The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
And Makes a Rather Poor
Argument for the Wage
Farmers.
PECULIAR IDEA OF PROSPERITY
Some Short Addresses in Which the
Boy Orator Pleads for Cheap
Money.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 2.-Wn-
liam J. Bryan made two speeches in Kan
sas City this morning, one to the working
men of the two Kansas Cities in the
packing-house district, the other to vast
crowd of people at the corner of Eleventh
street and Grand avenue, uptown. The
Armour people gave ali their employees an
hour to see and hear Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan was met at Leavenworth by
q special committee 20 escort him to this
city. where he arrived at 80 o'clock. At
O'Clock he addressed a crowd of 10000
workingmen in the bottoms. He spoke as
follows:
Fellow-citizens: This is little earlier than
l usually commence my mornings work.
GLaughter.l am very glad to be able to speak
TO you even for moment. Some of our OPP
ponents tell Us that the thing to do is TO open
the mills instead OF the mints. That reminds
me of the man who said that his horses would
go all right If he could just get the wagon
started. daughter and applause.l 1t is put
ting the cart before the horse. What use is
there for mills unless the people can buy what
/ the mills produce, and now can you start
/ them as long as those who produce tie wealth
/ OF this country, particularly the farmer, are
not able to get enough out OF what they raise
! 10 pay their taxes and interest. (AppIaUsel.
/ There is no more effective way of destroying
| the markets for what the mills produce than
1 TO lower the prices OF the products the farmer
has raised that they will not bring him
enough TO pay him for raising them.
There was report once filed by Mr.. Nc
4 :nIey in 1890, along with the Mckinley bill,
and that report declared that il there was great
/ industrial depression in agriculture there
could be no prosperity anywhere. Ii was true
then, and it is true to-day, that while there is
depression in agricultural products, there can
be prosperity anywhere. You must COM
mence at the bottom and work up through the
other classes. You cannot commence your
prosp perity at the top and expect il to work
down through all the classes OF society. lap
plause.l You gentlemen who live in this city,
surrounded by an agricultural country, know
that there is no way OF bringing prosperity to
Kansas City until you first bring pros sperity to
those toiers upon whose success Kansas City
It does not require financiers it does not re-
quiTe railrosd attorney to tell you where
your prosperity lies. IGreat applause.l Nor
can these men prevent you from exercising
the right OF sovereignty you please. Zap
plause. A voice-"They are trying 10 do it,
Another Yoiee-"MiSsouri gives you 109, 600
majority, you bet" Another yoice-"Put
Kansas down for 10000" Another voice
"And Arkansas is alI right.''l
That sounds very much like one of those
meetings where they take up q collection.
When You talk about The results of an election
the people OF .he various States vie with each
other to see who can make 1t the nearest to
unanimous. Unless ali signs fail the people
are going to be al the pollIng-plGces this year
before the booths open and stay there until
they close, and there won't be a man who can
get to the polls but who will be sure to be
there.
people are taking the interest in the election
that the people ought always TO take. They
are beginning to understand the value of the
ballot as the means by which they can redress
their wrongs. Sometimes people have COM
planned that bsd laws would be adopted and
nave allowed them to remain bad. They have
/ complained that they ought to be better and
have done nothing 10 make them better. II
the laws are bad they themselves are to blame
and If they wish good laws they must secure
them themselves. And this interest means
something. 1t means that government is
going 10 be made more nearly what govern
menJ ought to be, ana that is point which
will protect the humblest citizen in the land
in his right to work and TO enjoy the fruits of
his toll. IApplause.l
After the address in the bottoms he was
escorted to the Coates House for break
fast, where he met the reception commit
tee from st. Louis, after which a parade
was formed and he was taken TO the corner
OF Eleventh street and Grand avenue,
where he spoke from his carriage to an au-
dience OF 25, 600 people. Mr.. Bryan said:
! want to suggest few propositions for you
TO bear in mind in the discussion OF the money
question. Our opponents tell Us that we are
tgoing IN the face OF natural laws. assert that
he advocates OF free coinage are the onty pee-
pie in this campaign who base their arguments
Il pom natural laws Applausel The law of
supply and demand is the great law of trade
and we apply the law of supply and demand
TO the money question and say that when you
increase the demand for gold you raise its
price just you raise the price of any thing
else by increasing the demand for it, and that
when you raise the price OF gold in gold
standard country you lower the price of all the
products OF which are measured by money.
[Great applause.l
our opponents talk about a 5O-cent dollar.
They refuse to recognize the fact that the mo-
ment the mints of the United States are opened
to the free coinage of silver so that 20 600 900
Of people S 60 out and gGgGe sTer taSe
that money to pay taxes and debts with, and
for the purchase OF property-they refuse to
recognize, say, that the opening of our mints
/ increases the demand for silver and raises the
! price OF silver measured by gold.
Now, another proposition. We believe not
| only that free coinage OF silver will raise the
value OF silver bullion as measured By gold
but we believe that the demand crea ted bv the
opening of the United States min Is would be
sufficient to take all surplus silver, and there
being then no silver upon the market which
cannot be converted into money at our mints
to in the development of our industries
there VIII be no silver III the world which Can
/ be purchased for less than 81 29 per ounce in
gold. [Grcat applAuse.l
SALISBU RY. Mo-, Sept. ia thou
sand people at Bruins wick swarmed around
Mr.. Bryan when his train reached that
place and shouted wildly until he began
| to talk. His speech was very brief
brass band augmented the shouts of the
crowd at Dalton. Keylesvifle turned out
large number OF people The crowd was
of good size, but the train drew quickly
away, and Mr.. Bryan did not make a
speech
CENTRALIA, Mo-, Sept. 12.-An excit-
ing incident occurred while the Bryan
train was at Sails bury, where it stopped
minute. With the experience of his party
with pickpockets during the recent trip
| through New York and Ohio fresh IN his
mind. Mr.. Bryan had been watching with
suspicion all the morning the actions of
some men on the train who would get off
at every station and circulate among the
crowds At Salisbury the throng about
/ the tram was large.
Mr.. Bryan had just begun speech, but
stopped suddenly and with his finger in
dicating a particular place in the gath er-
ing said: Hold on, there are two pick
pockets operating down there" The
crowd parted in an instant, but before
those on the train could see the result of
Mr. Bryans detective work the signal TO
start was given and a speech, if no pocket
books, was lost. However. Mr.. Bryan's
detective work met with success at Hunts
vile, where his train arrived at 1:30 P. NJ.
! He had spoken to Colonel John /. Martin
of ST. Louis about the men whom he be-