The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-25

tic applause.) I will wait until these
sons have Exhausted what their fathers
have left them and I viii appeal to their
children who will have to commence life
where their grandfathers comm fenced.
Great applause.) My friends, a just
government is best for the great mass Of
the people. Equal laws and equal Oppor-
tunities are best for ninety-nine out OF
every 100 of our citizens. And therefore
our cause appeals to every young man
who wants to make this government 50
good as to deserve the love and conf
dence and the support of every citizen in
it. We appeal not only to the students;
we appeal TO business men who have
been terrorized by the inancial-what
may I call it? lApplause. )-people who
have been tryannozed over by financial in
situations. In some instances it is more
dangerous to raise your voice against the
ruling power than it is in an absolute
monarchy to criticise the government
Great applause.)
IF there is anybody who loves that
sort of condition, then shall offend him
by speaking of 1t but shall not offend
any man who loves liberty and the right
Of free speech in this country. Great
appIauSe-) Business men have been told
the free coinage of silver would ruin
them. II it can ruin them, then, my
friends it Will be bad indeed. because the
gold standard has increased the number
of failures among business men and every
step that has been taken has been fol-
loWed-(Y ellis from the students-) I have
been so used to talking to young men
who earn their own living that I don't
knoW--(Great applause and cheering) I
say I have been so used to talking to
young men who earn their own living
that hardly know what language to use
to address myself to those who desire to
be known not as creators of wealth, but
the distributors of wealth which some
body else created If YOU will show me a
young man who has been taught to be-
ieve-CYells and cries for Mckinley In
all my travels I have not found a crowd
that needed talking to SO much as this
crowd does CCries of That's rfght.'')
''I came to this city something more
than a year ago and learned netting
of the domination of your financial class
es. / have seen it elsewhere; but, my
friends, the great mass Of the people,
even of this city, viii be better off under
bimetallism that permits the nation to
grow. than under a gold standard which
starVes everybody except the money
applause) We sometimes out west are
instructed by your insurance compa mics.
and in what are known the mutual
and assessment companies. I carry in
surance in fraternal orders like the Uni
ted Workmen and the Modern Woodmen,
(applauSe) as well as in the old line COM
panies, and am greatful that my
SeSSment companies are satisfied TO take
my money and give me insurance without
attempting to tell me how must vote
You have laboring men in large num-
bers in this city. do not know whether
the advocates of the gold standard who
employ men in the shops insist uDon fell
ing their enop1oves how to vote 7 te[-a
in other places found employers who
would put in envelopes the pay for the
days work Or weeks work and then Put
on the outside of the envelope some in
structionS to the employees. If the manu-
factUrer, II the employer, If the railroad
president feels as if there must be sone-
thing on the outside of the envelope as
well as on thet inside, let me sugges
something which the employer might put
there. Let him write on the outside.
You viii find within your wages They
are to cover your work They are not to
pay for your votes" (Cries of Good
good-') We recognize that the men who
have sense enough to do the work. we
want done, have sense enough to vote
right without our telling them how to
vote. (Applause)
Il notice that in some places they have
been organizing sound money clubs,
and they have the applicant sign a state
nent saying the free coinage would hurt
him in his business as Wage-earner.
have wondered why the financial mag
mates did not make similar statements tc
that. in their applications. Why don't the
heads of syndtcates who have been bleed