Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — BRYAN ON LABORERS. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN ON LABORERS.

In a speech on Labor Day, W. R. Hearst, who is doing what he can for Taft, said that Mr. Bryan whUe a member of congress, spoke of workingmen as “public beggars." Hearst afterward had his speech containing this lie printed as an advertisement in many papers. As additional evidence of the unprincipled character of Hearst, what Mr. Bryan really said about laborers is set out below. It will be found in a speech delivered by Mr. Bryan in congress on Jan. 13, 1894 and is as follows: "The laboring men of the country do not ask for benevolence. They have been paraded before you as people who live by the consent of somebody else; they have been set before you' as a class demanding constant help and assistance.. I protest against this slander on the brawn and muscle, the brain and sinew of this country. I protect against their being placed before the country In the attitude of beggars. They do not ask fpr pity; they do not beg for charity; they simply demand justice." Governor Hanly sayß that the ap propriations made by the last regular' session for some of the state's institutions were not big enough and that he has used his contingent fund to help them out. Perhaps if fewer costly car riages and such like had been bought there Would have been more money left for the real needs of the institutions. On the face of things it looks as if there was more than enough appropriated If a proper economy had been observed.