The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-14
BRYAN SPEAKS TO
CHttRlNG THOUSANDS
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and therefore it is necessary to meet the
people, and say what it is necessary TO
say. In North Carolina it is not SO
necessary for me to- talk much as III
some of the eastern cities because you
are better supplied with newspapers that
take the peoples side of public ques-
tionS than the cities i'll some of the
States of the East. | want to talk to
you about one hour this afternoon and
about that long tonight. An hour may
be good while to YOU people standing.
but it is short time within which TO
discuss the public questions am going TO
discuss this afternoon. | am talking to
the people who came into the city frcm
the outside although | think ! recognize
some people who live here; 50 that you
are not all farmers. ! am afraid that
some of you who listen to me this after
noon as farmers may be out tonight ms
te1ling as city people. to see If make
different speech. will tell you the DIFF
ference between q speech 10 cty-resl-
dent and farmer: When | make 4
speech to a farmer ] take as my text
that every farmer ought TO vote against
the Republican party; and when talk
to town people ! change my text Just Il
little and say that every one IN town
who lives off the farmer ought to vote
against the Republican party.
THE BUSINESS MAN
Nothing has provoked me more, as |
have listened to Republican speakers
than to hear them talk about the 'buss-
ness man as if he We're the only man
to be considered, and then when they
define tho term business man they ex-
clude the most important business man
in the country. What about the farmer!
Is he business man. No. lie just
works; that is all he does. He IL no
business man. He gets up in the morn
ing and works all day. He commences
i'm the spring and works all summer, and
when through if he gets a reasonable in
terest on the money invested in the farm
and a reasonable compensation for the
work he does himself, and pays his tax
es. he will not find a great deal left. Put
he is not a business man: who is! The
man who goes ON the board Of tradh in
the morning and by betting on he prices
OF products of the farmer. makes more
i'll day than the farmer can make III 4
year. Who is the business man? The
miner is not q business man He goes
into the ground and brings ont precious
metals and these metals coined into mon
ey help every producer Of wealth. hut
ne is not q business man. who Is! The
man who goes in the back room OF the
bank and corners those metals in the
form Of money: he is the business man.
| say it provokes me to have the term
business man so defined as to exclude
the most important business man in the
country. and l like to talk IN the arm
ers because l want to impress upon the
farmers the most important question he
fore the country. and l want 10 show
them their interests in raesa questions.
and if there is n farmer WIN fools tomD--
ed to vote the Republican ticket. | wan
him to take the Republican policies today
and ask himself whether these policies
are good for the farmer. | want to APP
ply the fundamental principle to three OF
four questions and will have TO discuss
each separately.