The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-25

| We want to borrow money from every
body that will let US have it. Now, /
don't see but what we agree. ZAP
piause.)
BRYAN'S SHADOW.
Here is a great big country yearaing
| for development. Here is people
yearning for labor. And here are a lot
OF rIen who are trying 10 stifie the nat
ural instincts of mankind. Oh, but they
are going to bring us great success. Are
they? Let US see what they have done.
Mr. Bryan was nominated IN July, or
June, i have forgotten which, Gaughter)
and they have been projecting his shad-
ow over the land. What is the efrec.
! OF it? Why, the great Pennsylvania
railroad, which, however, is only one
of the railroads OF this country-in tbs
month of August lost from the shadow
of Mr.. Bryan million and a quarter
of dollars One railroad million and a
quarter in one month. If that is what
the shadow does, what viii the sub
stance do? (Applause) I-tell you, my
friends, you must not let that become
anything more in the nature OF sub
stance than II is now. (Cries Of I'VE
won't'C
MEXICO AND CHINA
but they say, We want a constantly
depreciatlng currency. Well, do We?
We want a dollar to become less and
less. / don't believe it. l don't want
to see any such thing. / want dollar
to remain the same as il is. Well, but
you say, that is pretty bad; you want
prices to go lower. Well, what are pri-
ces? Prices are merely the expression
of the relation between labor and con-
sumption; that is ALL Have we ever had
any experience with this? Now, mark
you, am going TO make some histori-
cal illusions; but they won't be 10 the
nation of Mexico. I know how badly We
are Off. i know we can never be as
prosperous as Mexico. Oaughter) We
can never become as civilized as free
silver has made that nation. And as Tor
China, why. she is 1900 years ahead OF
US; it is no use dwelling on that. And
as for Japan, why we can't be men,
toned in the same breath.
WE'RE NOT BORN THEN.
But let us look at our own history.
Let US see what our own experience
shows US with regard to a deprecated
currency; because we had one once. We
have had the Injuries that Mexico and
China had We are not behind-hand.
We have been through all those things
only these gentlemen were not born
then; and they don't know anything
that happened before they were born,
and precious little since. (Applauseo
But we have had that experience OF a
deprecated currency
WHAT KIND OF. GREATNESS.
Right here / want to remark that
when any gentleman talks about the
greatness of this nation, that he better
be careful what kind of greatness he Is
talking about. Greatness in population,
seventy-five millions; that is good.
Greatness in increase of wealth under
Republican rule; that is good. But
there are some things that seventy-five
million people can't do. They can't
make water run up hill without the ap-
plication of force. They can't make
the shine at night. They can't give any
idea of distance to a man that has been
whirled around the world. The United
States is great, but it can't add a cubit
to the stature OF q single citizen under
its rule
How the nation tried during the war,
when it had 100000 men in the field. to
keep the greenback equal to par; and it
period we had slowly depreciating cur
rency. gradually going down. What was
the effect of that on wages and on
things generally? The effect on wages
was that they sunk with the dollar The
effect on other things was that they
went up. All sorts OF things went up
1S2 per cent. end labor went up only IS
per cent. In other words, from 1851 to
1864 labor lost SO per cent which was
spread over those years. / give the fig
ures which Mr.. George Gunton gives. If
any of you are laboring men 1 want TO
ask you If anybody has BEEN around
offering to make Up this for you.
never heard that they did How could
they if they tried?
EVERYTHING BUT LABOR.
"Now. why was it that everything
went up and labor didn't? Labor final
ly, in 1859, got on level with the cur
rency, but il took eight years Wha: is
the difference between the two? Why
Should not labor go up as much as the
other does? / will tell you, very simply.
If have today. labor to sell, | have got
to sell il today. If 1 have a barrel of
flour to sell. l can sell it tomorrow. IF 1
have today's labor to sell here in Wich-
tia, have got to sell it here: but while
arguing with the boss the day is slip
ping away. But If / have a barrel of
-four here in Wichita and you don't
want IL, I can send Il over to Spring
field, Mo-, where perhaps they are
hungrier than you are, and they viii
buy II there; or 1 can send it to New
York or Chicago. You see labor has its
limitations. SO l have not only history
on my side, but reason. And when you
have both history and reason on your
side. are you going to give it up because
some wandering person says: We be-
Ieve'
WON'T DO FOR BUSINESS.
owe believe will do for theology:
that applies 10 things in the next world
that have TO be tested there. But we
beiive' won't do for business. We have
got TO give some reasons for the faith
that is in Us. Let me say TO you frank
(COntinued on Sixth Papel