The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-15

ERIE MEDICAL CO., Buffalo, Ny.
question, and that was whether he lived
in a republic, where man had the rlght
| to vote as he pleased, or whether MS
vote was the property of somebodyelse,
| TO be used as somebody else pleased.
| applause. A voice: Missouri gives you
! 100, 900 majority, yousbet. Another voice:
! Put down Kansas for $4,000. Another
/ voice: And Arkansas did pretty We'll,
! herself)
Mr.. Bryan-That sounds very much
| like one of those meetings where they
take up collection. daughter.
when you talk about the results OF
an election the people from the various
| states vie with each other to see who
can make it the nearest to unanimous.
! Ny friends, there is one characteristic
about this campaign and that is the in
| tense earnestness Of the people. Some
times in a campaign you find men luke
warm, people who do not know whether
/ they are going TO the polls or not, and
sometimes you find it necessary to get
| carriages 10 take the people to the polls.
| Unless all signs fail. the people are go
| ing to be at the polling places before the
| booths open, and stay there until they
| close. and there wont be man who can
! get to the polls but who WILDE sure to be
! there What does 1t mean? 1t means
| that the people are taking an interest
! in the election that the people ought al
ways to take. They are beginning TO
understand the value of the ballot as the
means by which they can redress their
wrongs.
TO BLAME FOR BAD LAWS.
Sometimes people have complained
that the laws are bad and have allowed
them to remain bad. They have COM
| planned that they ought TO be better and
have done nothing to make them better.
If the laws are bad they, themselves,
are to blame, and If they wish good laws
they must secure them themselves. And
this interest means something. 1t means
that government IS going to be made
more nearly what government ought to
be, and that IS, a government which
| will protect the humblest citizen in the
land in his right to work and to enjoy
the fruits of his toll" Great applause.)
THE KANSAS CITY CROWD,
A coach, drawn by four horses, was IN
waiting for the Bryan party and men,
bers of the reception committe at the
Coates house. Boarding this the cam
didate was conveyed to Eleventh street
and Grand avenue, where he was sched-
uled to speak The streets were crowd
ed, in spite of the early hour, and much
| enthusiasm was shown. Packed in the
space formed by the juxtaposition OF
Eleventh street and Grand avenue. fully
| u 900 people were nfassed. They not
only filed all the roadway and sidewalks
and extended hundred feet down each
~ h1rf1 n
ing in the vicinity was crowded to its
limit. A temporary stand had been
| erected here, but the crowd was so
! dense that it was deemed best to have
| Mr. Bryan address them from the coach.
Standing on the middle seat Of the
tallyho, his overcoat collar turned up
about his throat, Mr.. Bryan spoke as
follows:
NATURAL LAWS.
Ladies' and Gentlemen: want to sug-
gest few propositions for you to bear
in mind in the discussion Of the money
question. Our opponents tell us that
we are going in the face of natural laws.
I assert that the advocates of free COIN
age are the only people In this campaign
who base their arguments upon natural
laws. (Applause) The law of supply
end demand pertains to the money ques-
ton and I say that when you increase
the demand for gold you raise the price.
just as you raise the price of anything
else by increasing the demand for it.
And then when you raise the price OF
| gold in a gold standard country you
lower the price Of all the products of toll
which are measured by money. (Grea I
applause) The gold standard then
means falling prices, and falling prices
] g.. -tI
the man who owns money or trades in
| money. (Great applause and cheers
Now if the money owner has the right
| to use the ballot to raise the value OF
the money he owns, why have not the
rest Of the people the right TO use the
ballot to keep gold from destroying the
property which they own. Great ap-
! plause)
THE FIFTY CENT DOLLAR.
"Now, another application OF the law
Of supply and demand. Our opponents
talk about 50-cent dollar They re-
fuse to recognize the fact that the mo-
ments the minis Of the United States are
opened TO the free coinage Of silver that
| 20. 0o0, 900 OF people can go out and Sc
cure silver, take IL TO the mint and con-
! vert it into money and use that money
to pay taxes and debts and for the pur-
chase OF property. They refuse to rec
ognize, l say, that the opening of our
minis increase the demand for silver
and raises the price Of silver as measur-
ed by gold. say they refuse to recog-
nize that fact Why should they? Is
It because they don't comprehend that
fundamental principle which underlies
our belief, or do they understand those
principles and refuse to acknowledge
that they understand them? (Applause
and cries Of That's what's the matter
with them.O
QUESTIONS TURNED ABOUT.
"BlIt our opponents say, suppose we
have more mOney-hOw are you going
to get It? That to them is an argu-
ment which answers everything. Let
me suggest question which you can
J ask them: Suppose You have something
70 sell. how can you get anything for il
until you find somebody who has mon
ey 10 buy what you have 10 sell? ZAP
riaJse.) Money is the creature Of law
There can be no money until the gov
eminent provides for thar money and /:
You want more Of any of the products
Of labor ven can 60 out and bring them
into existence, but II you want more
money you cannot get out and create