The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-06-24
Farmer Brucker.
from the Saginaw courier-Herald:

From the Saginaw Courier-Herald:
Farmers of the eighth district undoubted-
ly well remember the promises that Bruck-
er made when. he addressed them during
the congressional campaign. His pockets
bulged with documentary evidence of how
the country should be run. His bosom
heaved with pride when he told of his
ability to run 1t right. what you want"
said he, lis free trade and free silver, and
lots of BOTH" Owing to curious combina-
ton of circumstances, he was elected, and
since then his tongue has been wagging
continuously to no avail. Members of con-
gress with common sense and business ex-
perience proposed a bill which Mr.. Brucker
fought tooth and nail, but which easily
passed and became law. The Free Press
of June 18th says: 1.-THE United States has
for the past year established its greatest
record. For the first time in the history OF
this country the exports of manufactured
articles exceed the imports, and exports OF
agricultural products are more than $780,
900, 600 in excess of the same period last
year, and far in excess of any year in our
country's history. If the same policy is
continued, 1t is but question of time when
this nation will be the greatest exporter on
the globe" What do you think of Farmer
Brucker now? Where would we have been
had his ideas prevailed? Again, had be
been more conservative, the rivers of this
district would have received attention, but
he antagOnized the very men from whom he
had right to expect much. To Offset this,
of course, he tried to get seal skins on the
free list. They would make us sweat more,
and he figures that sweat produces the
necessares of life and obliterates mortgages.
Too bad he did not think of seal skins dur
Ing his campaign. He argues (?) that the
free coinage of silver would help us. Why
trade horses in mid stream?
Everything seems to point to continued
prosperity under the present system, which
makes our money the best in the world, and
the same as used by Germany, England and
France. If the free coinage of silver is
such fine thing, why doesn't some enlight-
ened nation take hold?
Mr.. Brucker seems to be mixed on his
dates. In one interview he lays the pre-
vailing prosperity to providence, because of
bounteous crops here, and shortage abroad.
Does he think the crop of manufactured
articles is also short abroad? In his talk in
the Saginaw News of February q he says:
"Would to God we had majority to pass a
free coinage resolution" Providence seems
to oppose MIR. Brucker in both cases, and
those who have watched his course in con-
gress, and the trend of events, express nc
surprise.
Remember how he ridiculed the admins
tration, when the worry of war in the in
terest of down trodden humanity was upon
its hands. How anxious to precipitate but
not participate. How eager to entangle,
but not enlist. And yet with all these fail
ings and belittling traits, the popocrats seem
to be willing TO let him run again. Why
not send him to the stall and trot out either
Beach, Baum or Sparks? Neither of these
gentlemen would attempt to msead US. OF
subject the district to running fire of rdi.
cule, as Mr. Brucker has.
TILLER OF THE Soil
Brant lime II