The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02

and merchants. have seen their customers
leave one bv one until they have Moth
ing TO do. Combinations have driven them
out OF business and thew feel that with
out a change IL is only a question OF q
little while before they will be working
for wages. and lo~ wages at that. Mr..
Bryan and his party premise TO cut the
cords which are binding the hands OF
going 10 veto for him.
The travelling statesmen sec their mum
Der rapidly diminishing. and tho salaries
OF those remaining reduced. until IL looks
like starvation 10 them This great body
OF intelligent men Is going TO vote for
the Democratic candidate.
WHAT THE TRUSTS HAVE DONE
The farmers see an Increase in the
price o. everything hey buy 1t IL true
that the Lord withheid the rain and sent
the storm. and thus gave them a short
crop OF cotton. II is true tina this short
crop makes a high price. but the inteili-
gent farmer cannot understand how
drought ard storm can affect the price of
nails. He cannot see the advantage in
high-priced cotton and wheat IL the price
Of all he buys is increased more in pro-
portion than the price Of what Be has
10 sell These farmers have 81 last got
IL into their heads that the reason for
this unnatural state Of affairs Is that
Trusts control everything they must buy.
They believe that the Republican party is
responsible for the existence Of Trusts.
and thcy are going 10 vote for the party
which promises TO take the cienchci IN
gers OF the Trusts from their throat.
The laboring man secs his employer
the neccssar.es % lifc. lie knows tina;
he made all that q in the hands OF HIS
wealthy employer and feels that he ought
To have ut least . comfortable living out
Of his toll. lie asks for better pay. Just
enough 10 provide a few comforts for his
wife and children. bat he is told prices
for our products will not justify it. lie
sees the factory closed. and little man
ufacturing villages become desolatc He
does not know how soon he will have
nothing to do. Ills scant wages allowed
him to save nothing for n rainy day. The
pinched face OF his loving wife haunts
him. and the prospect OF his babies crying
for bread drives him 10 desperation. Did
| say prospect? II is an actual reality. He
knows his loved ones are neither we'll
fed nor well-clothcd He knows they are
dying for the necessities OF life. lie real
ICES that the Trusts are coming gold out
OF the very blood OF his children. and he
swears he will 90 TO the polls and vote
against the party that has made IL posi-
bic for one set Of men TO live entirely Mt
the expense OF another. These men were
driven to vote for the Republicans four
years ago. but they Will not do II again.
They are going to vote for Mr.. Bryan be-
cause they believe he is their friend.
BRYAN WILL BE ELECTED.
This is why | say Mr.. Bryan will be
elected. The people are determined to
assert their manhood. The anti-expan-
sionist, the antitrust advocate. the free
silver enthusiast. the people opposed to
national banks, the people opposed TO a
large army-all these-as said before.
will present their and wind up
by telling YOU that the Trusts favor all
these things. and they are going TO vote
for their country's interests and not tho
interests OF the Trusts.
NJ Bryan will be elected. He will
sweep the country like a cyclone. He Will
carry all the States he carried in 1896.
with possibly one exception. and he Will
carry Ohio, Indiana. Illinois. Minnesota.
| Maryland. West Virginia. Kentucky. Del
| aware and New York, He has n fighting
| chance in Michigan and Connecticut. That
is a pretty rosy prospect. you say, Yes.
it is: but | tell you, there is a whirlwind
Of wrath to be poured out on the McKfn-
| ley-Hanna administration in November.
| have talked with all sorts of people
| from all parts of the country, and there
is no hiding the fact that there is going
to be a landslide"