Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 96, Hammond, Lake County, 9 October 1908 — Page 11

WHY THE BUSINESS INTERESTS SHOULD OPPOSE W. J. BRYAN By JAMES 13. VAN CLUAVE, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN MANUFACTURER'S ASSOCIATION j

la a cnavMi which toncbea the bos- 1 f ne man at many more points than aay previous campaign since 1S86, it

lOOKra rimer mum drop the other day when one of the candidates entered the eonntrya buainenH center. And, by the way this was the very candidate who started the financial relra ' terror in 1886. "This was the first political scare,"

aaid one or the leading isew lortt papers, "which the stock and money market has had in thi3 campaign. " Said another paper, "The enemy's country still distrusts Mr. Bryan." The average business man, democrat and republican, will notice In that candidate's public expressions before he entered New York and also while he was there many things which make this distrust look natural. Afflicted AVIth Duplicity.

At the outset we are confronted with the fact that this particular candidate is afflicted with duplicity as

well as with wrongheadedness. In a speech at Trenton, N. J., Just before entering New York, he said, in answer to a taunt that he wanted government

ownership and operation of the rail

ways: "I do not desire government ownership. I hope that the railways

will permit regulation, and thus make

ownership unnecessary." Does Mr. Bryan imagine that the country has forgotten all his declarations in favor of government ownership? Here is what he said at the meeting in Madison Square Garden, in New York, on August 30, 1906, just after he returned from his tour around the world: "I do not know whether a majority of the members of the party to which I belong believe In the government ownership of railways, but my theory is that no man can call a mass- ' meeting to decide" what he himself shall think. I have reached the conclusion that ., there will be no perceptible relief on the railroad question from discrimination between individuals and betwee places, and from extortionate rates, until the railroads are the property of the government,, and operated by the government in the interest of the people." His Solemn Declaration. This was the solemn declaration of Mr. Bryan two years ago, which he urged with great eloquence and elaborateness during the congressional canvass of that year. Does he think that he can wriggle out of that position

now by pretending that he was never

In It?

In response to attacks made upon him in 1906 by the. leading democrats

for this socialistic and reactionary doc

trine, he qualified It thus: "I favor the federal ownership of the trunk lines only, and the state ownership of all the

rest of the roads."

As this hedging added the chaos of a

conflict of authority to the general de

morallzaUon and destructlveness of the

government ownership folly, his party leaders naturally disliked It even more than the doctrine of straight federal control for all the roads, which he

originally proclaimed. Many of the leaders renewed their attacks upon him. Nevertheless, In one shape or another he clung to the government ownership idea. In a letter to the "Wall

Street Journal in April, 1907, he wrote

"Four fourteen years after my entrance

into national politics I hoped for effective railroad legislation, and was brought reluctantly to the belief that

government ownership furnished the

only satisfactory remedy for the dis

crimination, rebates and extortions practiced by the railroads, and for the

corruption which they have brought

into politics."

t He Reiterates the Belief. Later on, and on many occasions, he reiterated his belief In the necessity of

government ownership of the roads. He

went so far as to' make devotion to this doctrine of party orthodoxy. He

threatened to read put of his newly con

structed democratic party everybody

who should refuse to accept this own-1

ership folly. What do thedemocratic and republican business men of the country think, in the first place, of a candidate for president who would seriously propose such a piece of socialistic folly as

taking over by the government or a railway system of $16,000,000,000 for all the roads except a few minor ones are engaged in interstate commerce of some sort and thus add to the 200,000

present employes of the government the 1,600,000 employes of the railroads? "There is nothing In the democratic platform that need alarm any legiti

mate business," says Mr. Bryan.

What does he call "legitimate busi

ness?" It is clear that he does not re

gard the manufacturing business of the

country, which represents an invest

ment of 115,000,000,000, as "legitimate.'

It is equally clear that he thinks the

banking system of the country, which

is more extensive than that of any

other three nations in the world, and

which has deposits of $13,000,000,000,

is very far from being "legitimate.'

"My nomination for a third time, aft

er two defeats, has been due to the

growth of the idoas for which I stand,, and the conviction among the people

that I am on their side," he says.

If this be true then, indeed, are

large part of the people fooled a large part of the time. But just as Bryan

was using thesg words the stock mar

ket dropped along the whole active line, and New York had a political scare from which it has not yet en

tirely recovered, and from which it will not recover until the news of his

defeat is flashed across the country.

Says There Is Xb Such Fear. "When I spoke in the east in 1896,' he said in his Carnegie hall talk, " saw that there was an intense oppo

sition to me. I saw that many feared

my election would injure the country

and they communicated that fear to those who worked for them. Today

there is no such fear."

This Is part of Bryan's pretense that he is not as dangerous now as he was

formerly. . It is his way of saying that his successive defeats have taught him wisdom. In these words he Insinuates

that the country sees a new and bette

Bryan than It saw in 1896 or n 1900

This pretense is directed particularly at financiers, at employers of labor, and at the heads of great industries and

enterprises Of all sorts." t The persons who fear Bryan less now than they did In 1896 do so because they believe that he will not come quite so near carrying the country as he did then, and not because of any imagined change Jn him toward conservatism or balance. If there be any such change In him the average business man is unable to discern it. The drop in stocks, however, which was taking place while he was uttering these words, sho that many persons In the nation's financial center do fear that, by some mischance, he may be elected.

Each of these divisions has two brigades f Infantry and one artillery regiment of nine batteries, except the second, sixth and ninth divisions, which hsfve only -six batteries. A cavalry regiment is also allotted to the firBt six divisions and all have a full complement of "administrative and technical forces. Every division is prepared to

go to the field and begin offensive op-

rati'ons on short notice. The war

strength of each of the nine divisions is estimated at about 20,00d officers and men, fully armed and well equipped. The total is estimated at 180,000 officers and men, with 4,000 sabres and

430 field guns. In addition to these

troops there is a separate cavalry division of about 2,500 sabres and cer

tain corps troops and units for the line

of communication, bringing the total

mobilized strength of the Bulgarian

field army to 210,000 officers and men, with 7,000 cavalry and 500 field guns. It is believed that this entire force or any part of it could be massed at fixed points of concentration on the frontier

within ten days of the order to mobil

ize. There would still remain 170,000

fully trained reservists available to fill

vacancies and form supplementary units, besides some 60,000 trained men

of the "Landwehr. This is a remark

able state of affairs considering that

the population is less than four millions and the annual military budget

only about $5,750,000.

The Bulgarian army is well provided

with capable officers. Many of them have received their military training and education at the National Military

academy, which was founded in Sofia

in 1878 and has for its director a Rus

sian. Major Robinkin. The number of

cadets in attendance in former years averaged four hundred, but during recent years it has increased to five hun

dred and even more. The course of the

school covers four years and the ca

dets, after graduating and serving for

several years in the army, are free to continue their military education in

any of the older European academies,

selected for this purpose by the Bui

garian government. In the thirty years of Its existence the academy has

sent out more than 2,050 graduates, who are now holding officers rank in the Bulgarian army.

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Bulgaria's Military Resources

(Special Correspondence.) I Vienna, Oct. 9. The recent developments In the Balkan situation and the probability of war between Bulgaria and Turkey have aroused universal interest In the military conditions and resources of the small kingdom, bold enough to challenge the mighty Turk. Bulgaria was not always a small and, comparatively insignificant, country. From the seventh to the fourteenth century Bulgaria was one of the strong and prosperous kingdoms of the Balkan peninsula. " It comprised a large area of fertile land and was densely populated. Its borders touched the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Adriatic. The remembrance of the glory of its czars, Kroom. 'Aseh and Simeon,' still lives in every Bulgarian and fills his heart with pride. It was Czar Simeon who led his victorious army to the very walls

of Constantinople, and it was of his

time that Gibbon says: "Bulgaria as sumed a rank among the civilized pow ers of the earth." But Turkey was determined to ob tain possession of the Balkan penin

sula. After conquering other nations the Turks subjugated the Bulgarians,

whom they kept under their despotic rule for five hundred years. When the intolerable sufferings of this Christian nation under its Moslem oppressors finally attracted . the sympathy of the world. Russia came to its help In 1S77 and forced Turkey, by the treaty of Berlin to grant autonomy to Bulgaria. The latter country is now only a small principality of 48,500 square miles and a population of 3,310,000; yet its military organization is remarkable considering the population and Its ' resources greater than one would expect from so small a country. -" Nearly SO.OOO young men annually . reach the age of twenty-one in Bul- " garia, and of these about 24,090 are taken by conscription for the full period, of peace color service, nominally two years for the Infantry, and three years of the cavalry and artillery. After finishing their color service the men are kept for eighteen years in the reserve. This unusually long service in the reserve gives the Bulgarian general staff a large effective of trained men for mobilization purposes. It is estimated that Bulgaria has in all about 380,000 men at its disposal for immediate military use, all of whom are fully trained. After leaving the reserve the men are passed into the "Landwehr" for six, years. These men, too, would be available for military service in case of a prolonged war. The

strength of the "Landwehr" Is esti

mated at about 60,000.

Bulgaria is divided Into nine divi

sional districts with headquarters In the

following strategical centers: Sofia,

first division; Phillppopol, second divi

sion; Sllven, third division; Shumla,

fourth dvlsion; Rustchuck, fifth divi

sion; Vraiza, sixth division; Dubnitza,

seventh division; Eskl Zagora, eighth division, and Plevna, ninth division.

ROBERTSD ALE. A republican club will be organized in Henry Halt's hall this evening. All republicans welcomed. - Misses Katherine and Amelia Bader entertained a few friends at a dinner at their home in Harrison avenue Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Kate Exton.- - Mesdames Brown and Itusch of Harrison avenue spent the day shopping in Chicago. Miss-Elanora Fick of Harrison avenue has accepted a position with the United States court in the federal building in Hammond. ' . Mrs. Henry Bader spent the day visiting friends In Hammond. Contractor Henry Gobel is building a frame cottage in Pearl street for Mrs. John Hatt. Mrs. Lucie Jackson of Logansport, Myrtle" Soltwedel, Daisy Tipton and

Helen O'Hara attended the skating

rink at Indiana Harbor Tuesday even

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Herman Theissen of Indiana blouevard attended the Knights of Pythian lodge in east side Wednesday evening. J. H. McConnell of the Chicago Business college In Hammond was a Robertsdale visitor Wednesday. Frank Olson entertained the Swedish Hepubllcan club of Whiting at his home in Harrison avenue Monday evening. The fore part of the evening was devoted to business, at which Auditor Johnson, who is president of the club, presided. Refreshments were served during the 'evening and those who attended report Mr. Olson a capitol host. Albin Martenson, who spent a few days here this week visiting his mother, Mrs. Martenson of Roberts avenue, returned to Ohio, where he Is at present employed. Messrs. John Leverenz, Fred Lukle, William Sweike and Axel Benson saw "Lew Dockstader" and his minstrels at McVickers, in Chicago, last evening.

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