The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-03

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During Thirty Years Of Protective
Tariff Oppression. Ills story, Told
In 1890, When tie had Tariff Bill to
Pass, sounds Vastly different from
the One He tells To-day-Then the
/ Farmers were Suffering from Low
Prices which lie Said His Bill Would
Raise, But They Did not Rise and so
Long as the Depressing Influence Of
the Gold Standard is Felt, They viii
Not Rise Bismarck Testimony.
i DOVER, Del, September 2l.-Can-
didate Bryan began his speech max
| ing in Delaware this afternoon by
addressing large crowd which had
assembled at the Fair Grounds to
hear him. Excursion trains brought
many people from the lower part Of
Delaware and the eastern shore OF
Maryland.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
If things are good, then there is
no reason why we should make any
change in legislation. Ii our pres
emit condition is satisfactory. then
we ought to leave it alone and not
make a change. No one can advo-
cate any kind of remedial legislation
except on the theory that there is
something that needs remedying.
Our opponents confess the condi-
ton, and when tell you that you
cannot remedy the present condition
except by financial legislation, our
opponents tell us that the trouble is
in the tariff question, and that if we
could just have more tariff, then
times would get good again. want
to read you an extract from speech
made on last Saturday by the Re
publican candidate for President at
Canton. He said: Under the Re
publican protective policy we enjoy
ed for more than thirty years the
most marvellous prosperity that has
ever been given to any nation of the
world. We not only had individual
prosperity, but we had national
prosperity"
Now there IS statement made
within week by the presidential
candidate on the Republican ticket,
pointing back for thirty years. from
1860 to 1890, and telling the people
that during the period we enjoyed
the most marvellous prosperity OF
any nation in the world and that we
had both individual prosperity and
national prosperity. / want to show
you how distance lends enchantment
to the view. want to show you by
this same witness that after thirty
years of this kind of policy the farm
ers OF this country were not prosper
Gus If YOU VIII take the report filed
with the Mckinley bill ON the six
teenth of April, 1890, you will find
the words which | wish to quote:
THAT there is widespread depres-
sion in this industry to-day cannot
be doubted" speaking Of agricul-
ture That is what the presidential
candidate said when he deliberately
wrote the report and filed it with
his proposed legislation. "That there
is widespread depression in this in
dustry to-day cannot be doubted
| Applause. Again in that same re
port he said; Zone Of the chief
complaints now prevalent among our
farmers is that they can get no
price for their crops at all common
surate with the labor and capital in
vested in their production. That
is what he said after thirty years Of
the kind of policy which the candi-
date of the Republican party says
will bring you prosperity. Let me
read again: 1--WE have not believed
that our people, already suffering
from low prices, can or will be salts
fed with legislation which will result
in lower prices. No country evel
suffered when prices were fairly re-
munerative in every field of labor.
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policy he tells you that the people
are suffering from low prices and
that no country ever suffered wher
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