The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-05
judgment upon the principles which '
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IN THE YELLOW BELT.
The Majority of Men Bryan Met in WIS
consin Were for Mckinley.

Appleton, Wis, Oct. 3O.-The towns
visited by w. ]. Bryan in the Badger
state this morning were literally be-
decked with yellow. Not since ne left
the Ohio river valley has he encountered
crowds so antagonistic to his views.
There were a large number of white
ribbons worn by his hearers, but the
majority of the people addressed by him
at the first few, stops this morning did
the yellow metal.
At Green Bay. Mr.. Bryan addressed a
crowd of several thousand people. There
was not much enthusiasm at the start,
| but before the nominee had concluded
| his speech the audience was applauding
him literally He spoke from a plat
| form in Whitney park, Ex-Governor Peck
introducing him. Mr.. Bryan said:
I'VE believe the people are suffering
| from the effects of gold standard That
standard was fastened upon this country
| more than twenty years ago without pub
lie discussion. The very fact that the
people knew nothing about it, the fact
that their consent was not asked nor
their wishes expressed ought to be suf-
ticient to make the people investigate
the cause of the decentralization of sill
yer. This city, l believe. was the home
of Senator Howe, and he, in speaking
upon this subject expressed himself with
an emphasis which | can not surpass.
His language in regard to the effects of
the single gold standard ought to call
the attention of the people of this neigh
borhood to the subject so that they will
investigate it for themselves. But l
remember Senator Howe for another
reason. If l am not mistaken, it was
Senator Howe who was one of the prin-
cipal advocates of the income tax at the
time it was abolished back in the '70's.
If you will read what he says about the
justice of the income tax, you will then
understand why it is that we believe
that an income tax is still proper in this
country, and, my friends, while | am on
this subject, if any body ever tells you
court as we should, 1 want you to find
out who the man is. You will find that
the people who are best satisfied with
the income tax decision are the people
with large incomes who are Sinking their
duty to the government and trying to
secure its protection without paying their
share of the taxes. (Applause)
you will find that the men who are
so anxious that nothing shall be said
about the income tax are men who attack
every court and every decision that is
against them and never show respect
for law or anything else unless it is of
advantage to them to do so.
1--WE declare against contracts paya-
BILE in a particular kind of money. We
are in favor of legislation which for the
future will prevent the making of special
contracts and our reason for it is this:
That money is necessary thing to our
society and if we have two kinds of
money it is desirable that they should
float together. If contracts are made
payable in n particular kind of money
and if you have enough of those special
kind of debts you create an extra kind
of money and yuu drive it to premium
and destroy the parity between your
moneys. l do not believe that any in
dividual should defy the government and
attempt to destroy the governments
financial policy"
Short stops were made ut Devere and
kaumana and there was also a liberal
amount of yellow ribbons displayed.
Mr.. Bryan's speeches were along the
same lines as those given by him else
where.
Kaukana turned out a good sized
crowd of its citizens, who listened to Mr..
Bryan for ten minutes. He referred
to yesterdays furry in Wall street as
follows:
yesterday evenings papers announced
that there had been furry in Wall
street and money was loaning on call as
high as 1OO per cent. what harvest
these people who have money and who
can make 100 per cent get out of this lit
tie embarrassment"
Appleton was the next stop and the
crowd was repetition of those already
encountered. The speech of Mr.. Bryan
was devoted to the discussion Of free
silver.
A stop was maze at the joint Neenah
and Menasha station, where Mr.. Bryan
spok Ike from the rear platform of the
train. The crowd was in waiting when
the special arrived and the candidate
was received with a burst of applause,
which was renewed when he and his wife
appeared together on the platform.
At Oshkosh there was crowd of many
thousands and here again the yellow rib
bons were displayed very literally.
Mr.. Bryan spoke from the rear plat
form and again alluded to the high rate
of interest quoted in New York yester-