Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — TRUTHS THAT LIVE. [ARTICLE]

TRUTHS THAT LIVE.

Epigrams Culled from Bryan’s Great Speech. “Truth will vindicate itself; only error fears free speech.” “Between bimetallism and the gold standard there is an impassable gulf.” “We do not propose to transfer the rewards of industry to the lap of indolence.” “The well-being of the nation—aye, civilization itself—depends upon the prosperity of the masses.” “We would not invade the home of the provident in order to supply the wants of the spendthrift.” “Vicious legislation must be remedied by the people who suffer from it, and not by those who enjoy its benefits.” “Those who daily follow the injunction, Tn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,’ are the bulwark of law and order.” “So long as the scramble for gold continues prices must fall, and a general fall in prices is but another definition of hard times.” "The people who in 1776 rejected the doctrine that kings rule by right divine will not subscribe to a doctrine that money is omnipotent.” “No public official who conscientiously discharges his duty will desire to deny to those whom he serves the right to discuss his official conduct.” “They (the people of the West) invite you to accept the principles of a living faith rather than listen to those who preach the gospel of despair.” “No government is worthy of the name which is not able to protect from every arm uplifted for his injury the humblest citizen who lives beneath the flag.” “Salaries in business occupations depend upon business conditions, and the gold standard both lessens the amount and threatens the permanency of such salaries.” “A law which collects from some citizens more than their share of the taxes, and collects from other citizens less than their share, is simply an indirect means of transferring one man’s property to another man’s pocket.” “Prices can be lowered as effectually by decreasing the demand for an article as by increasing the supply of it, and it seems certain that the fall in the gold price of silver is due to hostile legislation and not to natural laws.” “Whenever it is necessary for the people as a whole to obtain consent from the owners of money and the changers of money before they can legislate upon financial questions, we shall have passed from a democracy to a plutocracy.” “In a government like ours every public official is a public servant, whether he holds office by election or by appointment, whether he serves for a term of years or during good behavior, and the people have a right to criticise his official acts.” Bad Newefor Hanna. Rainbow chasing seems to be a eport to which the Republican campaign managers are very much devoted this year, and if Mark Hanna is not careful he will get a reputation in that line which will eclipse even the best performances of the past in national politics. Here he has been calculating on a seventy-five thousand majority for McKinley in lowa, and now comes forward the chairman of the Republican State Committee there with the statement that if the election were held tomorrow the chances are that Bryan would have a majority. Io wa is one of the States which has ordinarily been so strongly Republican in Presidential years that the growth of free silver sentiment was regarded as an intrusion by the railroad corporations who have been particularly active in politics there. When they heard of it they notified their employes without, delay that the election of Bryan would mean a reduction in pay and a possible loss of their situations. It was as barefaced a case of bulldozing as has ever been attempted in an American election, and it has naturally acted as a boomerang, as such tactics always will do when applied to men who are intelligent enough to value their rights as citizens.

lowa reflects the sentiment of Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the neighboring States generally, and without these the election of McKinley is absolutely hopeless. It is not surprising, therefore, that the canvass which the Republicans have made there is a startling revelation to them. It means that—unless they can perform wonders between now and November—their cause Is lost, for with all the bluster that Hanna and Quay are indulging in they have no hope of breaking the solid South since the Arkansas returns have come in.—New York News.

Voting on Railroad Trains. The railroad car voting has begun. Our Republican contemporaries are beginning to keep up the courage of their fellow partisans by printing reports that on such and such a train a vote of the passengers was taken, where McKinley had forty votes and Bryan four —or figures to that effect. This thing will be repeated daily from now until election. It will only deceive those who are desirous to be deceived. All the world knows that the supporters of Bryan are plain people, staying at home, or working in stores, factories, works or employments for their bread and butter. The people who are flying about the country on railroad trains and casting the McKinley votes are of the classes who can be found abroad. It has not happened often in this country that a campaign for the Presidency has involved questions dividing one class from another—in fact, we have not known of classes at all in our political contests. But now we have a class issue forced upon us by the remorseless gold standard advocates. It is not the wage-earning class that has raised that issue; it is the idle and comfortable class. It is not at all wonderful that the traveling members of “the better element” should be giving McKinley a majority in these car elections. It will be otherwise at the polls, when the stay-at-homes leave home and workshop long enough to deposit real ballots on election day.—New York News.

Bryan in the Campaign. The Republicans have about given up sneering at “the boy orator.” The best of them have admitted that he never repeats himself, and that all his speeches are readable. There are plenty of men who produce a magnificent impression on the stump whose speeches do not read well at all. Bryan is not one of them. There are other plenty who can write a superior argument, but whose delivery of it would disperse a crowd quicker than a rainstorm. Bryan is not one of these. Not even rain keeps people from thronging to hear him. It is because the bimetallists are reading Bryan’s speeches daily that they believe in the victory of Bryan. It is because they believe that the people of the great States east of the Mississippi are reading Bryan daily that they, think those States will go for Bryan. It is conclusive logic: If you read Bryan’s speeches you have to vote for Bryan—you cannot yourself. Bryan’s speech at Chicago has been read since then everywhere. Addressed especially to laborers, and heard by as many thousands of laborers as could crowd themselves within hearing, it is being read not only by laborers, but by every other class of citizens. Not many men could stand such a severe test of capacity as Bryan is un-> dergoing. The man who can stand it is fit to be President of the United States. And he will be. Prince Bismarck is to have another statue. This time it is at Leipsic. The city has commissioned Sculptor Lehnert to execute it, and the municipality has selected a site near the park.