Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-16
BRYAN AGAINST WORKERS.
He Favors Every MISUNDERSTANDING
Feature of the German Bill.


Feature of the German Bill.
Although several times challenged
since he took the stump, William Jen-
ningS Bryan will not have anything to
say upon the tariff. The only question
worthy of consideration for a moment
he tells the people, is the silver question
If Mr.. Bryan had not made a record
upon the TARIFF he had not stood with
Wilson as an ultra free-trader-if he had
not declared that a protective tariff is
indefensible, he could evade the issue
and fool the people.
Mr.. Bryan, upon the tariff question, is
committed. is known to be for every
business paralyzing feature of the Cor
man bill and against every protective
feature that was added to it in the Sen
ate. There were 600 amendments made
to the bill which he was opposed to and
which he is opposed to today.
He and the leaders in the silver
movement are the men who put their
foot upon the measure presented in Con-
gress for the relief of the government,
and by their acts they have checked the
confidence that Republican victory
aroused in November, 1894, and are re-
sponsible for the idleness of 100000
additional men and the holding up of
every projected enterprise in the country
until money lenders and contractors can
find safe basis to do business upon.
William Jennings Bryan and those as
sociated with him refused to aid the
government, they have unsettled the
money market, they have decreased Ia
Dor and have increased the distress of
the people; and they are making misrep-
RESERVATIONS to the people in favor of a
class of citizens when they say that free
coinage is a panacea for all the peoples
woes.
Labor cannot get a dollar it does not
work for. The men who take the white
metal from the mines only receive the
small proportion of the product repre-
scented by a days pay Why then should
labor vote for policy, which the advo-
Gates of it tell them will initiate prices
and give them 4 poorer dollar than they
have today?
Labor may not know the difference in
dollars and think this dollar-talk is al a
scare-a buncombe. 1t can know the
difference if it will. The laborer knows
there was a time when it took eight
days work to obtain a ton of coal and
there has been times since when eight
days work would buy nearly two tons
of coal. The fall in the price of coal
shows the increased purchasing power
of money. The reduction in price of
all articles shows the same increase,
There was never time when dollars
would buy more than they buy today.
You may say there was never a time
when they were harder to get.
The policy of the Democratic party
which increases the work in foreign
mills, and decreases work or entirely
closes American mills, which increases
imports and decreases exports, which en-
courages fraud, increases foreign compe-
tition, destroys trade, depreciates values
and puts hundreds of thousands of
American wOrkmen out of work, lessons
the clearinghouse transactions of the
country S13, 600 100000 in less than two
years and increases the national debt
in less than four years more than $685.,
100000 makes dollars hard to get.
1t is a restoration of confidence that
is first needed condition which in
vites capital to enter upon new enter
prises and which makes it safe for
capitalists to loan money and for con-
tractors to bid for contracts. The way
to this is a vote for sound money.
Then the mills, the lumber camps, the
quarries, the mines, the trades will be-
gin to show activity, the money now
unoccupied will begin to circulate, the
people will find employment, and dollars
will be easier to get
1t is the restoration of the conditions
of 1S92-the starting up of the mills
not the mints-that will benefit and bless
labor and give the United States a genu-
inc boom. A vote for Mckinley and
Hobart is vote for these better condi-
tons and better times.-NorWich Conn.,
Bulletin.