The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29
BY Their Fruits Ye Shall Know
Them.

Canton Ohio Repository, OF thu
18th inst:
In a speech at Poughkeepsie
New York. Monday morning. August
II, AZ telegraphed the Repository
Candidate Bryan was accosted by q
man in the crowd with. How are
you for the workingman?" Mr.
Bryan hesitated and held his index
finger poised as he answered:
well you take what have said and what
have done, consider il very carefully, ant
then judge as between our cause and that ri
our opponents, Candidates represent only
the policies of their parties and therefore il l.
not for me to tell you what is your duty 1t is
for YOU to study the issues aud am glad you
are doing that: and when you find out what
your duty Is, do it,
Well, we will take what you have
done, for actions often speak
louder than words.
On April I, 1892, Mr.. Bryan, you
voted for the house bill, by Mr..
Springer, Of Illinois, to place wool
on the free list, and to reduce the
duties on wooden goods. This was
against the interest of northern
farmers, laborers and manufacturers.
On April 8, 1892, Mr.. Bryan, you
voted for the house bill to admit free
of duty, bagging for cotton, ma
chinery for manufacturing bagging,
cotton ties and cotton gins. This
was in the interest of southern
planters, and against the interest of
northern manufacturers and work
ingmen. Your votes on both bills
We're wrong, but if by any argument
you should seek to justify your ac-
ton in one case it would condemn
you in the other. How dare you
discriminate in favor of the southern
cotton grower and against the
northern wool grower? And by
what reasoning do you justify your
assault upon the work and wages of
northern workmen in either case?
Then, Mr.. Bryan, on July 5, 1892,
you voted in the Fifty second con-
gress for the house bill to reduce the
duty on tin plate, and taggers tin,
and to repeal paragraph 200 of sec
ton one Of the Mckinley law. ade-
quately protecting that new and
promising American industry. Bv
this vote you expressed your will
ingness to throw every American
laborer in this industry out of en-
ployment, or reduce the level OF his
wages and condition to that of his
poorly paid Welsh competitors-Is
it upon this that you so confidently
ask judgment?
On May =, 1892, Mr.. Bryan. you
moved to suspend the rules of the
house OF representatives. of which
YOU were then member, and pass
your bill to place binding Irvine on
he free list. Here is another ar
icle Of American manufacture that
you were willing should be made
abroad, at the expense of American
Will you kindly tell
hem why? If you claim your act
vas for the benefit of the American
armcr, will You explain to them
Why binding Irvine is no cheaper
low than it was before the passage !
If the Wilson law. Is it not true
hat this legislation was clearly in !
he interest of European manu-
acturers and laborers?
On July 8, 1892, Mr.. Bryan, you
oted for bill to reduce the duty
N lead ore and lead dross. as i'm
'osed by the Mckinley law, and dis
in favor of lead ores con
aiming silver In whose interests
vas this legislation? Clearly not
n favor of the American miner, and |
certainly not beneficial to any
american interest, unless possibly |
o that OF the owner of silver but !
ion. Why is it that you uniformly
avored, as member of the Fifty
econd and Fifty-third congress,
very member calculated to reduce
he wages of American working
men? Why did you steadily vote to |
emove the tariff from the products I
If American farms? 1t is strange |
of duty to America that |
promotes the prosperity of the peo-
Die of foreign countries at the ex-
)ense of our own. Is it because YOU |
avor cheap money and cheap labor
10Th, that you have always so zeal |
,usly favored free trade and free
silver? Your actions indicate that
you would reduce our wage-earners
md agriculturalists, along with our
to the low standard of Mex
co and China, regardless of the loss
md degradation. to the United
States.
Upon this record you pompously
proclaim that you are willing to
lave our workingmen Judge as be-
ween your course and that of your
Perhaps you forget
hat they do not intelligently in
'estigate, read and reflect, and
;now how to use the ballot at the
,olls next November. II you were
for president in England or
Belgium you would have better
laims for favorable verdict at the |
lands of laboring people. You have |
ided them. But never Americans. !