The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-17

saw it stated in a St. Louis paper
that SENATOR Teller said that he would
stand by the nominee of the Republican
party at the St. Louis convention Let
me remark right here an elaboration Of
that idea. If we had any statesman
ship in conducting our affairs, If we
had any patriotism, if we had any IN
sight which took in this whole vast
country and sought to protect it care
fully and foster every state in it, our
/ nation would be the richest and most
/ prosperous today on the globe Our
products are low, wheat produced on
the plains of our west is selling in
London at a cost less than We have
known in 200 years; cotton lower than
it was in 1889 and 1913; and the farmers
of our country toiling more hours
day than any other class; something is
/ responsible for this, and it is the pres
/ ent depression in silver
NEBRASKA WHEAT IN LONDON.
To Illustrate. A man in Nebraska
/ sells his wheat for 80 cents a bushel.
/ The railroad men and the commission
men absorb the price between there
/ and the English market and that man
/ has mortgage on his farm which
/ cings to him like the OLD man of the
/ sea. After he has paid his taxes and
/ the fixed charges on his farm, that
mortgage, is growing larger, or if the
mortgage has been foreelosed, he is
/ tramp.
Let us suppose We have the free
! coinage of silver and that our dollar
4 would be worth one hundred cents.
4 Wheat would sell for so cents a bushel.
4 or double the price. That is simply
a question of political economy. The
I Nebraska farmer viii carry his wheat
] to London and gets out of it 30 cents
busheL He would bring that amount
] home and pay double the amount on
/ his mortgage that he does now. So /
/ would say to the debtors, and I know
: you are not in so Overwhelmingly a
/ majority that the other fellows are not
in it, if you do throw that burden off,
Ia acrAT. nd
/ vote honestly
When the bill for free coinage was
/ being agitated in congress in 1890 sill
/ yer went up to 102. How long viii it
/ take 10 bring it to Is to /? They say
/ if this happens we viii have a panic
Let it come. L say that, because I
[ would not have torture deferred Let
/ us have the agony over. Let them fore
/ close if they dare.
And here shall say to the owners of
/ mortgages, those who are present, you
/ are laying the foundation which will
/ carry the wealth UP in smoke some day
/ and viii carry you to lamp post with
I a rope around your necks. I say this in
/ the light of history. because the ab-
| sorption of wealth has been the ruin
Of every empire, Persia. Assyria. Rome
! Greece and you cannot change the law
/ which makes empires grow and then
| rot and die They have not made you
THE LAST STRAW.
If you are so lost to the aspirations
/ of freemen that YOU can continue to
} press onward with those leaders who
are going to perdiciOn and bringing you
with them you are putting the last
straw on the cameIs back and it will
I stand no longer.
Where will this new French revOlu-
ton break Out2 "A voice New
| York" another" South Carolina" mo,
sir thank God, we tried revolution once
in South Carolina, and we got a dose.
But whenever you and enough Amerl-
cans in this country are ready you viii
ind South Carolina will respond. We
are ready now to respond now with
votes. and we hope that you have the
sense to do likewise. If you don t. al
some future day this anarchistic and
/ cOmmunistiC element w hich is in our
/ cities by the million, driven to desper-
/ alton viii arise, the modern bastne viii
/ be captured. the army taken and the
millionaire fugitiVes like the mobiles of
Franc in 1881 This does not come
form disOrdered brain History must
repeat itself.
One OF the class words which roll
I under the tongue of mOnOmetallists Is
over production If we raise too much
Why are there so many starving, ill
/ clad peOple2 The over production
which is running this country is the
over production of rascals in Office and
the fools who put them there. The con-
ditions which exist today are these:The
northwestern states have given UP in
/ the production of staple crops. They
/ devote themselves to the products
which can be sold near in the city
butter. fruit, eggs, etc
THE COW AND THE FOOLS.
And they are meeting the cOmpeti-
ton of the west by standing by their
farms which are worth only half OF
what they were. There are millions OF
farmers in the west who are feeding a
great big old COW, big enough to have
/ her head on the Pacific coast and reach
ing all around the sea coast towns tc
the Atlantic. The farmers are hauling
their products to put into this COW
Where does the milk go? That cows
bag hangs over New YORK city anc
there are India rubber tubes reaching
into the national banks and over the
sea to England. PierpOnt Morgan
whom Carlisle gave another teat q
short time ago, Jay Gould and a few
other fellows get all the milk Go to
New York and see how they live, you
benlghted, 0Hud ignorant workers
That cows milk goes into the paIatia
residences and stately yachts which
have made Manhattan island, bought
from the Indians for $40, richer than the
greatest state in the West-it could buy
/ you. They have already bought from
/ you congress and the supreme court
and they stand by the party and you
stand by the party
Along come the POpulists with theh
platform, in which there is one gen
uine piece of good, the income tax, Z
5 tax which appeals to the sense of jus
tice, of any man in this country Eng
) | land has it. France is going to levy it
r They passed the income tax bill, {
: sickly little thing that wouldn't hur
j anybody. levying s30, 600 600 to help sup
port the government which protect.
their property. They set to work tC
put the thing in motion, but it did no
: / work. They took another COW with its
head at Manhattan and the bag owe
T Washington A few Populists tried te
T / milk into the treasury, but the fellows
I / in New York kept feeding the COW
/ coupons till they ehOked her to death