Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAIT TO BE PROSPEROUS? [ARTICLE]

DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAIT TO BE PROSPEROUS?

DO YOU WANT IT? Are you a Workingman? Are you a Miner? Art* you a Farmer? Are you a Mechanic? Are you a Printer? Are you a Railway Employe? Are you a Clerk? Are you a Traveling Salesman? Are you a Wage-earner of any kind? ■ DO YOU WANT IT? Do you want to continue tlie present good business conditions, which give employment to all and better wages than ever before ■paid? If so, vote tor McKinley. fur under his administration, the protective tariff and sound money principles for which the \ -Republican party legislated, the depression, the idleness and want of 1893-9(5 have vanished. DO YOU WANT IT? Remember the panic, the depression. the idleness . ami want of 1893*96. That was the result of a change of policy in only one great factor of onr national welfare. The election of Bryan j would mean a return to all the causes which led to that panic. It would also add to them two other equally potent causes for pnui<— ui change of currency and- a change in our foreign policy. _ Do you want a panic in 1901-4 far worse than that of 1893-96? Do you want idleness and starvation and millions subsisting on charity just as they did in 189£? Ts so. vote for Bryan and you will get ft. DO YOU WANT IT? Mr. Bryan proposes to give up that valuable stepping stone to the commerce of the Orient—the Philippine Inlands. The countries commercially adjacent to Manila. «o*w buy $1,200,000,000 a year of goods chiefly, of the kind we make. Yet they only take 6 per cent of them from the United States. Now that we have the Philippines. we have a trading center from which we can command a good share of that business, just

as England is commanding it from her Asiatic stations, at Hongkong and Singapore. Do you want to lose it? If so, vote for Bryan and you will get it. DO YOU WANT IT? The change of tariff policy which upset and demoralized every business and industry in '93 was bad enough. But now it is proposed to couple with it another change which would multiply its disturbing-and destructive power upon business and every industry. Bryan proposes to change Sound Money for Cheap Money- a Hmi- = vtred'Cent Dollar Dollar. Do you want it? If so, vote for Bryan and you will get it? DO YOU WANT IT? In 1892 this country was more prosperous, than ever before. Employment was more generaU and wages higher -than they had ever been. The people, misled by the assertions of the Democratie office-seek-ers, tried the experiment of changing the policy of the government on the tariff question. What was the result? On the very day following the election business began to decline, dealers canceled their contracts for home manufactures, factories reduced their working forces and curtailed their orders for the product of the mine, the forest and ihe field, and uncertainty took the place of confidence in the business world.What followed? Every workingman, every employe and every farmer whose market was thus curtailed remembers. There was a panic, depression, gloom, enforced idleness and want. All this was the result of a change in our tariff policy which affected the great manufacturing interests and which' threatened labor. Bryan now threatens to lower the tariff and take away protection from labor. Do you want it? If so, vote for Bryan and you will get it.