The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
ALL MEN ARE AS ONE.
Rank Republicans, Populists and
Democrats
UNITE IN A SILVER LEAGUE

at LfncoInP Post Hall Last Nf@ht-JOhn
Brsidenthal, 4. X. Holiday. ST.,
Fred Close, E. b. Guild, a. b. Jet
more, DR.. McLaIlin. A. L. QuintOn,
ana O hers Equally Prominent Sign |
the Roll.
Fifty persons were present at Lincoln |
Post hall at the organization meeting of |
the Topeka branch of the Silver Knights
of America, the new organization for the
promotion of the reconciliation of silver
of which Senator William III. Stewart of
Nevada is president
Those in attendance were enthusiastic,
and the meeting was a good one. Rep
resentatives of all parties were there, and
the first speaker was A. B. Jetmore of
Topeka, Republican. His speech was
listened to carefully. He said:
Protection to American products and
gold standard cannot go together. Free
trade and a single gold standard go hand
in hand. (Applause.)
There is not enough gold and silver
in the world. deducting that which must
be used in the arts and sciences, to pay
the interest that goes out of this country
for one year.
81 don't advocate a new party to fight
gold with. Agitate it in your own party
until it is satisfied that to refuse IL recog-
milton means disaster aud perhaps ruin"
| Captain S. ]. Tate of Goodland, state
organizer, presided at the meeting. J.
! w. Cobbey read the manifesto issued by
the national secretary. o. G, SAbin of
Washington, D. c.
After asserting that the order is for
the purpose of advancing the cause of
| the coinage of silver 16 to 1, aud educat-
| ing the people to eject officers to that
end. the manifesto says:
'1f men are elected and a majority is,
| secured of those, who are favorable to
the reconciliation of silver, pros perity
will be the result; but if. on the contrary
men are elected, a majority of whom are
the creatures OF the gold trust. hope will
begin to die and the country will sink
into condition of financial servltude,
intelligence will be dwarfed, labor pau
perized, and want and destitution will
become the familiar guests at the fire.
side of every producer in this land. be it
the farmer mechanic, or any one follow
ing a productive art.
"The crisis upon us is the most serious
that has been presented to the American
people since the days preceding the
revolution of 1916. 1t would be a
thousand times better for every living
man today. in this country, if in forward
ing the cause of the reconciliation of
silver, he lost every cent of his property,
and even lost his life, than to have it go
down to posterity, bound to the Car of
the Rothschilds and their satellites. in
surfing to his children and his children
children ages of want, ignorance. desti-
tuition, and the most squalid slavery
which surely will result in a
"go.d standard victory. The picture OF
an English mother, working at an iron
forge, hammering iron. and making
nails, from early dawn to late at night,
for $1.27 week, and the further picture
of the Japanese woman working at the
cotton looms of Toxic for cents day
dispiacing the girls of Massachusetts or
Georgia will become familiar in this
country, if English ideas and English
practices are to be grated permanently
upon our institutions"
There were calls for John W. Breiden-
thai and he arose at his seat and made i
, short speech in which he said:
II believe silver has been treated I'M
fairly and will always defend it. but it
seems to me that if this organization ia
to do any good it must reach those who
are not here tonight members oil
political parties, whose leaders are the
slaves of gold. l believe this meeting
can do nothing but discuss the question
informally and adjourn. This is muct
smaller gathering than I want to see
Many men who are friends of silver are
staying away tonight, and so keeping
hundreds of others away, particularly OF
the labOring men. We don't want it sale
of this movement, that it is the same ole
crowd of calamity howlers, reformer
and anarchists But if you intend to q
, ahead l am with you, sink or swim"
MIR. BreidenthaPs speech was warmly
applauded
Mr.. Tate here explained that Their,
t were already thirty-four states organized
J with the capital of each as a nucleus
and that the organization ought TO e,
ahead.
I Ira D. MayhalI of Chicago arose an,
made a short but vigorous speech il
which he said that the man who be
!, lieved in a single gold standard was "no
a true American and ought to be annihi
lated"
1--WE are drunk with Incidence" sal,
Mr.. Mayhall. when [ am in my gray
= 1 want it engraved on my bme ALI
> tombstone, if it's only piece of galvan
lied iron gas pipe, He was an American
= and favored the coinage of silver 16 to
{Applause.)
The meeting then went into executiv
session for organization purposes, bu
afterward acce pied Mr. Breidenthal'
suggestion to wait for a larger gather
ing The real organization will TAX
place at Lincoln post hall next Thursda
evening, at which time Judge ]. V. Beck
a man and others will address the meeting
The following people of all partie
= have already signed the roll and signi
i fed their intention of becoming charte
q members;
= Edwin A Austin, N. B. Arnold. ]
9 Barrett, John A. Barrett, w. T. Birt
John Breidenthal, Charles Brush, P. 3
a Coney, Emma H. Coney, Arthur Clark, T
o E. Chesuey, A F, Chesney, o. M. Chea
8 ney, w. J. Costigsn, Fred J. Close, Gee
n ". Clark, P. E. Cook, E P. Collins, E
It B Daley. W. NJ. Dignon, Z. D. Dignor
# F. w. Dey, Charles n. Duncan, D. Nj