Show BRYAN WAS AFRAID TO READ THE PAPERS grand rapids mich april 16 in his opera house speech last night mr bryan said 1 I do not blame president roosevelt tor for tho the financial depression if I 1 had been president I 1 would have been blamed tor for the trouble roosevelt 8 bays ays he only turned on tho the light I 1 only blamo blame him for having a gas fixture so BO bad it has taken him live five years to turn it on when a gambler in wall street gets cold today the whole country has to shiver no one in the united states gets more mom plea pleasure suro out of what tue the president has done than I 1 do I 1 think I 1 am ills hl s greatest beneficiary he ha has s made my ideas respectable and the people use me better too the papers speak more kindly ot of me tho the cartoons are not so bad they used to make such horrid pictures of of me that I 1 was afraid to have the papers come into the house mr air bryan described a cartoon showing him as aa a featherless bird sitting on the limb beside a nest on which the president depleted as a bird wi wat sitting and the presidents nest was wai feathered with feathers taken from the bryan bird only one feather was left tariff refo reform r m and this the president had given warning he would take after election well I 1 am willing to raise feathers it the president will use them said mr bryan |