Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-08
SENATOR RYAN SAYS 1T WILL DIS
GRACE STATUTE BOOKS.
He VOTED FOR IT UNDER LASH
WOULD NOT HAVE SUPPORTED 1T
EXCEPT FOR CAUCUS.
says 1t Wipes Ont Everything Organ
lied Labor Hns Been Fighting
For During Past Twenty.
five Years-And Ryan
Is o. POP.

TOPEKA, Jan. E~-CSpecial) Senator
RYAN, Poprhist, of Crawford. gave out a
statement tonight explaining his vote
against the supplemental railroad DILL IN
which he severely criticised the Populist
majority In the Legislature. He said:
when this supplemental bill was first
before the senate, 1 opposed II for the rea-
non. among others, that the clause in re-
la,ion to strikes was a direct attack upon
organized labor. This objection is now con-
ceded to have been well taken, and the au-
thors of this Ubiquitous provision haVe hao
this one Objectionable feature taken out.
1t is now insisted, however. that. without
this supplemental bill. the court OF vista
ton law will be imperative L voted tor
that bill under protest and in obedience 10
the mandates of the caucus. Had 1t not
been for the caucus, 1 would not have given
It my support.
The Chicago platform denounced MI.
Cleveland for using the military power OF
the government 10 prevent the striking
employees from asserting their rights as
American citizens.
Mr.. Bryan. the ideal Of the laboring men
of this country, in all of his public
speeches has denounced as ~tyrannical and
oppressive the action of the courts In en-
Joining employees from opening their
mouths. Labor, all over this fair land or
ours, has only demanded the right to be
heard. Organizations have been FORMED
in every town, hamlet and city by the toll
ing millions to resist the Entertainments OIL
organized capital by appealing IN a peace
full and lawful way to other laborers to
ioip them in this great and unequal strug-
gle for bread. The federal courts have,
nv Injunction, closed their mouths, and a
wave of Indignation has swept over the
land against these unprecedented, tyran-
meal proceedings, and yet, in the race OF
all this-in the face of party pledges. in
the face Of the appeals that come up from
every labor organization OF this state LOT
assistance-it remained for this body, I'M
der the whip and spur Of the caucus. to
mass this court bill. which makes it 'un-
lawful for said strikers or any of them to
snterfere in any nj whatever. by
word or deed, with any other employees
said corporation may employ and set 10
work.
..If the failure to pass this supplemental
bill will destroy the effect and operation
of his court bill. which makes 1t unlawful
for a laboring man to open his mouth II
the struggle for existence, every senator II
this body should welcome the opportunity
to wipe 1t out, and not have it disgrace the
statute books of the state of Kansas. Vol
NAV 20 back to the Eastern states. where
organized capital controls and dominate:
Legislative bodies. and they have never We
had the audacity to put upon the statute
books a law which makes it unlawful for 1
laborings mansto open his mouth. and ye
the Kansas legislature, controlled in boil
houses by the Peoples party, has enacted
law which has received the executive ap
proval, which wipes out everything that or
gained labor has been fighting for during
the last twenty-five years"