The Lamar register., 1908-09-23
BRYAN As PROPHET
FAILS TO QUALIFY
Disasters He Foretold Never Come
to Pass.
OPPOSITE is ALWAYS TRUE.
sold Standard Does Not Stay No,
Does II Write Future In Blood.

A. q prophet william Jennings Bry-
An bus never been a success. The ca
families which no has foretold would
have drought unlimited disaster to the
sountRy u they had ever been realized.
Bet NY never came to pass. The har-
sowing pictures which he painted were
merely hgments Of bis 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 10 about to begin propheSying
rgain. 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 a
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 16 of that
year he drew the following agonizing
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 il protection!
Thus in every State. so far as these
| statistics have been collected. the pro-
portion of home owning farmers Is de
creasing and that Of tenant farmers
increasing. This means hut one thing.
1t means q land Of landlords and ten
ants, and, backed by the history of
every nation that has gone down. say
to you that no people can continue
free people under a free government
when the great majority Of Its citizens
are tenants of a small minority. Your
system protective tarIn) has driven
tia. farm owner from his land and
substituted the farm tenant"
How far this picture portrays the
America OF to-day or the America "f
any year since he made that speech
sny American can answer. Even In
Mr.. Bryan's own State he can find an
answer right at his doors. for the farm
10, d. Of Nebraska have doubled in
value.
"llurdsrous Gold Standard"
But during the four years succeeding
TINT speech Mr.. Bryan's agitation grew
no less nor did the demon which he
had raised In his own lima gination hide
with diminished head. for in 1896 he
again saw destitution threatening the
country. He had n remedy for It, a
panaeea, Q Fetch which he held up for
worship-frce silver. Here are some
OF the things Mr.. Bryan said would
happen II the gold standard were con-
i tinued:
81 reply that II protection has slain
its thousands the gold standard has
slain Its tens of thousands. From
soeech at Democratic National Conven-
tion, July. 1906.
DO not let the Republicans beguiie
yc'; about the future. The future Is
written in blood crushed out Of you by
gold."-From speech at Erie. Pa, Au-
gust. 1896.
"Ah, my friends, there Ia 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.
n the gold standard goes on and peo-
pie continue to complain, the gold stan
dard advocates instead OF trying to I'm
prove the condition OF the people will
be recommending that you close your
schools 20 that the people will not real
ize how much they are suffering."-
From speech at Monmouth, ILL.,, Octo-
Der. 1895.
But whom has the gold standard
slain? What future did 1t write In
blood7 What district schools did it
close: Again the condition OF the
country makes q calm reply confuting
the impassioned orator.
Campaigning again in 1900 Mr.. Bry-
III ucSiucu thdt imlNiihIih" Wds Hi
other danger to the country. II 1t were
continued the Fourth of July would be
forgotten BY all Americans and the
spirit Of '76" would become a thing
of the past. Speaking at Lincoln. Mr..
Bryan said:
Sees Death Of Patriotism.
'.rhe fight this year will be to carry
out the sentiment of that song we have
20 often repeated, MY Country. Ills OF
Thee II we lose. our children and
our children's children will not succeed
to the spirit of that song. and celebra-
lions of the Fourth of July will pas
away. for the spirit Of the empire viii
be upon u.s."
Is there any spot In these United
-0fates where the spirit of lt'G In dead
A.<t.> a.. o,,hII- .xfaa-nsoIated Tract