The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-12

was going crazy: I could not sleep
nor rest at all. / tried ID different .e doc
head would ache all the time; was
like one drunk: could not concentrate
my mind H.. and wa, was SO restless and md
question. ' After '' taking s one 1i bottle of Of
DR.. Miles Nervine / felt wonderfully
changed. l am now or my third bot
ean ah lie down and Sleep Ike Ike .m ehld
MRS. NAY SCOTT, English. Ind.
Your druggist ellis Or. Miles Nerv-
price Of first bottle (oniyj If II falls
to benefit you.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
affects the well-being of the millions
OF farmers and working men in our
land. BY their fruits We shall know
them is the soundest of all maxims
Shall we have a Bryan revision or
republican revision? Well, we had
tho Wllson-Bryan act of 1894. We
know what that law did to the
American people. No one was then
discussing the question of guarantee
deposits in the bank, the farmer
and laboring men had no money to de-
post
There is slight touch of humor in
the democratic demand for an aban.
donment of the protective policy. and
also for some guaranty of the deposits
OF the peoples money. When the
Wilson bill became law it was
branded by Mr.. Cleveland as full of
"perfidy and dishonor' But the work
ing people who had demanded a
change soon repented in sackcloth and
ashes.
have just been reading the demo.
cratic campaign book for 1908, and
/ the burden of the song is THE peo.
pie say we want change" That was
the campaign cry of 1892 1t is six.
teen years since the dark days of Mr..
/ Cleveland's second administration. A
generation of young men has grown
/ up since then, to whom the days | re-
fer to are only a matter of History.
We have had one experience of a
tariff bill drawn by Mr. Bryan and his
\ associates on the democratic ways and
means committee. No one old enough
1 10 recall that experience would want
TO try another. Mr.. Bryan shranb
IRON the ordeal of defending it an6
fought the First Battle" of 1896 on
the then new but now wholly defunc,
issue OF free coinage of silver.
He said the times were bad but tina,
was because the money was too good
II the money could be reduced in
value by free coinage at ratio onl,
equal TO half the commercial value
times would at once improve.
When he attacked the protective
tariff in congress, he compared If tc
the "Cannibal Tree" that fed in liyins
beings. That cannibal tree had !
great run In its day.
Then came free silver and tho hor
rors of the gold standard were parad
ed before startled people. And tn,
silver issue took wise and nrudent
men off their feet. 1t was not a mer,
pohtlcal factor it became almost a re
llglon. But fortunately the American
people commenced to study the dis
maj subject of finance, and when thew
) got through with Mr.. BRYAN in 1906
they said to Mckinley 'All right
open the mills instead of the minis.
If We have work, if we have markets
,, We Will have money. No mere coin
ing machine ever made people rich
Farm lands in Iowa were then worth
: $500 to $4,000 an acre. They were
ihortgaged, and the daily talk in con
gress was about mortgaged farms and
the burning of corn for fuel in lowe
: and Kansas. Now, when the subject
of making notifications of the tariff
schedule Is living question. what viii
: you do? Will you trust this great sub
Ject to the renewed efforts of Mr.
: Bryan and his fellow free-traders O,
VIII you grant renewed confidence tc
: the party OF the gold standard o.
9 sound money and protection? Shall
the tariff be revised along the lines
I favored by Abraham Lincoln, thu
I founder of protection in the republican
party? Shall the policies of Harrison
q Mckinley and Roosevelt in favor q
X the American system of protection be
!, followed or shall we take down the
e bars and again go in the mad oues
II for the markets of the world while
e we trample underfoot and destroy GU,
s own?
e Let the tariff be revised on pro
:, tective lines, only, and by men who
o viii not destroy the market of the
g American farmer nor take from tht
). American workingman the employ
$ ment by which he is enabled to main