The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-28

procession which had in il tens of thou
sands of laboring men. celebrating the day
set apart and dedicated 10 the toilers, and
there passed in review before him in that
procession larger number of well-drcsSed,
well-fed, constantly employed, well-paid
and Independent laboring men than ever
passed in review before the eyes of man
in anE other nation on earth Tremendous
applause and cheeringl-scarce a man in IL
clad less comfortably than L at
this moment-and when the process
sion and the marching were done
A POLITICAL SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan went TO talk to those labor
ing men-violated the days understanding
and made political speech, of course-and
he told them how miserable they were. how
wretched they were. how deprived of their
rights they were. how they were being
wronged-painted future full of gloom
and darkness and despair, told them
amongst other things that they were pay
ing too much for their bread. Two days
later he came down here somewheres in a
farming community, and with farmers, the
tillers of the soil, within hearing OF his
voice, he told them how they were being
oppressed, how they were being wronged
how destruction with its black shadows lay
"
they were compelled TO tread, and amongst
other things told them they were not get
ting high enough price for their wheat
[Great outburst OF applause and shouts Of
laughterI 1t would occur TO the most cas-
ual observer that inasmuch as wheat is 30
per cent higher than il was four years
ago, the price OF the raw material must
go forward in the bread, and how on earth
the farmer can get a higher price for wheat
without the bread-eater paying more for
his bread, is what nobody can find out ex-
pires to sit in the place Of Washington and
Adams and Jefferson and Jackson
and Cleveland and Lincoln - this
man is entirely capable of arons-
laboring by telling him that he is
paying too much for his bread and doing
the same thing to the farmer by complain
ing TO him that he does not get enough for
his wheat. Then a few days later he went
TO st. Louis and talked to the laboring men
there in the same strain, and in order to
make them especially melancholy he en-
deavored to put them In a mind to go home
and smother their babies in the cradle
lGreat laughter.l
YOUNG MAN ABSALOM
HE took UP the case of the young man
Absalom [Renewed laughterl, and he told
them that the day has gone by in which
there is any opening for the young man in
this country-every door absolutely closed,
locked and battened, no chance at all-and
after he had painted this dark picture he
said: Oh, parents of these young men,
what is TO become of your boy; what is to
be done with the young man of this coun-
try?' and at the very time that he was
standing there painting this picture of de-
spair and appealing in a demagogic way
TO the soicitude OF those parents there
were entering the high schools, the semi
naries, the academies, the colleges and uni
versities of learning in the United States
larger percentage of young men and women
the sons and daughters of the people
than were ever seen in proportion to the
population in the institutions of learning in
this land or any other land under the sun.
Tremendous applause and cheering.l That
is what they doing with young men
they are sending them to the schools where
their minds will be trained. and look at the
output of these universities. have watched
in California the work done with our young
men and our young women by that stall
wart and distinguished son of Indiana, DIR.
David Starr Jordan, OF Leland Stanford
University IGreat applause], and L have
seen the intellects of the young trained
there and seen them go forth from that
grea. institution of learning so well
equipped with trained minds to grapple
with the problems of their career that they
were snapped up in employment. and they
go with the knowledge that they carry out
with them into enterprises in every coun-
try clear around the world. They are in
China, they are in Korea, they are in ST.
IBERIA, they are all over Asia, they are even
in Africa. they are In Europe. and as a rule
these young men who go forth, stalwart in
the trained intellects that they carry, these
young men are the sons of the plain people
and the poor. And yet Mr.. Bryan asks
what are we going to do with the young
men. Laughter and applause.l Always
mewling and moaning and lamenting and
never uttering a word OF hope and cheer
and encouragement.
HARM TO THE PEOPLE.
Now his election this year would do
more harm to the people of this country
than it would have done four years ago.
Four years ago the interests of the coun-
try were fiat on the ground-they could
not fall. IGreat laughter and applause. I
To-day the interests of the country are
standing upright. strong and stalwart, and
an assault upon them now is under con-
ditions under which they can fall, and
when they fall they will be shattered and
broken. Do you tell me that it will be
possible to change the monetary standard.
tc drive out gold and silver by return to
the issue of greenbacks, to destroy the
national banking system, to interfere with
the independence of the judiciary. to revo-
iutionize by destroying the representative
nature of our institutions-do you tell me
that IL Will be possible 10 take all or these
policies and accomplish any of them with
out bringing on such a condition Of panic
and distress in this country will by con-
trast make the panic of 1893 seem like an
Indiana Indian summer zephyr compared
to the Galveston storm? And ii is sure to
come. Mr.. Bryan in his speeches and in his
Kansas City platform denounces what we
have accomplishments sound money men
of this Republican the way Of financial re-
form In the last four years. The old State of
Indiana will have her name UNNECESSARILY
connected I'm honorable history with the
of ha first " ted affnrt IL,