The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-08
These Are the Subjects of Bry-
ans Talk Yesterday.
He Appeals to Unpurchased and
Unpurehasable Voters.
al BIG SLUSH FUND.
Opposed to 1T He Appeals to
Peoples Hearts.
Says Gold Standard Makes Men
Idle, Then Criminals.

Hammond. Ind. Oct. Sat this place
where the principal speech Of the day
was made yesterday by Bryan a great
crowd greeted him. Mr.. Bryan said in
part.
III want for a moment. to invite your
attention to the paramount issue of
this campaign. The money question is
the question about which people are
studying and thinking I want you to
understand what the gold standard
means to those who toll. The gold
standard makes money dear and as
money becomes dear. property becomes
cheap and when property is falling in
price YOU have hard times. and I want
you to remember that no party has
ever declared that hard times would be
good thing for the Wcrkingman, the
FARMER or the business man or any
BODY except the money changer and the
holder Of fixed incomes. When our OPP
ponents tell the laboring man that the
1ree coinage OF silver Will give him
cheap dollars I want YOU laboring men
20 understand that the labor organize
lions Of the country have declared in
favor Of free coinage at is to i and the
ignoring men know better what is good
for them than the hnanciers do.
want TO call your attention to one
thing If under free Ccinag &c your dol
lars would buy half as much that
means your employers would get twice
as many dollars as they do now Ny
friends just remember this. When
ever your employer tells YOU that under
free coinage your wages viii only be
halif as much. You tell them you are not
afraid. because he is loving you so
much now TOO much TO let YOU be
leopardized by getting poor dollars. If
lac tells you thar he can pay YOU double
nut Ehar ne won {. You tell him man
who can help and won't ought not to
advise you before the election. But.
my friends instead of resOrting to arr
gumeut. some of the EMPLOYERS have
resorted to coercion That is they have
attempted TO make their employees
think as they want them to think L
saw q sign down in Nashville. Tenn
and wish you would remember this
sign, stretched over the door Of a store
containing these words If our en-
ployes don't vote as they please we viii
discharge them Ny friends that is the
right kind of a sign to have. Tt is bad
enough ait any time for the employer to
attempt to vote his employees my
friends, the danger becomes Infinitely
greater when the employer is a corpor-
at1on. the stock of which is owned in
foreign lands SO that instead OF a cor
poFatlon attempting to use the votes Of
employees. it is foreigners seeking to run
our elections and control our institu-
George Washington in his inaugural
ADDRESS warned us against iusidiOus
foreign Influences We may weN be
alarmed at the manner in which foreign
Influences are seeking to dominate our
politics and control our financial poll
cy in the interests OF foreign nations
instead OF our own interests and I an
peal to you men, who labor. men Whc
toll, men who appreciate our form of
government because it is the only form
IN which the common people have a
right TO express themselves and have q
voice in the making of laws I aDDeal
TO you. the great common people of this
country, to see to ii that no Influences
from foreign nations shall come here to
corrupt our government or destroy our
institutions
Our opponents raise all sorts of OBJ
Jections to free coinage. but those are
Keep bringing them forward as If they
had merit in them. They tell you that
Il we have free coinage of silver our
dollar Will only be worth so cents and
that is regulating our debts. They are
repudtating their contracts by propos-
ing to require the people to pay bigger
dollars than they contracted to pay.
The gold standard means that you
increase the number of idle men and
the number Of dispirited men and that
you make criminals out Of men who
1aboring to support their families and
adding to the wealth and strength of
the nation.
They say if YOU will make the wen
10 do better to do. that some of their
prosperity VIII leak through on the
people below. They point to the Bible
instance Of Lazarus and Dives and
Iney say what a lucky thing it was for
Lazarus that there was a Dives so that
Lazarus could get some of the crum BIS
that fell from his table. We believe in
first giving prosperity to those who
produce the wealth Of the nation make
the toiling millions prosperous and this
country viii be prosperous, and our
people viii 80 on from our present
standard of civilization to a higher
standard Give us just conditions; give
us just laws. and our children viii be
able to start in life with better adVau-
fages than you have, and your chill
dren's children will be able to start
where you leave off
.reAs.-
time and your children's children viii
be In worse condition than you are. We
d o not live for ourselves alone. We live
for cur children They are blood of our
blood and flesh Of our flesh. and we
dare not leave to posterity a financial
system which allows the few to reap
where the many have sown
My friends II recognize that fin this
campaign we have great Influences
against US. They are able to collect an
enormous campaign fund they are able
70 carry great excursions to their can
otdaGes buu4 my friends believe that
when come to the people themselves
instead Of having them sent to noe, /
can present our cause and appeal to the
hearts Of the American people I be-
Iieve our cause is just and that the peo-
pie Of this country cannot be corrupted
by q large campaign fund, neither can
they be inundated by their employ
ers. Our hope of victory lies not in q
corruption fund, not in the employment
90 force. but TIA an honest appeal to the
nupurchasable voters Of the United
States
Il am aware. my friends. that they
may threaten to take your privileges
from you, i am aware that i'm order to
hold your position, you may. some Of
you be compelled to march in Repubii-
can clubs and wear Republican but
ions. but remember that the laboring
men OF this country have secured the
stands outside while tha voter goes IN
sides