The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-26
LIVE ISSUES.
JUDGE TRUMBULL'S ADDRESS.

nOlS' Distinguished JurlSL, POINTS
the Way for the People
MILLIONAIRES AT DEATH MUST
SHARE WITH THE STATE-FED-
ERAL COURTS MUST BE
CURBED-FREE COIN
AGE AT 16 TO l.
Following is the greater portion
of the grand address delivered by
Judge Lyman Trumbull, eX-United
States Senator of Illinois, at a Peo-
ple's party meeting in Central
music hall, Chicago, Saturday eve
ming, Oct 6.
In addressing you l do not do so
with the expectation of being able
to propose plan for securing to
capital and labor the just rewards
of each and to employers and en-
ployes the adjustment of disputes
that will be satisfactory to both,
but rather with the hope of making
some suggestions that may tend to
avert the conflict between the rights
of property which now threatens
the peace of the country.
Most of the years of my manhood
have been devoted to the public
service, with what success or failure
is for my countrymen to judge.
The record is made up, and now
near the close of life, with no am
bitiOns to crafty and no purpose
to serve other than my country's
good, I come before you briefly to
discuss the great problem of the
age, how to secure labor it's Just
reward, and thereby to the masses
the right to live and advance.
In this land of plenty, the fairest
of earth, with a soil and climate
adapted to supply the wants of
man, under a free and enlightened
government, where every man is
supposed to be the architect of his
own fortune and entitled to an equal
start in the world, why is it that a
feeling of dissatisfaction and dis
trust prevails among the masses of
our people? Is it not because they
do not justly share, or think they
do not justly share, in the division
of what their lands have earned
This feeling is extensive and reaches
among all classes of laboring people.
Suffering as they think they do, a
common wrong it is natural that
they should become bound together
by common sympathy. Hence the
formation of labor unions. We saw
it manifested in the recent strike,
where in sympathy with one class
of laborers who thought themselves
oppressed, and who struck for better
conditions, other classes in no way
connected with them struck also.
Various schemes have been sug-
gested to reconcile this controversy
between employers and employees,
such as arbitration, and the control
by the government of the great cor,
porations of a public character. TIC
remove the cause of discomfort and
suffering among the laboring masses
and bring them into harmonious
relations with their employers is
the great object to be attained.
How can this be done? We must
first ascertain the cause of the
trouble before attempting tC
remove it.
WHAT Is THE CAUSE
What is the underlying cause Of
the discomfort among the laboring
classes? Is it not the poverty and
want they suffer by reason of the
inadequacy of the pay they receive
for the labor given? They SET
around them, in the possession o.
favored corporations and the pam
pered few, all the magnificence and
luxury which accumulated wealtl
can bestow, while they toll and ever
suffer for the means, the God -giver
right, to live. Is it any wonder
that discomfort prevails among thu
masses, and that they act in con
cert in the effort to improve theil
condition, when such state O
things exists? The happiness O.
the people is the happiness of th'
individuals who compose the mass
Laws which open the door to larg,
fortunes by devise, by inheritance
or by speculation have no tendency
n L.