The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-08


| drove 10 a large tent which had been
I erected two blocks from the station. and
spoke to an enthusiastic audience AT
clock The party eft cor jackson.
In his speech under the tent here Gov
ernor Roosevelt said: Young men and
women Of the capital city OF this great
state, am glad TO have chance Of be
/ ing with you and OF having gone through
+ your state today I have not the tine
10 discuss all the issues as would Ike
to discuss them with You. but I want 70
dwell upon one or two points. Our oppo-
+ nents assert that the issue which they
themselves have raised in this campaign
and which they said was paramount four
years ago, has ceased 70 be a paramount
/ issue now-that the issue OF having dol
/ lar worth one hundred cents Is no longer
an issue Of the first rank.
The one Indispensable requisite 10
financial and industrial prosperity Is
sound currency. We can get along after
a fashion with a good many features OF
/ our industrial system dislocsted. but We
cannot get along II We do not have an
/ honest ana stable currency. That. then.
I IS a matter of the very first Importance
TO the nation. The currency question is
question that goes right 70 the root
of our national well being and the only
possible excuse for disturbing the cur
rency would be the belief that it is an
I issue of the first Importance. Either il Is
the greatest issue that can be raised. or
those raising it are guilty Of the greatest
wrong to their feIlow-citizens. II they do
not believe it IS a paramount issue. then
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not be a greater issue thar the issue
that goes to the well being OF every home
in the land, and that goes to upholding
the national honor. Unless our oppo-
nents were willing that the Issue should
be regarded as important now as # was
four years ago. then they did a foul
wrong to their fellow eountrymen by
raising II at all
Another thing. next November. all OF
us. all over the country, vote as Ameri-
cans not as men of New York or Michi-
gan, or Maine, or California. but as
Americans. Of the entire country You
cannot have an issue raised which shall
be an issue in one part OF the country
and not IN another. You cannot COO ike
a sucking dove about 81 east or the Ms
sisslppi river and roar like a lion about
it west Of the Mississippi river. our cur
rency is the currency OF the whole coun-
try There is no local option about f.
II you have a good currency IL will be a
good currency in all parts Of the country: Z.
II our opponents believe m free silver 10
the extent OF specifically re-assertfng fl IN
their platform at aKnsas City. then they
have no excuse, save lack OF sincerity.
in not insisting upon Il with equal plain
ness on every platform IN the land. You
cannot say that free silver IS not an issue
in the east and middle west and yet try
10 say that Il is Just as much an issue
as ever IN the farther west
1T IS important that We should have
intelligence and corrmon sense in our
at Washington II r. even
more important that we should have sim
ccrity. and what can Won say either 81 the
intelligence Of the sincerity a the party
that four years ago said that n the gold
standard was not abolished We would
have four years Of hard tines: or Of the
sincerity Of that party which says now
that IT f. for free silver strong so far as
the free silver men are affected. hut not
strong enough to hurt the feelings % The
men who have a preference for gold
Il see in the audience man after man
who wears the button that shows that
IN the times that tried mems souls they
proved their truth by their sndeavar
They were loyal 70 Hfe Itself. FOR the ,
union and for the cause q freedom Those
men know that you need not jrst orc
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good soldier IN the frst place you hsve
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