The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

flag in his face. Were the men who went
to the war made patriotic by having
the flag waved at them2 No, they were
patriotic because they were born in
their own homes and not under a rent
ed roof.
IAN traits OF character are more or
less hereditary am patriotic because
my mother lived in her own house and
had the pictures of the great men of
the nation on the walls and assOcia ted
the protection of that home with their
efforts If ever the time comes in this
country when the tillers Of the soil
and our freeholders become a wander
ing tenantry, the women will take down
the pictures of the statesmen from the
walls and will say they have been be-
trayed by them and the children they
raise won't have a drop of patriotic
blood, and they ought not to have.
Give US free silver and the mort
cages OF Kansas will fade away as the
morning mists and the hirelingS that
are now shouting for patriotism and
blood will shut their anarchistic mouths
and devote their time to poetry and
peace. Free silver viii drive away the
receiver from the bank door and take
down the red flag from before the door
Of the merchant.
when a man tells me that he will
die a Repu blican because he was born
a Republican, I think that he does not
have to wait to die, for he is dead al
ready.
we are for Bryan because we believe
# elected he win name a man for sec
rotary of the treasury a man who will
not take orders from Wall street, as
every one from John Sherman to John
Carlisle has done; we are for Bryan
because we believe he will not put the
interior department in charge of a man
who will take the public lands from
the people and give them to the cor
pOratiOnS: because he will not put IN
the attorney generals Office a man who
will use his power to protect corpora
lions at the expense of the common
people, as has every one from Walham
to Olney; because he viii not appoint
to the supreme bench men VINO VIII
take off the tax from corporations and
lay it on your backs. 1 will not say
the man was corrupt, but he owes It
to himself and to his country to ex-
plain what made him change his mind.
No man ever heard Mr.. Shiras open his
lips to tell what there was IN the re
hearing that converted him. He has
maintained a peaceful and remarkable
silence.
The senator criticised the income tax
decision of the supreme court ana Salo
that he was called an anarchist be
cause he did so. Continuing he said;
IF this is so I am in good company
In 1860 the same court rendered a de-
cisiOn in regard to fugitive slaves and
Abraham Lincoln said he would never
rest till that unjust decision was
changed. If I am an anarchist then
Lincoln was one and glory to be in
such company.
In regard to the expenditure of mon
ey on coast defenses the senator said:
There is no danger of England
shooting at New York for she would
not do such a thing as to shoot at her
best friend. Some other nation might
come over here and do such thing
though and therefore some defense is
necessary. When these forts are fin
ished I don't object to their taking my
shirt off my back to help pay for them.
The country has the right to do such
thing and not only that but to demand
H.. z hut 7 hi II hot
the property that is protected should
bear the burden of the taxation for the
protection
At the conclusion of Leedy's speech
David OVermyer and Capt. Waters
both made short speeches which were
loudly applauded.