The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-08

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 the common people, nor do I mean that
 you have never found among the com ! mon people those who would betray | their fellows You have found every where, in every stage of society the
 character of Judas. Yet still in spite
 of this the common people have been
 the great and tell force that has lifted | civilization to a higher ground" MT. Bryan described the three forms of
 government best known among men | the monarchy, the artistocracy and the
 democracy-and said that the great people believed in a democratic form 1 because it was only in that form that
 they were able to protect their rights
 and defend their interests.
 Continuing he said: Our govern
 ment derives it's powers from the con- sent of the governed. What kind of | government will people consent to? Only that kind that protects all and which knows no favoritism. A govern
 ment in which every citizen stands on
 the same plane without regard to posi- | ton in society and without regard to
 wealth. (Cheers) There are two | things to be considered. The first is
 that in the enactment of legislation you
 should be careful to give no advantage
 to one person over another person if lthat advantage can be prevented Again
 government must restrain men from 1 injuring one another. The government
 that fails to restrain the strongest from
 injuring the weakest fails to do its
 whole duty I was passing through
 Iowa some months ago and I got an
 idea from some hogs Naughter) noticed number roofing in d | held and tearing up the ground. The
 first thought was that they were de-
 stroying a good deal of property, and
 that carried me back to the time when l lived on the farm, and I remembered l that we had rings in the noses of our l hogs. And why? So that while they were getting fat they would not destroy
 more property than they We're worth. And as l thought of that this thought came to me-that one of the important | duties of the government is to. put rings in the noses of hogs. Now, my | friends, don't consider this a reflection
 on your neighbor. Gaughter)
 Tt is possible under our government l to have justice and to govern as the people deserve Ours is the best. form of government because it is possible | for the people to make it, because it is built on the best intelligence, the high est virtue and the patriotism of all the people. But let me warn you against confusing government with the abuses
 of government. Andrew Jackson said that there were no necessary evils in government; that evils existed only in it's abuses. He was right my friends, (Cheers.) No man who understands | the advantage of government will raise l his voice against it.
 'lt is the abuses of government
 against which we have a right to com
 plain. There are those who would de-
 nounce one criticising such abuses and
 call him a disturber A disturber Is
 one who breeds discontent I want to 1 say to you that discontent lies at the | foundation of all progress. So long as | you are satisfied you never go forward.
 It is only when you are dissatisfied
 with your conditions that you try to | improve them. Discontent under a
 monarch may end in despair or it may l end in revolution. Discomfort under l our form of government ends in refor- 1 nation through the peaceful means of | the ballot.
 q am not going to violate the pro- l prieties of this occasion by entering in- | to a discussion of partisan questions. But I desire to call your attention to | certain broad questions which cannot
 be confined by party lines The ballot
 is the means by which the people of
 this country must right every wrong. | And if the people have not the inde- pendence and the intelligence to right | their wrongs at the ballot box they have not the courage to secure their
 rights in any other way. (Cheers.)
 But my friends, conditions arise in 1 this country which make it impossible | for the people to use the ballot. | Through certain things so strong, so 1 powerful, men were afraid to exercise freely and upon their own conscience their political rights. What did they 1 do?
 T honor the laboring men of this country and organized labor standing ! at the head of the laboring men be. | cause tEey secured for the people of | this country an Australian ballot. | (Great applause) That ballot did not
 come down to you from above. The
 ballot is the result of your own de-
 mand. Now, my friends, among all the agencies which for the past few years have been at work improving the condition and protecting the rights of | this country I believe that the labor 1 organizations stand first. They have brought the laboring men together
 where they could compare their views, unite their strength, and we have the labor organizations to thank for many blessings they have secured for you. l Prolonged applause) Some have crit icised labor organizations. (Cries of Hanna, Hanna.,)
 "There are some who believe that banks should join an association, that railroads should join associations, that all wealthy corporations should join associations, but not the laboring men. Yet the laboring mems associations has been the means by which he has pro- tected himself in his war against the
 other associations. The laboring mans
 organization has done as much good
 for society as any of the other organi-
 cations have done or will do. (Ap- plause) T want to speak here for the prin-
 ciple of arbitration of differences be-
 tween employers and employees. That
 principle 1Tss been forced upon the at
 tention of the American people and I
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