The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-10-25
Fob FARMERS
TO CONSIDER
WHAT CAN BE LOST by ELECTING
MIR. BRYAN.
Do the Farmers Want Prosperity or
q Repetition of the Hard Times
df the Cleveland Admin
istrations
tBy George H. crumb Of missouri,

ucts and live stock sold lower than
ever before; the factories were closed;
the shops We're empty; and the coun-
try was filled with tramps, asking for
work and begging for bread
/ More than half of these tramps had
families at home, suffering for the ne
cessaries of life. So hard was their
lot that thousands of despairing wo-
men accepted employment at starva-
ton wages. to live, thus again driving
| men out of employment.
| When the election of Mckinley gave
an assurance of better times. money
was easier ito get, and shops and fac
tories began to open. @a1'
/ The Improvement, though steady,
was slow, until the Dingley tariff law
was passed. Then the change, you
will recollect,, was wonderful.
The prices of labor rapidly increased,
and soon the demand for labor exceed
ed the supply. Everybody could find a
! job. The workingmen could buy what
the farmers had to sell, and the farm
ers products Increased steadily in val
ue. -
The tramps disappeared. The con-
| dition of the people, generally, i'm
proved. Mortgages have been paid off,
or greatly reduced by many who had
| before lost all hope of getting out of
debt, or saving their homes. p
| Farms have been improved. New
homes have gone up on every side.
1 H. no ~ Ky A
THESE TIMES TO GO ON, OR DO
WAY TIMES WE'RE FROM 1894 TO
| 1896?
Do we want the farm products to sell
| at 1896, or at 1900 prices?
Do we want the workingmen to la
| Dor at 1909 prices and to support their
| families in comfort, as they are now
| doing, or do we want to send them
tramping over the land, organizing
! Coxey armies, while their families are
starving?
Are we satisfied to let we'll enough
| alone, or shall we try a change, put
| the men in charge of the country who
passed the Wilson bill. and try the
ditions Of 1895?
|
from the election of Bryan?
Does he, or do his supporters, pre-
tend to say that farm products will
| bring more If he is elected? ?
Does he or do his speakers, say that
under his administration the prices of
labor will be increased? se.It &
Do they promise anything better in
the condition of farmers, or laboring
h,1f frnxy 0cfr rrs
owners Of silver mines, if Bryan is
elected? 4>aa
Can they make times better for you
and me than they are now? If so,
| how do they propose to do it? Have
| they told you of any plan? s.5 t.
CAN'T THEY MAKE TIMES
WORSE AGAIN. BY DISTURBING
AND DESTROYING BUSINESS, AS
THEY DID BEFORE? ~
They threaten and say that they will
reduce the tariff on manufactured
| goods. This will stop the factories, as
| it did before, and again scatter
| tramps all over the country; reduce
| the demand for what the farmers
raise and the prices for such products
| at the same time. ss /
Would not the farmers rather sell
the products Of their farms at fair
prices to laborers than to give 1t to
| them, as tramps? Ar
Are you going to vote yourself out
| of job Do you want to vote work.
| ingmen out of their jobs? rs
Do you propose to go into the tramp
| ing business, or to help start tramps
on the reads again? a. y
Choose you, now, what should-be
| done and vote according to your hon
est Judgment and for the pest interests
of all the people of this country.
Use Common Sense! Throw preJu-
dice and passion away!
What benefit have you to expect
| from the election of Bryan?
GEO. H. CRUMB. :
Bloomfield, Mo.