The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-20
BRYAN'S TOUR ENDS
With a Big Meeting at st.
Joseph, Mo.

st. Joseph, Mo, Sept. 2O.-The Demo-
Gratis of St Joseph had engaged a spe-
cial train over the Burlington to convey
William J. Bryan from this city to Lin
coin after his speech here, but when Mr..
Bryan heard of the arrangement he de-
clined to use the train and said he pre-
ferred to travel on the regular train
which leaves at $40 o'clock p. m
Mr.. Bryan was greeted by 10000 people
at the baseball park upon his arrival
here from Atchison. He spoke for nearly
two hours and the crowd did not want
him to stop then.
There were three times as many peo-
pie at baseball park as could hear Mr..
Bryan, not only were the grand stand
and the bleacher seats crowded. but the
body of the park was also well filed.
The ladies in the grand stand waved
small flags as Mr.. Bryan approached
He was seated in a carriage drawn by
two cream white and two coal black
horses. At this point the arrangement
for reaching the stand was the best yet
experienced by Mr.. Bryan, the way be-
ing cut off by a wire fence. This saved
much of the usual crowding and was
great protection.
Mr.. Bryan was still hoarse. He said:
why should any man who voted with
US in 1896 vote against US now? I have
been over a large part of the country
and have asked the people, Do you
find any who were with us in 1896 who
are against us?' There was one excep-
ton; they told me that there was
young attorney who had been with US
in 1896 who is against us, and l asked
them what had caused it. Well they
said, since 1896 he has become the at
torney of several corporations and he is
not his own master now I"
In speaking of the trusts, Mr.. Bryan
said: Even the newspaper editors are
compelled to write their editorials de-
Tending the trusts on paper, the price or
which has been raised by the trust. It Is
q fr a
such an editorial at the same time being
plundered by the trust
Mr.. Bryan declared that the Republi-
cans were disposed to make great
deal over a rise in farm products and
to give very little attention to the 91-
crease of price in what the farmer has
to buy. If wheat goes UP, all attention
is, he said directed to wheat, while if
wheat goes down and cattle go up,atten-
ton is directed to cattle and diverted
from wheat So with potatoes If po-
tatoeS rise, every Republican orator in
the country has his pockets full Of po-
tatoes. These orators conveniently for
get that all prices are fixed by the trust
and that there is an advance in the price
of everything the farmer has to buy
Every time you send a telegram now
you put on a one cent stamp for the
benevolent assimilation of the FilipinOS.
Who pays it? The telegraph company?
No, the man who sends the telegram.
You go into the bank and draw a check
and put on it a two cent stamp But
pay q tax on his telegram and his bank
checks, the Republican party has re-
duced the tax on national bank circula-
ton one half. This has been done
while the taxes of the masses have in
creased instead of decreased"
Mr.. Bryan said that if God was re-
sponsible for our position with the Fill
pinos and commanded us to govern. the
command should be evidenced either by
the Bible or special dispensatiOn. He
asserted that the Bible did not justify
our taking the Filipinos, and said if
there was a special dispensation he
would like to know to whom Herevealed
His plans. A voice: Mark Hanna
My friend" replied Mr.. Bryan, that
is undue familiarity with great NAME"
and went on with his speech.
How should this nation influence the
world?" asked Mr.. Bryan. What shall
be the instrument by which we shall
act? have gone into communities and
found men so just, so upright that peo-
pie brought their difficulties to them,
satisfied that settlement would be just
one and when I find in a community a
man whose reputation Is such that peo-
pie trust his justice and submit to his
arbitrat ton, am reminded of the words
of Solomon that a good name is rather
to be desired than great riches and low