Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-25

| of them have left and the remainder think
they can beat us. The result in Maine is a
| cheering Indication. for 1t was aided by the
| action of the sound money Democrats. ZAP
I plause) 1t shows that when you get be-
| youd a certain level good sense will assert
| itself and the country may rest safely on
| the good sense of its people. (Applause)
| There is. know, great deal Of anxiety.
| but not as to the final result. 1t is the
I same anxiety felt at the top of the Wash
ington monument. Millions of people went
4 up there and nobody dropped. hut what an
/ awful drop it would be. if some one should!
l daughter) There is precious little danger
/ of our not succeeding, but if we don't what
| will happen? How will you adjust your
| ruined business to a 50-cent dollar!
They talk about the crime of rs. No lie
was ever better stuck to than that. l have
heard it ranted about in 1000 congressional
speeches, and know it is the same old pro-
4 cession whenever hear the words stealth
and decentralization: of silver. UaughterJ
We had that crime for sixty-two years. In
| 1884, congress, deliberately, by vote Oh
| four TO one. with Franklin Pierce. James
| K Polk and John Quincy Adams voting LOT
1t, passed bill in effect demonetizing Sill
| YER The eight millions coined before that
were not for circulation but merely to show
weight and fineness Silver was worth j
cents more than gold. and the money
changers got hold of it.
Insurance and Pensions.
"What would be the effect of free coin
age on life insurance? You have policy
| for S. 600: how will 1t be paid? Out of the
| fcc IN ne
are in real estate. which may go up or
down, as You out here know. The other
90 per cent is in lent money, bonds and
mortgages, etc. II 1t goes down % per
cent. where is your policy by which you
| intended to leave 5000 honest dollars to
keep your loved ones from want? Two
and one half billions Of dollars worth OF
these insurance properties are owned in
| the West and South, and two billion three
| hundred thousand in the North and East,
so you would get "a worse dose than we.
| II you own fire insurance, you get good
\ thing, for the INSURANCE on yonr 5000 house
| will only half cover it when the value Is
measured in 1000 dollars. Suppose you are
| a soldier. There are many Of them in Kan
| sas, who have shown their enterprise by
coming to this great Western state. What
| will be the effect of free coinage on your
| pension? How can it help cutting 1t in
| two? Then there are the savings banks.
There Is no greatersfolly than the notion
that only the rich man lends and only the
poor man borrows. There was a time
when the amount man owed was meas
ure of how far he was behind; now it is
proof of advancement and enterprise. be-
l haoo
reap profit.
Il do not want to say that the millennium
awaits you If we succeed. but if we get
rid of this foolishness and don't take up
| with any other we will be on the road to
prosperity. It is In your hands. You are
| citizens of not only the richest country
on earth, but OF heirichest section of It.
You are more interested in the result than
we in the East. 1 have told my people in
the East that If there is any difference
between you and them as to common sense
it is that you have more of it. I want you
to justify that saying. Applause.) close
| by giving three cheers for the ever grow
| ing West. that will go forward as the adj
vance guard of civilization and progress"
| prolonged cheering)
At the close of Mr.. Reeds speech, he re-
! ceived another ovation. Governor E. n.
Morrill, made short speech, while Mr..
Reel crossed the streetito the Auditorium,
| where 3,000 women were gathered. He was
| received with hearty applause and the
| Chautauqua salute when he appeared He
| spoke briefly as follows:
A Short Talk to Women.
81 would know what to say to one lady,
but what shall say to 5000 passes my un-
derstanding The first thing is that you
| are as deeply interested in this campaign
| as your husbands, whom 1 left In the
| tent across the street. 1 wish you had
more of the responsibility and had some of
| the voting to do. (Applause) In time,
| when you get educated up to it, that right
| will be given to you.
Tour years ago your husbands took
terrible responsibility. We were then pref
ty happy. with reasonable amount of
prosperity. More men were employed and
more money was in circulation than ever
| before. Your husbands saw fit to think it
was not a good thing to let well enough
| alone. You felt the result. Now the same
men who misled them are trying to do so
again. believe your husbands will this
time be as wise as they would have been
four years ago If they had been their own
wives. (Applause.)
"All our affairs are so mixed up that you
cannot injure one set without injuring all,
and you cannot benefit.one set without ben
eiting all: You cannot punish the rich
mill owner by stopping his factory without
injuring the men who work in the mill by
throwing them out of employment The
world is not perfect. but the standard of
living is vastly elevated. The poor man to-
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