The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-09

Imperialism each received some atten-
ton at his hands. Among other things
he said:
The Republican party has not full
filled its promises. 1t viii not do any
thing of permanent and lasting ad-
vantage to the great majority Of the
people, and the reason is that it is to-
day controlled, guided and directed by
organized combined wealth, and com
bined wealth demands not equal rights,
but special privileges, and every priv
ilege granted by law to these great com
binationS is taken from the people.
Whenever you find that a few people,
by operation of law, are gaining an ad-
vantage, you may rest assured that that
advantage is coming from somebody.
The trouble is that the government gath
ers a little from each person and dumps
the whole amount into the laps of few,
and the few receive it in large amounts
and you see the evidence of their pros
perity, while the little is collected from
each one, and the Republican party is
forgetting the man from whom 1t col
lects while it takes care of the man who
receives. All over this land are the
homes of forgotten men, men whose
rights are disregarded, men whose in
terests are neglected because of the de-
nlands made by combined capital. We
are not enemies of honestly acquired
wealth. No one who wants to eat the
bread heearns and to earn the bread that
he eats need be afraid Of the success
of our ticket. The only man who needs
to fear is the man who wants to eat
the bread that somebody else earns aud
wants to eat it without paying for it.
more trusts have been organized dur
ing the last three and One-half years
than in all the previous history OF the
country and Mr.. Hanna, the dominating
factor i'll the Republican party, has
given US three definitions of the trusts.
He says that in the first place there are
no trusts; then next he says the trust
is a good thing, and then he says:
DO not be afraid of the trusts as,
if they are injurious, we Will take care
of them
what a consolation it is to be a Re
publican and not have to think-just
to feel you are safe in the arms of
Hannai
Il believe you must destroy the trusts
or they will destroy the country"
Jonesboro was the next stop, and Mr..
Bryan spoke at that place for fifteen
minutes.
Murpheysboro was reached at 3:15 and
a half hours stop was made. Mr.. Bryan
was taken to the court house yard where
there was gathered a. large and euthu-
siastic crowd of miners, railway men
and farmers. His remarks were directed
more to the laboring men than his other
speeches of the day. He said;
THE people here may be divided into
three general classes: the laboring men
who work in your shops or in your
mines. the farmers who work upon the
farm, and the people in town who make
their living by ministering to the labor
ing men or the farmers Every person
is inclined to look at public questions
from his own standpoint He reasons
from himself outward The head of
trust argues that he must vote the Re
publican ticket because it is good for
him. The f1nancier argues that he must
vote the Republican ticket because II
is good for him. The men who secure
special privileges by law argue that
they must vote the Republican ticket
because it Is good for them. And IL
these people have right to use the bal
lot to advance their own interests, 1t is
important that the rest of the people
consider their welfare. The great mass
Of the people can only speak when they
vote, and il, when they vote they do not
secure redress for their grievances, the
case is hopeless; and want you who
are farmers or business men or labor
ing men to ask yourselves where your
interests and the interests Of your chill
dren are in this great contest. If you
are a laboring men you believe in the
arbitration of differences between labor
and capital. The Democratic party de-
clared for arbitration in 1886; 1t de-
clares for it again. and 1 can not un-
derstaud how any man who wants JUS
tee and believes his cause is just can
oppose arbitration as a means to settle
differences between corporate capital
and the employees of corporations. Yet
when the laboring men ask for arbitra-
ton the answer is a large army
THE Iaboring man wants relief from
government by injunction. Government
by Injunction is the means by which
man is deprived of the right Of trial by
Jury in certain cases where the corpora
tons want to control the employees. The
meanest thief that ever stole and the
meanest man that ever murdered is en-
titled to trial by jury; then why should
it be denied to any class? The Repubh-
can party has been in control for three
and half years and while you never
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by injunction in a public speech, the Re
publican party has not had time to give
to laboring men relief from this menace
to their interests and to their welfare"
At Pearcy Mr.. Bryan spoke for ten
minutes from a platform erected near