The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-22
ANSWERS wKINLEY.
Bryan Devotes Some Attention to
Paragraphs in His Speech.

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Paragraphs in His Speech.
Dover. Del, Sept. 22.-Candidate Bry-
an began his experimenting in Della
ware yesterday afternoon by address
ing a large crowd which had assem-
bled at the fair grounds to hear him
Excursion trains brought many people
from other parts of Delaware and the
eastern shore of Maryland.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Our opponents tell US that the trOu-
bic is the tariff question and that if we
could Just have more tariff, then times
would get good again. I want to read
you an extract from a speech made on
last Saturday by the Republican can
didate for president at Canton. He
said:
" Under the Republican protective
policy we enjoyed for more than 80
years the most marvellous prosperity
that has ever been given to any nation
of the world. We not only had indi-
vidual prosperity, but we had national
prosperity Now there is a statement
made within a week by the presidential
candidate on the Republican ticket,
pointing back for 80 years, from 1880 to
1880 and telling the people that during
the period we enjoyed the most mar
VelOuS prosperity Of any nation on the
earth, and that we had both individual
prosperity and national prosperity.
want to show you how distance lends
enchantment to the view. I want to
show you by this same. witness, by
* y
er 80 years of his kind of policy the
farmers of this country are not pros
porous. If you will take the report filed
with the Mckinley bill on the 14th of
April, 1890, you will find the words
which I wish to quote: That there is
widespread depression in this industry
today cannot be doubted speaking of
agriculture. That is what the presi-
Dental candidate said when he deiber-
ately wrote the report.
That there is widespread depression
in this industry today cannot be doubt
ed. Great applauSe) Again, in that
same report he said: One of the chief
complaints now prevalent among our
farmers is that they can get no price
for their crops at all commensurate
with the labor and capital invested
After 80 years of this policy which
the Republican candidate says will
bring prosperity. Let me read again:
We have not believed that our people
already suffering from low prices, can
or will be satisfied with legislation,
which will result in lower prices After
80 years of that kind of policy he tells
low prices and that no country e7her
suffered when prices were fairly re-
munerative in every farm product.
THAT is what he said in 1890. that
there was depression in agriculture aft
er 80 years of his tariff policy, and
without prosperity in agriculture there
could not be prosperity among the lead
ing industries of the country"
My friends, divide society in two
classes; on the one side put the non
producers, and on the other side put
the producers of wealth, and you will
find that in this country the majority
of the laws are made by the nOn-prO-
ducers, instead of the producers of
wealth, and just as long as the non
producers make the laws, just so long
it will be more profitable to be q nom
producer of wealth. Bismarck tried to
arouse the farmers of Germany to
throw out these drones and take charge
of legislation themselves. I suppose
they will call Bismarck an agitatOr
daughter and applause.) I suppose
they viii say that he ought not to ar
ray one class of society against the 9TH
er. OF course don't know how drones
feel in a bee hive, but if drones could
talk and make speeches will hazard
the guess that You could not tell one
of their speeches from the speech of a
gold standard advocate. daughter and
applauSe.)
Il viii venture to say that if the
drOnes could talk and make speeches
you could not distinguish their speech
es from the speech made by the heads
of those great trusts who call every
body anarchists who do not believe with
them. I will venture that if a drOne
could talk and write and express his
ideas in language that there is not a
member of a syndicate that has beaten
this government who would not take
the drone's speech and use it as his
own without being accused of plagiar-
ism. Laughter) My friends, that is
the only class issue that we raise, and
if they say the people who fight the ma
TONS battles in time of war have a
right to do the legislating in time of
peace is raising class against class,
then I am willing to be called an agi-
tatOr. Great applause and cheers)
IF to tell the people who produce
wealth that they have a. right to make
the laws so as to secure to them a just
portion of the wealth they produce in
stead Of allowing the drOnes to make
the laws and take the money, then I
plead guilty to the charge of stirring
up discomfort. Great appIause)
viii bet that if the drone were in poll
ties that party lines would not weigh
very much with him if he had a bust
ness interest on the other side. Great
applause.)
you show me the head of a syndi-
cate or trust and I will show you a man
who, whenever his business interests
become involved, grows suddenly pat
riotic and tells you that he loves his
country too much to let anybody make
more out of legislation than he does.
daughter and applause.) You read in
the gold standard papers how they pa
rade in great big head lines, every time
a Democrat leaves the Democratic