Appeals To Passion

If Republicana should cali Mr. Bryan a coward and a niischief-inaker his friends would denoimee it as persecution. But is it not cowardly and mischievous for a man to seek oöice and self-promotion by playing on the prejudices of the pcople and in secking to arouse the hate of one class agaiust another? Can the nation ever return to prosperous and peaceful times so long as the laboring man hates his employer and the farmer hatee the business man? Prosjierity can exist only when there is mutual confidence bétween the classes and between the different sections oí tho country. Can the West prosper while its honesty and good sense is distrusted by the East? Can the South prosper and enlist the confidence of Bastera capital while it arraya itself against the Bast and demands a free-silver policy which makes every bank hoard its nioney and every capitalist hide his capital in a safety vault? The laboring men may crowd about 5Ir. Bryan in Chicago on labor day. They may fight for the little posies whieh are distributed arnong them by Mr. Bryan's family, and the Associated press may send out to the readers of this country long and interesting descriptions of these enthusiastic demonstrations, but the mighty engine of brnin and thought which has created (Jhieago and direeted the üevelopmeut ot the great Northwest is afraid of this shrewd agitator and of the little posies which are distributed from lus car. When, before, iu the history of the country, did any brave and manly statesnian soek to opon the door of opportunity to himself by means which he knew would close it against the laborer whom he seduced with flattery and flowers? Would it not be more manly and statesman-like if Mr. Bryan would seek to cool the fever of hate and incinient revolution whieh is in Chicago, rather than to urge it on? What does it signify, as a proinise of better times, if fifty men or fifty thousand men gather about the car and struggle for n. sight of the boy orator, if every word he utters senda a thrill of doubt into the business mind of Chicago, and is a sign of impending evil'.' The idle men of Chicago may believe in Mr. Bryan, but wliat the country needs is a man whom the busy men believe in. When the busy men of the country believe in the President, his cabinet, and his Congress, they will enlarge their business and make room for others to be busy, but when the busy men are afraid of the President and his Congress, then thoy will busy themselves in making what they have already achievcd as secure as possible, without reaching out and enlarging their operations. Nebraska and Kansas need new popujation and an enlargement of their local industries to build up their home markets and give value to their property. lhese tliings can come back to these states onlj" wheu confidence comes back in the minds of such men as are able to bring such things about. Eastern farmers with money will not come to these Western states to buy these mortgaged farms that are now being foreclosed until the industries of the natíos are set in motion and the farmers' market is restored. Can these whó gather around thp Bryan car to receive the posies, can they evolve a plan? Can they furnieh the mind forcc which must lead the country out of this wilderness of dispute and discord into which these talking politicians liave led us? Who will the nation look to for the restoration of its industrial enterprises when this campaign is over? Will it look to those who gather around the Bryan car with shouts and demonstra tions? Or will it not appeal, as every nation always has and always will appeal, to those who, yvith tramed minds and cool judgment, sit in the counting houscs, to direct with mind force the energies of this country? ïhe business men of Chicago and of the other commercial centers of the country believe in Mcïvinley and the men wto are bacldng him, but they don't believe in Bryan and the men who urge free coinage in this campaign. What. does it avail for Senator Stewart of Nevada to talk to the people of New York and Pennsylvania, if the industries of New York and Pennsylvania are dependent for direction upon the business nien of those states, and if those business men are afraid of Senator Stewart and his 50-cent silver dollar?