The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-23
JUDGE RUcKER,s sPEEoH.
Makes Notification on Behalf OF
Monetary League.

said:
Mr.. Bryan-On the 4th day Of last
month at Kansas City, Mo-, there assem-
bled, under the call and auspices Of the
United States Monetary league,a nation
al convention, the object of which was
to impress. upon the minds of the people
the necessity OF aggressive political ac-
ton along the lines of monetary REFORM
Most of the members of that convention
were those who have for years STOOD
aloof from political alliances WITH any
of the leading political parties OF the
country. They have been living upon
the watch towers sounding notes OF
warning of the purposes contemplateu
by the law-making power to more deep
ly engrave upon our financial system
evils which, in their opinion, would soon
make slaves of the laboring and middle
classes and ultimately destroy the re-
public. Four years ago they knocked
at the door of the Republican convention
at ST. Louis, and when an audience was
denied they turned their faces to that
memorable convention at Chicago and
threw their whole influence for the
adoption of the policies of reform that
signalized the deliberations of that body,
and thereafter as one man cast their
votes for you for president Our con-
vention following hereditary precedence
did not refrain from passing some reSo-
lutions. Also, following in the lnes
though not in the rear, of other organic
atoms of like belief, they appointed
committee comprised of a member from
each state and territory ST our country,
and through the courtesy of the COM
mittee on arrangement under whose
auspices this meeting is held, your
speaker, who was honored by the con-
vention committee to represent 1t in
these formalities, is permitted now TO
present you with a copy of these resoiu-
tons
You will find that the convention has
not faltered in its pasttime opposition to
gold recommendation, and it has unfal-
teringly placed it's seal of condemnation
upon many other policies of the present
dominant party. They INDUCED in no
superogatory performance. They did
not nominate you. Your nomination Tor
the presidency four years ago with them
has never been withdrawn. If upon your
retirement in 1904 you decline to succeed
yourself, either for the reason that on
principle you are opposed to immediate
succession in that great of1ce,or whether
the war you are to wage against the
army of chinch and other bugs, Wnicn
has devastated our body polite, has
ended in its inglOriouS rout, and a CRATE
full people shall allow you respite or
four years in which you may again take
I'D your little war upon the ch1ncn bugs
on your farm in Nebraska-in either
event these reform forces will look about
for a candidate worthy to be your sue
cessor as well as predecessor.
your election we confidently predict.
We maintain it is libel upon the IN
telligence of the American voter to say
that this brief period of relaxation viii
either darken his vision or deaden his
patriotism. That, even If the farmer
realizes the dollar wheat price so con-
fidently predicted by the Republican Sec
retary of agriculture a lew days ago.
and made as we know, for no other po-
litical purposes, neither the farmer nor
any other consumer of trust articles VIII
forget the constant rise in the prices OF
them. and his and the other consumers
in constantly growing necessities Ior
their use -,.-.
are three in number. The gold monome-
tallism declared for by the RepuDhcan
party had nothing to do with bringing
about the Spanish or the present F1llpino
and Chinese wars, and the paradox OF
blessings and prosperity, the children OF
grim-visaged war and all Its dire con-
sequences, is not such a consolation TO
the twentieth century voter as VIII Dino
MIN to his duty. He may be apt 10 re-
member that rs per cent or the SurVlN4n5
soldiers Of those wars are already on
the list of applicants for pensions he
NAV be apt to remember that these mil
lions of Glory Cold dollars so prodigal-
ly dispensed must be returned by poster
ity to the treasury, and that the neri-
tage thus beQueathed to them VIII De as
thanklessly received as the present war
tax upon him is burdensome and dls-
pleasing; and that, whilst he knows tnar
his children's unborn children VIII never
see that debt wiped out, the stain upon
our government for each wicked crea-
ton he knows his vote in November has
the power to and will wipe out
Concluding Judge Rucker said:
1.-The duty of the government is to en-
courage. protect and develop the produce
tive Industries of the people Silver min
ing is as legitimate and honorable an IN
dustry as is the mining Of gold. The
United States could lead the world IN the
production of silver and add more than
$50 million dollars to the annual weal IN
produced by the people. This would ba
new wealth taken out of the earth 1s
would not be due to a protective tarlfr
which enables the manufactured OF steer
arrnor plate to sell to the Russian gov
eminent at $3.50 a ton the same quallty
of plate which they will not sell to the
United States for less than $3.50 per ton
1.-The reason why the monarchs of Eur
one desire that the United States shall
establish the gold standard for money
may be better understood when 1t is
known that Russia coins silver into sub
sidiary coin at the rate of more than
81. so per ounce; Austria and Hungary at
more than $3.50 per ounce; Canada, Eng
land and France at more than S1-44- Bel
gian, Cuba, Hayti, France, Greece, IT,
dia, Russia, the South American states,
Spain, Switzerland and Turkey coin sill
yer at more than 1.33 per ounce into fun
legal tender money
7As long as the people of the United
States can be so controlled by English
influences as to sell their silver at 60
cents an ounce, thereby enabling the
English monarchy to make a clear pronC
of 1886 cents on every ounce OF silver
sold by the American purchaser, and a
loss to him of 1929 cents on every ounce
by him produced, We viii continue to
be the laughing stock of the world con-
corning our monetary system.
1--WE maintained that coins manufac-
tured of silver, endowed with money
functions, are a safe and honest, sound
and constitutional money, and the gov
eminent owes it to itself even though it
owes nothing to the individual, to give
to the people such coins as long as the
present constitution is permitted to ex-
list.
but, sir, this is neither the time nor
the place for the discussion of this great
question But before the people we viii
again seek to demonstrate, with the adj
ditional calcium lights that the events
of four years have brought to our aid,
that the areaf laws of finance of cause