The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-29
TITANIC FIGHT.
Made BY Bryan For Free siIyer's
Cause,
In Chicago and the Northern
Illinois Towns.
TODAY He JOURNEYS
All Around Chicago In Neigh
boring Cities,
To Return This Evening and
Renew the Battle
In TIE CITY ITSELF.
Enormous Crowds Listen to the
Young Nebraskan.
At the Many Meetings Held Last
Night.
Women tainted In the Crush
WvriadS 0f FlaUS Waved.
To Return This Evening and
Renew the Battle
IN TEE CITY ITSELF.
Enormous Crowds Listen to the
Young Nebraskan.
At the Many Meetings Held Last
Night.
Women tainted In the Crush
Myriads Of Flags Waved.

Elgin. ILL.,. oct. 2s.-It was most $3.50
o'clock a. m today when Mr.. Bryan
reached the Northwestern depot in
Chicago for his days tour in the belt
OF towns in northern Illinois. A large
crowd of people had assembled and
cheered him loudly and demanded
speech. but Mr.. Bryan smiling. declined
and disappeared within his car. The
train reached Elgin at 1925. He was
taken to a platform which had been
erected about 200 feet from the railroad
and there addressed a large and en-
thusiastic audience. Mr.. Bryan was
introduced by T. n. Adrian president
OF the Bimetallic club of Elgin. He
said
Ladies and gentlemen: We are ap-
preaching the end of a campaign which
VIII b. memorable in the history of this
country, because whether you believe
with as or not. as to the necessity for
the restoration of bimetallism. you
must agree that no question can be set
tied in this country until the American
people have finally expressed them
selves on the financial policy. and more
than that no settlement of the fnan-
cial policy can be permanent until that
question is settled right.
.sThe politicians have been lodging
the money question for twenty years
and the hnanciers have been settling
IT in their own way for twenty years,
and yet it is more unsettled today than
it has been in all that time and if this
election fails to restore bimet etallism, it
simply means four years more of agi-
tation until the people again have
chance to express themselves Great
applause)
You hear our opponents talk about
restoring confidence That all that is
necessary is to stop all agitation. My
friends they ought to know that agi-
tation is the result of a condition and
that agitation must continue while
that condition remains If the silver
question could have been put down
merely by saying. be still, it would
have been put down long ago. If it
could have been put down by COM
mands, or threats. or by intimidation
it would have been put down long ago
But / want YOU to remem Der that in
spite of all that the hnanciers have
done for twenty years to keep the sill
Yer question down, it is still up before
the American people and viii stay UP
before the American people. Cap
pluse) We are accused of stirring up
q
sician points to a disease that does not
argue that he creates the disease. The
disease is here and we simply point III
our and you can shut your eyes to ii
If you will, but YOU cannot cure the
disease by refusing to see it. CAP
plause)
Tor years. aye. for centuries, bimet-
allism was the financial policy of the
nations Of the world when they com
menced the crusade against silver.
Eagland started it back in 1916. but for
years she stood alone as gold stand
ard nation. After the discovery OF
gold in this country and in Australia,
after the production of gold began to
increase there were three nations Of
Europe which demonetized gold for
fear money would become too cheap
and the very arguments which arc
used today against silver were used
then against gold and we We're told
that to pay in gold was to cheat the
widow and the orphan and the deposi-
tors in savings bank. (Applause.)
''If you VIII read book written by
French writer, Chevalier, along in the
50's. you viii find the Identical argu-
ments used against silver now that
We're used against gold then. GU can
take his book and put the word silver
y here he uses the gold and you viii
have the ordinary gold standard argu-
lnent Of today. After they had found
that gold ceased to increase, and that
silver was increasing, then they began
the same kind of warfare against silver
that they had started against gold
II have had people ask me why it i=
that they demonetfzed silver when sill
ver was worth more than gold at the
time. The explanation is simple my
friends At that time silver was in
creasing and gold was decreasing. and
they wanted to demonetize the meta
that was increasing so that they would
have the metal that was decreasing. be-
cause decreasing money means dear
money. and that is what the money
changers always wanted. applause
There is another reason why they
demonetized silver instead of gold. 4
large portion of the annual product o.
gold is used in the arts. while only
small portion of silver is used in the
arts. therefore there was a large
amount of silver available for cOinag
than there was of gold. and they turn
ed their engines against silver an6
tried to demonetize it in order to have
the lesser quantity as a money metal
AIy friends. this crusade has gone on
nation after nation has been forced to