River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-09-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

UThe republicans of Nebraska will
beat William ]. Bryan In his own ward,
county, congressional district and
state.-John NJ. Thurston, of Nebraska.
DAll the while Sewall looked down
on the crowd, as much as to say:
organs voice is magnificent. of
course. But you ought to see my bar
rel."-Wichita Eagle.
ryRepresentative Mercer, secretary
Of the republican congressional com
mittee, said he had read Bryan's speech
through, and regarded it as a docu-
ment which would do the republican
cause good.
OWorkingmen wish their wages in
sound money, producers wish the pay
for their products in sound money, and
only those who do no honest work are
willing to accept payment in dishonest
dollars.-San Francisco Call.
GyIt is a significant fact that the
four states whose delegates bolted the
republican convention at st. Louis
represented $59,000,000 of the sec, 000,-
900 total silver production of the coun-
1 try, according to the mint statistics of
Iowa dsuluSlO IOsI.
OProtection is the panacea for the
l Ills that trouble us. Set more mills at
work and the mipts will have to work.
| Lessen the number of mills and you
diminish the need of minis For mon
ey flows through the channels of in
/ dustry.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
DMr. Bryan is beaten. This predic-
| ton may as well be recorded now as at
some later day. The candidate him
self furnishes the complete assurance of
I its fulfillment. He has come to the
first great test of the campaign and he
las wretchedly failed to meet it.-N. Y.
/ Times (Dem.).
UThe mine owners and the bullion
Spectators get rich out of the immense
profits of free coinage, but where will
/ the poor laborer, the mechanic, the saw
ings bank depositors. the pensioners,
the millions of holders of small
amounts of stocks, bonds and trust
funds come in, when they and the pur-
chasing power of their incomes shrunk-
en- almost one-half?-Detroit Tribune.
DTne agricultural statistics will
show that a majority of the farmers
of this country do not produce wheat,
but all of them have TO have bread.
The advocates of silver are promising
to double the price of wheat, which
would carry with it corresponding adj
vance in the price of -four. How would
the farmers who do not grow wheat and
the millions of others who must have
bread like to pay double the price that
49,. 49,, ,,<,.- 30 x;,rr Cor noY,r or.;u
Vile Courier-Journal (Dem.).
rTMr. Bryan makes a mistake in ask
ing the suffrages of American voters on
his simple personal assurance that
''free silver coinage" as proposed will
certainly give US bimetallism. Conced-
ing the possibility that he may be in err
ror in this opinion, he should seek to
answer the more pertinent question:
VIII silver recommendation make for the
greater prosperity of the people of the
United States? And on this Mr.. Bryan
says nothing.-Chicago Record Qnd.).
fUIf Mr.. Brysn's reputation as boy
orator" is gone, not much is left of him.
II was that that he traded on. But he
cannot go on through the campaign
warming over two or three old
speeches, nor can he deliver such a
feeble succession of utterances as at
tended his journey from Lincoln to
New York without losing his hold on
his constituents. The misfortune of the
situation for him is that having taken
him as an orator his political support
ers win insist upon cratory from him,
while every new venture which he
makes in that direction viii furnish a
new demonstration of the shallowness
ct his prstsnsiona.-Boston Journal