Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — BRYAN’S FINISH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRYAN’S FINISH.

Don Quixote Bryan proposes to attack the prosperity mill.

Scriptural Warning* for Bryanites. “Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee.” “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they held is their own foot taken.” “He multtplieth words without knowledge. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?” “For promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South.” “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.” “He that hath knowledge spareth his words; even a fool when he holdeth his peace Is counted wise.” “Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.” “Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil.” “Stand ye at the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” “Amend your ways and your doings.” “And one of the chamberlains said before the king. ‘Behold also the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, standeth in the house of Haman.’ Then the king said, ‘Hang him thereon.’ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for the Mordecai.” “He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.”—lndianapolis Journal. One Farmer’s Share. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat tells of a farmer in Nebraska who bought 2,000 sheep in Cleveland’s time at $2.25 a head and who has sold them in these prosperous days of McKinley and protection at $4.35 a head, the total amount received being $8,700, and the profit $4,200. This may or may not have been this farmer’s “share” of McKinley prosperity, according to the Bryan way of reckoning, but it is a profit well worth making and is about $8,700 more than the farmer would have received for his sheep if Bryan had been elected four years ago and the Cleveland policy of free wool continued. The sum of $8,700 is a long way better than nothing, and to that Nebraska farmer the election ot McKinley was just as much better than the election of Bryan as $8,700 is better than nothing. That ought, as it doubtless will be, enough to secure his vote for McKinley, without any fine figuring as to whether be had his full share of prosperity or not. One thing is sure, and that is that he got a far fuller measure of prosperity than he would ever get under free trade. Not a Good American. The Burlington Hawkeye has an editorial on “Bryan as the Little American.” The title Is a good one. There is very little of anything American about Bryan. America is in favor of going ahead; Bryan of lagging behind. America is in favor of financial honesty; Bryan is not. In everything that is distinctively American Bryan is to be found on the opposite side.—Peoria (Ill.) Journal. The Beat Qualification. President McKinley is not a “flighty” man. William J. Bryan is. His name associated with nearly every cranky political notion ever proposed in the United States. The best qualification which a President can have is common sense. President McKinley has it— Shn Francisco Chronicle. • r Two Campaign Button*. The Republican campaign button will have a picture of McKinley and underneath a picture of a full dinner pail. Bryan’s physiognomy; might surmount a free soup house to carry out the idea for the other side—El Paso (Texas) Herald.

Outcome of the attack.