, 1896-10-15
They are afraid every minute that

They are afraid every minute tina
somebody is going to sell l.. They hav,
no confidence in the friendship of MAJ
or woman. They think they are al
wanting their money. They think thei.
children are anxious to go to their fun
eral. CLaughter.) That all their heir:
would like to look on their mausoleum
Gaughtsr.) That is the trouble with
chem. And another trouble is, thai
most CT them are insane. They dom
know when they have got enough
What would you think of q man thai
had 500, 900 neckties? What would you
think CT that man getting up at
o'clock in the morning, going through
the II @ and slush until n o'clock at
night, to get him another necktie?
(~Laughter.)
HE HATES THE TRUSTS.
With all my heart / hate the trusts
and syndfca.es that conspIre to rob
honest people. and I want the laws
against them enforced. (Applause.)
But ] have nothing agains: the man
that makes money by honest methods.
l am glad to live in a country where
its people can get rich. (Arplause.) 1t
is a spur in the side of ambition. The
moor always have hopes: and If not for
themselves at least for their children.
Why shculd we envy the successful?
Why should VIC hate them? And why
5hoUld we array class against class? 1t
is all wrong. For instance here is a
Young man, and he is Industrious. He
IS in love with a girl around the cor
ner. She is in his brain all day. and in
his heart all night Uaughter), and
while he is working he is thinking. and
he gets a little ahead. and they get
married, and he is an honest man. And
he gets credit, and the first thing you
know he has a good business of his
own and he gets rich; educates his
children, and his old /. filled with
content and love. Good. His compan-
ions bask in the sunshine of idleness.
They have wasted their time, wasted
heir wages in dissipation and when
The winter Of life comes, when the snow
ia!ls on the barren fields of the wasted
days, then, shivering with cold. pinch
ed witch hunger, they curse the man
who has succeeded. Thereupon they all
said they were going to vote for Bry-
LET THE RICH SPEND MONEY.
The citizens of America should be
friends. We have no permanent classes.
The children Of the rich today may
work for the man who worked for
them. Sons of millionaires may be
mendirants. sons of mendicants may
be m~illionaires. Applause and cries
of That's right."D The great republic
opens every avenue to distinction and
wealth to her children. That is why /
like the country. That is why l don't
want ii d~ishonored. l want no class
feeling. Blessed is that country where
the rich are ~eXtravagant and the poor
arc economical. Laughter.) Miser-
able that country where the rich are
economical ard the poor alc extrava-
giant. A rich spendthrift is a blessing.
A rich miser is a curse Extravaganza
!s a splendid form OF charity. Let the
rich spend, let them build, let them give
work to their fellow men, and l will
find no fault with their wealth, provid,
ed they obtained it honestly. Then
is another thing. They are try
ing to fan the flames of hate between
the south and west on one side and the
east on the other. Why should we of
Illinois hate the east? Give us some
Why should we hate the east?
They never loaned us a dollar that we
borrow: they never loan
ed us a dollar that we did not make the
money has helped to civilizr and build
up the west, and this City of Chicago,
the wonder of the world the second
city on the continent, was built up by
energy and eastern money, and
eastern men. (Applause.) Why should
hate the east? There is where we
got a good many of our mistakes, and
there is where we got a good deal of our
l like the east and | love the west. |
love the republic. There arc some peo-
pie in it that | do not admire Qaugh-
teri, but I believe in giving them a
chance, and if they have not the sense
to take 1t their children may.
MUST MAKE A CHOICE.
Now, then, we have got to make our
] want the republic one and
indivisible. Great applause.) Then
you have got to choose between Nc
and Bryan. it won't take you
long to make up your minds. l admit
that Bryan is honest. If he was not,
mis- intellectual pride would not allow
TO say what he does. He is hon.
est. He is a populist, a socialist, and a
new democrat. Great laughter.) His
head is filled with vagaries and his
is a kind of political insane asy-
without any keeper. Daughter.)
Mckinley is a trained man. McKin- |
ley has a leveled head. He is sensible, |
He is an American in every
drop Of his blood. (App!ause.) He
a soldier when Bryan was in his
mothers arms. He was a soldier, he is
4 statesman. he is the apostle Of protec-
lion (%applause), he knows thc road that