Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — AT HIS OLD GAME. [ARTICLE]

AT HIS OLD GAME.

Mr. Bryan cannot get away from his old habit of trying to arouse class prejudices and passions. It is first one class that is unfairly treated by the government, and then another. Recently at his home city, Lincoln, Neb., he spoke of the hard lot of the farmers and of how little benefit they receive from the lawmakers. This is all rot. Generally speaking, no class of people in the country have prospered more and been benefited more by general legislation than the farmers. Republican tariff legislation has made the best market in the world for American farmers. It built up the factories of the country and furnished a home market for the products of the farm. Gold standard legislation gives the farmer 100-cent dollars instead of 50-cent dollars, as proposed by Mr. Bryan. The great prosperity that has come to this country in recent years has nearly doubled the price of the land and the products of the farm. . What other class is so greatly benefited?