Between the Democratic corporation and the Republican corporation it is absurd to claim that there is any difference.
Between Democratic manufacturers and Republican manufacturers no human being of intelligence will expect any difference or find any.
In other words, the millionaire beneficiaries of class legislation control both of the old parties, and the battle which they wage year after year, decade after decade, is a mere sham battle. The strategy of the corporations consists in keeping the people divided in order that the corporations may rule.
Believing this to be true, I am painfully impressed with the fact that Mr. Bryan is making a huge mistake.
The pity of it is, he has already made that mistake twice, and is now making it for the third time.
What is the mistake?
It consists of the effort to get radical reform out of a party which has always been dominated and always will be dominated by conservatives. When the currency was contracted just after the Civil War and ruin brought upon so many thousands of people in this country, it took the joint action of both the old parties to do it.
When the revenue taxes were taken off railroads, manufactures, insurance companies, bank checks and express companies, soon after the close of the Civil War, it took the joint action of both the old parties to do it.
When the Income Tax was lifted from the burdened shoulders of the rich, it took the joint action of both the old parties to do it.