The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-09-24
Disasters lie roreiold Never Come
20 Pass.
OPPOSITE IS ALWAYS TRUE.
Gold STANDARD Doea Not clay, Nor
Docs /, write Future In Blood

country ir they had ever been realized.
ndt tley never came to piss. The har-
sowing pictures which he painted were
merely Pigments Of bis Imagination.
based On absolutely no foundation
whatever.
It is wen 90 have Americans ucmem.
ler thlt prophecies uttered hy the ora
tor OF The Platte must be discounted
fully 700 per cent, for an signs indi
cate that he feels the fates once more
md Is about 10 begin prophesyiug
gain \ male Cassondrn. Mr.. Bryan
Iiaht BY this time have learned that
the forecast o. evil VIII never be be-
lieved By those who have found that
Ia the past bis ,%aticluations have been
but empty gH
Driving Country TO Ruin"
For instance. when Mr. Bryan was a
member of the House of Representa-
;ivos In 1902 be was absolutely certain
ihat protection WINS driving the coun-
try hcadlong 20 rack and ruin, and In
his speech delivered March lG Of that
year he drew the following agouizlng
pictures.
Protection has been our canuibal
tres and as one after another OF orr
farmers hos been driven by the force
OF circumstance upon that tree aud
hiss been crushed Within its folds ''is
companions have stood around ana
shouted. Great IS protection
Thus la every State. 50 fur as these
statistics have been collected, the pro-
portion Of home owning farmers IS De
crpasine and that VI tersHt nrmers
Increasing This means D 20 thing
II means a lauiF OF landlords ten
ants and. backed hy the hlstol. -
every nation that has pone down. /
10 you that no people can continue
a free people under a free government
when the grcat majority ~ its citizens
are tenants 81 a small minority Your
system (proicctlve torlIl has driven
the farm owuer from hts land ana
substituted the farm tenant.
Iiow Tar this picture portrays the
America OF to-day o. inc America ~
any year slncc he made that spc-ch
Ems American can answer. Even IN
Air. Bryuu's own State hp can Gnd an
agawer reht 81 his doors. Tor the fara
leids OF Nebraska have doubled in
value
"Murderous Gold Standard"
Bui during the four years succeeding
that speech Mr. Bryan's agitation grew
10 less nor did ire demon which he
had raised In his own imagination blde
with diminished head for Ia 1896 ne
again saw dcstitution threatening the
country. lie had a remedy for Il, a
Panecoa, a fetch which be held mp Tor
wosshIp-frce silver. Here are some
OF the things Mr Bryan said would
hapIeu II the gold standard were con
tlaued
a reply TINT II protection has slain
~ thousands the eald standard has
slain Sos tens Of thousands From
s3eech az Democratic National Conven.
tlon, July. 1904
DO not lct the Republicans bc4uuo
you about the future. The future ISL
written IN blood crushed o u yon By
pold."-From speech at Erie. Pa. Au-
gust. 1896
An my friends, there is another
reason why people have gone iuto the
cities and left the farms n &. DO
cause your Legislation has been caus
ing the foreclosure Of mortgages upon
tho gnrms Mark ms wordsll
n Use gold standard aoes on and peo
pie continue 70 complain. the gold stan
dard advocates Instead Of trying % Ina
prove the condlton q the people win
be- recommending that you close your
schools - that the people viii not real.
he how much they are suffering
frun speech Al Msnmonth, m, 0cto-
Der, 1894
But whom has the gsid standard
flainf What future dld IL Rtlla In
hloGdf What dlstriet schaeis asa II
aoset Again the condition or the
country makes a calm reply cohmtine
Che imprisoned orator.
Campaigning again in 1900 AIr Bry
su decided that Imperialism was an
other danger 20 the country. II Il were
continued the Fourth Of July would be-
forgotten By an Ameficana ana tie
"spirit Of T6r would become 4 thing
q the past Speaking at Lineoln. Aif.
Bryan said
Sees Death Of Pa~tgistism.
'-rhe Aght this year win BE- 70 carry
out the sentiment Of that song We hivs
- often repeated, ny County lis Of
Thee II We lose. our childreh aud
or chlldFen'a chndroh viii not enccam
% tue spirit of that cong and cciebfa,
lions 81 the Fourth o. Juiy win pass
away, for the spirit u the empire Wn
bo upon as.
70 there apy sR9i ID fhese UBited
States where Tie k6lflt ~ t1f6 a dea1