Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-30
THE PLUTocRAT1c GUFFAw.
oRAToRY AND DEMAGoGiSM.
The Superb Addresses by W. j. Bryan Cons
trasted with McKinlcy,s Platitudes.

trasted with McKinlcy's Platitudes.
Contrast the superb addresses now
being delivered by William ]. Bryan
with the speeches made by William Nc
Knley. The following eloquent words
are a part Of the grafton delivered by
Mr.. Bryan at Bath, Me-, the home of Mr..
Sewall. This gem of craftsmanship and
rehetoric was delivered without studi-
GUS preparation and is the natural ex-
preston of great mind filled with a
sublime truth. The Springfield Repub-
lican, gold standard organ, pro
nounces it one of the most perfect ex-
amples of American oratory and states
nlanship: 81 am not old, but I am old
enough to have learned that the laws
of God are wiser than the laws Of man.
am old enough to have learned that
He who is infinite in power was also in
finite in love, and that He never gave to
mankind need without giving them
the means Of satisfying it. When lie
gave to man the necessity Of food, lie
covered the earth with His bounties,
and there has always been enough to
satisfy the hunger of man. And when
lie made water necessary for human ex-
istence He put the veins in the earth
and scattered the living springs along
WEAKNESS to creep over the limbs, He
sent sleep to restore strength. And
when He gave man a mind capable OF
developing, He filled the universe with
Ills wonders, which may well occupy
the thoughts of man.
''yylaen He gave mankind the desire
Of society and fashioned the channels
of trade, He stored away in the secret
places Of the mountains the gold and
silver suitable for worlds money.
Mankind found those precious metals,
dragged them from their secret re-
cesses, and for 5000 years they have
come down to US side by side, minister
ing unto the wants of man. may be in
error. If am, hope 1 may be led into
the better way. But, in my humble
Judgment, the man who would rob man
kind of his food and leave appetite, the
man who would corrupt the springs and
| leave thirst for water, the man who
| would rob one of rest or condemn his
mind to ignorance and superstition is
no more an enemy Of the race than the
man who, deaf to the entreaties of tho
poor, would strike down and out of Elk
istencc one of the precious metals given
by the Almighty Himself to satisfy the
needs Of the human race"
| Contrast this with what Mr.. McKin.
ley is say Ing to the coerced workmen
who are driven to Canton. Here Is O
fair sample Of what the goldbug press
calls orntory and craftsmanship.
Canton, Oct. 10, 1s96.-Maj. Mckinley
addressed 1900 workmen from tht
shops of Grindem G. Driver and created
wild enthusiasm when he said:
II believe in prosperity. believe thai
the American workman is entitled t.
the highest wages of any of the nations
Of the earth. wild applause.) be
lleye that good times should be restored
(1'errif'c and long continued applause
| We are the greatest people on the fact
If the earth. Ga voice, You bet we are,
and cheers fer Mckinley WELDON.
you, gentlemen, TO my house and thanh
you for your kind attention" (Wilt
and uncomfortable applause.)
| The market value of all our. farm
products Will not pay the interest OF
the country's mortgaged Indebtedness
and yet it is proposed to make permn
nent the gold standard, under which
the value Of farm products il constant
ly falling and debts made more difticul
sf payment.
Democrats are not opposed to gold
They favor the free coinage of boil
gold and silver-the same treatmen
OF both metals.