The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-08
HE MUST SPEAK.
Wanamaker Cannot Choke
Down His Thoughts
When Hundreds Come to Him
Every Day
BEGGING FOR WORK,
While His Ingenuity is Taxed
to Give Employment
To the Six Thousand People
He Already Has.
1T GIVES HIM A FEVER
Speaks COntemptuOusIy Of the
Promised Prosperity
While His Ingenuity is Taxed
to Give Employment
To the Six Thousand People
He Already Has.
1T GIVES HIM A FEVER
Speaks COntemptuOusly Of the
Promised Prosperity.
Congress Moving All Too Slow
In Its Reforms.

New York, June Sin an interview in
The Herald John Wanamaker again ex-
plains his position in regard to the pres
ent financial situation. He says:
Z chose two arguments to convince
them that they should stand up and keep
on working for the public good
First, because of their ante-election
promising speeches, which should be kept
in good faith.
Second, because of the creeping para
lysis of business and bitter want of the
unemployed.
What I said was addressed to Penn
sylvanians, and much of it bore solely on
state politics. Much as love quietness
and peace it is not possible for me to be
Indifferent or silent in the present con-
dition of affairs. Neither can I take nop
give opiates.
In these times campaign speeches are
only empty shells, without kernels. How
ever well meaning, or whoever it is who
thinks he does good by them must be
forgetting that a million of workrnen and
their children are hungry. The man who
looks for bread in such speeches will noe
have much to eat
The public heart cannot be fired by
eloquence in this way just now, for tho
power of patriotism is wet with tears OF
suffering unemployed. Give me hold OF
somebody's hand who will do something,
not talk about it month after month.
ITO keep work for the 5000 and more
persons in my employ and turn away
from the several hundred who apply
daily and beg for. the privilege of labor
to keep the wolf from the door drives me
into fever, and must speak. out. Any
citizen has that right.
Il cannot sit on a fence with a stir
wind blowing and whistle for prosperity.
vanished bird of beautiful plumage to
come back
I'VE ought to have new, a better tar
iff; but if we cannot get it, let US settle
down on the old one and adjust ourselves
to it as best we can. If we cannot move
out of the old house, we might build
wing to it or add another story"
(This reference to the ''old house is a
dig at President Mckinley, who reminded
Mr.. Wanamaker in a recent speech that
I'VE cannot move out of the old house
until the new one is ready.')
"A Republican house has been in ses-
sion since last December. and its riddled
tariff bill still tosses about at the other
end of the Capitol.
''If to be impatient is unpatriotic, when
the delays are so protracted and SEEM
ingly unnecessary in adjusting these two
great questions uppermost in the public
mind, then must ask to be forgiven for
miscounting the pulse of most of the peo-
pie that I meet.
There are not few who believe that
since the war no such e1ligency fell upon
the country as that which preceded the
election in November, 1896.
1.-The spirit which moved the people then
is still alive. It will neither be ignored
nor dallied with. The tariff, money, econ
omy of expenditures must be arranged
fairly and promptly if we are to find
contentment or prosperity.
Gathering ourselves together on the
monetary question cannot be done too
soon. There is no use of sending deIega-
tions to foreign nations until we have
some definite proposition to make.
Let authority be given Immediately for
a monetary commission to determine
what the United States want to do the
money question, and then let US go after
it and get it as promptly as possible"