The San Francisco call., 1896-10-08

power, he will continue to give the job to the
I foreigner and to impoverish this country by
sending its money across the ocean to pay the
| laborer in foreign lands
But these are not all. Mr.. Bryan proposes to
fQrtner help the foreigner by coming his sill.
yer free OF charge and at the expense of the
! United States and at the risk OF any ruin and
| disaster it may bring to our people.
! And 1t is this last act of kindness to the for
elgner which seems to please you, my old Re
| publican friend, the most.
You say should call to mind that the only
Tree trade which Bryan has advocated during
ane present campaign is the free and unlimited
evidences of the shrewd politician displayed
Dy MI Bryan In that he seems to have forgot
Ten MS own history and TO nave either for.
gotten all the sound protection teachings OF
lnat immortal founder OF Democracy, Thomas
yeHerson, or he is trying to kick mp so much
dust by his loud cry for silver as to hide his
own history and his real principles from pub
But while l am carefully watching all Mr..
Bryan says in this campaign 1 have not for
gotten that when in Congress in debate with
congressman McKenna of California he de-
clared that the policy of protection to Ameri-
can industries, which you and / have always
belleyed in and have always advocated, was
Ike the policy OF the pickpocket and robber.
L have not forgotten that on the goth OF
March, 1892. when our Senator Perkins was
defending the sugar bounty in the interests OF
the production of our own sugar, Mr.. Bryan
declared tnat he was opposed to the sugar
bounty and also 10 all kinds of protection and
went on to say: 1.-The difference between a
protective tariff and bounty, is simply dif-
ference in form. 1t is the difference between
the man who meets you on the highway,
knocks you down and takes what you have,
and The man who steals into your house In the
night while you are asleep and robs you of
your treasure And if l had to make choice
OF the two, l should consider the highway rob-
Der the more honorable" And willie Iremem-
notaware that the man who in Congress placed
you and on the level with the pickpockets
and highway robbers, has met with any change
of heart in his estimate OF us.
The only change have been able to observe
is in your strange ard unaccountable love for
the man who has publicly declared that you
have been pickpocket and robber ell your
life.
1t is not alone the fact that this political
demagogue has insulted you and myself and
that he tramples on the wisdom of Jefferson,
Washington and the long line of protectlonists
who have made the pages of our National his
tory bright and glorious by their words of
wisdom and patriotism, but the fact that this
political curiosity still entertalns the same
ideas and adheTes to the same principles so
often announced by him that makes me un-
willing by my vote to aid him in his ambition
10 ride roughshod over the wisdom of the ages
and the best interests OF the people.
While you are talking about my jnconsis-
tency, how is it with the Beef II you desire
any further reasons why am against Bryan
and in favor OF Mckinley, might say that
while Mckinley represents the embodiment of
all the great political principles which you
and have advocated all our lives, Bryan not
only represents the reverse, but he is the rep
resentative of a polii cal conglomeration
which is only huge bubble which arose from
the froth of wild political speech made by
himself in Chicago, and which, although
gilded by q silver coating, just as soon as it
rises high enough SO that the light of American
intelligence strikes it, will dry up and explode
like any other bubble.
He represents that Demo-Populistic de-
formity which was born when he was nomi-
mated in July last, and which will die when
he is defeated at the ballot-box in November
next. 1t had no ancestry and it will have no
posterity.
With this brief statement of some of the
reasons why am for Mckinley and against
Bryan, am, very respectfully,
Z. v. SPENCER.