The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-24

| the rear mat IS expressed Is NOT 1edy
that if elected VIII not enforce the law
Applause) I have said before, and
say it again, that If, by the SURFACES OF
my countrymen, 1 ann placed in the po-
sition which is the highest position
within the gift Of the people Of the
world, every law shall be enforced.
against the great as well as against the
small. Gong applause.) It Is not a
fear Of lawlessness. my friends. Think
OF men who have transgressed being
afraid there will be lax enforcement
OF the law Think Of men who have con-
sidered themselves greater than the
government, who are afraid the gov
eminent WI not be great enough. ]
know why these men are afraid to have
the Chicago ticket elected. II is be-
cause these trusts, these great corpora
tons. these great combines, this great
aggregated wealth, is enjoying unjust
privileges. tremendous applause
They know that the attorney general
whom will appoint II elected. will not
stand there to defend the great corpora
tons when he ought to enforce the law.
Great applause)
TILDEN QUOTED.
They say that we are trying to de-
stroy our institutions. Let me read you
Or. Assiduous efforts are making to
I'LL the public mind with apprehensions
of social disorder, to represent the great
measure Of reform which is now pre-
sented 10 you as disorganizing and to
stigmatize its supporters as destructive
and agrarian. We VINO now address
you have been the objects of these i'm
putations. We pause, therefore, for a
moment TO repel them. We entertain
no sentiments adverse 10 social order;
we seek not to destroy but to preserve
in their purity the institutions of our
country Whose language is that? 1t
IS the Language Of Samuel j. Tfider,
used in an address to farmers, mechan-
les and workingmen. There they are
accused the reformers as being disturb
erS OF the peace and they asserted then,
as We assert now, that We have come to
| save the government, which We love.
Great applause) They had just such q
contest then as we have now.
Let me read you again from the same
speech Of Tilden: a powerful money
| corporation, engaged in a death strug-
gle with the government to which it
owes its existence, assailed the purity
OF our press. the fidelity Of our repre-
sentatives and the freedom Of our cleo
tons, and by their control Of the cur
rency, spread far and wide dismay,
misery and ruin, In order to extort a
renewal of its privileges and power
from the fears and necessities Of the
community. The patriotic hrmness of
a v1rtuous people prevailed in that str71e-
gle, out the signs OF the times admonfsh
US tha1 We are now about to renew the
same contest. The great combination
OF political force and moneyed interests
IS again in the field to control elections.
10 change the administration of gov
eminent and to re-establish the supreor-
acy OF great moneyed corpora ton over
the currency and businesSo of the coun-
try
ASSAILS THE BANKS.
My friends, if he lived TODAY he
could not have described the opnosi-
tlon to free coinage Of silver in more
accurate terms than he described the
opposition in that day Of moneyed in
tereSts. That same money power exists
To-Day and Ut is doing the same work to-
DAY mat 1t did then and business men
are Terrified. Men who owe money are
threatened with bankruptcy unless they
sen tnelr Citizenship. Great applause
IL banker dares have an opinion of
MS own he is menaced with ruin and
-
ana inumidate their country correspon-
dents stand with the great London
banks, which have padlocks ON the
safes of the New York banks. Tilden
SAID that the patriotic firmness OF a
Virtuous people prevailed in that strug-
gle L believe the patriotism and the
hrmness Of patriotic people will pre-
vail In this struggle. (ApplauSe) To
think otherwise would be to despair Of
a government like this.
PLUTOCRACY.
my friends, we cannot have a free
government unless the people are free
TO act. If the people have to obtain con-
sent from a few people before they can
act, then the action Will have the same
effect as that Of a few people and we
will have a democracy merely in form. |
We would have a plutocracy, in effect, |
which is the worst form of government. |
81 have read these extracts to you. |
my friends, to show you that in this |
day we are assailed b ythe same people |
who assailed those who were striving |
to make government better in those |
days. who sought to tighten the burdens |
upon the backs Of the people and give |
them a larger share in the control Of the |
government under which they lived. |
This is history repeating itself and. my |
friends, We should not be discouraged |
by these things.
WHY CALLED ANARCHIST
'Iet me read an extract: Banded |
together by the same unity of interests
arraying them in an organized mass
which acts and operates through al tie
ra-lifica tons OF society. constituting
property by monopoly and perpetullies,
and binding to it political power and
esta blishing an aristocracy more potent,
more permanent and more oppressive
than any other which has ever existed:
such is the dynasty of associa ted and
privileged wealth which is the ruling
power at present in nearly every civil
lied nation
Those are the words Of Samuel j.
Tilden. I repeat them today, my
friends, that this government OF asso-
ciated wealth, this goveTnment Of cor
porations. is the most tyrannical gov
eminent that any people ever suffered
under. (Appiause) When you hear that
am opposed to governments, you
know l am opposed to governments by
when you know | am op-
posed to a government by great aggre-
cations of wealth, you wiz understand
Why they call me an anarchist, my
friends. Applause.)
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Mr.. Bryan then took up the financial
question He said the present financial
system contemplated the retirement OF
and treasury notes and the
of bank paper for gold.
Run TO its logical conclusion ne said.
he system contemplates gold. only. as
egal tender money. ana bank paper.
1nIy. as pape- money Under these con-