Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Proof of the Pudding In the Eating Thereof.

THESE ASSERTIONS WERE , MADE FOUR YEARS AGO BY MR. BRYAN. WHO NOW ASKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO INTRUST THEIR GOVERNMENT TO HIS DIRECTION FOR FOUR YEARS.

INSTEAD. WE HAVE HAD FOUR YEARS OF UNPRECEDENTED PROSPERITY. THERE HAVE BEEN NO DREGS IN THE GUP. GOLD STANDARD. GOOD TIMES AND ALL THAT MR. BRYAN PROMISED THAT WE SHOULD ROT HAVE. WE HAVE ENJOYED.

;" ; 7 If we are defeated In this campaign, there is nothin* before the people bat soar years more of hard times and greater agitation. Ho you think we have drained the cap of sorrow to its dregs? No, my friends, yoa cannot set a limit to the present hard time*. Business men complain that business conditions are bad. I warn them that these conditions cannot be improved by following up the policies of the Republican party. The Republican party produces a policy that makes hard times. All those who love hard times ought to vote for the Republican ticket, and all those who are tired of hard times have got to vote the Democratic ticket, if they would expect any relief. These are hard times There will be harder times if the gold standard continues. If you ask how the gold standard affects the farmer, we tell yon that the gold standard lowers the price of products of him who sells without lowering his tuxes or debts. If yon ask how the gold standard affects the laboring men. we reply that It destroys the opportunity for labor, multiplies the number of idle men. and fills onr streets with those anxions for work, who cannot find the opportunity. The gold standard. by increasing Idleness, brings poverty to those who ought to have enough and to spare. ihe gold standard means a dearer dollar and falling prices, and fulling prises- menu bard times. If we have a gold standard, prieee are as certain to fall as a stone which Is thrown into the air. An American dollar will bay two Mexican dollars and also about two bushels of wheat at the same time. There was ■ time when an Amarlcan dollar would bay only one Mexican dollar, and then an American dollar would bay only one bnshel of wheat. If the time ever comm when an American dollar will boy three Mexican dollars, then It will buy three bushels of wheat Yon know that with the slightest prospect of foreign war we would suspend go,d payments, and go either to s silver or to a paper basis st ones. C.j in til yen have bimetallism mlUhands will stand on the corner and wonder when the .gold standard will bring them good times.