Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-30
A BUSINESS MANS VIEWS.
Hon. j. v. Farwell, of Chicago, Speaks
Mt Republican Headquarters,
1lO West Ninth Street,

Hon. J. v. Farwell, Of Chicago, Speaks
Mt Republican Headquarters,
11O West Ninth Street.
Hon. ]. v. Farwell, of Chicago, addressed
a large and enthusiastic meeting at Re-
publican headquarters. 11O West Ninth
street, last night There was large num-
ber of workingmen in the audience. and
they applauded Mr.. Farwelrs plain, practi-
CAL business-like talk. Hon. o. H. Dean
presided and introduced Mr.. Farwell In a
few words
"Mr. Bryan's speeches." said Mr.. Far
well, 'impugn the intelligence of the Amer
lean people. He has made 400 of them
and they are just like the pop We drink
largely gas. He says that all other ques-
tions are settled but the currency ques-
ton. He does not want a crown of thorns
pressed down upon the brow of labor but
he would bind labor with a silver chain to
the car of despair. He prates of bimet-
allism, when he knows, If he knows any,
thing, that free coinage never in all the
worlds history made gold and silver cir
culate at a parity. Free coinage is mono
metallism. Under present conditions it
would be silver monometallism.
"Mr. Bryan says he is a Democrat, but
the action of the Populists in swallowing
the Democracy and calling themselves
Democrats is no more reasonable than for
band of Fijis to swallow a missionary
and then call themselves Episcopal bish-
ops. Uaughter.)
You know what is the matter with this
country. You know that free trade and
this free silver discussion have combined
to bring about this depression. 1t may be
that in a few generations the American
people will forget these experiences and
rr-,l l1f 1lNl L,,N
er people than Bryan or Tillman or Alt
geld to fool them. (Applause) Our chill
dren will have to suffer for the mistakes
We make.
II have to borrow money. and so does
every business man. Why can not bor-
row it here, and why can I borrow all I
want in England at AZ per cent? There
is no financial agitation over there. They
know their standard is a sure one and no
cranks are menacing 1t.
MIR. Bryan is posing as the friend of
labor, yet when he was on the ways and
means committee he called workmen
chronic beggars. He wasn't running for
office then. He denounces protection as a
curse. but 1t is curse that blesses labor
with job. .(Applause) Protection has
filled this land with industries and great
enterprises that give employment to mil
lions of men. Free silver will not restore
prosperity to the workman for 1t will drive
gold out of the country and decrease, rath-
er than increase, the currency, until the
country is loaded with cheap money. If
prices rise it will be the price of what the
workman buys and not what he sells
his days labor. AS merchant, I can
mark up my goods; the farmer can mark
up his grain. But the workman cannot
mark up his pay. Applause) Prices did
not fall with silver. Other commodities
never kept pace with silver. They never
will. Prosperity for the men who buy will
| make prosperity for the farmer who sells.
More work and not more money is what
We want. (Applause)
Let me tell you a little about that
| sanity man of Illinois. Governor Altgeld,
who controlled the Chicago convention and
nominated Bryan. In the Springfield con-
vention that nominated Altgeld for gov
| ernor there were seven murderers, seven
| teen men tried for murder, thirty-six men
| who had worn stripes for burglary eighty
| four men who had been imprisoned in the
| Bridewell, 265 saloonkeepers, 145 political
| employees, and several prize fighters. This
| is the kind Of men with whom Altgeld
| surrounds himself. and Altgeld is the kind
of man with whom Bryan surrounds him.
| self One of Altgeld's pardoned anarchists
| is now on the stump speaking for him.
| Capital and labor cannot be divorced
\ without a panic, and the man who seeks
| to array them against each other is an
| enemy to both. Let us rise above prejudice
| and, assisted by the loyal Democrats who
| have risen above party. We shall unite on
| a platform of patriotism and prosperity
| and gain the greatest victory in the his
| tory of American politics by the election
of William Mckinley" (Cheers.)