Evening star., 1896-09-12
MIR. BRYAN IN MISSOURI.
He Resumes HIS Addresses From the
f., Rear Platform.

- Rear Platform.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. September 12.-Mr.
Bryan began his work early this morning.
He arrived in Kansas City at $50. and at
the depot were gathered early a thousand
v'orkingmen, who surrounded the car and
awoke him Immediately. A reception
committee had met the train at Leaven-
worth, but did not wake the nominee. The
Workingmen were from the car shops and
the packing houses. and they demanded a
speech from Mr.. Bryan. From the rear
end OF the platform he addressed them as
follows:
than usually commence my morning. 8
work I am very glad to be able to speak
to you, even for a moment. Our oppo-
Eerts tell us that the thing to do is to
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 produce, and how can
you start them as long as those who pro-
duce the wealth Of this country, particu-
ana;,,,, larly the farmers: are not able to get
taxes and interest? ApplauseD There is
no more effective way Of destroying the
markets for what the mills produce than
10 lower prices upon the products the
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 depression, and thai
while there was depression in agriculture
there could be no prosperity anywhere. II
was true then, and 1t Is true today tina,
while there is depression in agricultural
products there can be no prosperity any
where. You must commence at the bottom
and work up through the other classes
You cannot commence your prosperity al
the top and expect it to work down through
all the classes of society. (Applause.)
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 prosperity to the toilers upon whose
success Kansas City rests.
1t does not require financiers, 1t does not
require a railroad attorney to tell YOU
plause) Nor can these men prevent you
from exercising the right of sovereignty as
you please. applause and voice. 'They
are trying to do IT'D
My friends, met railroad man yes.
terday who told me that while he did not
agree with me on the silver question. ar
issue had been raised greater than the sill
yer question, and that was whether he
lived In republic, where man had the
right to vote as he pleased, or whether his
vote was the property OF somebody. to be
Used as somebody else pleased" Applause
A voice, Missouri gives you 100000 ma
jority, you bet.O
Another voice. Put Kansas down fol
GO.ON." Another voice, "And Arkansas die
pretty well herself"
Earnestnexs of the People.
Mr.. Bryan-"That sounds very much like
one Of those meetings where they take up
| a collection. Gaughter.) When you talk
about the results Of an election. the people
from the various states vie with each other
to see who can make 1t the nearest to
unanimous. My friends, there Is one char
acteristic about this campaign, and that
Is the intense earnestness of the people
Sometimes in a campaign you find men
are going to be at the polls or not; and
sometimes you find 1t necessary to get car
riages to take the people to the polls. Cn-
less all signs fail, the people are going to
be at the polls before the booths open and
stay there until they close, and there won't
be a man,who can get to the polls hut who
Will be sure to be there. What does II
mean? 1t means that the people are TAX
Ing the interest In the election that the
people ought always to take. They are be-
ginning to understand :he value of the bal
lot as the means by which they can redress
their wrongs. Sometim people have COM
[ pla1ned that the laws were bad, and have
allowed them to remain bad. They have
complained that they ought to be better
and have, done nothing to make them bet.
ter II the laws are bad. themselves are to
blame, and il they wish good laws they
| must secure them themselves And this
interest means something. 1t means tina,
government is going to be made more near
ly what government ought to be, and that
is government which will protect tho
hamblest citizen in the land in his right to
| work and to enjoy the fruits of his toll '
/ Great applause.)