The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
links MCKINLEY WITH LINCOLN.
BISHOP FOWLER TRACES RESEMBLANCE BE-
TWEEN TWO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
Compares Bryan and His Issues to Don
Quxote and the Windmills.
DECLARES FOR EXPANSION.


The and political sagacity that made Abraham
Lincoln great traced in the character of President
Mckinley by Bishop Charles H. Fowler of the Methodist
Episcopal church before audience of 1000 people the
Auditorium, Chicago, Friday night AS contrast Bishop
Fowler compared Mr.. Bryan Don Quxote and the demo
cratic paramount issues" to the windms which Quixote
fought.
81 read that story when was boy' said Bishop Fow
ler land since have wished enjoy so intense TO-
But when discovered the Don Quxoe of Nebraska
and the Sancho Panza of Illinois my hopes full
filed"
1t several minutes before the speaker continued In
dvdua efforts to elaborate the comparison drowned
in cheering and the audience tumut of utterng hand
kerchiefs. AT last voice heard "And where do the
windmills come n?"
ll tell you where the windmls in Bishop Fow.
Ter resumed "Mr Bryan has got his little donkey has
drawn his SPEAR and in spirit of braggadocio has darted
forth like Quixote after the giants of his imagination The
issue of Imperialism and miarism-that's where the
wndmis in. But when the election over Mr. BRYAN
like Quxote will find that the wind has blown him against
the side of HILL and subsequent will be of no interest
to him. Mr.. Bryan is calamity buzzard"
Describing the exigences of Lncons administrator to
those which the republican party 1896 Bishop Fowler
said the last four years had proved President Mckinley to be
true prophet Evidence of existing prosperity he said was
shown in the increase of bank deposits in wages in foreign
commerce. and in the decrease of farm mortgages Bishop
Fowler introduced by the Rev. j. W. Hill ON behalf of
held.
Bishop Fowler said in part
@" invited here talk under the auspices of the Mar
quee club upon two providenta men, Lincoln and McKin
ley In coupling these in this order following
the logical order from knowledge faith from that which
we know that which believe All men honor Lincoln
today. All will honor Mckinley tomorrow
n 1896 the business of the country dead Forty per
cent ofhearoad of the country in the hands of re-
Five millions of 100000 600 of laborng men
idle and 100000 of 2OOOOOOO more were on re-
duced wages reduced tme both Our exports had run
down only and the deposits in the banks had
been reduced to only $19 100000 Failures business had
gone up per from 10000 under Harrison to
under Cleveland Farm products would bring enough to
pay for production Farmers could pay the interest on
their mortgages Merchants could not sell buy Factories
closed furnaces cod shut down. All this forced
upon by competition with cheap foreign labor by free trade
Bryan's Prophecies Unfulfiled.
"Tes the prophets of by their prophecy Bryan pro-
phesied that Mckinley elected the distress would in
and the number of the unemployed would multiply
are facts Distress has disappeared ex
,ept from the minds of the calamity buzzar who are
hunting for carcasse and the number the unemployed has
reduced from % per cent of aborng per
,ent-that u.s. from 100000 to only 100000 Bryan pro.
phesied that Mckinley elected farm products and wages
would 90 down with silver and that farmers would lose their
farms under their mortgages. What the facts? Farm
products higher than they have been years. wages
advanced from 10 to % per cent and farm mortgages have
paid off rapidly than before in the history of
his country and money be borrowed cheapy in the
great farming anywhere else. These farming
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