Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-10
PROFESSOR GREENER DELIVERS AN
ADDRESS IN TURNER HALL.
DISCUSSED CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
MIR. COCKRELL SPEAKS TO 4 SMALL
AUDIENCE AT INDEPENDENCE.
Those Who Intend to Vote mt the
Coming Election Should ReEis-
ter neutrality-suspicious. Mass
Meeting Tonight In
Turner Hall.

Professor Richard T. Greener, the elo-
quent colored orator of New York. adj
dressed a fine audience of his people last
night in upper Turner hall in behalf of
Republicanism Professor Greener is a
scholarly man and his appeal to the voters
was received with enthusiasm. He spoke
for nearly two hours and held the atten-
ton of his audience throughout.
Joe Mccoy. chairman of the county GEN.
tral committee, called the meeting TO or
der and provoked some merriment by cred
itng the statement, I'D rather be right
than president to pavy Crockett instead
of Henry Clay, the real author In the
course of his remarks, Nc. Mccoy con-
Quoted little experience meeting. He
asked all those who had registered to hold
up their hands. About fifty hands went
up He then asked all those who had not
registered to do likewise, and about five
times as many palms were raised. He
finally eSacted promise from them that
they would register to-day. and asked the
band to play, 20, Why Do You Wait, Dear
Brother?'
| j. H. Wheeler was then introduced as
chairman of the meeting. To fill in the
time preceding the arrival of Professor
Greener. Leon Fl. Jordan spoke briefly. He
said. among other things:
eve demand chance TO earn an honest
| living by honest toll. We, as a class, have
| never been appealed to by this nation
in an hour of need without avail: we have
| never committed an act of treason against
| it, and in return We ask its protection
Professor Greener was introduced by
| his host J. Dallas Bowser. Referring to
| the condition of business and its relation
| to the money volume, Professor Greener
| said.
Every business nan knows that the
| condition of business is entirely independ-
| ent of the money volume, when money cir
| culates at par. If there had never been a
| book or an essay written on the money
| question: if no country had ever tried the
experiment OF promoting prosperity by in
faticn. the statistics of circulation for the
| year 1893 alone would convince anyone open
to conviction of the absolute Independent
| conditions of the money volume to the
| condition CT business.
"TNhen all the money in existence re-
| mains at par in country like ours, the
total amount of it is a matter of practical
! indifference. Wages, prices, business, pros
| perity neither increase nor decrease, as the
| money in circulation, if maintained at a
| parity expands or contracts. In the vol
| lime of business done in this country our
| volume of money is swallowed up and lost
| sight of. The balances settled in week
| at the New York clearing house are often
more than the entire circulating medium
| of the nation. I. ask every infationist,
| every believer in the theory of imitation,
1 ,1.tt yF,nr ri
decreases prices, from the venerable Sena-
| tor Stewart down to the platitudinous Mr..
Bryan, to exercise their thinking power, if
| they have any,"