, 1896-10-24
Anderson. Ind, Sept. rs, 1896.
Mr.. Charles E. Flood, Moundsville, w.


ton in 1893 for the purpose OF makinl
a statement before the ways and mean
committee in reference to the tariff OF
window-glass. Some Of u men hat
a conversation with Mr.. Bryan aftel
the full committee had adjourned.
was not present all OF the time they
were talking tariff but l was presenI
and did hear Mr.. Bryan say, You are
public beggars." The answer wa
made: I'VE do not look upon it as
begging to ask for protection against
the Importation Of foreign product
He then said, Nevertheless. you are
public beggars." He left us with this
To all this l swear. Yours truly,
(Signed.) CHARLES BRYANT.
Subscribed and wo-n to before mt
this the 10Th day Of October, 1896.
EDMUND JOHNSON,
Clerk. Madison Circuit Court, Indiana.
At the time Of the above occurrence
Congressman Bryan was striving with
might and main to completely destroy
our system Of meeting government ex-
penses by import duties and substitute
ing them with a direct tax upon our
people. The direct tax became a law
and was set aside as unconstitutional.
While in congress Mr.. Bryan made
many u~tterances Of equal violence
against a protective tariff law. Among
other things he said, in answer to a
question by Congressman McKenna OF
California. March 16. 1896. that "the
protective policy Is similar to the pick
pocket policy Of putting a mans hand
into another mans pocket and extract
ing money from it." In the debate on
the floor of the house, upon the present
tariff law, Mr.. Bryan said that "our
present system is a vicious system,
created by the necessities OF war and
continued by favorltism."
Again he said that "the purpose OIL
the protective tariff was to transfer
money from one mans pocket to an
others mans pocket" In the same
connection Mr.. Bryan declared that a
tariff -iaE. revenue only could not be
levied without its authors so arranging
schedules as to make 1t q tariff for pro-
lection, and therefore he was opposed
to a protective tariff.
He believes in meeting all the ex-
penses of the government by a direct
tax upon the people and in having alb
solute free trade.
ITS DYING STRUGGLES.
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 24.-One misfortune
after another follows the Bryan gen.
eral management in its efforts to array
employees against employers and to pre-
| cipitate violence in the last days OF the
campaign. The attempt to have a free
silver parade in the streets of Chicago
next Saturday in defiance OF the refusal
of the chief of police to issue a permit
because he feared a riot, having been
finally prohibited by the upper court
and Chairman Hanna OF the republican
national committee having exposed the
plan Of the Bryan management to pre-
cipitate a conflict, create disorder and
other schemes have been set on foot to
arouse prejudice in labor circles. Bry-
an managers are now perfecting series
of charges against the sound money
and Mckinley management to the ef-
feet that the latter are dispatching men
all over the country to hire voters to
remain away from the polls on election
day. These charges are bold and ap-
parently specific in detail but they are
honeycombed with forgery and signed
by straw men. The closing days Of the
campaign are to be marked by almost
hourly sensations and charges Of the
most vicious and visionary character
from the popocratic national headquar-
tiers and laboring men and employers
r everywhere warned to be on their
guard and accept no statements of this
character as true. Reports from the
various places in Illinois visited by
Bryan this week prove c~onclusively
chat his campaign in this state has been
a fat failure. Sound money democrats
and republicans have appeared at ev-
cry point wearing yellow badges in such
numbers as to completely exhaust the
supply Of sound money colors, appeals
have come to Chicago from points Bry-
an will visit requesting the sound mon
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