The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-10-19
DuVal Meeting.

No speaker in the campaign holds a
meeting in which he makes as fine an
impression and as many converts as
Claude Duval, the fusion candidate
for Congress in the Big Seventh.
Tuesday afternoon he spoke in
Kinsley to we'll filled opera house,
the audience consisting largely of
voters.
Duval is man of fine presence and
voice. The kindliness and SINGER ity
of his face and the absence of abuse
and rancor gives HIM strong symp-
athletic hold on his audience.
He opened his speech by an appeal
to everyone to lay aside party preju
dice in listening to him discuss ques-
tiOns of national Importance that so
closely concern every American citi-
zen.
He first took up the money question
and arraigned the republican party
for going back on the platform on
which Mckinley was elected in 1896,
which called for free silver by interna-
tional agreement. After a majority
OF the people voted for silver the ad-
ministratiOn gave the country gold
standard.
The trusts were the next issue ably
handled. Last campaign MIR. Long
carried two sacks OF sugar around,
one containing Il pounds, which he
said represented Mckinley prosperity,
the other IA pounds, which represented
Cleveland prices. Mr.. Duval said in
asmuch as sugar is now IL pounds for
w Mr.. Long was not carrying the
sngar sacks around.
He then pointed to the fact that the
republican party has recently re-
deemed its pledge made to the money
trust for enormous campaign funds by
passing the gold standard bill.
The prosperity issue was next taken
up, and also the abnormal conditions
causing rise in farm products; one
cause being the four years of famine
In India, the war with Spain, the Boer
war, and the Philippine war; another
being the large number of men who
have gone to war leaving work for
many who were formerly in the list of
the unemployed. The trusts are the
only rely prosperous concerns.
Mr.. Duval then quoted from the sta
tistics compiled by the state labor
bureau showing the increased cost of
living under trust prices.
The computation was made by av-
eraging in II classes beginning with
conductors and railroad men and GO
ing on down to classes of unskilled
labor. In 1896 the average wage was
S5l1.25 and the cost of living per fam
lily S3oS. %, leaving balance of Sl53 OF
to the laborer. In 1899 the average
wage was $5l2 "a and the cost of liv-
ing per family so09 63. leaving a bal
ance of Sl2.1l for the laborer. The
100000 laburing men in Kansas con-
tribute Is millions of dollars to the
trusts.
He then passed to the paramount is
sue, that of Imperialism, and made
patriotic appeal to the people to re-
pndiate the republican policy of i'm
pt rialism, or conquest of territory for
&C Cmmercial purposes. He showed the
d ference between expansion in its
JeffersOnian sense and the immoral
expansion by war and devastation
using the power of the dollar and not
tie principle of right. Read extracts
from the Louisiana treaty and the
treaty with Spain by which we ac-
Quired territory, in one cas-. extending
the blessings of the constitution and
Declaration OF independence over
them, in the other Withholding all these
these things and holding The Filipinos
as a conquered people.
MIR. Dnval then proceeded to an
nounce the things he would work for
If elected. Among other things mer-
chant marine--but he announced that
hesdid not favor putting $1.O0 subsidy