The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-11

that there were hard times that bust
ness was destroyed. and men thrown out
of work.
Each party came before the people
/ with remedy. The Republicans by their
representatives assembled in national
convention at St Louis in 1896, pledged
/ that If they were put in power they
would restore to the country good times.
This they pledged on the proposition of
honest currency and protected industry.
THE Democrats at Chicago presented
their remedy. They proposed the free
/ coinage of silver from all nations at the
ratio Of 16 to l. That was the main
! proposition upon which they promised to
1 give prosperity.
However, good judgment and sound
sense prevailed, William Mckinley was
elected president of the United States and
! William Jennings Bryan was relegated to
/ the sand hills of Nebraska
During the contest of 1895 Mr.. Bryan
made some remarkable prophecies and he
/ has also made some remarkable prophe-
! cies this year. What he prophecied in
1896 proved entirely false-not a single
thing came TO pass, and not a single
thing Of what he is now proclaiming in
this year 1900 will come to pass. In olden
times false prophets were stoned to
death. We do not ask this Of Mr.. Bryan.
but we can plainly see that upon the 9Th
of November he is going to be politically
stoned to death
In 1895 Mr. Bryan said: IF Mckinley
and the republican party are successful
and put in power for the next four years,
wages will be decreased. Hard times will
come upon US and over the land The
price Of wheat will go down and the price
Of gold go up. Mortgages on our homes
will be foreclosed by the money lenders
Shops and foctories will close. We will
export no goods and we will import all
the goods we use from foreign lands.
Thus will ruin. misery and want be
with us
What desolation has there been in the
land during the past four years? How
much grain has been sold for these low
prices? None! We never sell corn at
10 cents and wheat at Is cents under Re
publican rule. We always have these
prices under Democratic administrations.
I'm not going to read any more of Mr.
Bryan's prophecies of 1896. Let US look
at some Of them this year. Here is one
that will be of interest to fathers, moth
ers and the children. Mr.. Bryan says
that we are to have no more Fourth Of
July. On the 18th Of last July he walled
as follows:
The fight this year will be to carry
out the sentiment of that song so often
repeated, MY Country 'Tis of Thee" If
we lose, our children and our children's
children will not succeed to the spirit of
that song and celebrations of the Fourth /
Of July will pass away for the spirit of
empire will be upon US"
mot a single thing of these prophecies |
has come to pass. Instead of wages be- |
ing decreased they have been increased |
Mortgages have not been foreclosed but |
they have been paid off. We have not |
imported more goods than we have ex-
ported. To the contrary the exports of
the United States have been more than |
ever before But Mr. Bryan made some
other prophecies. At Pittsburg he sad:
1--WE venture to predict that if Nc
Kinley is elected and backed by gold I
standard congress, every smelter in the .
district will blow out within four months /
and there won't be a thousand dollars .
spent on building all next summer. Corn /
will go to 10 cents in st. Louis and wheat .
to 25 cents in Chicago, and what IS more,
it viii stay down. The closed mills viii .
keep company with the closed minis and I.
only those who have farms and are abso-
lutely without debt will be able to keep
out Of the sheriff's hands. McKinley's F..
election means desolation to the farmer
and working man.
Il have read these quotations from
Bryan in order to show his state Of mind.
I'll venture the assertion that he has
never uttered a prophecy that proved cor
rect.
"On the other hand we have made some
prophecies. We went into the prophecy
ing business. We said that labor would
be given employment We said that the
factories would be opened up. We said
that the price of wheat and corn and all
products would be advanced. Did these
predictions come true?
''Wiilam Mckinley was inaugurated
and in fifteen days congress convened in
extraordinary session for the purpose of
passing a measure to pay the current ex-
penses Of the government and stop the
issuing of bonds.
I'm less than five months from the time
the bill was passed money was in circu-
lation and laborers found employment
And during the past four years we have
exported more commodities than at any
other previous period Of our history. We
have exported more than twice as much
than we have imported During the FAST
three wears the balance of trade has been
in this codutry's favor TO the extent Of
ST. 10. OO0.eo0. This means that this money
has been paid to the people of this coun-
try. Plenty of money has been placed IN
circulation and we have enough with
which to do business.
Mr.. Briedenthal, our state hank exam
liner. SAYS that IN the banks Of the state
there are SS1.d00. 90. and III the national
hanks Of the state there are over S9S 091-
r6}. making over s54 o19 90 Of money IN
the banks OF the state Of Kansas. THIS
IS about 50 per capita, Thus We have
the Populists on that score. The
Omaha platform said you Will remember.
that it would take this much Fer CAPT a
for business To be carried on.
But in this year. 800 the opposition
say that there is another question that
s the paramount issue. TIC one thev has ,
in 1885 was the free coinage q silver al !
the ratio OK IS 10 / They said :hat an &.
less we had free silver the country would
be ruined That there would be no prices
for products. that men would rot have
employment. and so on. But they dan't
talk about free silver now days. They
know that ii Is d5sd. ard under o1r
splendid civilizsti 7 we are taught y
never speak dlsresPectfu,iy OF the dead
and do nor propose to do 50
The Democrats met ia Kansas city
aud nominated Bryan. Then hey rad
he constitution Of the United States. "a