The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-21
TO LADIES ONLY,
Hypocritica1 Appeal at Youngstown in
Behalf of M~issfonarfe

The special train reached Youngstown,
O., at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
A big crowd greeted Mr.. Bryan there.
marching clubs from Pennsylvania towns
helping to swell the throng from various
Ohio towns. The candidate made three
speeches, one of them to ladies only To
the women he said:
II have, in the discussion of the question.
used language as emphatic as / could COM
mand TO show to the people what the COLO
standard means. My friends, / think that
!! nave exhausted the powers for discussion
In trying to describe what must be the re-
suit, not only to the people of this city.
but to all mankind all over the world
IL this system is TO be chained to the people
of the United States, If money is to be
made the only thing desirable and all man
kind must gather around the auction block
and bid, lowering and lowering the prices
OF products of toll in order to get smaller
ard smaller proportion of this one thing
which many people seem to idolize, but
they come to call your attention to a new
hanger. i have said that civilization Itself
was involved in the settlement of this ques-
ton: believe what the historian saws
that the dark ages came upon the world
as the result OF a decreasing volume OF
the worlds money, and, my friends, /
think can see in the signs of the times,
In legislation that makes the rich richer
and the poor poorer. the entrance upon
another period Of the dark ages, unless the
manhood and the womanhood of this Ma
ton rise to take it from the grasp of those
who have 50 iegislated that they might rise
above their feliow-man."
Mr.. Bryan was then presented with an
immense basket of white and yellow chrys-
anthemums in punches OF sixteen white
ones to one yellow. The presentation was
made by two little girls dressed in white
and yellow. Mr.. Bryan, after acknowledge
ing the gift, said:
MY friends, last Sunday morning I heard
q sermon appealing to Christian people to
support the home missionaries. and In the
course of that sermon the pastor read a
letter Just issued by the Presbyterian
board OF home missions from it's office. No.
156 Fifth avenue, New York, and in this
letter the surprising statement was made:
There is due to all missionaries and teach
ers from three to six months salaries for
services faithfully rendered. Not d few OF
them are in conditions of real distress. Is
it not cruel to subject these seif-denvine
men and their families TO all this? And
then In the letter there are quotations from
letters received by this board from those
missionaries telling of the conditions which
surround them. and one man speaks of the
munity and he could not borrow even for
good security, and they were charging 10
per cent; per month on lo4ns. Another
one hundred persons-it is a sthool-and not
a dollar to provide food FOR them. and there
are some dcots back of that. One writes:
Il have not a dollar to meet any emer-
gency that may arise and our family and
the conditions of the school are desperate
Nothing has stirred my Indignation more
in this campaign than that the money
changers send money to the churches and
missionaries begging them to stand by the
COLO standard and help them perpetuate a
SYSTEM of financial bondage. mis- mission-
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churches in order TO secure some assistance
fer those who are now suffering. Those
letters show that the missionaries in the
field are behind with their pay, tina the
communities cannot pay them, and the re-
suit must be that these Missionaries must
be withdrawn and that the work of preach
ing the religion must be retarded because
greed and avarice are enthroned in a gov
ernment; those who are rich want to be
richer regardless of the disaster that comes
to them. SO that, my friends. this ques-
ton was first a political question. and
Which as an economic question has become
q great moral question as well.
'"fhe corporation is different from the in
dividuai. The individual being responsible
FOR what he does is deferred from acts of
oppression that the corporation undertake
without suffering OF conscience because the
corporation has no conscience. The cor
pcration Is n fictitious person. 1t cannot be
punished as an individual can. II is
operated by agents for the most part, and
the directors and stockholders have but a
remote influence la conducting them. and
these great corporations have combined to-
gether and under the wanton crush of the
competition have destroyed every rival they
then fix the price OF what you eat and
drink and wear and collect tribute from us,