The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-28
THAT RED FLAG.
The Worcester Underwear Fac
tory That Displayed
A Red Flag With Bryan's Pic
tUre on It
BURNS TO THE GROUND
Police Believe Fire Was Started
MaliciOusly.
Seeking to Find Sender Of Con-
gratulatOry Dispatch
That Reached Mr.. Bryan In Re-
gard to 1t.
BURNS TO THE GROUND

campaigning this morning. Having
left Bath, Ne, at midnight, where
there was a scramble for sIeepers, the
party was aroused from much needed
| sleep at 5 o'clock, when Lynn, Mass,
| was reached. The candidate was bill
ed for a speech at this place and at
Newburyport, a portion of the Dem
! ocratic city committee boarded the
! train to receive Mr.. Bryan and at the
! Lynn station the other members were
| in waiting. The committee had pro-
| vided carriages and the party was driv-
/ en- to the Hotel Seymour where break
fast was served and an informal re-
/ ception held.
Shortly after o'clock Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Sewau were escorted to Highland
Square, where the stands had been
erected Here Mr.. Bryan delivered a
brief address. At 8:2O the party caught
the train for Boston, arriving at the
Boston and Maine station about tWen-
ty minutes later, where they were met
by several hundred enthusiastic ad-
mirers. quick trip across the city
in carriages was necessary in order
to make connections with the Colonial
express which left the Providence de-
pot at g o'clock.
At Lynn Mr.. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
Our opponents are all the time assert
ing that business men ought to take
an interest in this campaign in order
to protect their business interests. It
has always made me indignant that a
few people in each community should
assume to be the only business men in
it., and should always insist on thrust
ing their business interests forward in
preference to anybody else's business
interests. I have always believed that
anyone who contributed to a nations
prosperity, who added to a nations
wealth or to q nations greatness, was a
business man. (Applause)
The man with small business inter-
ests has as much right to protect those
small interests by the ballot as the man
with large business interests has the
right to protect his business interests
by his ballot. (Applause.) I want to
show you how the money question con-
Germs the various classes of people.
Sometimes our opponents try to ar
ray the wage earning class, those who
work in factories or by the day for an
employer, against the farming class. I
want to show you, my friends, that you
cannot separate the interests of the
wage earning class from the interests
of the farming classes. You do not
produce shoes for ornament, but for
wear. People cannot wear shoes until
they are able to buy them, and they
cannot buy shoes unless they have
money to buy with; and they cannot
get mOneyuntu they sell something they
=
Now, you sell shoes to the people of
the west and south. If you drive down
the prices of all those things which the
farmers produce, 50 that when they sell
their crops they cannot more than pay
their debts and interest and taxes, what
n ney will they have to buy shoes
with? Are you going to add to the
property and prosperity of Lynn by
making more people go barefoOted?
(CrieS of No, NOD The wage earners
of Lynn will be idle until there is a de-
mand for the products of the factories
of Lynn, and there can be no demand
for that product as long as you drive
money up and property down. Failing
prices mean hard times, and hard times
have never been advocated in a plat
form by any party, although the Re
rectIy saying so, promises to continue
hard times and make them harder. Do
you deny that proposition? I want you
to look at that platform 1t declares
that a gold standard is not desirable, |
because the party pledges itself to get
rid of it.
IF the double standard is not more
desirable than the gold standard, why |
does the Republican party want to
make any change? IF the gold stand |
ard is good, we ought to keep it, but |
to get rid of it, it admits that it |
is not as good as bimetalIism. But |
they promise you, notwithstanding |
their desire to get rid of the gold |
until other nations help US to |
set rid of it. Until then they say we |
must maintain the gold standard. CA /
voice: Yes, but we won't-O No, don't |
think we will myself If we maintain /
the gold standard we must maintain |
those things which are necessarily at |
tached to it We must maintain |
this system of issuing bonds for gold |
whenever we want gold When we is |
sue bonds and buy gold, we create a /
demand for gold and raise its purchas- |
ing power throughout the world, but /
we are contracting our currency by /
piling it UP in the vaults at Washington
when it ought to be out doing business I
among the people. You manufacturers
and merchants go to the banks for /
money. The banks tell you they are
very sorry, but they cannot loan any
more just now.
There can be no more money in this
country than the people permit If
you make your laws so you draw a
part of the money out of circulation,
and lock 1t up, you cannot use it in /
your business and have it in the vaults /
at Washington both at the same time.
That looks plain enough, yet there are
fnanciers who go on the theory that
the more money you take out OF circu-
Iation the more you have left in it |
There are financierS who actually re-
joiced at the issue of bonds and said
it would restore confidence. They are
irving to run business in this country /
with a larger and larger per cent of
confidence to the amount of money on
hand. And if they go on, the people
will have all the confidence and no
money. My observation has been that
# a confidence man comes into a COM
the man who has the least con-
ddence has the most money when the
fellow goes out.
You say, I am hungry They say,
I have got a remedy; just have con-
and if you have not had a full