Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1912 — WILSON BEFORE THE BAB [ARTICLE]

WILSON BEFORE THE BAB

Woodrow Wilson, Democratic candidate for President, being summoned before the bar of the American people as a witness for an in behalf of the Republican party, was examined and testified as follows: Question: Did you or did you not, in your History of the American People, refer to the years 1893 to 1896, when the Democratic party was in power, as “THOSE FATAL YEARS OF DEPRESSION”? Answer: I did, Question: Did you or did you not describe the terrible conditions in those years in the following language, upon pages 235 and 236 of Volume 5: “A great poverty Mid depression had come upon the western mining regions and upon the agricultural regions of the west and south,” and “Men of the poorer sort were idle everywhere and filled with a sort of despair. All of the larger cities and manufacturing towns teemed with unemployed workingmen, who were WITH THE UTMOST DIFFICULTY KEPT FROM STARVATION by the systematic efforts of organized charity”? Answer: I did. Question: Did you or did you not, after describing this distress in detail and relating that millions of American gold went across the sea to pay foreign creditors, use these words, on page 263: “NOT UNTIL THE YEAR 1897, WHEN THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION CAME IN, DID THE CRISIS SEEM TO BE PAST”? Answer: I did. The Republican party asks no better witness against a change from sixteen years of Republican prosperity to four years more of Democratic distress than Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate for President.