The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12

served and extended because MT. Bryan stands for peace. and peace Is abundance. Mir. Mckinley stands for war. and war is devastation and scarcity
 How is war to be made without money, and where is the money to come from unless 1t be from the wages of la- bor? Who supports the soldier? He can't support himself. His food and his cloth- ing and his arms must come from the la- Dor of the man who works with his hands. Are the wages of our laborers so high that we can afford to dispense and scatter any of the resources available for the maintenance of militarlsm?
 They affect to laugh at militarism, and they say 1t Is only little miiitarism, but 1t is quadrupling our army in the cause of one administration. It is changing the whole trend of our policy which has been to diminish and not to increase our armed forces. Remember that this is an at- tempt to increase the army: it is not to soldier, but to diminish it: the glory of the American soldier has not been the greatness but the smallness of his num-
 ToiIer the Better Citizen.
 T believe the shovel is worthy of more respect than the gun and the trowel of more respect than the pistol I believe that the workingman who produces is better citizen than the paid soldier who destroys. And I believe that the soldier who fights for liberty, for freedom and for permanent institutions Is the man who Is as efficient in industry as he is valorous in the field, who is ready to throw away the trowel of production and take the musket when liberty is assailed and equally ready to make the change back again when jus tice is established and the earth remains to be conquered.
 When we hear about this cry of pros perity I want just to call your attention to just what prosperity is. The. men who talk from the republican platform talk of prosperity as though the prosperity of in Wall street. Now, that is one evidence but by no means conclusive. The con- elusive evidence of prosperity. the one which never can betray. or mislead is the rate of wages paid to laborers.
 Now, l do not say that with any ex- precision of special affection for the man who works with his hands, but because labor must produce the fund from which it's wages are paid. If it's wages are high. its production must be expensive. When production is expensive commodi- ties are abundant, and when commodi- ties are abundant prosperity must be general, and when prosperity Is general you and l and all of us must share.
 No Real Values i'm Danger.
 Prosperity Is to find openings for com modities fairly distributed among those
 who produce them. l say that MT. Bryan s
 election will make for that form of pros, value in this country will be depreciated
 by his election. There will be certain
 wildcat securities that may may th nd nn !, dl, ho are talking now about our prosperity de- pendent upon MT. McKinley,s election. the men who are advaDc1nS the money TOT this campaign. fund, are not the men who, if MT. Mckinley succeeds will be buyers, but will be sellers.
 If they really believed that 1t was going to inaugurate a reign of prosperity on his reelection they would be buyers. Men whenever they really think the country is going to be prosperous are buyers, but these gentlemen are largely loaded down with an assortment of wildcat securities.
 Mr of Mfhnisy tb is % h n the real benefited. If this claim that MT. Bryan's s election will destroy all values is sound l am quite sure that the Chicago banker will be quite willing to sell government bonds | at 90 in gold.
 'I would like to know If he would agree
 10 sell them at par. am not what might get an offer of a reasonable amount, pay.
 able the day after MT. Bryan's election
 ger ahenverapie on his part, payable on mine
 gold.
 l T wouldn't undertake to buy some SC. curities that are in the market now by the
 bushel the day after MT. Bryans election ' because I take it MT. Bryan's election will I mean general public sentiment springine | people voiced in his nomination that will | demand that finance purge itself of the
 element of trickery that has become toe Legalixed SwindIing to Cease, "I think that Mir. Bryan's election will result at least in a general Legislation throughout the country that corporations | must publicly announce their transac- 90 the swindling which is now perpetrated Tn the name Of finance will cease. A num- per of securities will disappear from the stock list; the good securities will come UT
 and the bad securities will disappear as they ought to.
 street to-day of responsibility and impor- tanoe that won't verify the truth of wha, l say the day after election, though, per.
 am speaking whereof 1 know know when sRen' I '' tel | you that in my judgment not one single security. not one single piece of property or req, value will depreciate with MT. Bry.
 Now; MT: McKinley's election won,
 make the wildcat security, but 1t will give | off on other purchasers. Their worthless ness will soon enough be discovered. but
 then 1t will be somebody else who will suf- | ities have a better chance of obtaining value through MT. Bryan's election than MT. Mckinley's. because MT. Bryan stands Tor peace. peace being the embodiment o1 all our hands In the cultivation of ths earth.
 Chances for watered Stock. Those overcapitalized companies might nave their watered stock made valuable by an increase in their production but | by no other means. The best prospect I Of that is in the election of the candidate who stands for the best conditions under | which production can be made prosperous and abundant. and I believe the great contributions of democracy to the world is the fact that we have got over the old idea that when men become crowded upon the soil they destroy each other. We have exploded the idea that this earth can produce only a certain amount of sustenance for her children and that they must struggle among themselves for 1t. She Is a generous mother of re- sourceless abundance. She will repay in
 more and more abundant streams ac- cording as labor is best applied
 Why, Chicago to-day has grown to three and four times it's size within a very short space of time I believe that
 1t is five times the size it was at the time
 Of the fire. We have a larger Chicago
 now In the air. over six stories high,
 than when people were living on the ground in one and two stories at the time of the fire, and they are more comfor- table, better housed and better fed If production go on and this earth be cultivated in peace by the willing hands
 of men in active cooperation we can sup port larger population in increasing comfort every succeeding year, and we will support them in morality we will support them in peace, we will support them in abundance.
 Ideal Conception of Prosperity. ''The prosperity which Is looked for
 ward to is not the prosperity of increased quotations, but 1t Is the prosperity which