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. When Silver was struck down and the Gold Standard forced upon us, it took the joint action of both the old parties to do it. When our National Bank System was enthroned, and that terribly unjust system was chartered to prey upon the people, it required the joint action of both the old parties to do it. When Congress, over the protest of Thaddeus Stevens and others, obeyed the command of the Rothschilds (delivered at Washington personally by August Belmont, the father of the present Boss of the Democratic Party), and declared by legislative enactment that the banks should be paid in gold while the soldier at the front should be paid in greenbacks, it required the joint action of both the old parties to do it. There has never been a necessary act of Congress—necessary to the rule of the few, necessary to carry out the Hamiltonian ideal—that did not rest for support one foot on the Republican Party and the other on the Democratic Party. The man who does not know this to be true is unfamiliar with official records. The time has been when Mr. Bryan held the same opinions which I am expressing now. The time has been when he declared, in speech and writing, that there was no hope for reform in the Democratic Party. In 1896 Mr. Bryan, in the Omaha _World-Herald_, editorially asked: “_Can a National Convention harmonize the discordant elements of the Democratic Party? Impossible._