The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-09
MASON BASTES BRYAN.
Illinois Senator Speaks to Iowa
Republicans.
Dissects the Chenp Money Cham
pion's Argument and Humorous
~ Pounds the Popocrat's
Platform.

The"prosperity hosts" of Iowa turned
out at Waterloo, Wednesday, Septem-
Der 80, to inaugurate their campaign in
the Third district. Among the list OF
celebrated speakers was Senator Will
liam f. Mason, of Chicago. who won the
interest of the assemblage with pun
gent arraignment of Popocrat Bryan
and his platform, in which he said:
"All progress in civilization depends upon
our willingness to profit by the experience
OF others. and the greatest hindrance 10
civilization comes from the stupid "e-
mand for a personal lesson In experience
.My good friend Mr.. Bryan. VINO SPOKE
here yesterday. and whom am TO foi,o"
to-day land promise you to do so, with due
respect for his opinion and for yours), was In
congress once. He had theory as To free
trade, tariff for revenue. tariff reform, etc
You rave read his speeches. He assured US
the WAY 10 help labor here ras TO BUY the
product of lator in other countries: mat
the way to make money plenty here was to
snrrl ia IN utE-r countries that the way to
helm tlr fhrf,icr here was TO fix his Amer
;can customers - they would leave the
shops AMI become the farmers competitors
instead of his customers. He and MS party
were in power. We pleaded with him ana
his party to re ad history: we called atten.
untried theory. but that its trial had oeen
often had. and that panic and disaster fol-
lowed its every trial. But, like the boy IN
tho liz, ksnlith shop. who wouldn't believe
the rcd-hot iron would burn, so Mr.. Bryan
and his party cried: Give us lesson IN
experience. Let us try the hot iron; we don't
believe your statement Of history, we
want none of your experience or others.
The American people have insisted on a
lesson in experience about every genera
tion. and they gave to Mr.. Bryan and his
party chance to experiment.
4 Costly Lesson.
"They took the lesson-l mean we took
the lesson. for If Mr.. Bryan could nave
taken the lesson in experience in his nome
IN NGhras ka II would have been different
but we took the lesson with him, and may
the father of nations keep us from ms
medicine in the future. Labor idie ana
starving while your granaries were tdlI'
Small and great merchants failing Tor the
want of a little ready money, while capital
hid it's shining light under the bushel OF
safety deposit vaults and bureau drawers
Banks to;tering and falling for want OF
confidence of the people in them. For the
first time in the history of our country tree
soup houses after the manner OF free trade
England, were established in our fair land OF
plenty. That lesson of experience cost
us more than the civil war. and you andyour
children are to pay more than $JV0,WO ,otO Tor
that additional lesson In experience, when
was piled upon you in times OF peace.
Last fall our friend Bryan dropped the
free trade talk. and sald Free silver Is me
thing. Please, oh, good people, give me
one moro lesson in experience From one
end of the country TO the other he cried,
In substance: I havs new idea: the way 10
make money plenty is to make 1t out or
cheaper stun: we don't care for quality,
put it Is quantity we want II wheat Is
low, IL is because silver is low. they al
ways go up and down together. Make the
dollar cheaper and have twice as many
Of them: cut the yard stick in two and
have twice as many yards make the
bushel measure one-half as big, and have
twice as many bushels He promised 10
make us all rich. TO pay all debts. and wipe
away our every tear, II we would only
give him one more lesson in experience
The people heard him in his thousand
speeches-or rather his one speech thou
sand times, and they said: We are just
now having one lesson in experience al the
special request of Brother Bryan You
must remember what Lincoln said: You
can't fool the people all the time and they
gave him his lesson; lesson in politics
at his expense. and not lesson in ex-
perience at our expense.
Republican Party Promises.
"Ee is now enjoying his lesson in poll
itics, as Is Mckinley, and, indeed, so are the
whole people. The republican party does
not promise to prevent drought or flood
lit does not promise to prevent sickness.
nor does it warrant 10 cure warts, corns and
bunions. Ii does warrant a few things
which are proper functions of government.
"First-It warrants 10 lay tariff that
will produce revenue enough TO prevent
laying a mortgage on your children in time
of peace.
"Second-It warrants that 1t will so lay
that tariff as to encourage American cap
ltal to employ American labor, and en-
able them to buy the products of your
farm.
''Third-lt absolutely guarantees that I'M
der its legislation no American citizen shall
compete in his labor. on equal terms, with
the cheap foreign labor of any nation in
the world.
THE republican party also guarantees
that every dollar shall be of equal value,
whether paper, silver or gold that there
shall be no poor mans money; no rich
mans money, but, as we believe in one
God, one flag and one country, we demand
one dollar as good as any other dollar
wherever II is found.
1.-The republican party stands for an
other thing which Mr. Bryan and his plat
form did not stand for: we believe in the
enforcement of law and the protection OF
lives and property of all citizens. We
don't propose that the government shall
Dulld your nome, Dut we 90 propose Wnen
you have built II the mob shall not burn II;
and If the local government does not pro-
tect the poorest and richest man in his
home. we say the government Of the United
States must do 1t. II 1t takes the standing
army.
Same Old Bryan Cry.
Let us look at Mr. Bryan's speech of
yesterday It's the same old cry for les
son In experience. He has opened his cam
paign for 1900. lie announces his platform
as a continued cry for personal experience.
Never mind the past; never mind history:
never mind the Gresham law Down with
common honesty; give us the privilege of
picking up the red-hot iron, and IL / am
right, II won't burn; and If am wrong
1t will burn the fingers of 100000 people,
''He has begun his campaign four years
In advance his only argument beingpn the
broken and shattered theories of the past,
and his only hope based on calamity and
disaster for our country. Every crop fail
ure brings JOY and hope to his heart; every
burned cornfield Is an ensign of his sue
cess: every strike makes his party heart
glad. and every time the sheriff shoots and
kills his ambition fires anew and he cries:
See what the tariff has done; free silver
will cure it.
'If fire should take the forest and crops:
II famine should fall among the people: