Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1908 — VIRTUE IN SILENCE [ARTICLE]

VIRTUE IN SILENCE

Indiana’s Democratic papers are maintaining a significant silence on what Brewers LiebeF~find Fairbanks have thrust forward as the big main issue in the political struggle this year. Nary a word to be read in them now of "personal liberty" or the other shibboleths of the new brewery leaders of the old Democratic party. The Wtirti has tea® fioVti the line to’ fie' 1 low on the local option question and. not scare the temperance men in the party, and they are not few, as will be remembered by all who attended the state convention in March. Albert Lieber really spoke, too loudly. "Say nothing and Baw wood" is the word. "Get all the promises you can of votes for our candidates for the legislature. We can pay for ’em. Keep talking of Bryan and Taft while we go Boftly to secure an anti-temperance legislature. Talk of anything but local option. Follow Tom Marshall’s manner of saying nothing that stirs the animals.” Great jokers, these big Indiana brewers. The beer company that has had "A check against Prohibition” printed in red across Its commercial bank checks may think it funny. Let i ’em laugh. But there is something under the Jibe. They hope it will act as A campaign spur to their friends to vote their way this-year. And maybe they hope it will be read by its receivers as a hint to send the brewers a real check to help them buy votes against prohibition. They are becoming desperate. • . * * ■ The state statistician in submitting figures proving that the brewers and brewing companies of Indiana are on the bonds of near one-third of the saloon keepers of the state, confirms the general kn <w»edge that the manufacturers of beer are practically in the business oL sailing it at retail, in fn,V»re there will be less of theop, for thpjr are realizing that wwie their action may be perfectly legal, it Is not food business policy.

nr v , u 'o u drj'flu UiHii, oiiimp* ed for him in all his campaigns, but to win this year we will have to make the fight of our lives. There is but one way to win, and Bryan is going to make his campaign along that line. That way is to unite and array every wage earner and farmer against all forms of wealth, especially corporate wealth. We must fight and denounce the corporations all along the line.” Tna* was the statement of an Illinois state senator on the train going home from the Denver convention. Great scheme, isn’t it? The farmer fast becoming well off is to be told he mqst unite with the factory hand and crush all forms of wealth. There’s Bryan. He is in the capitalist class and climbing higher in it thah he will ever mount In polltios. And his program is to make more money by attacking "all forms of wealth.” But that has always been his graft • • • Those poor whisky men are having their troubles for sure. Here Is the federal government positively Insisting that whisky Is really amenable to the provisions of the pure food law, Just like common m'.'k or meat. The liquor makers know so very little about pure whisky and they objeet to compulsory education on th 3 subject. As Tom Marshall thinks, there Is far too much government In this country. . - -'-W—W - raw Railing against wealth, small or big, has brought to Bryan a lot of money. And he Is keeping at It still, for he dreams he can fool a lot of the plain people all the time. He Is not standing on that big platform made in Lincoln and swallowed In Denver. His voice and his instinct to array class against c'ass are his standing and stamping ground. • • We have a harder battle before us in Indiana this year than the party bas in the country. Taft will be elected, but u is more to every man in this state tlut Watson be elected our governor and a legislature be returned *o futflH the pledges of the Republican platform. —