The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-11-02
TITS Up TO YOU NOW
QlestiOns For the Voters to
Consider In the Booths.
Ryan As a False Prophet Ia put
( Upon the Roasting SDit-Pre-
diCtions We're False.

Voters OF w whitman county, IL il uD to Won
hat will he your decision next Tuesday
Will you vote for Mckinley, orosreritv ma.
uonal honor, sound money, expansion and the
continuation of the present good time.9 Or
viii you cast a bali't for Bryan, and, conse
quent financial and commercial depression
national disgrace and dishonor and personal
haId time! In short, az Mr. GOODYEAR aptIy
hut accidentally, tTuthfully stated by a Sin If
the tongue in one of his mpaign speeches
vii yom vote for Rum, Organism and re-
bellion?"
Recall this time four years ago how, from
every street and corner, the Brvanites were
shouting he words of their leader:
- be gold standard means dearer money.
hearer money means cheaper property;cheaper
property means harder times; harder times
ne ans more PEOPLE ont of work; more people
out OF work means more people destitute :mure
people destitute means more people desperate:
more people desperate means more crime
Wages will decrease, the price IF VIII at will
decrease. the price of gold will go up Mort
cages viii be toreclosad by the money lenders
and sharks, factories and mills will be shut
down There will be want and misery over
the land"
You remember how this was dinned into
your ears, morning, nocn and night Was it
the truly Has 1t proved to be true in the
nght aud experience of the past four years?
Let us see:
The individual deposits in the National
banks Of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, were
IN round numbers:
1892 " S95 nnO ooo
1896 ........ ........ II 600 OO0
1900 ..... ....--........-... ...... $1,000, 900
Thus, more than doubling in the past four
years.
Was Bryan's prophecy true? Will you vote
for false prophet? Again:
1880 81 hauka Of WaSbirOfO., w
ported deposits to the amount of 81 700, 600
In 1899, u state banks of Washing on re-
port deposits of over ST. 600 coo, more than
four times the am unit in 1896 Does this
look like the promised hard times and cheap
labor?
Viii you vote against records like these?
In 1900 the American farmers received
Sll5,O00,0 coo more for their wheat than IN
1896; S346, 0O0 900 more for their corn crop:
Sl64 Zoo, GEO more for their cotton; S42, 900 600
more tor their oats; S22, 600, 600 more for their
potatoes; $l4 600 900 more for their barley,
and over 50 0,00O, 600 more for their live
stock than III 1896 The increase in the
value of nine staple farm crops over 1896 was
S7l0,722 l67, and in livestock $50l IA, 474, or
a total of 81 2l2 l67 09l more money that the
American farmers received in 1900 than in
1896, to say nothing of hay, fl Ak, poultry, eggs
and dairy products not included In the above
amount
10 JutF6 figures look ike the Calamity LIdt
Bryan predicted would overtake the farmer
II the republican ticket should be elected?
Again has he proved to be false prophet
Viii you vote for continuation Of these
good times, or will you vote tor Bryan and
another four wears infinitely worse than tn ose
of 1898 to 1896?
Take our own county of Whitman. Com
pare its present condition with that of tour to
six years ago. Do you wish to take the risk
of seeing those times again? Do you wish
them TO recu? A vote for Bryan will do it.
Everything you have for sale, with the
single exception of wheat which meets a
WORLDS competition, is higher than for the
last eight years. Your horses and cattle, your
hogs ana bacon. your chickens and eggs, your
hay and produce all command higher prices
than in 1886. And when you want to borrow
money, instead Of paying 10 and II per cent,
as you did in 1896, you can get it for y and
per cent at the present day. Is this the
BrYanltes prediction of hard times and dear
money? If it is may it long continue
Will you vote for Bryan and destroy a
prosperity the world has never witnessed be-
fore?
Every statement and prophecy made by
Bryan in 1896 has proved to be false and
groundless So viii his direful prophecies of
1900 prove equally false and baseless.
Will you vote for Mckinley, the statesman.
or for Bryan, the false prophet and agltatoI?
Will you vote for our glorious flag and our
boys in blue, or will you vote for Bryan, the
man who has aspersed the American uniform
as it has never been before; for Bryan, who,
when rebels are shooting down our Lawtons
and McConnells, our Stotsenbergs and Eg
berts, are patting those same rebels on the
back and urging them to continue their war
fare of murder, arson and rapine?
Voters of Whitman county, it is up to you.
Which of these two men will yop vote for!
Mckinley the patriot, Bryan the traitor?
Which? lR. JOHN BENSON.