Life — July 23, 1896 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXVIII. JULY 23, 1896. No. 708. 19 West Tuirty-First Street, New York. Published every Thurslay. $5.00 @ year In advance. Postage to forelen countries In the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. RYAN, William J.; Bryan of Nebraska, the Boy Orator of the Platte, is the choice of our Populistic and Silverite breth- > ren for President. He is a brand new man and fit to lead a party with brand new prin- ciples. He seems to be a nice young man. He is not a Tillman nor an Altgeld. He has had his hair cut this year, and he hasa very pretty gift of speech. If he knew more, and had somewhat more age, and was not suffering so conspicuously from silver hys- teria, and stood on a reasonable platform, it would not be impossible for Eastern Demo- } crats to vote for him. s it is he is enthusi- \ astically in favor of the whole of the platform adopted in Chicago, He believes in the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, of the payment of United States bonds in silver, in forbidding the issue of bonds in time of peace, in the income tax, in the abolition of life terms, and in the other special peculiarities of the re- markable document with which he is associated. He believes that the restriction of the coinage of silver is the cause of most of the fiscal inconvenience that Americans have suffered during the last three years. He thinks it unmanly of Americans to wish to borrow money in London, and cowardly of 3 them after they have borrowed it to feel bound to pay back as good as they got. He thinks it pusillanimous for Americans to care about the maintenance of their country’s credit in Europe. He has other like beliefs, born of poverty and distress in the West, and shared, apparently, by a million ] or more of American voters. Well, Bryan! It might as well be you as another. LIFE is well pleased with you as the representative of what you stand for. We of the East believe that your theories are unsound and your intentions dis- honest. We don’t believe that the demonetiza- tion of silver has caused the hard times or that free silver coinage will cure them. On the contrary we think that free silver coinage at 16 to 1 without international agreement would play the mischief with the whole country, and make the great majority of us much poorer than we are now, you and your people just as much as the rest of us. We propose to thump the silver lining quite out of you, Bryan, not because we don't like you and your folks, but because self-preservation is the first law of nature. / Bryan and Sewall; Sewall of Maine. What a contri- vance for bringing to light what is bad a_ presidential convention is. Yesterday at St. Louis Hanna was raised up and published to the world. Now it is Bryan, Bryan and Sewall. It is going to be a great summer for Bryan. Bryan can talk and he will talk, Whether Sewall will have so good a summer is a question, for Sewall’s sphere of usefulness is not oratorical but fiscal. He has a bar'l. Poor Sewall. . . . IF Senator Hill sustains a few more overwhelming de- feats it is possible that he may become a formidable and respected figure in contemporary politics. He was beaten by a huge majority for Governor of New York and it didn’t do him any harm. He was turned down and sat upon at Chicago, and has gained greatly in repu- tation in consequence. Adversity is good for Mr. Hill. After the silver cloud rolls by he will still be alive. . . . Fe congratulates the Ancient and Honorabie Artillery Company of Boston on the monumental and unexam- pled success of its perilous trip to Eng- land. If one goes a long distance to pull fruit it is gratifying to find the fruit dead ripe and ready to come off at the touch. The Ancients have had that experience in a wonderful measure. It is impossible not to grin at the reception our Boston comrades have received, but they are worthy men, and certainly the spirit which is back of the attentions that have been showered upon them is no laughing matter. The desire of the British to show good will to the Americans is almost pathetic in its intensity. The expression of it is very welcome here and will not soon be forgotten. If the Ancients can manage to leave behind them as good an impression as was made by the Yale crew nothing better can be asked of them. : =e: comicbooks.com