The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-18
1.-THE MORE YOU SAY THE LESS PEOPLE
REMEMBER" ONE WORD WITH YOU
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be to give the American people the
foot and mouth disease AS Governor
Click termed it when he called the
legislature together in special session.
People will be trampling around over
the country talking, that but for
Bryan's speech would have spared the
public. Schools will be teaching ora
tory. Everybody will be talking on all
occasions, and it will take the Ameri-
can people twenty-five years to recover
from 1t and the amount OF woe and suf-
fering will never be computed. The
disease will be called Organism and
audiences will be Organized
Mr.. Bryan did not try again in New
York to do what he did in Chicago, and
he was very wise in not doing Ii. 1 have
read his New York speech and see that
he bodily indorses the idea that 'distinc-
tons in society will always exist under
every just government and that equal
ity of talents, of education, or or
wealth, cannot be produced by human
institutions His speech is exceeding
ly conservative. He does not seek TO
overthrow existing institutions be
viii respect and uphold property rights.
He says his party understands the
genius of our institutions and are
staunch supporters of our form OF gov
eminent. He endeavorS to point out TO
the bankers how free silver will be for
their interests, and how the gold stan
dard is ruinous to merchants and manu-
facturers.' If that which he says is
true he does not fathom the politics of
the Kansas Pop. They do not want any
party or any laws of that kind. If they
thought that free silver would benefit
= ia
it, The Populists are not infatuated
with our present institutions: and while
Mr.. Rryan's speech may sound well in
New York ne must not make that
speech in Kansas, or he will lose every
Populist vote in the state-especially
when he says the following:
We (meaning himself and his parity
contend that free and unlimited coinage
| by the United States alone will raise the
bullion value of silver to its coinage
value, and thus make silver bullion
worth s1.29 per ounce in gold throughout
the world
IF that is so IL will make silver as
difficult TO get as gold, because it Will
be worth gold, and the farmer will sell
his wheat on the gold standard. as be-
fore. If his legislation is going 10 main
tain a gold standard, the Popuiists OF
Kansas don't want 1t. The Populists
of Kansas expect by free coinage that
there is meant a condition of things by
| which all the silver OF the world will
come to the United States and be coin
ed. and that just as fast as a wagon
load of silver dollars is coined, the
wagon viii be driven out into the high
way and man with a scoop shovel will
throw it out and let the people scram-
bic for the coin. Mr.. Bryan cannot cap
! ture Kansas Populists by saying that
/ free coinage will bring a silver dollar
| Immediately up to the gold standard
/ where IL viii be just as hard TO get as
gold. The Kansas Populist don't want
anything rated by gold; he hates gold
and wants 10 see X abolished. and /.
the Popultstic farmer must sell his
wheat on the gold standard. he won'i
| be able TO see where the benefits Of
free silver come in Mr.. BRYAN s
speech is full OF things which will b
conclusively answered as the cam
| paign progresses. and by the Isl Of Dc
tober those who are managing his cam
paisn will wish that speech was sunk
a thousand fathoms deep II Mr.. BY
ans views could be demonstrated in ad-
vance, on the effect OF free co1ags
bringing all silver Up 20 gid standard
( every Republican IN Kansas would vote
for IL and every opuiist against II