The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
DEMOCRACY'S
CHIEFTAIN.
Mighty OutpOurinS Of People to Hear His
MatChIeSS EIOquenCe.
Mr.. Bryan Was at His Best, and His Speech Was
One of the Most Powerful Efforts
of His Life.
ISe II:o
His Appearance Hailed With Shouts and Cheers His
Respects to the Republicans and their Allies,
the Gold Bug DemOcratS-The
Key Note Sounded.

are coming to our rescue, and that
the platform is stronger to-day than
it was a year ago; and L prophesy
that it will be stronger year from
now than it is now. We are not
apOlOgizing. We are not on the de-
fensive. We are on the aggressive.
We are still pressing the battle along
those lines, and our enemy of last
year is furnishing up proof that we
were right. Therefore, tonight, l
am going to spend my time laying
down propositions for our opponents
to meet.
"In the first place,I assert that our
plank in regard to arbitration is
stronger now than it was last year,
and you can challenge any Republi-
can to dispute the proposition. We
insisted that arbitration was the
means by which disputes between
carriers engaged in interstate COM
merce and their employees should be
settled. We indorsed the principle
of arbitration. There were not many
who dared to oppose it last year,
openly, but there are many who op-
posed it secretly. If you ask me
why so many of the railroads, in fact,
nearly all of the railroads, were op-
posed TO us last year, ! will tell you
that two planks in our platform, out
side of the silver plank, caused their
opposition, and one of the planks
was that we believed in arbitration
and not resort 20 force in the set
tlement of these difficulties
"Che coal strike through which
this country has passed, with its SUI
ferlng to the miners, with it's losses
| to employers, with It's inCOnvenien-
ces to business, has awakened thou
sands and tens of thousands to the
importance of arbitration as means
of settling difficulties. | expect tC
see the day when the Board Of Arbi-
tratiOn will be as Indispensable as d
means Of settling labor troubles as
! the court of justice now is as q
means of settling disputes between
individuals.
But that is only one plank. We
denounced government by injunc
tion and some said that we reflected
upon the courts. We did not. We
simply insist that even Judge is {
servant of the people, thai courts
are created by the people, and the
people have the right to limit the
jurisdiction of their courts, as they
have the right to declare that a mar
charged with crime shall be tried by
a jury and not by Judge.
ut is for the people themselves t.
say what jurisdiction their judges
shall exercise and what shall be th,
methods of trial. The difficultie
growing out of the coal strike hay,
called the attention of the people t,
the dangers that lurk In government
by injunction. There you fouut
that the operators and the owners o
the mines got together and decided
upon a plan of action against thei
employees, and then went to thu
courts and secured an Injunction
restraining the employees from en-
forcing plan of action against thei
employers, and you saw this writ o
injunction so far abused that NOR
than a score of citizens were sho
down when walking peaceably alOni
the highways; but, my friends, tn
!. death of those men, the eXcitemen
which it aroused and the opposition
to government by injunction whicl
resulted from it only shows tina
there is still vicarious suffering il
this world, and that those who g
down to death are often the mean
of saving millions from like fate
There were a few who lost thei
lives, but, my friends, the death o
those men opened the eyes of thou
sands of people to the possibilitie
of government by injunction.
Let me call your attention to an
other thing: We opposed the trus
last year. We denounced the trust
We insisted that it was hostile t.
the genius of our institutions. w
insisted that a government like our
must be great enough to suppress
trust organized to drive out compe
tiOn and then plundering the publi
after competition had been de
strOyed. The opposition to trusts /
stronger than it was last year, be
cause the people have seen what /
was to have the trust draw tarii
bill in the pretended interest of tn
rest of the people. That tariff bill
more than any tariff bill that ha
ever been drawn, was drawn by tn,
trust and for the trust. One of tn,