The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-21
Mr.. BURTON SPEAKS.
Addresses the Republicans of North
Topeka


J. R Burton. candidate for United
States senator, delivered his first cam
paign address in this city to a large
and enthusiastic audience OF RepubH-
| cans at Lukens' Opera House in North
Topeka, Saturday night. Mr.. Burton
! spoke for about two hours. He said:
Notwithstanding the intense interest
in this campaign, and there is the great
est interest exhibited everywhere, I
think il should be conducted as a cam
paign Of education. Mr.. Bryan has said
il is to be a campaign of deep feeling.
He is trying TO array the masses
against the classes, the south and west
against the east.
The real question, what IS money
and what are its uses, should be con-
sidered in quiet. dispassiOnate man
ner. Money is used to measure the bal
anees. Money is the life blood Of com
merce. What is commerce? Commerce
is the handling, development, trading
and sometimes We call it swapping OF
property. It is the handling, develop
ment and trading Of all the property
in the world
Since money is the life blood Of com
merce- let US discuss its uses Many
consider its particular use is to pay
debts That is only a small part. 1t is
to transact business. If we should not
pay any debts for year it would not
create a hundre6th part Of the dam
age that would occur should we lock
the wheels of commerce for one week.
Suppose commerce should be stop
ped for one week Paralysis would
sweep over the country and can not
conceive OF any other cause that would
be so disastrous in its effects. To draw
the life blood from commerce is like
drawing the life blood from the body
The body would be completely prostra-
ted.
What is government? The PopuIists
say II Is q big father who can take care
of his children and make money for
them The government is no more than
hired hand, our servant, not our mas
ter Government is pauper- It has
no money except what We give it
There is one man who has been more
maligned than anyone since George
Washington, and even more than he.
No, for John Sherman has never been
accused of being an enbezZler as Wash
lngtOn was when he was running for
president.
Young men, don't imagine because
a man is abused he is necessarily not
patriot Mark my words. A hundred
years from now, when the people have
passed far enough away from John
Sherman to appreciate his political ca
Teer. as q mountain gains in grandeur.
any other statesman of the century,
unless II be that other great financieI.
Alexander Hamilton
Every government in the world has
tried the double standard. Every gov
eminent has abandoned il. that is every
government that is worth anything.
England tried it first. She tried to lock
the metals in a vice and hold them lev
ell but found the impossibility of it. and
had to take the dearer.
To-day this country is the university
Of the world to which the other coun-
tries are looking for enlightenment. If
Mckinley is elected I believe We can
complete the work Harrison started, and
gain 4 dollar worth one hundred cents.
Bryan and Watson are trying to ar
ray the west and south against the
east In an address one hundred years
ago today, George Washington said
there should be no north. no south no
east and no west You soldiers thought
you had stified sectiOnalism by the war
and our motto is still. Union. now and
forever, one and inseparable.'