New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-05
TO FARMERS
Bruan Talks of His "War Record,
Then Decries appropriations.

Lincoln, Sept 4-william J. Bryan mace t"o
avowedly non-politicai speeches to MS nome ionS
to-day. The first at the state far sfouitas'
the occasion being the dedication of the new audi
torium and the second was at the Tabatha Home
near Fafryiew where a new building was dedi-
Gated as a hospital for the aged In ms TAR
grounds speech he was introduced oy @osetHot
Sheldon, who was captain in MI BRYAN 1857
ment in the Spanisl-American War. MT DrSaAi
said that among the candidates for President tnis
year he was the "only with war recora-
Most of the officers of his regiment, like Governor
Sheldon he said. were Republicans thoush 'Ne
majority of the enlisted men were democrats
Addressing himself to the farmers. he said IN
part:
My friends, more stingy in maklng gt5 5ng
appropriations for the farmer than for any 0ce9
large class OF our people MY s u orsanized' or
about that, before we succeeded in getting a de
gTeatest Agricultural country in the world, and
agriculture is the greatest industry IN our SCUM
fore the farmer got sea- baekWaTd we have been
f9u recog9izng the farmers place in our govern
rnent and among our institutions. What Will you
s stE " on the Department of Agriculture
spend more than s25 on the army ana I'd n :s1s
We ought never to have than we spend on asfl-
think 1 am safe in saying that in no other other
department of learning has there been so InuG IN
agriculture I am glad to encourage the q bsn
lawyers through law schools established by the
government And have trained DOCTORS
through schools connected with our state lnSt1-
buttons, but. my friends, we are Just oeSlnnIh5
as important as the training of the doctor or the
lawyer. We will read the roll or United states
Senators and will find only two farmers among
them. Run down the list of congressman anu
YOU will find only few farmers among them
The discrimination that has been going on
against the farmer has tended 70 drive the peo3
pie from the farm to the town Our 1ederal
taxation is almost all collected through methods
that bear upon consumption. and when we tax
consumption instead of possession we make the
poer man paw more than his share and the rich
man less than his share, and there has hereto
fore been a constant drain of the farms In the
matter of collecting taxes. and when the taxes
appropriated and expended the money IS
upon the farms. Read the amount spent ships.
and then figure, IL you can, what portion or That
gets TO the farmer! Take up the other large APP
propriations, and with the exception OF pensions
I do not know of any large appropriation IN
which the farmer has anything like his share in
proportion TO his number.
Mr.. Bryan received many hundreds of persons
to-day talked into a photograph discussed poll
tics and sandwiched in work in his office.
Perhaps the most important visitor was Herman
Bidder, ofsNey- York. Mr. Ridder has travelled ex-
tensiveIy over the United States since the Denver
convention, and laid before the Presidential candi
date statistics tending to that all of the
tional prominence are this year supporting Mr..
Bryan. He thought the real issue of the present
campaign was the tariff question. and prophesied
that the Democratic national ticket would be elected
this fall.