianapolis Star
the following statement:
"Bryan seems to he the most puzzl
ing problems ever tackled by the news
paper men of the country. Ever since
189G a period of ton years the re
publican and so-called independent
journalists of America have been bus
ily engaged in 'writing him down' and
putting him out of business. The car
toonists have pictured him in every
ridiculous attitude Imaginable. The
jokesmiths havo worn themselves to
a 'frazzle' making jokes at his ex
pense; the big guns of the editorial
rooms have written thousands of col
umns of the choicest English, holding
him up to public execration as a col
ossal fraud and a political charlatan
of the worst kind. Yet at the end of
this ten years of unceasing fusillade
all were compelled to admit that W.
J. Bryan is one of the foremost men
in all the world and one of America's
greatest citizens. But they justified
their years of villiflcation by saying
the Bryan of today was not the Bryan
of 1896 that he had improved vastly
with ago and experience and had
grown so conservative as to be no
longer offensive to the great business
interests, etc.
"Bryan returned to America and, by
his New York speech and his vigorous
pronouncement that men financially
interested in. privilege-seeking corpor
ations ought to have no part in demo-
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everybody concerned that ho was the
samo old Bryan improved by ago and
travel, but not improved in the way
the corporation agents had fondly
hoped, but that, on the contrary, age
and travel had made him a more form
idable champion of popular rights and
a inoro powerful adversary of special
privilege and monopoly than ever be
fore. And bo the mighty journalists
had all their work to do over again
in 'writing him down.'
"There wa3 great sorrow manifest
ed in tho camps of corporations not
anger, but genuine sorrow. It was
such a pity that Bryan, who was just
within reach, of tho presidency, had in
a single speech, made a 'break' which
had absolutely destroyed all chance
of preferment.
"In great headlines it was announced
that the democrats of the south were
so incensed at his declaration on' the
subject of government ownership of
railroads that they were anxiously
awaiting the opportunity to repudiate
him. And so, when the democratic
state convention of Georgia met a few
days after tho Now York speech,
Bryan was repudiated by a resolution
adopted unanimously, declaring for
Bryan for president.
"But 'the independent journalist was
by ho means discouraged. Crowding
the telegraph report of the Georgia
convention down into an obscure cor
ner of his newspaper, or crowding it
out altogether, he proceeded, with
much fine writing, to prove that Bryan
was no longer an appreciable quantity"
in American politics and that the
Southern democracy 'was especially
bitter toward him. One morning,
about a week after the- Georgia con
vention, I read several articles of this
kind and then, turning to another part
of the same paper in an out-of,-the-way
place I found an abbreviated
account of the Alabama state conven
tion held on the previous day. I there
learned that early in the proceedings
Congressman Clayton had introduced
a resolution condemning government
ownership of railroads, which resolu
tion was summarily voted down by a
Vote of three or four " to one, after
which the convention proceeded to re
pudiate Bryan by the enthusiastic
adoption of a resolution by a unani
mous vote,' declaring that Bryan was
the first and only choice of the Ala-
"And then came the California state
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convention, and then Bryan's trium.
phal tour of tho souththe work of
repudiation proceeding right along in
such way as to make it reasonably
plain that the only name before t.ho
next national convention for tho presi
dency will bo that of the great Ne
braskan. "So it seems quite apparent that
while cautious politicians were start
led and alarmed the .masses of tho
people were neither stampeded nor in
the slightest degree frightened at Mr.
Bryan's declarations on the subject
of government ownership of railroads.
And why should they be? His declar
ation was to the effect that up to this
time the railroad corporations had
been powerful enough to resist suc
cessfully all efforts on the part of tho
government to regulate and control
them in their dealings with tho pub
lic that with that power in their
hands it was doubtful if they could ho
regulated and controlled by legislation
and that, if it so turned out, there
was only one effective remedy for the
people and that is government owner
ship. "To put it in another form: If it be
came a question as to whether the
great trunk lines, built as competing
lines, should be owned by the Stand
ard Oil crowd or that group of finan
cial pirates known as 'The System'
or whether the government should
own those lines, the latter alternative
would be preferable.
"Or, to put it in another form: As
between railroad ownership of the gov
ernment and government ownership
of the railroad public interests would
demand government ownership.
' "Look at a few facts and you will
readily see why the people are not
frightened by a discussion of the gov
ernment ownership question. "Within
tho t last month the Pennsylvania
Railroad company gave out an author
itative statement that it had, the day
before, sold its controlling interest in
the Chespeake & Ohio" aifd the Norfolk
& Western railroads to Kuhn, Loob &
Co., of New York a firm of bankers
for $54,000,000. Here was a confes
sion by. this great corporation that
for several years it had owned, in
defiance. of law, a majority of the stock
in these two great lines of railway,
which were not only competitors of
the Pennsylvania, but were built to
compete with each other, and that it
had sold both of these lines to a firm
of New York bankers. Of course that
firm purchased these lines for 'Tho
System
"Harriman now turns up as the own
er of the Baltimore & Ohio. Kuhn,
Lqeb & Co., ostensibly own the two
roads" just named. The Pennsylvania
company and the Vanderbllt people
owji the remaining, east and west trunk
lines, a 'gentleman's agreement' bind
mg"thehi together, and the Standard
QIV crowd 'The System dominating
the whole bunch.
-''The great transportation lines of
this, country are absolutely dominated
and' controlled by not more than
'twelve men:
v 'Twelve souls with but a singlo
, thought,
Twelve hearts that beat as one.'
'"That these twelve men pull to
gether in elections and in all matters
of legislation goes without saying.
That the shipping Interests of tho
country are at their mercy is known
of' all men. That they havo defied
all laws and resisted all efforts to
control them in the past is history.
That they absolutely dominate tho
United States senate has been proved
a thousand times and demonstrated
during the last session when they
compelled a compromise on their own
term?, on both the rate bill'and tho
pure food bill.
In Indiana tho railroad commission
bill, enacted by the last legislature,
hiid no chance for enactment until it
had Den trimmed and emasculated
so that itreceived tho approval of the
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