The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
A COMMUNICATION.
Altamont, Ill.,, Oct. IS, 1900.

A COMMUNICATION.
Altamont, ILL.,, Oct. Is, 1900.
EDITOR REPORTER:
W.. j. Bryan accuses Mckinley and
supporters of using soldiers to suppress
worthy laborine men when these men
ak for better wages, and to be recop-
nized as union.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT DENIES 1T.
Now, my fellow citizens in the state of
Iowa, l wish to put this question to
your manhood, to-wit: Has Mr.. Bryan
lied about this matter.
Under Gods bright light by day, can
we face our laboring men and say that
Mr.. Bryan has lied? Where is there an
honest man in America who dare say
that Bryan has lied?
While Mr.. Bryan was. saying those
words, our soldiers were in arms, shoot
ing good men down in the coal fields of
Pennsylvania! Have our people lost
their reason? How in the name Of
humanity can Theodore Roosevelt have
the cheek to face white people with
even half sense and make such state
ment as to say that Bryan knows his
statement is false.
Again appeal to your reason and
not your passions to look at the history
of our two men? Compare Roosevelt
with Bryan if you will, and notice the
differences in their dispositioasf Bryan
is good in all he does, or says, but Mr..
Roosevelt, is boisterous and assuming.
he gets mad in his speechmaking, while
Mr.. Bryan is cool and lovely. Mr..
Bryan is for peace just as our Savior
was, and if any man can show that
Christ advised killing men in order to
get them to be subjects for Heaven,
thea will be willing to take my shot
gun to church and open Ere upon the
FIRST seeker at the mourner's bench.
Mckinley and Roosevelt have done
enough to ruin our churches for 500
years.
Our flag has always been taken as the
Flag Of. Peace, Liberty and Religion,
but when we tear out its motto with
q Calling gun both at home and abroad
where will our ministerial flock or 20
for Peace on earth, good will toward
men!''
Our laboring men dare not vote fos
the army, simply because they have
been shot down already by it.
They dare not vote for the army in
the new possessions, because those rich
men wish to take it over in the Philip
pines to stand guard over paupeD labor,
the products of which will be returned
to America and sold under the nose of
idle labor unions or non union. men, fos
thatmatter as the goods viii then be con-
trolled by trusts and sold without sales
men and if Mr.. Roosevelt denies the
gun now and its use when, we know
those things, and that too In the heat
of campaign what in, the name Of God
will he do if elected?,
Think of these matters friends, before
you vote and if Bryan is elected and
he can not remedy the evil then, let us
join hands and holdtmass meetings ali
over this land Of the free and unite as
one man and take our God given herr
tage from our spoilers aud, run the
money changers out.
Think Of one coal king in. Indiana
making 81, $40 per day clear of ALI ex-
penses from a,thing called focal" which
God has made for the sexpense of the
getting?"
Let US vote for Bryan once move,
for Mckinley stands for the army and
Bryan stands for love of home and
posterity as well as liberty and freedom
all over Gods earth; so did Christ and
they killed him. The nation is in the
balances. Do you wish to shoot the
chord?
Watch Teddy and the horse show.
Yours for peace,
JAMES A. REYNOLDS,