Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-28

Families and living, advanced 1s per cent;
Through another period, the lab9rers
price of goods advanced 10 per cent. In
another period. the wages OF the laborer
chandise advanced 30 per cent. In another
period. the laborer's wages went up i3 per
cent. and the prices of goods III per cent
Me-. these statistics are the result OF
coiS. scientific inquiry. made by men OF
beth parties. to determine what the result
vas. and the truth they found, that the
enormous disparity between the advance
OF the cost of living and the advance OF
wages falls in exactly with what We would
c9rclude in advance. The laborers. men
"ho work, whether with head or hand i'll
salar!ed positions, would do well to take
these facts to heart and settle the question
after that broad. deep inquiry to which MT.
Bryan invites you as to whether you want
to enter into another experience such as
1t hod during the war. when wages ad-
vanced SO slowly and tediously. and the
cost of your living moved on SO swiftly.
(Mr. Harrison looked at his watch. Cries
of Go on, we are all here.o
"All of my strength and voice is not here.
Il have sketched very hastily some of the
evils that will result from this change 10
a debased dollar. contraction OF our cur
reney by the exporting OF our gold and a
REIMBURSEMENT of everything. l read the
other day in paper a most amusing De.
scrption of the troubles of the ticket agent
at Laredo. a station on the Mexican rail-
way, who had to sell tickets to people who
came from the United States with United
to people who came out of Mexico and VINO
gave him Mexican money. He had large
book bound up with yellow paper r. and nd ~, ne
lation usually when he sold ticket.
Laughter2 That is what 6 would ha,,l happen p en-
readjusted. the prices of everything. the
whole intricate business adjustments Of the
country would have to be readjusted and
while that process is going on uncertainty
would characterize business, resulting IN
panic and disaster.
Who Will he Benefitted:
Now. who will get any benefit? Wei,
the man who owes debt that he contract-
ed upon gold basis and is able to pay II
owner who gets an exaggerated price Tor
the products of his mine are the only two
people or classes of people that ] can see
that would have any benefit out OF it. My
friends. the people who advocate this class
legislation, this legislation favorable to the
mine owners to double the price OF the
products of their mines, and offer this
| temptation of repudiation to the debtor
| class. is the party that has for twenty
years been proclaiming against class lesis-
| iation. (Applause) They make strong
| up prices. Well, in a sense. yes. Nominal
| ly, yes; really, no. If wheat goes from 80
| cents to $780, the price has been Increased,
you will say; but if the price of every
| thing else has gone up in the same pro-
| portion bushel of wheat won't buy for
| the farmer any more sugar or coffee or
| farming implements or anything else that
| he has to purchase. If that dollar won't
| buy for the farmer any more, or be better
| dollar than the one we have now, where
| is the good to anybody of introducing these
| fictitious prices that are now real?
'They would work very we'll for the
| farmer if the prices of wheat, hay. oats
| and rye would double and nothing else
would double. but if everything doubles:
| the man who bought when he had an
honest dollar and paid in debased one;
only the mine owners who uses this gov.
| eminent to add so cents to the value of
| every 80 cents worth of metal that he
produces from his mine. Applause) That
is not even a Democratic doctrine. 1t in.
wolves the idea that this government OF
ours shall pay not only its debt Of honor,
| but that they pay the interest on its bonds
and the circulating notes in debased
currency.
| An Appeal to Pride.
My countrymen, this country of ours
| during the troublous times of war may
have had severe trials, but these financial
| questions are scarcely less troublous thar
| these. During those troublous times we
! had accumulated debt so large that many
of our pes. .imistic Demo ratio friends told
| us we could never pay 1t.
| I'VE had had currency which we were
| compelled to make legal tender and use
that the constitution might live: but nc
sooner had the war ended than the great
| conscience of this people declared the ma
tion that had crushed this great rebellion
that had lifted itself in its pride and its
among the nations of the earth. should moi
| continue to have a deprecated and debaseG
currency, and We walked up to resump
ton, and We made greenback dollars pal
dollar in jgQld. Shall We now, in thesf
| times; when all the Ills We suffer are cur
able five only pass revenue bill that will
generally replenish the treasury of the
United States, that will generously protect
| American labor against Injurious compe
tition and bring back again full prosperity
to all our people-shall we now contemplate
for moment or allow to have any power
over our hearts and minds this tempta
| tion to debase our currency and put 1t II
its financial position alongside of the Ash
| attic countries, or our weak and strugglins
sister republic of Mexico? Does not every
instinct of pride. does not every instinc
of self-interest. does not every thoughtful
affectionate interest in others. does not ou
sense OF justice and honor rise up to re
buke the infamous proposition that thi
government and its people shall become
nation and people of reputation q
| (Cheers)
DR.. Depew then introduced DR.. David ]
Hill. president of Rochester university
When DR.. Hill had finished there were louc
calls for Hanna. Lauterbach, Hobart ant
Wanamaker. The chair announced that Mr.
Hobart was not present. Mr.. Hanna mad
a brief remark from his private box an,
Mr.. Lauterbach talked from the stag
briefly. Mr.. Wanamaker also responde,
briefly. The audience dispersed. after Civ
ing three cheers for the national ticket, a
| tha ~