Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — CONTRAST IN BRYAN ARGUMENTS [ARTICLE]

CONTRAST IN BRYAN ARGUMENTS

The workingman wants no sophistries, no abstruse arguments. What lie does understand is his daily bread and the daily bread for his wife and little ones. Give him a chance to earn It." —Bryan in 1896. • “Republicans assert that the workingman has a full dinner pail. I ask, in the first place, whether

a full dinner pail is all that a laboring man needs. It is an insult to the wage-earner to say that his thoughts are entirely centered 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 wlien he is hungry and is happy whenever his hunger is appeased.”—Bryan in 1900.