The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-25

leave the party I denied it, but I
didn't know the rich Democrats then.
1 argued that the poor Republicans
would come into the party, but didn' t
know the poor Republicans then l
met man this morning who said he
had always been a Republican and al
ways would be. It's nice to have men
like that in your party, because you
don't have to pay attention to your
platforms.
THE Republicans in 1896 hurrahed
because the rich Democrats went into
their party. 1 regret the Republican
party is so bad that the worst element
of our party found a refuge in it.
What we need to do now is not to
call hard names, because believe the
Republicans are just as conscientious
Democrats or Populists.
1.-The war has shown us the limits
placed upon our government by cor
pOrate wealth. In our government now
the dollar is above the man. This gov
ernment is now limited to the use or
the citizens but not the property IN
times of peril the citizen can be drafted
but you can not draft the pockeIpooA-
This is because money has been made
more precious than blood.
The corporations which own the tel
egraph companies have more influence
than the plain people and TINS laIIef
class pays for the stamp on the tele-
gram. A 50 check has a 2-cent stamp
The $4,000 check has the same stamp
with the distribution of wealth. An
income tax so framed that it can not
be knocked out by courts Will destroy
these injusticeS and raise revenues.
The money question has been bur
led annually for ten years, but 1t IS
coming up again 1t can not be Kept
down. There is no tomb strong enough
to contain a righteous cause It's up
now and will be the issue next year
People talk like this silver sentiment
is disease. When the gold men say
this. 1 feel like 1 am entitled to the
privilege of calling the gold idea dis
ease. 1 believe I will call it the new
yellow fever 1t doesn't kill the man
who has it, but gets the other fellow.
Mr.. Bryan claims that the result OF
the election in 1896 demonstrates that
the people are not in favor of the gold
standard We have this standard be-
cause the financierS of Europe regulate
it to suit themselves.
I'VE took up arms to fight for Cubans,
who are not of our blood, who do not
speak our language 1t seems to me
that if we do this we should be willing
to take our ballots and wrest from the
English bankers the control of our
financial policies
Times were so bad after the last
election that lots of people thought
I was elected. One house in Washing
ton a week before the election, said if
was elected, it would fail. 1t failed
a week after the election"
when the paper money trust has
taken hold of this country and the ma
tiOnal banks are more nearly IN controI
of the government than they now are,
1 am in favor of painting the banks in
striped cOlOrS and calling them Joseph
institutions because they are favorite
son of the government"
Mr.. Bryan then took up the subject
of trusts and said: 'YOu'n soon get
notice of a raise in the price of farm
machinery"
We've got it now,' came from a
dozen men in the audience.
J. T-f i= oil 4 T21-xTl +
THE trusts are raising the prices of
everything the farmer buys, but there
is no trust to raise the price of wheat
the farmer sells. The trusts are slow
ly establishing an industrial aristOc-
racy. If the trusts are not destroyed
they viii destroy this republic. The
attorney general could enforce the
antitrust law, but he does not do it.
Every corporation is subject to law.
and is therefore amenable to law.
When God created man and gave him
a soul He warned him that he would be
punished in the next world for the evil
done in this. The corporation has no
soul and the only punishment it can
receive is what we give them now So
long as the corporations elect and con-
troll the officers of our government,
there will be no destruction of these
blood-sapping institutions"
Mr.. Bryan attacked the policy of
increasing the standing army and
argued at length against imperialism.
I'VE can whip all who are not killed
in the process. Spain, after 800 years,