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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1920
WHY DOES BRYAN HAVE THE
GALL TO TALK?
Yes, the campaign of 1920 is on. 1
William J. Bryan is again busily en
gaged in demagoging about the rail
roads. He is rolling the old familiar
phrases about the “plutocrats” and the
“special interests” and the “giant cor
porations” which, he says, “control”
eongress and the press, and “grind
down” the people.
Perhaps the colonel doesn’t know
that since he last made the welkin
ring with his invectives against the
“plutocrats” and “railroad barons” his
own political party has been in power
for six years, pledged to eliminate all
the “plutes” and tame all the “mo
nopolies,” and presumably, in all that
long period of complete control of the
government, has cured all the evils
he has made himself rich railing
against.
Possibly Colonel Bryan is unfamiliar
with the fact that the people have even
had a dose of government ownership
of railroads, which he used to say
would reduce freight and passenger
rates to a figure little more than noth
ing and support the national govern
ment out of the profits. Maybe he
doesn’t know that the real result of
the experiment of political railroading,
tarried on by his own party, was an
increase of transportation costs to the
people of something like a billion dol
lars a year and an annual loss of a
few hundred millions that have had
to be paid out of the public treasury.
Moreover, the railroad systems of
the country have been so nearly
wrecked by the political management
Colonel Bryan promised would produce
a transportation millennium that the
country has grown far beyond their
capacity, and the end in increased
transportation charges and losses in
operation is not yet.
It requires considerable gall for
William J. Bryan to come forward with
his old outcry against plutocracy. All
this hullaballoo of his was directed to
the point that if the people would
turn the management of things over
to Bryan’s party there would be a new
deal whereby the plutocrat and the
profiteer would be exterminated. And
in seven ytais ui me suil ui. aummis
tratino Bryan and his fellow dema
gogues and doctrinaires helped shove
ever on the people twice as many mil
lionaires, according to the income tax
statistics, have been created as in the
entire century and a third of na
tional history preceding.
What Colonel Bryan ought to be en
gaged in doing is uttering apologies
for the record and confessing that he
was “four-flushing” in all that dema
gogical gab about what he and his
fellowmoliticians were going to do
te the “plutes.” The possibility that
Bryan himself, may now be numbered
among these millionaires, even if he
did start on the job of millionaire halt
ing while drawing a salary of $30 a
week, is scarcely excuse enough for
what he and his fellow-Democrats
have done along this line in violation
of all their promises and in repudia
tion of all their professions.
The claim that the present congress
is “corporation-controlled” comes with
poor grace from a man who in 1912
and 1916 helped push over on the peo
ple an administration which has given
the plutocrat and the profiteer of the
•Id Bryan orations the grandest and
most glorious picnic ever experienced
by such elements in all human his
tory. It is true that it has been pri
marily the prosperity of the specula
tor and adventurer and profiteer
rather than of the legitimate producer,
bmt the knowledge that this is true
does not make the people feel any
better about it.
Judged by his campaign utterances,
William J. Bryan is the fiercest foe of
plutocracy in America, but judged by
the practical results of his labors in
politics, he is the advance agent of
the exploiter and the profiteer. He is
the last man in the country who
ought to accuse other politicians of
being tools of predatory capital. This
opinion of William J. Bryan is based
upon knowledge that is very common
public property as to what Bryan and
his associate agitators promised four
years ago, eight years ago, and in fact
in every national campaign for thirty
years, and the conditions which have
actually followed the triumphs of
Bryan in 1912 and 1916, when for the
first time Bryan & Co. gave the people
of the United States an opportunity
to get acquainted with their particular
brand of national administration.
CORRECTING A MISIMPRESSION
Since the war and the abnormal
growth of American exportations to
Europe and elsewhere abroad, the be
lief has grown that this country was
an importing rather than an export
ing nation until July, 1914. As a mat
ter of fact therq have been but few
years in the history of the United
States when the imports have ex
ceeded the exports, and none of these
years has been more recent than 1893
—27 years ago.
It was because there was a belief
that the United States was not much
of an exporting nation that it was dif
ficult before the war to arouse much
interest in the vital need of an Amer
ican merchant marine. One of the
benefits of the war in this coutry is
that the public at large now appre
ciates that an American merchant
marine is essential to the progress
and development of American trade
abroad, which spells American pros
perity at home.
In an interesting study of this sit
uation the Bankers Trust company, of
New York, calls attention to the fact
that in 1911 the excess of exports
over the imports was, In round fig
ures, $522,000,000. In 1912 it was
$551,000,000; in 1913, $625,875,000. It
fell off in 1914 because of the disturb
ance to shipping conditions resulting
from the outbreak of the war, but by
1915 had increased to $1,094,000,000,
and in 1916 to $2,135,599,000, not all.
of which was by any means war bus
iness. In 1917 the excess of exports
over imports reached $3,630,693,000
and last year the excess was more
Mian four million dollars, or approxi
mately $4,129,000,000.
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