Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-09-03
BRYAN AS PROPHET
FAILS TO QUALIFY
Disasters He Foretold Never
C0gne to Pass.
OPPOSITE is ALWAYS TRUE.
Gold Standard Does Not Slay, Nor
Does 1t Write Future In Blood.

Ices it wEltS r uIGfe IN DioCG,
As prophet William Jennings Bry
ali has never been a success. The ca
laniies which he has foretold would
have brought unlimited disaster TO the
country if they had ever been realized
But they never came to pass. The har
rowing pictures which he painted We're
merely tigments Of his imagination,
based on absolutely no foundation
whatever.
1t is we'll to have Americans remem-
Der 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 prophesying
again. 4 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
lis speech delivered March IS 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
or circumstances upon that tree and
has been crushed within its folds his
companions have stood around and
shouted, Great is protectionu %* Thus
in every state so far as these stats-
tics have been collected. the proportion
of home owning farmers Is decreasing
and that of tenant farmers increasing
This means but one thing. 1t means
land OF landlords and tenants, and
backed by the history of every nation
that has gone down, ! say TO you that
no people can continue a free people
Under free government when the
great majority of its citizens are ten
ants OF small minority. Your sys-
TEN protective tariff has driven the
farm owner from his land and sub
stituted the farm tenant
How far this picture portrays the
America of today or the America of
any year since he made that speech
any American can answer. Even in
MI Rryan's own state he can find an
answer right at his doors, for the farm
lands 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 be
had raised III his own ina gina ton hide
with diminished head for in 1866 he
again saw destltution threatening the
country. He had remedy for il. a
panacea, a fetish which he held I'd for
Worship-free silver Here are some
OF tie things Mr.. Bryan said woul
happen If the gold standard were con
tlnued:
Il reply that II protection has slain
its thousands the gold standard has
Slain its tens of thodsanas.'' - From
Speech Al Democratic National Con.
yention July, 1886.
DO not let the Republicans beyuiIe
You about lie future, The future is
writ,en IL blood crushed ont OF YOU b,
gold. From Speech at F...'.c. ia. Au
gust, 1896.
= H. my friends, t.ie.c IS arUrl2r raa.
son why ueople hay2 gene into the
cities and ieIt the farms. Ii ia becaas,
your legislation has bcc& cauSiny the !
foreclosure Of mortgages upon tn
farms. . +" Mark my words. IL ;he lolG !
standard goes On and people continue
To complain tile gold standard adyo, |
Gates instead of trying to improve tic |
condition of the people will be recon-. |
mending that you close your schools Sc |
that the people will not realize how |
much they are suffering" From |
Speech at Monmouth, H., October !
1896
But whom has the gold standard |
slain? What future did it write in !
blood? What district schools did It
close? Again the condition Of the
country makes calm reply confuting
the ipapaseaoped orator.
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