The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-26

his equal before the law and you can
not be baFtered away. 1Great ap-
plause and cries of Hanna, Hanna')
"AL are business men who by labor
of hand or mind contribute to the
wealth and greatness of this nation,
and the ballot is given to all that each
may use the ballot to express, not
what some one else wants, but what he
wants himself We have had object
lessons. We have had those who have
insisted that a financial policy could
not be adopted and carried out i'll this
country without the help Of foreign ma
lions.
My friends. I have this proposition
to make: over seventy millions or peo-
pie are able to have a financial policy
of their own, and do not have to hire
a syndicate of foreign or domestic cap
italists to run our government. They
tell US when we speak Of the silver
question that the free and unlimited
coinage of silver IS dangerous thing.
We tell them that we have suffered for
20 years from their policy, and 1t does
not take a very good policy to be bet
ter than theirs (Applapse) More
than that we give them this evidence
Of sincerity We tell them what We
want and how we are going to get II
But they dare not tell the American
people what they expect to do If they
are entrusted with power Do thay
tell you that gold standard is good
thing? No, because seventy fnllllolS
here and the struggling masses through
out the WOF1Q WOulQ IISS anu 4GA1o I4AGC
the statement that the gold standard
ever helped anybody except the money
owners and money changers Lhey
say that bimetallism is good thlng,
if we could only get it. More than 100
wears ago there were lew people VINO
said that independence was GOOD
thing if we could only have II, put
there were enough who not only sald
it was a good thing, but they could
have it, and they gave to this people
an INDEPENDENT form of government.
Great applause and cheering.)
and there are today II Tnlstake not
a vast majority of the American PEG
pie who are ready to say that not only
bimetaIlism is a good thing, put that no
good thing is too good for the ATnerl-
can people The American people are
able TO have what they think is best
for the people of this country without
waiting for the aid or consent OF any
nation on earth. tremendous applause(
have not time to talk to you now, out
I have time to give two questions Whlch
1 would ask you to ask your opponents:
I have given them before and shall
which you can put to your opponents
and drive them from the field. The
first is: If the gold standard IS GOOD
thing, why does the Repup1cah party
pledge itself to get rid of the gold
standard? Great applauSe.) II b1nnet-
allism is a thing to be desired, VINO
shall say that the American people
shall be denied it's benefits until Foreign
nations confer those benefits on the
Americans? These are the two ques-
tions, If the gold standard is a good
thing why should we try TO get F1Q OF
it? If it is q bad thing why should the
American people be compelled to keep
it? I thank you for your kind arten-
ton Great applause and long cheer
ing).
dash to catch the Albany train and
were hurried across the Hudson on a
tug boat to the Rhineclthe station,
landing Just as the train pulled in The
Hudson depot was surrounded by SOU
or a thousand people, who came about
the car with the familiar yeIls. To
them Mr.. Bryan said: I am Just go
ing west, my friends, and am glad to
be able to take back to my Nebraska
home the news that the people of New
York are getting interested in the mon
ey question as we'll as the people or the
south and west.
I have so much confidence in the
Righteousness of our cause that I be-
lieve that the more you study the mon
ey question the more people there
will be in New York who will be in ia
VOr of the restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver at
the present ratio of 16 to l without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. want you not
only TO study the money question, so
that you understand it yourself, but I
want you to go out as missionaries and
tell what you know and what yOu be-
lieve to others, because this Is a cam
palgn IN which everyone IS an orator
(Great applause and long cheering.)
A group of farmers stood at the Cox
Sackie station with a nag waving over
them and cfeered while Mr.Bryan bow
ed to them and begged to be excused
from a speech on account of the short
STOP The party reached Albany at
o clock and was driven to Senator HIPS
house through great crowd which
surrounded the carriages at the depot.