Evening star., 1896-10-29

Menace to Public Order.

menace to Public Order.
My friends. our opponents having been
defeated in their efforts to convince the
people that the gold standard ought to be
maintained, are seeking to do now what
they have always sought to DOWN the
battle on another ISSUE and having won
the battle carry the gold standard little
1urtner. Now they are telling you that
my election would be a men ace TO peace
and order. They tell you tha. stand for
iawlessness. L want to say to you, my
friends. that stand no: only for the en-
Iorcement OF the law, but stand for arbi-
tration as means Of adjusting difficulties
by peaceable means. Great applauseD "a
voice, we will give You a chance next
Iuesday; cheeringD Our opponents be-
lieve In allowing the railroads to engage in
a controversy with the labor organizations
and then call out the standing mrny TO
preserve order. / believe in compelling
them to submit their differences to boards
Of arbitration and adjust by peace what
our opponents would adjust by force. pro
longed cheeriEg.) You business men have
been told that an era of iawlessness will
prevail If am elected i want to tell You
that until we find some means of adjust
ing the differences which arise between
labor and capital, some system that COM
pels both to go before impartial tribunals,
you can expect increasing disorder instead
OF increasing quiet. Great applause)
Arbitration I'm Labor Disputes.
DtlleNe Ill tIie COuTt VI JuSllC- IL ouc
man differs with another I do hot ask them
to go out and settle 1t by fighting it out;
tell them to submit their case, both of
them. to court and let the court decide
and let the government enforce the decree
of that impartial tribunal. Applause.)
And SO, my friends, conditions have so
changed that 1t is necessary now to extend
the principle OF the court of justice 10
the boards Of arbitration and let them sii
Judgment
between the great carriers of our inter-
state commerce and the employe of those
railroads / believe in arbitration. and, my
friends, the best evidence that cur principle
of arbitration is just is to be found in the
fact that not a republican speaker dared
to stand before an American audience and
condemn that plan in favor of arbitration.
(Applause) And yet without daring to con-
denim, they go up and down this land OBJ
serving a discreet silence as to arbitration.
And how can you expect the republican
party to favor arbitration if il secures it's
hold on government through the very men
who defy arbitration and oppose law and
order? They tell you that L will not enforce
the law. My friends, the fear Of these peo-
pie is not thai l refuse to enforce the la w.
Their fear is that 1 will enforce the Law.
Applause.) They know that 1 entertain
old-fashioned ideas upon this subject, and
that according to my idea, the big criminal
should wear striped cloth IS the same as
the little criminal (Great applauseD
Il want to say to you that who be-
lieve In enforcing all laws against all
classes of society are better friends of gov
ernment than those who make scapegoats
of little criminals and then let big ones
run a: large to run the government itself
(Wild applause)
The very men who would suffer most
through the enforcement of law are the
ones who seem to be most terribly alarmed
that there will be lax enforcement of laws
(Applause) They are not afraid that /
will encourage lawlessness, but they know
that il / am elected their trusts will not
select the Attorney General who will ad-
minister the law. tGreat applause.)
Now, my friends, this is business
mems meeting and We are talking at the
noon hour, and l don't want you 20 ne
slect your business by staying here any
longer. / have told you what 1 believe
on these things. If you want that kind of
d President you can have him and if you
don't want him you don't have to have
him." Great applause and cheeringD