The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-27

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allow some business to go on, the CITY
council hired hall for these people
to meet in every day TO discuss the mon
ey question in that way.
NOT WITH A STEAM HAMMER.
You cannot drive the tariff question
| into the campaign with pile driver
1t is not more taxes the people want
1t is more money to pay the taxes they
already have today / want you to
go home and take with you the deter
mination to leave no effort undone to
carry out the principle which you es-
pouse We have cause that appeals
to the hearts of men. There is no SEN
Timent in the human heart that is deep
er down than the love of justice. 1t
is that love of justice which society is
built on-without which there could be
no such thing as government, and that
sense of justice is offended by any leg
islation that seeks to give to a few per-
sons the prosperity that ought TO be
the heritage of all the people. Now
there is one rule by which we can de-
termine upon which side the citizens
of this country will fight.
toiak:x shrd1u etaoin cmfwy prshuld
/ remember hearing a sermon preach
ed good many years ago from the text:
LAS he thinketh in his heart, so is he
The more l have thought Of that text.
the more deeply it has impressed itself
upon me. The heart is the place where
conduct is determined, and If you want
to find out where a man is in this fight,
don't look at his brain, that would find
a reason for whatever his heart wants
to do. Look at his heart and find out
what his sympathies are. When people
choose their sides in this campaign after
having studied the question and under
standing it, they will take the side 10
which their sympathies lead them.
CARLISLE QUOTED.
''You might not accept my authority;
I will give authority that our opponents,
at least. Will not question. Hon. John
G.. Carlisle in 1878, made a speech in con-
gresS and in the course of that speech, in
the house of representa- tives, used these
words-I think / quote them correctly
If this measure (Which was the Bland
acD could be entrusted for its enforce
ment to the public official who was in
sympathy with the struggling masses
who produce the wealth and pay the
taxes of the country, rather than one
who sympathizes with idle capital, there
would be but little difficulty because
he would coin the maximum instead of
the minimum provided by the amend
ment'
do you compreh end what he said in
the words? Mr.. Carlisle divided So
ciety into two classes. He said that on
the money question the idle holders of
idle capital were on the one side and
that the struggling masses who produce
the wealth and pay the taxes of the
| country were on the other side. If that
division existed then it exists now.
SHERMAN'S SYMPATHIES.
"He said that the secretary of the
treasury would be governed in his Of
| fetal acts by his Sympa thies and be-
cause he sympathized with the idle
holders of idle capital he would coin as
little money as possible, whereas If he
had sympathized with the struggling
masses. he would have coined as much
as the law would have permitted. That
| is not my language. 1 may be too young
to use words like that. John G. Carlisle
was 43 years old when he used these
words. daughter)
| A voice: Carlisle was young.
my friends, i believe that these words
contain a great deal of philosophy.
| Show me the sympathies of a man and
/ Will mark out his conduct. Show me a
man whose sympathies are with the idle
| holders of idle capital and I will show
you a man who wants as little money
| as possible and puts II on the ground
that he doves his neighbor better than
| himself Show me a man whose SYM
pathies are with the struggling masses
and | will show you man who will
never stand up for syndicates and con-
sent to let them control the financial
policy of the United States Great ap-
plause.)
THE STRUGGLING MASSES.
do you think Mr.. Carlisle praised the
struggling masses too highly? No. my
! friends. He said that the Struggling
masses produced the wealth. They do
He said they pay the taxes of the coun-
! try. They do, but that only relates to
times of peace. They not only produce
the wealth and pay the taxes of the
| country in times of peace. but in the
hour of danger. the struggling masses
are our nations only safety from for
eign nations. Did you ever hear a man
go before the public and say that his
sympa thies were against the people?
! No, tHSl Is a SIN IlaI no man VIII con
! TESS. even to his closest Trend. You
have got to find it out. not by what ne
! says. but by what he does Eherman
was secretary of the treasury when Mr..
| Carlisle brought that agains. him.
My friends, l want you 70 watch the
action Of the people when they come to
determine their action on this money
question. You will find that if there is
n man in this land who makes his LIVING
either indirectly or directly. out of some
great trust. he will never tell that he is
opposed TO the Chicago platform because
1t is against trusts. If you find man
who makes his living out OF the extrem-
titles OF the government he will never
tell YOU that he is opposed to the Chica-
go platform because that is opposed .
bond issues in times OK ,..s, and traf-
ticking with syndicates. He viii say
that he is opposed 10 the Chicago plat
form because those who stand upon II
are anarchists and want to ruin the
country.
THE CRIME OF YOUTH.
Nov. my friends. you know the crime
of being a young man is one that while