The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-21
OHIO TURNS OUT.
Bryan Has Good Crowds In Nc
KinIey's State.
He Quotes ThurlOw Weed
Against Gold Standard.
is GIVEN FLOWERS.
Bryan Presented With White
and Yellow Chrysanthemums.
We're Sixteen White Ones to
One Yellow One.

found the largest crowd he had encoun-
tered during the day, his admirers in
Y Youngstown having their number in
creased from the outlying districts of
Ohio and Pennsylvania There were
free silver clubs from Mcdonald. Pa,
and from several points i'm Ohio. There
We're several hundred in line in the pro-
cession and from the depot to the places
of speaking and then back to the depot.
again. the nominee received a continual
ovation.
Mr.. Bryan spoke three times in
Youngstown, the first being from a
stand erected in the public square, the
next in the opera house, where he ad-
dressed the women, and then from q
carriage At each meeting the crowd
was very large At each speech Mr..
Bryan said the Democratic party IN
this campaign stood for the financial
policy which had the support of all the
great men Of the nation and of the par
sired to call attention to the words of
distinguished Republican-not west
ern man because it might be said ne
lived too far west to understand
III want to quote from Thurlow
Weed. You will find the language
Whlch quote on page 535 of the second
volume of the Life of IhurlOW Weed
published by his grandson, Thurlow
W. eed Barnes. Here is what Mr.. Weed
said. we are stigmatized as silver in
hationists for asking the government to
re-establish q financial basis under
which the country and people were
prosperous and happy for more than 50
years Ihls question. stripped of
sophlstry and verbiage. presents a max
&c issue of capital against labor shy
locks, oVer-raDaciOus, are struggling
TO keep up the rate of usury.' In main
tanning one standard-thus narrowing
QUE specie basis one-haIf they strength
en- and perpetuate their advantages,
There hes been and there must be be-
tween the thousands who labor and
those who enjoy the fruits of such La
Dor an irresponsible conflict But it
SAe races on 1nose VINO labor are not
held TOO closely 30 the f-rindstone.' 90
In the nsNt speech at the opera
house, Mr.. Bryan said.
~ fully realize the responsibility of
the office for which I am a candidate
and I realize what is before one who
goes into that office determined to do
" ns-t ne has promised. very fully
realize the difficult work that lies be-
lore one VINO goes into that office with
the determination and I have been
erau1ied beyond measure to find the
deep interest the people have taken.
and + feel sure of this, that it, by the
siift1ags ot my countrymen. Z am to en-
Joy IAe highest hOnOrs within the gift
OF men to confer, I shan have behind
me the earnest prayerful hearts of
those who still believe that this ma
ton should be what our fOrefathers i'm
tended TT to be. q light to the nations of
the world have in the discussion of
the question, used language as emphat-
&c as could command to show to the
people what the gold standard means
My friends think have exhausted
the powers for discussion in trying to
describe what must be the result. not
only TO the people OF this city but to
all mankind all over the world If this
system is TO be denied the people of the
United States, if money is to be made
the only thing desirable then all man
kind must gather around the auction
block and bid, lowering the prices of
products Of toll in order to get a small
En- proportion Of this one thing. which
many people seem to idOlze
BUT 1 come TO call your attention to
q new danger have said that civiu-
zat1on itself was involved in the settle
ment Of the question. ] believe what
the historian says that the dark ages
come upon the world as the rise Of a
decreasing volume of the world S mon
ey ana my friends. think I can see the
signs of the times in legislation that
makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer. the entrance upon a new period
or the dark ages, unless the manhood
and Womanhood of this nation rise to
take it from the grasp of those who
have so legislated that they might rise
above their fellow men,"
Mr. Bryan was then presented with
an immense basket of white and yellow
chrysanthemums in punches Of sixteen
white ones and one yellow one The
presentation was made by two little
girls dressed in white and yellow Mr.
Bryan acknowledged the gift and said.
Ny friends. last Sunday morning I
heard a sermon appealing to Christian
people to support the home mission
aries. and in the course Of the sermon
the pastor read letter just issued by
the Presbyterian board of home mis-
sions from its office No. 1856 Fifth ave
nue. New York. and in this letter the
surprising statement was made. There
is due to all missionaries and teachers
from two to six months salaries forserv-
ices fai9lfufly rendered Not a few of
them are in conditions of real distress
is it not cruel to subject these salf-de-
nying men and their families to all this2
and then, IN the letter there are quo
tauous from letters received by this
board from those missionaries telling
of the conditions which surround them
and one man speaks of the fact that
there is MP money i'm the country. He
could not borrow even Tor good seCur-
ity. and they are charging 10 per cent
per month on loans
Another man writes that in the fam
lly they have 400 persOns-it is a school
and not a dollar to provide for food
for them. and there are some debts back
OF that. One writes- Il have not a
dollar to meet any emergency that may
arise and our family and the conditions
of the scholars are desperate. Moth
ing has stirred my indignation more
i'm thiI campaign than that the
money changers send money to the
churches and missionaries urging them
TO stand by their standard and help
them perpetuate system of financial
bondage.
This missionary letter was written
by the board to the church. and in or
der TO secure some assistance for those
who are now suffering Those letters
show how the missionaries I'm the field
are behind with their pay, and the re-
suit must be that these missionaries
must be withdrawn and that the work
of preaching the religion must be re-
tarded because greed and avalice are
enthroned in government by those
who are rich and want to be richer. re-
Gardless OF the disaster which comes to