People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — Why the Plain People Will Vote For Bryan. [ARTICLE]

Why the Plain People Will Vote For Bryan.

Because he is against the trusts and monopolies and they arc against him. Because all the enemies of the common people and of their interests are against him. Because he is not mortgaged. Because he is thoroughly honest. Because the plutocrats hate him. Because he is in favor of an income tax. Because he is in favor of American independence in the matter of free coinage as well as in everything else. Because he is opposed to government by injunction. Because he will carry out the platform upon which he will be elected. Because he believes in the widest possible diffusion of moderate welfare for the whole people. Because he is opposed to laws to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Because his whole public and private career is without a stain or a flaw. Because there has been too much legislation for the somebodies in the past and it is time to legislate a little for everybody. Because those politicians like Tom Reed and Dave Hill, who never earned a dollar in thoir lives except by holding public office, are against him. Because if he be not elected this time the people may not have another chance at self government, but will be living under the despotism of wealth. If gold is not scarce, if there is enough gold with which to do the business of the world, why is it that every time the comparatively small sum of $500,000 or $1,000,000 of ft comes into or goes out of the country the newspapers all make a big fuss about It?