Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-11-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
The Democratic Leader Gives Ute
terance to Some Forcf-
BILE Truths.

In his speech at Sigourney, Ia, fey
days ago William J. Bryan, speaking to
the farmers, said:
mo man who works farm and tolls for
his daily bread" said he. can afford 10 sup
port the republican party. and no man who
publican party.
You will sometimes find the commercial
classes arraying themselves against the
agricultural classes. Prince Bismarck
made a speech to the farmers of Germany
once. He told them that they must stand
together and protect themselves from the
tolls OF society which produces nothing
but laws.
You can talk to financier in New York.
and he will tell you that 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 business man,
and find how narrow is the difference Is a
farmer a business MANI No; he just works
He begins in the morning and works all
day. He is not a 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 10 be considered in leg
islation.
I'VE believe in bimetanism. and 1t should.
not take q farmer one minute to decide on
which side he stands. A dear dollar means
low prices; low prices mean hard times. /
never have claimed that $aS precocious
child. 1 never have Dragged of how early
in life learned things, yet can say that
cannot look 10 the lIIS RnSl ClO nok
know that when one end of teeoer 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 row
thinking about. Until year ago no repub-
lican had ever heard a republican leader de-
fend a trust, but low you hear -epublic2ns
and republican papers defend trusts You
hear them say there are good trusts and bad
trusts, ard you must be very careful not TO
hurt the good trusts. There is a lumber
combination in this country. Do you know
that lumber has advanced five dollars
thousand feet? The farmers are not on the
inside of this combination.
lone branch of industry after another is
being controlled by these great aggrega-
lions of wealth. I believe these trusts are
antagonisticr to every interest of our gov
eminent. Remember the enormous cam
paiSn 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 it.
"A republican senator said God opened
the door of the Philippines. pushed us in
and shut the door, When 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 indie
pendence, think he is mistaken ] state
to you my opinion that when God wishes
to speak to the American people He Will not
choose Mark Hanna for His mouthpiece-"