Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
The Election of Officers For the Bryan
Free Silver Club Was Postponed
A Large Crowd Out to Hear
democratic Talk.

with 8ro6dy B0conQ ana was carrleo
Mr.. Cook further moved that q com
mittee be appointed by the chair tt
prepare q list of suitable officers fol
the club to be reported at the mex
regular meeting and passed upon; car.
ried. President Potts named the fol.
lowing committee: 8. B. Cook, 8. 8
Craig, d. A. Murphy, F. R. Jesse, R
D. Rodgers, Orlando Hit and e. e
Jones.
8. B. Cook introduced the speaker
with q neat little speech, mentioning
that Mr.. Farris had served in the State
Senate and that he and Mr.. Farris had
been members of the State COMMITTEES
when they had to face a trying ordeal
in which Mr.. Farris had been found to
be careful, patient and prayerful, that
he had been speaker of more than one
turbulent House during the last SEES
sion and that he had met with universal
appreciation; that he had combined
courage with conscience and brains.
At the close Mr.. Cook said: ST take
pleasure in presenting my friend, po-
litical and personal, Hon. j. w. Far
ris,n
MR. FARRIs SPEAKS.
Mr.. Farris said in part: 81 am in
deed grateful of this opportunity to
meet and talk with those now as
sembled here, and it especially gives
me pleasure to speak here as 1t Is the
home of Sam Cook, the greatest DEM
ocrat IN the State of Missouri, a pros
pective candidate for the Office OF
Governor In 1900, and owing to the
fact that my name has been used in the
same connection I am pleased to mem
ton his. II it please the people to
elect him to that office his triumph
would please me for he is a DEM
ocrat and as chivalrous as / dare to
be.
"I will make my talk tonight on
some Of the phases Of the political
questions now before the people and
to remind my hearers that we are now
In the midst of q great campaign.
".We read Of the great war Of the
rebellion and the cause, taxation with
out representation, which led up to it,
and still we r triumphed over by the
British money power. 1t is humiliat-
ing to our manhood to know that we
fought and gained and that their
monied clutch is yet upon our Threats.
This is the situation and will remain
the same until the question of finance
ts settled and is settled right.
Jefferson founded the Democratic
party and the civil war is responsible
for the Republican party, which now
numbers q majority of people, which is
a result Of contemplate means and
schemes, which are advanced and aid
ed by the money powers.
"There Is q class of would-be Demo-
Gratis who adhere to the right for the
maintenance of National banks, who
have played havoc with good times.
The statutes authorizing them are
crimes upon the people. The money
power and the National banks run
hand In hand. That element which
has advocated National banks has
founded Sound Money Democracy.
Henry Watterson has made repeated
lately that the silver craze
is dead, but he could not be further
wrong, for that question of finance is
the one which will be the issue in 1900.
have been sand bagged by other
alluring issues for the last time. Five
and q half million men voted in the
last election for restoring the free and
coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, and not one who thus voted
has changed his mind, nor will they
change. One million men in the mid
die class of the commercial world
were frightened away and voted the
Republican ticket In 1896. Three
fourths of them would now vote our
"When asked about the prosperous
times prior to '73 they all say that we
could not restore them by retracing
the financial action, but no reason has
ever been assigned for the demonetiz-
alton of silver, and none will ever be.
But why not retrace the old 5O-cent
dollar cry? A dollar is now worth 50
cents. In '73 it was worth 103 cents.
The demonstration of silver was a
political conspiracy, not born here,
but in England, whose first victory
was secured In 1915, when charter was
given to the first National bank. In
ten years three-fourths of the stock
Of National banks was held abroad,
and then they were controlling finan-
ces. The demonstration of silver was
secured by fraud and the only way to
DO right is to undo the wrong thus
perpetrated. How do I want silver?
[ want 1t to be as good as gold, dollar
Tor dollar, and a government which
1oes not recognize this is not a gov
srnment for the people. And, Incl
1entally, / would hate to think that
sugar schedule Is good for the peo-
pie. The people get the sugar and the
trusts get the sweetening. 1t has been
aid that all the money in the United
States was In the hands OF 10000 peo-
,le."
Mr.. Farris touched further upon the |
question In q very able manner,
md then took up the tariff question.
he puts tariff In three classes:
"First. The tariff was to aid infant
Second. In 1916 1t was for
'evenue. Third. Now it is q protect
We Multiplication to the trusts
md now, at last, we have almost a
rate of tariff, or will have
his week, which will enable the
rusts to charge as they wish. Do II
the Republican party with dis
lonesty9 No, not as q party, but the
.aders are deceiving the people, and
lot for thirty pieces of silver, but for
of gold. You have very
kelly heard the little story OF the
legro boy who sought shelter under a
liant oak during q storm. The light
struck the tree and threw the
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