Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-21
and yellow. Mr.. Bryan acknowledged the
gift and continued as follows:


My friends, last Sunday morning. I heard
| a sermon appealing to Christian people to
| support the home missionaries, and, In the
| ter just Issued by the Presbyterian Board
| of Home Missions from its office, l6 Fifth
| avenue New York, and in this letter the
surprising statement was made: There is
| due to all missionaries and teachers from
| three TO six months salaries for services
are in conditions of real distress. Is 1t not
cruel to subject these self-denying men and
| their families to all this" And then in the
| letter there are quotations from the letters
| received by this board from those mission
aries, telling of the conditions which sur
| round them, and one man speaks of the
| fact that there Is no money in the commu-
nifty and he could not borrow even for good
| per month on loans. Another man writes
| that in the family they have 100 persons-it
is a schoo!-and not dollar to provide food
that. One writes: u hSy. % not a doi'ar to to
meet any emergency that may arise and
are desperate" Nothing stirred my in
| dignation more in this campaign than that
churches and missionaries urging them to
| stand by their standard and help them per-
petuate system of financial bondage. This
missionary letter was written by the board
| to the churches in order to secure some
assistance for those who are now suffering.
| Those letters show that the missionaries in
the field are behind In their
pay communities. cannot pay them
ana SSso the Tesqlt must must be wiS thS
drawn and that the work of preaching the
religion must be retarded because greed and
by those who are rich and want to be
richer, regardless of the disaster that comes
to them. So that, my friends, this question
was first a political question, which, as an
economic question, has become a great
moral question as well.
The last speech at youngstown was de-
livered to laboring men near the depot who
had congregated there in such numbers
that the candidate could not make his way
from the carriage to the platform. He
spoke about the attempt of the railway
companies to coerce their employees, and
said the position taken by the railway mag
mates was not because of the Chicago plat
form declaring for free silver. but because
OF the declaration for arbitration and
against government injunction. His re-
marks were enthusiastically received and
he was often stopped in his speech by the
demonstrations of approval by his audi
ence. The next stop was in the county
in which resides the republican nominee.
II was at Alliance, and there several thou
sand people listened to tha democratic cam
didate twenty minutes. 1t was an appre-
cative crowd and applauded the speaker
often. The speech was a workingmans
speech and was delivered to an audience
composed for the most part OF working
men. There was another good crowd at
Ravenna. when Mr.. Bryan received another
enthusiastic demonstration. He spoke for
five minutes along the same general line
pursued by him in former sneeches. At
Kent there was a repetition of the crowd at
Rayenna, and to those assembled Mr.. Bryan
appealed to them to study the question OF
money and not let any one else do their
thinking for them, and then to vote as they
thought best.
The arrangements at Akron were bad. The
candidate could not even get the carriage
provided for him. but had to catch one on
the outskirts of the town. After leaving
Warren Mr.. Bryan addressed enthusiastic
audiences at Medina. Elyria and Sandusky.
The latter place was reached late at night,
and then the candidate found he was billed
for another speech or two at Tifiin. 1t was
early morning when they arrived there,
and, Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Bryan had been speaking since o'clock
this morning and retired at Zanesyile after
o'clock, he was dragged out to speak to
n large crowd