The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-08

g eae that several women tainted and
We're trod on before rescued and re-
vived- Mr.. Bryan once appealed to the
people to stop crushing. and stopped
another time to hand a glass Of water
TO be passed to a fainting woman.
Mr.. Bryan was received with long
continued applause, and throughout
his address of an hours duration he
was treated with the utmost good
ndtured Familiarity. The crowd called
him Willie" Billy, old boy" and
Honorable Bill" and told him to 'hii
EN- again" and 20 give them another
whenever he caught the fancy Of his
audience.
GREAT CHEERING CROWD.
1t was a few minutes after O'Clock
when Mr.. Bryan's carriage reached
the park, followed by several others
carrying labor leaders and their wives.
Seaaed with Mr.. Bryan were Edward
p Carroll, president of the Building
Trades council; J D. Mckinley, presi-
dent Of the Carpenters District coun-
Gil. and J. J. Ryan. a local labor
leader. In another carriage was DR..
Theodore Barth of Berlin. a member of
the German reichstag. who arrived in
this country four days ago TO study
the politics Oh a presidential campaign.
lie met Mr.. Bryan at the Auditorium
tend the meeting
Mr.. Bryan's carriage was followed
from the roadway through the grounds
to the platform by cheering. running
crowd Of men and boys. There were
no police officers to restrain them, and
they almost fell on Mr.. Bryan in their
sagerness to grasp his hand and say
something complimentary. By dint of
muscular work Mr. Bryan was able to
11h 1oa ,fef -
thanks when the thousands cheered
him Justify
AT the conclusion of Mr. Bryan's
speech, which was the only one made.
there was a repetition of the unre-
strained crush on a larger scale in the
rear Of the platform, where the speak
er tried to get away in his carriage.
Hundreds pushed on IN front of him
and grasped his hand whether he liked
Il or not, and there was a delay of fif-
teen minutes before a passage way
could be cleared. Hundreds rushed on
the Platform in their mad eageTness to
get near the nominee, and there was
Imminent danger Of q collapse. Police
finally got around and into Mr.. Bry-
ans ca-riage ard drove off the peorls
who chung 10 the vehicle until the road
was reached.
President Carroll. who acted as
chairman. quickly saw the crowd was
in no mood To hear a speech from him
and merely presented Mr.. Bryan, who
said:
THE SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen: desire to
thank the Building and Trades Council
for the opportunity which they have
extended Inc of speaking TO the people
assembled on Labor Day. Labor Day
has become a fixed event among our
institutions, and it is well that it is
so. because in this day. all over the
nation, those who are engaged in the
production OF wealth meet in order
that they may commune with each 9th
er. discuss thoea cuaseions in which
they are especially Interested, and en-
phasize before the world that there is
nothing diShonorable in the fact that
one earns his bread in the sweat of his
face.
Il am glad to stand on this day in
the presence of those to whom this
nation is so largely indebted for ali
that 1T has had, for all that it has now,
and for-aN that it can hope to have.
Il am not INDUCING in idle hattery
when I say to you that no part of the
people OF the world are so important
to the welfare of mankind as those
whose labor and brains convert the
natural resources of the world into
material wealth
I might quote to you what Mr. Car
Isle said to those people in 1873. when
he described them as struggling masses
who produced the wealth and who paid
the taxes Of the country He did not
praise them too highly The str1gol-
ing masses not only produce the wealth
and pay the taxes in time of peace,
but the struggling masses have ever
been and must ever be the nations
surest protection in time of peril -
The speaker then took from his peck
et the COPY Of an address by
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
delivered in congress, from which he
quoted certain paragraphs, one of
which called attention to an effort
made to place capital on an equality
with if not above labor in the structure
Of government, and following with the
assertion that capital is only the fruit
Of labor and could have never existed
without it. Labor" said Lincoln. lis
superior to capital and deserves much
higher considerati ion"
Mr.. Bryan followed With a quotation
from Solomon and continued: Solo
mon favored neither poverty nor riches.
He regarded that condition best which
is not at either extreme, but lies be-
tween the extremes Neither great
riches nor abject poverty furnish us the
sod in which grows the best civiliza-
ton These who are pressed by pow
erty lose the ambition, the inspiration,
the lofty purpose that are necessary to
lead one Of the greatest activity. And
those who possess too great wealth dose
the necessity for tabor-thah labor
which is absolutely essential to the
development OF that which is best in
human nature. Solomon was right.
therefore, when he praised this inter
mediate condition for the great mid
die classes are the bulwagk of society.
and Nrom the middle classes have come
almost all the good that has come to
BLESS THE HUMAN RACE.
Let me cali your attention TO the
5act that when the meek and lowly
Nazarene came among men and preach
I'd peace on earth and good viii to-
wards men he was not welcomed nv
hose who are described as people who
ievour widows houses and under nre-
fences made long prayers, but when he
gave that great commandment. Love
.hy neighbor as myself" who listened
% him? The scripture tells us it was
he common people who listened 10 MS
,Ia.Aia4sa LIS an WIZ WeAcOmeQ Hlnl.
It is tie greatest compliment ever paid
% the Master. The scriptures say the
people heard him gladIy-and
he common people are the only people
who have ever heard gladly any man
Sho preachsi huamtiny and equal
tights. prolonged cheers)
Il don't mean 10 say that there are no
exceptions to the general rule There
nave always been found among the
-icher classes those who are filled with
he spirit OF philanthropy. There have