Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-20
Germans and the Dinner Pail.

In speech to 10000 people at
Milwaukee last week, Mr.. Bryan.
the Democratic candidate for Pres
dent, said:
81 want TO show you the kind of
argument that the Republican party
presents to the German, who you
all know is opposed to militarism.
The German says: L don't want a
large army The Republican leader
slaps him on the back and says:
Never mind your army just SO you
have gold dollar in your pocket.
Laughter. The German says: i
don't believe in system that takes
the best years of young mans life
and devotes them to an army and
the Republican leader slaps him on
the shoulder and says, Never mind
your boys, provided YOU kave got
gold dollar in your pocket Laugh
ter.
"The German says: i came to
this country because 1 believe in
liberty. came here because | be-
lieve the people are the source of
power. ! am here because | want
to have the individual have his
rights respected and his participa-
ton in the government protected
and the Republican pats him on the
shoulder and SAYS, Never mind lib
erty, never mind self-government,
never mind anything but the gold
dollar. Great laughter
If laboring man says he does
not like the menace of large army,
if he says that he does not like i'm
perialism, what is the Republican
answer to him? 1t isn't the gold
standard; it is the full dinner pail.
Laughter. If a man says, i have
ideas in my head the Republican
party says, What do you talk about
your head for if your stomach is
fullp The full dinner pail argu-
ment is an insult to the man who is
complaining that there are forces at
work which mean his destruction
and the overthrow of the govern
ment he loves. Loud cheers
"But the dinner pail is not always
full. ! read in this mornings pa
per--a republican paper-an article
which describes a threatened strike
in the anthracite region and | find
the figures given by a member of
the National Board of the United |
Mine Workers of America, now in
session at indianapolis. | find that
the average daily wages received by
miners is $l.35. The average wages
to day men at the mines is 90 cents,
and one of them, Fred Dilscher of
Ohio, it was stated, spoke for all
when he said it is merely question
whether the men would starve to
death at work or starve in idleness.
lGreat applause Ninety cents
day for their ork at the mine. Six
days in the week-six mines are 81.
Think, my friends, of So. a week
for a man to support family on
1t gives no chance for a man to rise |,
in this world.
But suppose the Republican
party was responsible for every thing
that has happened that gave any
benefit for those who worked for
wages, the Republican party has
offsett also the benefits that the la
boring man has received by allow
ing trusts to extort from him when
he comes to buy. Let the laboring
man spend his money for some
thing that he needs, and then he
will find for whom the Republican
party has been looking out. He
will find that the trusts have raised
the price of what he has to buy
more rapidly than any Republican
legislation has or can raise the
amount Of his income.
You will find that the laporing
man, the ordinary business man,
has no share in these trusts, and
yet he suffers from all of them.