The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-13
Spoke to a Thousand Working
men in Kansas City.
THEY WOKE HIM UP EARLY
He Made Three Speeches Last
Night in ST. Louis.
AND THOUSANDS HEARD HIM
In Spite of the Fact That He Addressed
Three Mass Meetings There Were
Many People Unable to
Hear Him.

Hear HIM.
Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 12.-Mr.
Bryan began his work early this
morning. He arrived in Kansas City
at 80 and at the depot were gathered
nearly a thousand workingmen, who
surrounded the car and awole him
Immediately. A reception committee
had met the train at Leayenworth, but
did not wake the nominee. The work
ingmen were from the ear shops aud
the packing houses,and they demanded
a speech from Mr.. Bryan. From the
rear end of the platform he addressed
them as follows:
"Fellow Citizens: This is little
earlier than / usually commence my
mornings work. am very glad to
be able to speak to you, even for a
moment. Our opponents tell us that
the thing to do is to open mills in
stead of mints. That reminds me of
the man who said that his horse
would go all right if he could just
get the wagon started. daughter
and applause)
1T is putting the cart before the
horse. What use is there for mills
unless people can buy what mills pro-
duce, and how can you start them
as long as those who produce the
wealth of this country, particularly
the farmers, are not able to get enough
to paw their taxes and interest. Zap
plause.) There is no more effective
way of destroying the markets for
what the mills produce than to lower
prices upon the products the farmer
has raised, so that they will not bring
him enough to pay him for raising
them.
"There was a report once filed by
Mr. Mckinley in 1890, along with the
Mckinley bill, and that report declared
that there was great industrial depres-
sion, and that while there was de-
preston in agriculture there could be
no prosperity anywhere. 1T was true
then and it is true to-day that while
there is depression in agricultural pro-
ducts there can be no prosperity any
where. You must commence at the
bottom and work up through the other
classes.
SOURCE OF PROSPERITY.
city, surrounded by an agricultural
country, know that there is no way
of bringing prosperity to Kansas City
until you first bring prosperity to the
toilers upon whose success Kansas City
rests.
at does not require fnanciers, it
does not require railroad attorney
to tell you where your prosperity lies.
Great applause.l
''Nor can these men prevent you
from exercising the right of soyer-
eighty as you please. applause and
voice: ''They are trying to do it'.0
my friends, I met railroad man
yesterday who told me that while he
did not agree with me on the silver
question, an issue had been raised
greater than the silver question, and
that was whether he lived in repub-
hcan government where man had the
right to vote as he pleased, or whether
his vote was the property of some
body, to be used as somebody else
pleased" (Applause.)
A voice: (''Missouri gives you 100000
majority, you bet.'0
Another voice: C'Put Kansas Down
for 6O,000.')
Another voice. "(And Arkansas did
pretty well herself")
Mr. Bryan: THAT sounds very much
like one of those meetings where they
take up a collection, (Laughter)
when YOU folks from the various
States vie with each other to see who
can make it the nearest to unanimous.
''My friends, there is one characters
tic about this campaign, and that is the
intense earnestness of the people. Some
times in a campaign you find men luke
warm who do not know whether they
are going to be at the polls or not;
and some times you find it necessary
to get carriages to take the people
to the polls. Unless all signs fail, the
people are going to be at the polls be-
fore the booths open and stay there
until they close, and there won't he
man who can get to the polls but who
wall be sure to be there. What does
1T mean? 1t means that the people
are taking the interest in the election
that the people ought always to take,
Ihey are beginning to understand the
Value OF the ballot as the means by
which they can redress their wrongs.
Some times people have complained
that the laws were bad, and have al
lowed them to remain bad They have
complained that they ought to be bet
ter, and have done nothing to make
them better. If the laws are bad. them
selves are to blame, and if they wish
goods laws they must secure them
themselves. And this interest means
something. 1t means that government
is going to be made nearly what gov
ernment ought to be and this is
government which will protect the
humblest citizen in the land in his
right to work and to enjoy the fruits
of his toll" Great applause)