Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-31
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
THY Democratic Leader Gives Ut
terance to Some Forci-
HE Truths.

In his speech at sigourney, Ia, a few
days ago William j. Bryan, speaking to
the farmers, said;
mo man who works q farm and tolls for
| ais daily bread" said he, "can afford to sup
port the republican party. and no man who
lives In town can afford to support the re-
| publican party.
"You will sometimes find the commercial
Classes arraying themselves against the
| agricultural classes. Prince Bismarck
| made speech to the farmers Of Germany
| together and protect themselves from the
tolls of society which produces nothing
but laws.
"You can talk to flnancier in New York,
| and he will tell you that a republican con-
| vention in 1896 declared that this govern
| ment should be carried on by business
man, in the interests of business men of the
| country. You ask what is q business man.
and find how narrow is the difference. Is a
farmer business man? No; he just works.
| He begins in the morning and works all
| day. He Is not business man. The man
on the board Of trade, who bets on the price
of that farmers wheat-he is the business
man. He is the one to be considered In leg
islaion.
I'VE believe in bimetallism, and 1t should
| not take farmer one minute to decide on
| which side he stands. A dear dollar means
i low pTlCeSs low prices mean nara times. !
| never have claimed that was precocious
| child never have Dragged of how early
| in life learned things, yet can say that
cannot look back to the time when did not
know that when one end of q teeter board
was up the other was down. The money
question is just the same. When money
| goes up property goes down.
THE trust question Is one you are now
thinking about. Until year ago no repub-
| Lean had ever heard q republican leader de-
fend trust, but now you hear republicans
and republican papers defend trusts. You
hear them say there are good trusts and bad
trusts, and you must be very careful not to
combination in this country. Do you know
that lumber has advanced five dollars on a
thousand feet? The farmers are not on the
Inside Of this combination.
"One branch OF industry after another IS
being controlled by these great aggrega-
antagonistic to every interest of our gov
ernment Remember the enormous cam
paign fund collected from the corporations
in 1896. This aggregation Of wealth created
the republican administration, and the re-
publican party Is now directed to obey the
commandment Remember thy creator In
the days Of thy youth
People do not want big army. They do
not want an imperial policy. We cannot
excuse ourselves in this expansion question
on religious grounds when we go forth to
spread the blessings Of salvation out OF
bursting shells We cannot say that God
Is in 1t.
"a republican senator said: God opened
the door Of the Philippines pushed us in
and shut the door, When a man says that
God sent him to notify the world that we
are going to cross the ocean to make slaves
of people who are fighting for their inde-
pendence, ] think he Is mistaken. state
to you as my opinion that when God wishes
to speak to the American people He will not
choose Mark Hanna for His mouthpiece."
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