The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-09-13
BRYAN IN ST. LOUIS
He Addresses Three Large Crowds
Numbering About $4,000.
ANOTHER GRAND JOURNEY
From His Home to the Missouri
Metropolis 1t is One Continual
Series of Ovations-Nothlng
But Cheers and Good VIII.

an arrived at Kansas City at $50 this
morning. At the depot were gathered
nearly q thousand workingmen from
the car shops and packing houses. who
demanded a speech. From the rear
end of the platform he addressed them
as follows:
Fellow citizens: ! am very glad to
be able to speak to you even for mo-
ment. Some Of our opponents tell us
the thing to do is to open the mills In
stead Of the mints. That reminds me
of the man who said his horse would
go all right If he could just get the
wagon started. daughter and ap-
plause) 1t is putting the cart before
the horse. What use is there for mills
unless the people can buy what the
mills produce, and how can you start
them as long as those who produce
the wealth of this country, particular
ly the farmers. are not able to get
enough out of what they raise to pay
taxes and interest. (Applause) There
is no more effective way Of destroying
the markets for what the mills pro-
duce than to lower the prices upon the
products the farmer has raised so that
they will not bring him enough to pay
him for raising them.
There was a report filed by Mr.. Nc
Kinley in 1890 along with the McKin-
ley bill which declared there was great
industrial depression and while there
was depression in agriculture. there
could be no prosperity anywhere. 1t
was true then and 1t Is true to-day
that while there Is depression In agri-
cultural products there can be no
prosperity anywhere. You must COM
mence at the bottom and work up
through the other classes. You cam
not commence your prosperity at the
top and expect II to work down
through all phases Of society. Gap
plause).
You gentlemen. who live in this
city, surrounded by an agricultural
country. know there Is no way OF
bringing prosperity to Kansas City un-
til you first bring prosperity to those
toilers upon whose success Kansas
City rests. CApplause). 1t does not re-
quire fnanciers, 1t does not require
railroad attorneys to tell you where
your prosperity lies. (Great applause).
Nor can these men prevent you from
exercising the right Of sovereignty as
you please. Applause and voice,
they are trying to do IT'D
MY friends. I met railroad man
yesterday who told me that while he
did not agree with me on the silver
question, an issue had been raised
greater than the silver question and
that was whether he lived In repub-
lie where a man had a right to vote
as he pleased or whether his vote was
the property of somebody else, to be
used as somebody else pleased. ZAP
plause. Voice, Missouri gives you
hundred thousand majority, you bet.'
T1,,x far
e0,000' Another voice. And Arkansas
did pretty well herself.o
Mr.. Bryan: THAT sounds very much
like one of those meetings where they
take up a collection. Uaughter). My
friends, there is one characteristic
about this campaign, that Is the in
tense earnestness Of the people. Un-
less the signs fail, the people are go
ing to be at the polling places before
the booths open and stay there until
they close, and there won't be a man
who can get to the polls but who will
be sure to be there. And that inter-
est means that the government Is GO
ing to be made more nearly what a
government ought to be, and that Is
a government which will protect the
humblest citizen In the land in his
right to work and enjoy the fruits Of
his toll" Great applause).
The Bryan party and members OF
the reception committee boarded tai
ly-ho at the Coats house and were
driven to 11th and Grand avenue.
where fully 1900 people were massed.
A temporary stand had been erected.
but the crowd was so dense that 1t
was deemed best to have Bryan ad-
.ess them from the coach. Standing
- ba 20 hts
overcoat collar turned up about his
throat, Bryan spoke In part as fol-
lows:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: I want to
suggest a few propositions for you to
bear in mind in the discussion OF the
money question. Our opponents tell
us we are going in. the face Of natural
laws. I assert that the advocates OF
free coinage are the people In this
campaign who base their arguments
upon natural laws. (Applause). The
law of supply and demand pertains to
the money question. / say when you
increase the demand for gold you raise
its price Just as you raise the price
of anything else by increasing the de-
mand for 1t, and when You raise the
price Of gold in a gold standard coun-
Try you lower the price Of all products
of toll measured by money. (Great
applause). The gold standard then
means falling prices and falling prices
mean hard times to everybody except
the men who own money or trade In
money. applause and cheering).
Now II the money owner has a
right to use the ballot to raise the
value Of money he owns. why haven't
all the rest Of the people the right TO
use the ballot to keep gold from de-
stroyng the property they ownY
(Great applause.) Our opponents talk
about a 50-eent dollar. They refuse
to recognize the fact that the moment
the mints OF the United States are
opened to the free coinage Of silver
7O. 600 900 people can go out and secure
silver. take IL To the mint, convert II
into money and use that money to pay
taxes and debts with and for the pur-
chase OF property. / say that the open
ing Of our mints Increases the demand
for silver and raises the price Of silver
as measured by gold. 1t is because
they don't comprehend that fundamen-
tai principle which underlies our be-
lief. or do they understand those prin-
ciples and refuse to acknowledge that
they understand them? applause and
cries OF That's what's the matter with
themD
Now. another proposition: We be-
lIeve not only that free coinage Of sill