Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31
WHAT BILLY BRYAN WON'T TALK
ABOUT.

OfaN
bought
A suit of clothes this many long, long
day.
Cheap as they he, they're dear to us who've
had no pay
A coming in this long time back,
Not since the closing of the mill, when |
work got slack
But Billy Bryan won't discuss this tariff |
bill just now,
Good reason why-Because he don't know
how.
Bill Bryan hadn't lost his tariff tongue in
Nor yet in '94. Then he was full of what
he'd do
For us poor working chaps. But now he's
naught to say,
Because he knows we'll prove, by facts to-
day.
That then he lied in saying free trade led
the way
To good times and prosperity. The kind
of hay
He'd feed us on, his popocratic donkey
wouldn't eat,
He'd buy all goods abroad because they're
cheap, and beat
Us out of work. Or else he'd pay us less,
Because he thinks high wages are pure
"viciousness"
The ad valorem rates he likes, because
They help the foreigners. and no known
laws
Have yet been found to stop their swear
ing short
To us than honest, open rates. That's
cert"
He wants free coal to shut our mines, and
turn
Our miners out of work. Where they're to
earn
A living, he don't say, nor care. Free iron
He rolls around, in his loquacious jaw,
As sure to keep the wolf from starving
labor's door.
Where all the mining chaps'll go, or what
they'll do, amt clear,
But, seems to me, quite likely that some'n
come round here.
And If they do, and want q job, and work
for lower pay,
Free iron and coal We'll rue for many
and many day.
| And how'll we get our carpets Free" If
we don't earn no tin?
| 1 think Bill Bryan's arguments are just a
trifle thin.
And how about the lumber chaps, from
Maine to western shore,
| Now Canadas stuffs' a coming in, their
chance is mighty poor
For extra work and extra pay. And even
| in the south
The lumberInen find t pretty hard to live
| from hhnd to mouth.
The Wilson bill was far too high, SO Billy
Bryan raid,
| For absolute free trade it was the battle
| Billy led.
He cut down all protection on glass and
| earthenware,
| On chemicals, and paints and oils, and
| everywhere he dare
On cotton goods and woolens, on flax and
| hemp and jute,
And every blessed time his free-trade argu-
ments he'd shoot
OFF, with platitudes and promises he never
meant to keep,
While paper, silks and books he knocked
all of blooming heap.
| He Sloried in the fact he'd made regular,
| wholesale raid,
One-fifth off oil the wages that working
| men We're paid.
Twas Bill Mckinley gave our wives free
sugar, don't you mind?
But the free-trade bill? Nit. That's of an
other kind.
1t taxed the poor mans sugar bowl and
helped the sugar trust
| It's always for monopoly-monopoly or
bust.
And how they slashed the farmers, re-
duced them twelve per cent
| All round. And then, on further slaughter
| bent,
They tried to cure" tobacco of its bad pro-
lection ways,
And mustered all our sheep to end their
last few days.
| Free wool won't hurt our sheep, was what
Billy Bryan said,
Free wool won't hurt them, not at all, when
all the sheep are dead.
Let's buy our sugar anywhere, away from
| home or farm,
Do anything and everything to bring the
farmer harm.
A hundred million dollars, or more, II sent
abroad Ia rold,
Might bring, l.; western silver mines, price
less we. u untold.
The stars g stripes he don't respect, a
ship he ) never seen,
On protection for our blessed flag, he's
very, very green.
He lied about the railroads, the rates they
charge on freight,
Let's give him stripes. make him see stars,
this STRIPPING out of date.
Our chance is coming quickly, boys, 1t
can't be here too soon,
Then lay him low, with one fell blow, at
November's young new moon.
"Tin-plate, don't believe that we can
make 1t here to-day"
Is what this youthful oracle had the i'm
pudence to say.
| The tin-plate liar had his fill in the fall
of 92,
And the dinner pail Is empty while we've
no work to do;
It's cost us more as, day by day. we've lost
our wage in gold,
Ten thousand times that extra price the
tin-plato liar told.
He thinks the cost of making goods the
same is everywhere.
This very youthful aspirant for the presi.
Dental chair.
He won't give us protection, he calls 1t q
Device"
A sort of highway robber." He'd rob us
In a trice.
McKiney's bill that gave us work and
good high wages, too.
He calls a vicious principle"-the genuine
free-trade view.
He says it "cursed this country" That's
just the kind of rot
: One hears at any corner from a cranky
hair-brained sot.
| Protection is conceived in greed" says
. Billy Bryan boy,
"And fashioned in inquity." Dear popo
cratic joy,
+ Why don't he teach his pard in Maine t
I shout that ships be free?
Instead of leaving him up there fash
ioned in iniquity,"
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