The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-23
AS CANNON SAID IT.

AS CANNON SAID IT.
Bright and Extemporaneous Additions
TO His Set Speech.
Chicago, June 23.-Speaker Cannon
injected some eXtemporaneouS re-
marks into his set speech which ere
ated much amusement and which
were loudly applauded. Here are
some of them;
They say that there is no enthu-
siam in this convention. Gentlemen.
the great river that has ; thirty feet
of water, rising in the mountains and
growing in depth and breadth down
to the ocean, bears upon its bosom
the commerce of that section of land
that it drains and bears it out to the
world 1t is a silent river and yet the
brawling river that is like to the river
Platte out in Nebraska Chat is four
teen miles wide and four inches deep)
makes more noise than the biggest
river.
When we were young folks twenty
years ago we went to see our best
girls. We were awfully enthusiastic
if they would give US a nod of the
head. or the trip-away, catch-ne-if-
you-can to enter upon the chase; that
was awfully strenuous and awfuIly
enthusiastic. But when she said,
Yes" then good relations were es-
tablished and we went on evenly
throughout the balance of our lives.
1t is a contest that makes enthu-
siasm. In 1904 as in 1900 every body
has known for twelve months past
who is to be our standard bearer in
this campaign. We are here for bust
ness. 1 wonder if our friends the en-
envy, would not be glad of little of
our kind of enthusiasm.
Now, there is not one of you that
raises chickens as 1 do, but who I'M
derstands that, when the hen comes
/ does more scratching and makes more
noise than the notherly hen that is
fortunate with twenty-three. Our
friends, the enemy, will have the en-
thusiasm; we will take the votes in
4 November.
/ Oh, gentlemen. it is not a few rich
1 men that make markets. Nay, nay.
/ 1t is the multiplied millions on farm
in mine and in factory that work to-
| day and consume tomorrow, and with
steady employment and good wages
give us with so millions of people a
market equal to 200 millions of con-
/ suming people anywhere else on
earth. The farmer buys the artisans
| product The artisan, being employed,
4 buys the farmers product. The wheels
go round. You cannot strike one
great branch of labor in the republic
without the blow reacting on all pro-
ducers. Well, are you satisfied with
the comparison from the manufactur-
| ing standpoint?
Our friends. some of them little poll
L
trusts, trusts" Oh, they come out
strong with good lungs as trust bust
ers. Since 1890 have they ever done
any busting? Oh, no. There is no
/ jericho now, and, if there was it
would never happen again that people
] would march about the walls blowing
| rams horns seven times until the
walls fell down. That is what the
/ Democrats are trying to do.
In the last two years the wind and the
frrarv
| in forming the so-called trusts have been
squeezed, and there are people who make
mouth bets" about the price of watered
companies and companies that have gas
on TOP or the water, made by the printing
and say why there is the most extra
ordinary shrinkage in values that was
ever known
How much?
Oh, good many hundreds of millions
the Wal street journal says over 1 billion
And. yet every dollar of property. every
PaftlcIe OF property that was represented
py TINS over capitalization two years age
Is yet with US. Now, all the fools that
bet it to go down and the fools that bel
II 70 go Up can night 1t out. 1t don't make
lion of people who live on the sweat OF
their faces and do legitimate business
public sentiment, the desire for good in
vestments, dollar for dollar in the factory
where dollar costs 100 cents goes into
competition against the factory that cost
100 cents and Is burdened with another
100 cents common, and another 100 cent:
gas, and another 100 cents moonshine
; Work it out 1t is all right. Oh, but, says
z you are having in this country That is
| their strong suit, strikes. strikes
The law, the sheet anchor of civiliza
! ton, is strong enough to pull down the
strongest strong enough to curb tbs
wicked and the vicious. Strong enough
like the grace of God, to throw it's arms
about the weakest and poorest and brins
t him under its protection. All must obel
under Theodore Roosevelt, as the nation
al representative of law.
Let me tell you something. If our gov
eminent has a fault it IS that, after al
election, one party is placed in power
only one leg. 1t may have the senate. I
! may have the presidency. 1t may have
the house. 1t goes along on clutches. We
; you want to hold it responsible for pub
lie sentiment i'll had the power I would
SO change our constitution that, at ever,
ceived the popular approval should g
= fully into power and let the public hav
; a government according to the sentimen
: expressed at the ballot box.
Speaking to the living in the presenc
=. of the dead, we have tears for them AM
admiration for the great things that the.
accomplished. but the glory of our race
"A of our civilization is that each genera
ton works out its own salvation, an
marches forward to success and the bet
=. terment of the condition OF mankind. and
= as they drop into the grave, their sue
f: | ceSsOrs move onto the stage of action
. holding fast all that the past has give
: US and going in turn a generation
race and of civilization
Couldn't Read Depew's Writing.
. Chicago, June Ex-senator Depel
!. | gave public evidence of his emulation
: ! of Horace Greeley as disciple of illeg