The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-16
BRYAN AS PROPHET
FAILS TO QUALIFY
Disasters He ForetoId Never Como
to Pass.
OPPOSITE is ALWAYS TRUE.
Gold Standard Does Not Stay, Nor
Does It Write Future In Blood.

AS a prophet William Jennings Bry.
an has never been a success. The ca
families which he has foretold would
aave brought unlimited disaster to the
country II they had ever been realized.
But they lever came to pass The har-
lowing pictures which he painted were
merely Pigments Of his Imagination.
based on absolutely no foundation
whatever
1t is we'll to have Americans remem-
her that prophecies uttered by the ora
tor Of the Platte must be discounted
fully 100 per cent. for all signs indi-
cate that he feels the fates once more
and is about to begin prophesyins
agaiu. A male Cassandra, Mr.. Bryan
might by this time have learned that
the forecast of evil will never be be-
lieved by those who have found that
in the past his Vaccinations have been
but empty air.
Driving Country to Ruin"
For instance. when Mr.. Bryan was
member of the House of Representa-
tives in 1892 he was absolutely certain
that protection was driving the coun-
try headlong to rack and ruin. and in
his speech delivered March l6 of that
year he drew the following agoniz!ng
pictures
"Protection has been our cannibal
tree, and as one after another of our
farmers has been driven by the force
of circumstances upon that tree and
has been crushed within its folds his
companions have stood around and
shouted. Great is protection!'
Thus in every State so far as these
statistics have been collected. the pro
portion of home owning farmers ia de
creasing and that of tenant farmers
increasing. This means but one thing
ants. and backed by the history of
every nation that has gone down. say
to you that no people can continae
a free people under a free government
when the great majority of its citizens
are tenants of small minority Your
system protective tariff) has driven
tis farm owner from his Rand and
substituted the farm tenant"
How far this picture portrays the
America of to-day or the America of
any year since he made that speech
eny American can answer Even in
Mr.. Bryans own State he can find an
answer right at his doors. for the farm
laLds of Nebraska have doubled in
value
"Murderous Gold Standard
But during the four years succeeding
that speech Mr.. Bryan's agitation grew
no less nor did the demon which lie
had raised in his own imagination hide
with diminished head, for In 1896 he
again saw restitution threatening the
country. He had remedy for it. a
panacea, fetch which he held up for
worship-frce silver. Here are some
of the things Mr.. Bryan said would
happen If the gold standard were con.
tinued:
Il reply that if protection has slain
its thousands the gold standard has
slain its tens of thousands From
soeech at Democratic National Conven
ton. July. 1886.
"Do not let the Republicans beglilc
ycr about the future. The future is
4 written In blood crushed out of you by
gold Prom speech at Erie, Pa. Au
gust, 1896.
"Ah. my friends, there is another
reason why people have gone into the
cities and left the farms 1t is be.
cause your legislation has been caus-
ing the foreclosure of mortgages upon
the farms Mark my words
If the gold standard goes on and PEG
pie continue to complain, the gold stan
GARD advocates Instead of trying to i'm
prove the condition of the people will
lie recommending that you close your
schools so that the people will not real
ize how much they are suffering"-
From speech at Monmouth, III, Octo
Der, 1886.
But whom has the gold standard
slain! What future did 1t write ir
blood: What district schools did II
close: Again the condition Of tho
country makes calm reply confutin.
the impassicned oratcy.
Campaigning again In 1900 MT Bry
an decided that imperialism was an
other danger to the country. If 1t wer,
continued the Fourth of July would b,
! forgotten by all Americans and tho
spirit Of '78- would become thint
Of the past. Speaking at Lincoln. Mr.
BRYAN said