Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-13
MISSOURTS

Kansas city, MO-, sept l2.-W1lllam Jennings Bryan made two speeches in Kansas City this morning, one to the workingmen of the two Kansas Citys in the packing house district, the other to a vast crowd of people at the corner of Eleventh street and Grand avenue, up town. The Armour people gave all their employees an hour to see and hear MT. Bryan. Mr. Bryan was met at Leaven- worth by a special committee to escort him to this city, where he arrived at 6:30 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock he addressed a crowd of 10000 workmen in the bottoms.
 He spoke as follows:
 Fellow Citizens: This is little earlier than I usually commence my mornings work uaughter0 I am very glad to be able to speak to you even for a moment Some of our opponents tell us that the thing to do is to open the mills instead of the hints. That reminds me of the man who said his horse would go all right if he just could get the wagon started. Daughter and applause) It is putting the cart before the horse. What use are the mills unless the people can buy what the mills produce, and how can you start them as long as those who pro- duce the wealth of this country, particu- larly the farmers, are not able to get enough out of the wheat they raise to pay their taxes and interest? (Applause.)
 There is no more effective way of de- stroying the markets for what the mills produce than to lower the price of the products the farmer has raised so that they will not bring him enough to pay him for raising them. There was re- port once filed by MT Mckinley in 1890 along with the Mckinley bill, and that report declared that there was great in- dustrial depression and that while there was depression in agriculture there could be no prosperity anywhere. You must commence at the bottom and work up through the other classes. You can't commence your prosperity a the top and expect it to work down through all the classes of society. You gentlemen who live in this city, surrounded by an agri- cultural country, know that there is no way of bringing prosperity to Kansas City until you first bring prosperity to the toilers upon whose success Kansas City rests. It does not require financiers, 1t does not require railroad attorney, to tell you where your prosperity lies (great applause), nor can these men pre- vent you from exercising the right of sovereignty as you please. Applause. A voice, They are trying to do it.'C
 My friends, I met a railroad man yes- terday who told me that while he did not agree with me on the silver question, an issue has been raised greater than the silver question, and that was whether he lived In republic where man had the right to vote as he pleased, or whether he is the property of somebody else, to be used as somebody else pleased" (Cheers.)
 A voice-Missouri gives you 100000 majority. You bet.
 Another voice-Put Kansas down for 60000.
 Another voice-And Arkansas is all right.
 MT. Bryan-That sounds very much like one of those meetings where they take up a collection. When you talk about the results of an election the peo- pie from the various states vie with each other to see who can make it the nearest to unanimity. My friends, there is one characteristic about this campaign, and that is the intense earnestness of the people. Sometimes in a campaign you find men lukewarm, people who do not know whether they are going to the polls or not, and sometimes you. find it neces- sary to get carriages to take the people to the polls. Unless all signs fail there will be no use for carriages this year. Unless all signs fail the people are going to be at the polling places before the booths open and stay there until they close, and there won't be man who can get to the polls but who will be sure to be there. The people are beginning to understand the value of the ballot as the means by which they can redress their wrongs Sometimes people have compla ined that the laws were bad and have allowed them to remain bad. If the laws are bad they themselves are to blame and if they wish good laws they must secure them themselves. And this Interest means something It means that the government is going to be made more nearly what the government ought to be, and that is a government which will pro- tect the humblest citizen in the land in his right to work, to enjoy the fruits of his toll. Great applause and cheering).
 After the address on the bottoms he was escorted to the Coates house for breakfast, and where he mst the recep- ton committee from St. Louis, after which a parade was formed and he was taken to the corner of Eleventh street and Grand avenue, whsre he spoke from his carriage to an audience of 25000 people.
 After this address, which was enthusi- astcally received, he was driven to the union station, where he took a special Wabash train in waiting for his journey across the state to St. Louis, the train leaving Kansas City at 9:45 a. m.
 MT. Bryan has made change in his costume. He has abandoned the white hat and coat and now wears brown slouch hat, dark overcoat and dark suit
 Along the Way.
 Brunswick. Mo-, Sept. 12.-Considerab ble enthusiasm over the democratic candi- date was shown by fair sized crowd at Norborne when MT. Bryan's train reached there. The throng at Carroll where stop of five minutes was made numbered 4000, and the candidate was loudly cheered as he ascended d tenn porary platform erected close to the train. MT. Bryan was introduced by Ex- Congressman Champ Clark, and made a