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NOVEMBER 10, 1905
The Commoner.
AROUSING CLASS HATRED
Secretary Taft, speaking in the
Ohio campaign at Akron last Satur
day, said:
"It is perfectly apparent that Mr.
liryan is gradually resuming control
over the democratic party and pro
poses to assume the aggressive in a
controversy in which he hopes to ar
i ay the poor against the rich, to shake
the present system of private prop
erty and freedom of contract."
There was more of the same kind of
demagogy, but that quoted suffices for
present purposes. Why do the re
publicans always attack Bryan when
they have a desperate case on hand?
There is not In his public or private
life any evidence that he is lacking in
honesty or patriotism. He is gifted
with ability to make his points clear
and simple. He is magnetic and
draws people to him. He dares to
speak his convictions, yet ho has never
been guilty of an effort to inflame the
people. Mr. Taft decries arrayal of
i he poor against the rich, yet he seems
to think it legitimate to arouse popu
lar feeling against Bryan. Is it any
worse to array the poor against the
rich than to array the rich against the
poor? Arraying the poor against the
rich is arousing class hatred, but so,
also, is arraying the rich against the
poor. If one should be condemned,
;o should the other.
The campaign of 189G was made
against Bryan and a bugaboo Bryan
ism. The effort was to arouse pre
judice against the democratic party
and its candidate. The thievery like
that of McCall from the funds of the
New York Life Insurance company,
by blackmail paid by corporations
fearing to deny Hanna's importunate
hand, by tribute from special interests
dependent for pillage on legislation in
the shape of the Dingley bill, the
money was gathered together with
which to buy Bryan's defeat. While
the campaign speakers were arousing
class prejudice the gray wolves of
business anU politics we're behind the
scenes extorting money from whom
soever had it to pay and using it to
corrupt a nation.
Yet in the light of all these proven
facts, in the face of the McCall admis
sions, Mr. Taft has the temerity to go
to Ohio and 'attempt to arouse the old
fury that a discredited governor may
be saved as the plaything of the ill
famed George B. Cox, boss of Cincin
nati. Notwithstanding Taft, the fact
becomes clearer every day that Bryan
represents the interest? of all the peo
ple, rich or poor, willing to live hon
estly themselves and desirous of mak
ing others live likewise. Ho was
against corporation highwaymanry
and embezzlement in 1896 and he
made his campaign without the as
sistance of a corrupt dollar more
than can be said for the man who de
feated him, or for the present occu
pant of the White House. The talk
about Bryan - arraying pooi against
rich is for no other purpose than to
protract the tenure and methods of
what Mr. Lawson graphically de
scribes as "The System." It is an
ignoble effort for an ignoble end, and
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Fulton (Mo.) Gazette.
SUBLIME AUDACITY
Some months ago The Post made
brief mention of the astounding fact
that the American Economist, the
weekly organ of the leagned stand
patters, was displaying at the head of
its editorial department an extract
from Washington's farewell address,
and had placed over it, in conspicu
ous type, the title, "George Washing
ton's Reciprocity." As week after
week that busy, bustling little organ,
vvitu us ooia aavocacy or special in
terests, shows up with that grand
triumph of audacity of an audacity
that really reaches the sublime-
nailed to its masthead, the impres
sion grows upon us that simple jus
tice to tne genius who achieved it
requires a higher tribute than was
paid by The Post in the few lines
heretofore submitted. The utterance
of the first president which the
leagued standpatter parade as a jus
tification of the republican party's
repudiation of its policies and pledges,
its standing pat on that repudiation
at the dictation of enormously over
protected interests, runs thus:
"Harmony and liberal intercourse
with all nations are recommended by
policy, humanity, and interest. But
even our commercial policy should
hold an equal and Impartial hand;
neither seeking nor granting exclu
sive favors or prererences; consult
ing the natural course of things; dif
fusing and diversifying, by gentle
means, the streams of commerce, but
forcing nothing."
Of course, that wise and patriotic
deliverance by the Father of His
Country, in his Farewell Address in
September, 179G, has no more rela
tion or application to existing indus
trial and commercial conditions in
the United States than It has to steam
power and electricity and their appli
cation to transportation on land and
sea. And to quote George Washing
ton with the idea of making him en
dorse a tariff that is so iniquitous
that no public man dares to deny
its injustice or attempt a defense of
its most important schedules well,
that is as shocking a caricature of
the moral and intellectual endow
ments of the Father of His Country
as the marble figure m front of the
capitol is of his habits and manners.
Washington Post.
BACK TO HOME, DOWN ON THE
FARM
Now and then the clouds enwrap me,
Closing all the world from view;
And alone I sit in dreamland,
Where the meadow bathes in dew.
All about the flowers blooming,
Nod and bow their pretty head,
And the bluebellB seem to jingle
Merry songs to roses red.
Down the pathway to the pasture
Grain is swaying in tne sun.
I can hear the cornblades rustle
I can see the shadows run.
In my vision I am listening
Tn thn twilieht. when the stars
Dimly peep through mellow azure
Hastening toward the rustic bars.
Again I loiter near the moorlands,
nhaslntr butterflies at will;
Again I hear the cowbells tinkle,
And the call of whip-poor-will,
The lazy cows I find in nuang
'Neath the willows there in vain,
And I drive them homfiwnrd singing,
"O, to be a boy again."
Then the clouds that close enwrap me
In my restrospective dream
Seem to lift and bear me onward
Toward the ocean down the
stream,
O, how sweet is memory's calling,
Lifting one from thoughtt of harm
Back again a barefoot boy
Back to home, down on the farm.
A. U. Mayfield, in Denver News.
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