The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-13

From the East Porticc OF the Cspitol,|
is Permission is Gramted
Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 12.-Mr Bry-
an began dis work e&rly this morning.
He arrived in Kansas City at 0t30, and
and working men, who surrounded the
car and nwoke him Immediately. A re-
ception committee had met the train at
Leaverworth, bat did not wake the
nomiaee. The working men were from
the cSr shops and THE packing houses,
and they demanded n speech from Mr..
Bryan. From the'rear end OF the plat
form he addressed them rs follows:
'Eellow Citizens: This is IL little
eariier than ] usually Commence my
mornings work. 1 am very glad to be
Our opponents tell us that the thing to
do is to open mills instead of mints
TT at reminds mt of the man that said
that his horse would go ali right if he
could just ge, the wagon started.
daughter and 'itDplnuse.) Ut 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 rs those who provide
the wealth of this country, particularly
the farmers, are not able to get enough
out of what they raise to pay their taxes
and interest? (Applausc.) There is no
more effective way of DESTROYING the mar
kets for what the mills produce than to
lower prices upon the products the farm
'er has raised, SO that they will not bring
him enough to pay him for raising them.
3 There was Il report once filed by Mr.
Mckinley in 1880, along with the Nc
Kinley bill, and that report declared
that there was great industrial depres-
sion, and that while there was depression
In agriculture there could be no pros
perity anywhere. 1t was true then and
it is true to-day that while there is de-
preston in agricultural products there
can be no prosperity anywhere You
must commence at the bottom and work
up through the other classes. You can
not commence your prosperity Mt 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.
at does not require financers, it does
not require Il railroad attorney to tell
gu " hSlS Jul prosperity lies. (Gfo1t
applausc.) Nor can these men prevent
You from exercising the right of sover-
eighty rs you please. applause and a
voice: They are trying to do IT'D
My friends, | met railroad man YES
terday who told me that while he die; not
agree with me on the silver question, an
issue had been raised greater than the
silver question, and that was whether
he lived in republic, where man had
the right to vote as he pleased and
whether his vote was the property of
to be used as somebody else
pleased" (Applause.)
A voice. Missouri gives you $1,000
majority you bet.'' Another voice:
81 Put Kansas down for 60,000.n Another
voice: "And Arkansas did pretty we'll
herself"
Mr.. Bryan: "That sounds very much
like one of those meetings where they
take up n collection. Uaughter.) The
various States vie with each other to see
who can make it the nearest to unani.
nous.
"My friends, there is one characteristic
about this campaign, and that is the in
tense earnestness of the people Some
times in campaign you find men luke
warm, who do not know whether they
are going to be at the polls or not; and
sometimes you find it necessary to get
carriages to take the people to the polls
Unless all signs fail, the people are going
to be mt 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
but who will he sure to be there. What
does it mean? 1t means that the people
are taking an 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 complained that the laws are
bad, and have allowed them to remain
bad. They have complained that they
ought to be better, and have done moth
ing to make them better. If the laws
are bad, they are themselves to blame,
and if they wish good laws they must Sc
cure them themselves And this inter-
est means something. 1t means that
government is going to be made nearly
what government ought to be, and that /
is government which will protect the
humblest citizen in the land in his right
to work and enjoy the fruits of his TOLL
Great applause.)
THE WASHINGTON PROGRAMME.
Washington, Sept. 12.-Mr. Bryan
will make his Washington speech from
the east front of the capitol if the present
programme is adhered to. He is to be
in this city next Saturday, the 10Th in
slant, which is the Tooth anniversary of
farewell address. The
local committee having charge of the re-
ception, conceived the idea of making
the occasion n sort of celebration of the