The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-09
BRYAN At MILWAUKEE
Addresses Himself to the
German Voter.
DOLLAR ABOVE THE MAN
Is His Tex, Preached From,
as Always, CantingIy.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. s.-william J.
Bryan made a record-breaking railroad
run from Chicago to Milwaukee today TO
open the Democratic national campaign
in wisconsin. Ninety-six minutes after
the candidates special train left Chi
cago Mr. Bryan was bowling to an en-
thusfastic crown which met him at the
station here.
Mr.. Bryan smiled as he walked to the
front of the platform, adjusted his blue
and-white battered necktie ficked the
dust of his blue serge sack coat, waited
for the cheering TO abate and proceeded
TO attack the Republican party and It's
platform, with which he said the Repub-
lican party was engaged in joint srgu-
ment. Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Now the Republicans say that the
maintenance Of the gold standard is the
paramount question. If there is any
man here who believes that any fnan-
cial system IS more important than the
form Of government under which he lives
then he can agree with the Republicans.
y
ment that the Republican party presents
TO the Germans, who you all know,
are opposed to militarism. The German
avs: I don't want a large army The
Republican leader slaps him on the back
and says: Never mind about your
army, just so you have gold dollar in
your pocket. G4aughter) The German
says: I don't eiieve IN a system that
takes tic best years OF a young mans
life and devotes them to an army" and
the Republican leader slaps him on the
shoulder and says: Never mind your
oys, provided you have got a gold dollar
in your pocket Oaughter) The Ger
man SAYS: T came to this country be-
cause I believe in liberty I came here
because believe that the people are the
source Of power; an here because I
want the Individual to have his rights
respected and his participation in the
government protected And the Repub-
lican leader pats him on the shoulder
and SAYS: Never mind liberty, never
mind self government; never mind any
thing but the dollar daughter and ap-
plause)
I'VE are not responsible for the injec-
Republican party had not brought these
questions into existence we might have
fought this presidential campaign on do
nestle and economic questions
eff a laboring man says that he does
not like the menace Of a large army, If
he says that he does not Ike imperial
ism. what is the Republicans answer 10
him? It is not the gold standard, it Is
the gold dinner pail Gaughter). If
man says 4 have ideas in my head the
Republican party says: What do you
talk about your head for If your stomach
IS fuU? The fun dinner pail argument
IS an insult to the man who is complain
ing that there are forces at work which
mean bis destruction and the overthrow
Of the government he loves.
"But the dinner pail IS not always full
read in this mornings paper. a Repub-
lican paper down at Chicago. an article
which describes a threatened strike in
the anthracite region. and I fud the fig
Ures given by a member Of the national
board OF the United Mine Workers of
America, now in session at Indianapolis
] find that the average daily wages re-
ceived by miners is S1.s5. The average
wages to day men at mines is 90 cents
and one Of them, Fred Dilcher of Ohio
Il was stated. spoke for all when be said
that It was merely a question whether
the mon would starve to death at work
or starve in idIeness Great APPLAUSE
Ninety cents a day for their work at the
mines. Six days in the week-six mines,
-four-think of It, my friends. $40 a
week for a man to support a family on:
81 gives no chance for 4 man to rise in
this world
"Tako the statistics furnished by Dun's
report, in which you viii find every week
that the number Of failures any week is
a little larger than the same week last
year and that every month Of this year
has shown more failures than the same
month 81 last year. Down i'm Massachu-
setIs the operators are discussing the re-
duction Of the wages Of the employees in
cotton mills 10 per cent. and this morn
ing paper announces that a man in New
Haven had DISCHARGED 100 men, and be-
ing a Republican and not being willing