The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-05
How About Hogs, Colonel Bryan?

| no" ABOUT Hogs, Colonel Bryan?
Mr.. Bryan has been making speeches
IN Nebraska this week. At Blair on
! Thursday afternoon he talked to the
farmers about trusts and Imperialism,
seyH the Tacoma Ledger While he was
talking about the price of oats some one
10 the crowd asked him about the price
OF hogs, and he replied:
The gentleman asks about hogs. [
had expected such Il question The re-
puhIlcans claim the credit for every rise
III price, no matter what the cause, and
shlrk the responsibility for every reduc-
ton, no matter how directly it may be
traced to the republican party's instru-
mentality. If wheat is up they point to
wheat. II corn, then corn is the object
OF comment. So it is with hogs. The
republicans claim all the credit for the
rise as one of the blessings Of a republi-
can administration, when, in the very
nature OF things, it could have nothing
to do with such an advance
| Mr.. Bryan's answer is not very lucid.
He is evidently stumped when it comes
to such questions as this Four years
ago be preached the Is TO | doctrine
and asserted that the gold standard
meant a scarce dollar; that scarce dol
lar meant lower prices, and that lower
prices meant hard times Now he is
confronted with the fact that the prices
OF farm products have gone up instead
| OF down, notwithstanding the mainten-
| ance OF the gold standard and the defeat
of free silver coinage This fact proves
| one thing at any rate, and that is that
| Mr.. Bryan was entirely wrong four
| years ago. What has he to say about
1t? Simply that Gin the very nature of
thugs the republican party could have
nothing to dc with such an advance"
That is simply begging the question. Ii
the republican party could have nothing
to DO With the rise ia the price of hogs,
what ground has Mr.. Bryan for claim
ing that it is responsible for every reduc-
he insinuates, can be directly traced to
| the republican party's instrumentality?
1t il impossible for Mr.. Bryan to
answer the Nebraska farmers question
about the price of hogs, without ad-
mltting his own error, so he does pot
answer the question at all. Glow about
the price Of hogs, Mr.. Bryan?" asks
farmer in search Of truth. The repubi-
cans have nothing to DO with it,
answers the would-be president Well,
who did have anything TO do with it,
Mr.. Bryan No answer The oracle is
dumb.
If Mr. Began thinks the republican
party, in the very nature OF things, has
had nothing to do with all this pros-
perity that has come to the farmers dur
ing republican administration he
ought to tell the people what, in the
very nature of things, has caused the
advance. Free silver, the remedy be pre-
scribed for q very sick patient four years
ago, has not caused it, for the country
refused to take a dose Of that Quack
medicine
Tue county ticket on the republican
side is clear OF the woods. No demo-
crat out to fool popniists can touch
them Every body knows that Mcdonald
is MOI banking on bis assailable record
to be reelected as Judge He expects to
befoOl the people by making an occas-
ional preach and by daily promising all
the saloon element that he will protect
them. So far as the Judge is concerned,
the water on the left shoulder has be-
come too heavy for him to bear. He
has been known for months-for some
years-as a friend Of the element against
which he now only dares to preach at
Pine City.
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