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WHAT BfiYM'S ELECTION
HEMS TO LABOR.
Only Qiiestioi b Whether Wage
Earners Wait Hard Times.
Dfcratic Miclca irare TfcMsaais to
the Street leftce MdWiHDiSi
Afafti K Iryss fc Sscccssfsl.
Ib the eddying fight, amid diu and roar
ef the fatten gnas of imperiaKwn and
militarism, tkere ia danger the people of
tab cosatry may lose sight of the fact
that the eleetioa of Mr. Bryan means the
overthrew of the protect ire tariff system
aad the introduction of a free-trade pro
gram into the policy of the government.
Oar people hare short memories and they
sometimes forget and need to be remind
ed. Mr. Bryan was a member of the Fifty-
bccond and Fifty-third Congresses and j
took a very nctire part at once upon ta!;-1
ing hi seat. In the Fifty-third Congress,
of which I wax a member, the Wilson bill
was under consideration. It was the pas
sage of that bill which plunged this coun
try into ruin. It does not make any differ
ence what people say about the origin of
hard timet:, the intelligent laboring man
of this country knows very well that he
ceased to earn a living for himself and
family because of the demoralization of
business caused by the repeal of the Mc
Kinley law and the passage of the Wilson
net. It was that which precipitated
wages to the lowest ebb that they have
liceu for many a year. It was that which
sent manning columns of hungry men
over the country demanding food. It was
the passage of that bill that made it pos
sible for any intelligent man to listen for
a moment to-thc speeches of such men as
Bryan in 1800.
On the floor of the House in the de
bates ob the Wilson bill Bryan took the
extreme free-trade ground. His speeches
are on record and the laboring men of
the country can find them and rend them.
He especially announced himself as in fa
vor of absolute free-trade upon many of
the leading products of the farm, notably
wool, which he insisted should be put
upon the free list of the Wilson bill.
When that bill was passed by the con
currence of the House in the six hundred
amendments of the Senate it was Bryan
and Hon. Jos. Bailey, a representative
from the State of Texas, who in their
ecstasy soiled the champion, who wns the
putative father of the law. the Hon. W.
I Wilson, of West Virginia, and carried
him cu Uieir shoulders in a triumphal pro
cession through the House of Representa
tives into the cloak-room una a saturnalia
of joy resounded from those premises. It
was Bryan who favored the introduction
of foreign material into this country free
of charge. It was Bryan who demanded
that all raw material such as wool, coal,
iron, and everything which entered into
the manufacture of goods, should be im
ported free, and it was his influence,
more than any other man's, that brought
about the terrible result with which we
arc so familiar.
It was Bryan' earnest demand that
put wool on the free list, and in that de
bate he declared that he did not care
whether it benefited or hurt the wooi
grower. It was Bryan who drove the
tariff on coal down to such an extent as
to flood the Eastern markets with coal
and stimulate the growth of the develop
ment of coal in the British possessions in
the northeast, and practically drove us
out of the seaboard markets with the soft
coal of Central States. It .wns Bryan
who advocated the low tariff on agricul
tural products and utterly refused to dis
criminate or allow discrimination in favor
of the products of the West and Middle
West. The laboring men of the country
and the farmers of the country, before
they plunge themselves into the vortex
that is being held out, should get Bryan's
record and read it. It is a very interest
ing chapter in the personal politics of tiiat
gentleman. The platform made at Kan
sas City is very adroit in laying the foun
dation for an enactment in Congress,
should Bryan be elected, satisfactory to
his history and record. Not daring to as
sail protection directly he came at it in
the platform which he personally con
ducted as follows:
"TsrifTlaws should' be amended by put
ting the products of trusts upon the free
list. We condemn the Dingley
tariff law as a trast breeding measure,
skillfully devised, etc."
That is the platform of the party de
nominated the Democratic .party and
whose Bomiantioa Mr. Bryan accepted.
The original Populist party, whose candi
date Mr. Bryan now is, I refer to the
Sioux Falls nomination, also places itself
on record in a similar attitude. So Mr.
Bryan, without any apology for the past,
steads upoa a series of platforms all
squinting in the direction of free trade,
aad ia the event of his election, with a
Congress subservient to his dictation, as
was the' convention at Kansas City, we
may look far 'just such legislation as pre
cipitated tilts -couticfr--1nto 'the 'condition
with which we are all familiar. It is
therefore very unwise for tho people of
the country to be led away front the two
great prepositions of Mr. Bryan's life,
the two prepositions for which he stands,
the two propositions which make np Bry
anism, to wit, free and unlimited coinage
of. silver, and free trade, and follow off
after the illusion and delusion of im
perialism. If the intelligent agriculturist will take
the prices of his products in 1806 snd
compare them with the present prices of
"the commodities, and then takethe Drng
'eVriaTlawrhe wfUaVonee discover to
what he is indebted" for the advaace in
prices. If the laboring man will take first
the price of his labor ia IBM and then the
price ef his labor in 1M0 aad then take
the table ef Imports of foreign manufac
tured goods in 1890 and back of. that time
aad then take the imports ef foreign
goods new. as' ahewa by the statistics of
the Treasury Department, he will at once
discover that the present advantage
which is accruing to him comes absolute
ly directly from the tariff law now ob the
statute books, of the United States. And.
then, if he desires old times, with old
prices and old short days of employment,
he had better vote for William Jennings
Bryan. "
But if the laboring man wants a con
tinuation of the present prosperity of the
United States, he certainly cannot, with
out inconsistency, vote for Bryan. An
other view of it. It the laboriBg man
take the present price of his labor and
take tho present prices of all the things
he buys upon which his family is sub
sisted snd supported and educated, and
then take the price of his labor of 1890
and the prices existing then, he will dis
cover, without any hesitation of intellect,
that preseut conditions are far better
than old conditions, that, waiving the lit
tle increase of cost, of living, the balance
sheet shows favorably to him. No man
can deny that and there Is bo man la the
United States, who has done more to
break down the interests of labor by pro
moting and cultivating unfair aad unjust
competition than has William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska. C. H. GROSVENOR.
Athens. Ohio, Sept. 17, 1900.
Prosperity fbr Wheat Growers-
When the Democrats were experiment
ing with free trade in the United States
the consumption of wheat was 3.41 bush
els per capita. That was in 1894. In
1899, under the McKinley administration,
the consumption was S.95 bushels per
capita. This is ample demonstration to
the farmer as to how prosperous manu
facturing interests bring prosperity to the
wheat grower.
ANOTHER
THUTYTMSOmMlES
8AVEI IT C1ILHEJ.
Chicago's Penny Savings Society has
only been established for a few years,
but its deposits have increased as fol
lows: Year ending June SO, 1898 $19,140
Year ending June SO, 1899 33,900
Year ending June 30, 1900 71,793
William C. Hollister, who is acting
president of the Chicago Penny Savings
Society, says that it is operated entirely
on a philanthropic basis and supported
by voluntary contributions. There are
only two salaried officers, young ladies,
at the office in the Schiller building.
This system is in operation only in half
the schools in Chicago, yet the amount
of money deposited by the children last
year averaged. 30 cents for .every child'
in' the Chicago school "district, and '60
cents per capita for all the children in
the schools in which the Penny Savings
Society is operated.
The weight of last year's savings was
thirty tons of American pennies, an enor
mous mass of money for the little ones to
put by in the banks within one year.
It will be noticed that the increase be
tween the amount deposited in 1898 and
1899 was 70 per cent. But between 1899
and the year just ended the increase -a
the amount of pennies deposited was con
siderably, more than 100 per. cent.
The children would certainly not be
able to save their 'pennies if their par
ents did net -have the money to give
them, and the exhibit made by the Chi
cago Penny Savings Society is certain
ly a straw showing that the people of
Chicago have experienced more and more
good times aad prosperity dnriag the Re
pnhllca'a administration of President .Mc-Kialey.
IftYII'S HIT SOD
MOKS AH FEUS.
Hk EzacctetiMs Basel uHiftstkit
Others W Parget.
Bryan argues that the Constitution ex
tends ia full by its own force to every
foot of land under the American flag.
lie hopes thai the American people won't
find out before November that the United
States courts, from the lowest to the
highest, have decided by overwhelming
and irresistible decisions that he is
wrong. ""
He is running on a platform declaring
for the fraud of free silver. He hopes
that the gold Democrats who hare re
turned to the Democratic -party "ob the'
issue of imperialism will not cease to
believe in his readiness to betray it.
He is running on a platform oa'which
imperialism Is said to be the paramount
issue. He hopes thst the silver men
won't take this portion of the platform
seriously.
He is running as a Democrat. He
hopes the Populists won't lay it up
against him. .
He is running as a Populist. He hopes
the Democrats will forget it.
He is running as a silver Republican.
He hopes that the silver Republicans,
mainly men of the West, won't give him
up because of their belief in expansion.
He is running as the avowed friend of
Aguinaldo. He hopes .that this won't
drive the American votes against him.
So every Democratic hope of 1800 has
error or humbug back of it.
PARAMOUNT
111! TIMES ITEMS
SEEIEP IT UTAH.
Adversity ef Others WHI Be Wefceae
News to Desecrate.
"Wanted Hard times items" is a
"Help Wanted" ad Bryan ought to put
in the newspapers to aid him in his la
borious search for instances of indus
trial and commercial distress. Probably
nothing would more please him just now
than to bear of workingmen in the coun
try whose dinner pails are not full.
In his speech in Milwaukee he gloated
over the fact that a dock man in New
Haven had discharged some employes,
that pig iron production is less now than
at the high point of last year, and that
Massachusetts cotton mill men are said
to be thinking of reducing wages.
After exploiting on these items, he said
exultingiy: "Even the prosperity that
the Republican party has boasted of has
not reached all the people, and even that
which we have is on the decline."
The reason Bryan is so anxious te
knowof misfortunes befalling working
men is because he fears that they will
perversely consider the maintenance of
their present, prosperity to be thepara-
eaount" issue with them instead of "im
perialism." If some great calamity could
oaJy happen' to 'the workingmen between
bow aad election time it would perhaps
make. Jt really sound plausible to say
thst" ''there Is ao-prosperity bow; there
fore maiBteaaaee of prosperity is not the
issue, so yen caa vote for me aad Agin-aside."
A CI1LLMM Tt
SIIATtt rTniUIW.
A Cawhay teseats the Ittiswatlei
Maie Against Cd. tsesevdt
Sioux Falls, S. D., Is Senator Petti
grew's home, and the Senator said ia a
recent speech there that Col. Roosevelt
did not lead his regiment at San Juaa
Hill, bat was six miles in the rear. At
the recent Roosevelt meeting in the town
many of Col. Roosevelt's old regiment
csme to greet him, some of them trav
eling quite a distance, and one rough
rider came 150 miles. This particular
cowboy heard of Senator Pettigrew's ut
teraace for thefirst time while in Sioux
Falls, aad mounting his horse -he woutd
ride to a street corner and issue this chal
lenge: "Ladies and Gentlemen I have heard
thatthere are people in this towa who
say Col. Roosevelt was away In the rear
at San Juan and did not lead his regi
ment in the charge that was made that
day. I was in that regiment and follow
ed Col. Roosevelt up that hill. My cap
tain -was killed and several of. my com
pany. I saw that fight. I wa in it.
Whoever says that Col. Roosevelt did not
lead his regiment in that charge is a liar,
a scoundrel, a coward and dare not tell
me so to my face."
Then he would wait a minute, ride to
the next block and repeat the same chal
lenge. The incident will keep Senator Petti
grew quiet for awhile. He may be kept
busy in explaining what he meant.
ISSUE
Mistaken.
He said: "You shall not toss
Mankind upon a cross
Of shining gold."
"Nor press his brow with thorns,
Nor troad upon bis corns
When he is old."
He said: "No fires will burn.
No wheels, no spindles turn.
Without my hand
Is at the nation's helm;
Dictator of the realm
Chief of the band."
He said "the metal white
Is strictly in the light
(I lugged it in).
We're on free silver bent.
Without the world's consent
And it will win."
The voters heard him shout.
Then straightway went about
To give him fits;
They said "we want no stuff
Half money and half bluff.
A dollar worth four bits."
It tookjiis breath away
When the people had their say
In N-O V.
But he's got his second wind.
Thinks he'll not again be skinned;
Wait and see.
C. L. FRAZER.
Highland. Cat.
Cotton Consaunpllon Doable.
The cotton consumption in the United
Ststes in 1894 wss 15.91 pounds for ev
ery man, womsn snd child. Good times
brought by the McKinley administration
have raised the per capita consumption
to '27.14 pounds. The people dress bet
ter aad buy more articles made from cot
ton than ever before in the history of
the country.
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;3 A Story of Country Life. Kg
Jf BY ALMA L. PARKER, GUIDE ROCK, NEB. jS
CHAPTER lY.-iCoatiaaed.)
"Certainly; 1 want good times, but if
we got them I'd never thank a Repub
lleaa administration for It."
"Suppose Bryan bad been elected and
times Improved, would yon thank him
forlt?"
"Indeed, I would."
"Then you- are partial, Simon. Why
not think if such were the case that
It was a Popnlist scheme to deceive the
people?"
"Because Bryan's an honest man."
"How do you know?"
"How do I know anything? My paper
says he's honest."
"But how do you know It's the
truth?"
"See here. How do you know he's
dishonest?"
"I don't. Neither do I know he is
honest. I am not personally acquaint
ed with the man, but I do know that
he has charged outrageous high pay for
making speeches over the country. It
seems to me that a man who hates the
rich, and so dearly loves the poor.
would not care to accumulate wealth so
fast, taking the dollars out of the labor
er's pockets. I tell yon. Simon, if
times get better, you ought to change
your politics."
"Just wait 'till they get better. You'll
hare to wait 'till doomsday for times
to improve under Republican rule."
Political Simon then walked into the
store and placed his basket of eggs on
the counter.
"What are eggs worth to-day?" he
inquired of the clerk.
"Two cents more than they were be
fore election," the clerk quickly re
sponded. "Well," said Simon, who knew the
clerk was Republican, "you needn't be
so d d glad to tell it. I see that Re
publicans like yourself are dreadful
haughty because prices are a little bet
ter, but you'll grin the other way when
this little McKinley wave breaks."
"Mr. Grey, whenever this wave, as
you call-it, breaks, it will turn into
foam of prosperity. Just notice."
"How easy," said Simon, "some peo
ple are deluded. I see some fellows out
there on the street a-shakin gold coin.
I expect they inherited the pieces as
an heirloom In the family, and they
have been kecpin' them all these years
to get a chance to show 'em now, to
prove that nil our gold isn't in England
or the Government vaults."
"Why, Mr. Grey, everybody can have
gold now. Confidence is restored, and
gold will once more circulate. Just take
a check to the bank, and see if the
banker won't cash it in gold."
Political Simon doubted very much
what the clerk said, and resolved with
in his own mind to go back home and
bring two or three hogs to town, if they
weren't very fat. just to prove in his
own mind that the clerk was mistaken.
Sooner than Cynthia expected, Simon
came home. During the campaign It
had been his custom to stay so long in
town that she was surprised to see him
return in an hour.
"Cynthia," he said, as he entered the
house, "I hare decided to sell two or
three hogs while this McKinley wave
lasts, for no tellin' what they'll be
worth after a while."
"What did you get for the eggs?"
"Two cents more than before. You
make the hens hurry and lay before
they go down."
"Maybe times ain't goin' to be as bad
as predicted," said Cynthia.
"Now, Cynthia, women as a rule have
weak minds, and are easily influenced,
and I want yon to be on your guard.
Better prices for a few days is the bait
these goldbugs set to catch people on
their hook, but I tnist none of my fam
ily will bite."
"I suppose you are right, Simon, but
time will prove all things. Accordin
to your brother Ezra, success of the
Popnlist ticket would not bring any
benefits."
"Cynthia, don't you ever mention
Ezra's idea of things. It has made me
enough trouble without alluding to It.
In an Indirect way, Ezra's Republican
Ism is the cause of my sore head. If be
knew how I have suffered for him, for
the honor of the Grey family. I have an
Idea that he'd turn Populist."
"Maybe we had better write and tell
him then."
"Great heavens, no! If I'd have licked
the daylight out of Harrington, as I
first Intended to, it might do, but as
he's able to be up and around it would
be better not to refer it. Just let hard
times prove bis mistake to him. He'll
be a Populist mind, body and soul
'fore many years roll by."
Simon and his wife continued to talk
for some time, and then Simon went
back to Boonsville with his hogs, re
turning in the evening with a $20 gold
piece.
"We'd better keep It for a curiosity,"
said Simon.
"And bogs are a better price, too, are
they, father?" inquired Vlnnle.
"Yes, everything Is Improving to de
lude people."
It seemed to' Vlnnle a very pleasant
delusion, and four months biter It
seemed to her to be Listing a long
while; that the McKinley wave must
be a large oae, for times continued to
Improve.
CHAPTER V.
The Road to the Poorhouse Missed
Inauguration day had passed and
Wm. McKinley of Ohio was President
of the United States.
Vlnnle Grey bad acted In the capacity
of County Superintendent of Public
Instruction since the 1st of January
and ahe was delighted with her sew
work and Warble County was proud of
Political Simon's daughter.
On this particular morning, Vlnnle
was alone In her office looking over her
morning's mall. There were business
letters for her to answer; ah, yes, and
there was another letter. It was from
her Boonsville lover. How It filled her
heart with joy! It seemed to her the
happiest morning of her life. She felt
that .she had a thousand things to be
thankful for. Glen Harrington re
turned her love; her folks at homo
were beginning to see better times;
prices were getting better for farm
ers' products. "Yes," she meditated,
"there are a great many things to be
thankful for." She had great faith in
Republican times, and she believed
that in two years, at least, her father
would be able to pay the mortgage on
their home, without her assistance.
If he wasn't able, she would take a
part of her salary and pay It for him.
The mortgage would never lie allowed
to take the old home. As she sat in
her office, meditating over the pros
pects of the future, there came a tap
at the door, and then it flew open, and
Viunie was surprised to see her father
standing in the dooiway.
"Good morniug, Vinnie. How are
you?" he said, taking her hand.
"Very well, thank you, father. How
are the folks at borne?"
"We're all well. I thought I'd come
down to the county sent this morning
to see you on a little matter of busi
ness." "Very well; what Is it?"
"Why. Bob Wright, down there In
Boonsville, has seme calves he want
to sell, and I want to buy them.
Though extremely anxious, I havn't
the money to buy them with. Thought
maybe I could get the money from you.
I don't know as there's any money la
'em, or in anything else, ns far as that's
concerned, but Joe Harrington is
count In' on buyiu these calves, and
that's the reason I want 'cm. I've been
n-Iookiu all this time for a chance to
get my revenge on that roan, and now'
my chance. My! but he'll get mad. If
I step in ahead of him, and knock him
out of the bargain by gettin' those
calves he's leen calculating to buy."
"You shall have the money," said
Vinnie, rather amused at her father'
method of revenge. "How much will
you need?"
"Well, there's ten of 'em and ha
wants $7 apiece. It's really an out
rageous high price, but I won't stop
for that. Why last spring a man
couldn't get a bit over $3 for such
calves."
"Maybe they are worth more than
they were then."
"Well, the Republicans say they are.
but I don't think so. We ain't bavin'
a bit better times than we had. in spite
of their predictions. I've been think
in' of writing to Ezra and telling him
that he is a false prophet."
"Have you received any letters from
Uncle Ezra lately?"
"Yes; we received one just the other
day."
"What did lie write?"
"I don't remember exactly what was
in the letter. One thing that disap
pointed me is the fact that he's still
Republican. Every letter I get I ex
pect to hear that he's turned Populist,
but so far my expectations have been
in vain. He wrote that he thought
prices would get better for the farmer.
He said if I wished to make money
now was the time to speculate. Buy
all the calves and other stock that I
could, and hold them for higher prices."
"So you are taking Ids advice?"
"No, Vinnie; I am going to buy Bob
Wright's calves for the express pur
pose of outwitting Joe Harrington.
What does Ezra know about running a
fnrm? He's lived nearly all his life in
a city, and is green as a squash, when
it comes to country life."
"His judgment In good, though, on
almost every subject."
"It is on some subjects, to be sure,
but still he doesn't know everything.
He has his failings like all other hu
man beings."
"To change the subject," said Vin
nie. "have you planted your corn yet?"
"Yes, we just finished planting a few
days ago."
"How does the wheat look?"
"It looks splendid, but I don't expect
to get much out of it, for silver's going
down right along, and Bryan said
whenever silver went down wheat
went with It, or when silver went up
wheat went up 'also.
"I do wish Bryan had been elected,
for if we had free coinage of silver,
he said sliver would rise in value,
therefore wheat would rise.
"If wheat would be worth what it
ought to be, there would be a good
prospect for me to pay the mortgage
with it. I suppose now wheat will
tumble, and we-all know it was low
enough last year."
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