The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24
THE REAL SUFFERERS.
Where the LII Effects OF the Bryan Policy
NouIt rail-.

There have been countries where the
rich nave been comfortable and the poor
wretched. France I'd come 10 be such
a country when tbs revolution brooks
out there u little more than century
ago. There have also been countries
VI mere there was nearly enough OF the
comforts oil life TO go around, and whetc
the great majority OF the population
found the material ingredients OF hui
man happiness within their reach. The
United States has been such country
most Of the time since ii became ma
ton, and ii it is not quite such country
to-day, il expects TO be so once more US
soon AS the effects of temporary foilies
and errors have passed away.
What has never been known on earth
is a country where the poor are com
Portable and happy while the rich are
wretched. There is no record in his
tory of such u land as that. Religion
can conceive of il; indeed there are a
good many people who have Il lively ex-
pectation of reaching some such place
some time, but it will not lie on this
earth or i'm this life. The rule here is
that where there is suffering which is
due to the lack of material commodities
or to unfavorable material conditions,
the poor get u deal the worst of it.
There is a sentiment. which is more
or less prevalent in this country this
year, and which is being carefully cul-
tivated by some dishonest politicians,
that the arrangement of business and
the collapse of credit which would fol-
low the triumph of the free silver party
would help the poor by the same process
by which it hurt the rich. If ii did i.
would do what is contrary 10 all human
experience. 1t would undoubtedly do
permanent harm to many well-to-do
people, whose holdings would be wrest-
ed from them by the cxigencies of panic,
but in the end the people who would
suffer most would be the poor, who
would feel the effects of bad times first
and longest, and the people who would
profit most would be shrewd rich men
with ready money to buy, very cheap,
property which their poorer brethren
could not hold. The men who profit
by wreck are the men who can drag
iii the wreckage, The nen-outside Of
the silver mine owners-who would
eventugfly profit by silver coinage are
rich men, most of whom are fighting
silver Coinage with all their might. The
men why would suffer most from ii are
the wase-earners--thc- men whom
Debs and Altgeld and Bryan himself
are trying to array against honest
inoney."--Harper's Weekly.
DAccording TO Organizes there was
but one cause for the depression in the
price of wheat and other farm products,
and that was "the crime of 1873" But
after the great crime" wheat was up
and now it goes booming, and silver
does not. Why does not the great states
man tell the American farmers why?
lie is now in wheat growing region,
and II will be an interesting subject.
Tell us, Mr.. Bryan. whether the whent
bulls have scented Bryan victory and
sent wheat a-kiting Chicago Inter
Ocean.
There is no necessity of a working
man voting for dishonest dollar. II
he wishes to accomplish what q 33-cent
dollar would. let him simply ask his
employer TO reduce hi. sagcs a. pea
cent--N Y. Herald.