The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-10
MONEY OVER MAN
Is Declared to Be the Basis of
Secretary Cages Faith
In w. J. Bryan's jackson Day
Speech at Chicago.
A WEEPING WILLOW
Over the Tomb of Buried BIZ
metallism
Is What He Calls the Recent
Wage Reduction.
/ WEEPING WILLOW

jackson ana greeted W1ulauu y. Dry oil
as the patron saint of the party, at a
banquet given in the fremont House
Saturday evening. Jackson, patriot
and partisan, was eulOgized by many
speakers, including the eloquent Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan spoke in part as follows:
1T is especially fitting that at this
time the American people shall recall
the name of Andrew Jackson and gath
er inspiration and encouragement from
his public career. We are engaged to-
day in a contest very similar to that IN
which he played so conspicuous and
honorable a part. During his term OF
Office the national banks attempted to
OVerawe the represent tiVeS of the
people and control the government He
grappled with it and overthrow it. Ar
rayed against him were the very class
es which forced a continuance of the
gold standard in the United States in
spite of the almost unanimous protest
of the people, the same classes which
are now trying to coerce the govern
ment into the surrender of the sOver-
eign right to control the money of the
country.
ct seems that every generation pre-
sents a cOmbatant between the prOduc-
er of wealth and the money changers.
The latter, conducting their campaign
in secrecy, fasten themselves upon the
body polite and prey upon industry
until their hold is broken by an aWak-
ened and indignant public.
The present secretary of the treasury
Mr.. Gage, is eminently fitted to be the
instrument of the fnanciers in their
efforts to complete the scheme COM
menced "a years ago and continued
without interruption until the present
day. He possesses a sublime faith in
the superiority of money over man and
a supreme contempt for the rights, the
interests and the opinions of the people
at Target He knows that the gold stand
ard was adopted in the United States
without any party ever asking for it;
he knows that for % years after its
adoption no party ever dared to COM
mend it; he knows that in the cam
paign of 1896 the party composed of
boiling Democrats was the only party
which dared to declare the gold stand
ard a blessing; he knows that at the
polls 80 per cent of the voters register
ed their opposition to a single gold
standard differing only as to the means
of securing bimetallism; he knows that
the president, to whose partiality he
owes his position, sent a commission to
Europe to beg other nations to help US
get rid OF the gold standard; he knows
that the senate and house with scarce
" a dissenting voice appropriated $780,,
600 of the peoples money to pay the ex-
penses of the commission while it was
seeking relief from the gold standard;
he knows that France, by joining in
the demand for international bimetal-
ism, condemned the gold standard; he
knows that the farmers, the labOrers,
and to a large extent, the manufac-
turers of England, desire international
bimetallism; he knows that the main
tenance of the gold standard means
unmerited advantage to the money
owning and the BODYBUILDING classes is
undeserved punishment to the vast
majority of the people of this country
and of the civilized world.
And yet, in spite Of his knowledge
of all these facts, he is deliberately
planning to fasten the gold standard
permanently upon the people of the
United States. Not content with adj
vocating a policy which places the des-
TIMES of 70, 000 900 of freemen in the
hands of foreign fnanciers, and permits
a few London bankers to control our
standard money, he now proposes to
give to the national banks full and
complete control of the paper money of
In November. 1896, $780, 600 electors
voted against the retirement of the
greenbacIs, and 100000 supported
platform which was silent upon the
subject. The Republican candidate for
president, in his letter of acceptance,
pledged the Republican party to keep
in circulation (and as good as gOld)
all the silver and paper moneys now in
cluded in the currency of the country,
while only one party advocated the re-
tirement of the greenbacks, and that
party pOlled less than 1 per cent of the
total vote. Mr.. Gage knows these facts,
and yet in spite of that knowledge, he
is seeking to organize a money trust
more dangerous. not only to the indus
tries but to the liberties of the people,
than all the other trusts combined. At
such a time, and under such circum-
stances, the memory of the hero of
New Orleans ought to be invoked in
every state, county and hamlet to
arouse the people to sense of their
danger.
Twelve months have elapsed since
we celebrated this day year ago, and
every month has borne witness to the
failure of Republican policies to bring
relief to the people. Just after the
passage of the Dingley bill our oppO-
~
ment that prosperity has returned. The
Republicans were given full swing.
They framed just such a law as their
hearts desired and their brains devised,
and what is the result? Read the daily
papers, and you Will find the items of
news arranged under two heads-the
formation of trusts and the reduction
of wages.
"A few days ago I picked up a copy
of the St. Louis GlObe-Democrat, and
found under the innocent and unpre-
tentious headlines; 'WeaVers and Spin
ners' seven notices of wage reductions
from four OF the six New England
states-one of them from Lewiston, Me.
the home of Mr.. Dingley, the father of
the Dingley bill. This one reads as fol-
lows
The agents of all the cotton
mills in Lewiston and Auburn
ceived directions to make gen
eraI reduction in wages on and
after January Il Notices con-
forming with these instructions
have been posted. The reduc-
ton of wages includes the Lew
istOn Bleachery and Dye
works.
as this the result which they prom
ised would follow, the opening of the
mills instead OF the n1ints?' If our enc
mics boast that they have buried BIZ
metallisn we point to these wage re-
auctions as the weeping willows which
have sprung up about its temporary
tomb.
why is not some court asked to en-
Join the employers from uniting to-
gether to reduce wages? Can comb
nations among employers be innocent if