Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — BRYAN AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN AND LABOR.

In his Labor day speech at Chicago ’ Mr. Bryan, as usual, tried to array class against class. He told the toilers that they did not get just rewards for their labor. Of course he said the Democratic party was willing and ready to set things straight and make everybody rich and happy by law. The laborers of the country have not yet forgotten Democratic efforts in this line from 1893 to 1897. But in his attempt to befuddle the minds of his hearers, Bryan gives his case away In the following words: “If an officer in the industrial army were sure that his children and his children’s children would inherit his position, he might feel possibly indifferent as to those under his command, but the children of those who, today, work for wages may employ the children of those who, in this generation, are employers. This uncertainty as to j future generations, as well aS our I sense of justice, should lead us to | make the government as nearly perfect as possible, for a good government is the best legacy that a parent can leave to his child?* It ls very true that the children of employes today may be the employers of the children of employers next year. This disproves Bryan’s claim that labor has no show In this country and that equal opportunity is not open to all in this free land of ours. While Mr. Bryan was playing for the labor vote at Chicago, William R. Hearst was In lowa flaying the Nebraskan on his labor record. Hearst proved by affidavits that Bryan when a member of congress in 1893 referred to laboring men as beggars and employers as robbers. The fact’ls that, according to Bryan’s own judgment, there are none exactly right and good in this world except William Jennings Bryan.