Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — THEN AND NOW [ARTICLE]

THEN AND NOW

Mr. Bryan's Attempt to Ring In a Dinner Pail Change. Going back for a moment to Mr. Bryan's recent St. Louis speech he is found to have said: "Republicans assert that the work ingmau has a full dinner pail. 1 ask, in the first place, whether a full dinner pail is all that a laboring may needs? it is an insult to the say that his thoughts'are entirely (filtered upon his_ physical wants. Republican speakers and editors assume that the laboring man is all stomach. They act upon the theory that he complains only when he is hungry ami is happy whenever his hunger is appeased.’’ But four years ago many thousands heard Mr. Bryan declare, and ring the changes on the statement, that the workingman’s dinner table touched the heart of the whole question of prosperity and adversity. “The workingman wants no sophistries, no abstruse arguments,’’ was his doctrine then. “What he does understand is his daily bread and the dally bread for his wife and little ones. Give him a chance to earn it.” Has the Mr. Bryan of 1900 shed the skin he wore in 1890,,0r has he only painted out the spots?