The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09
Mr.. BRYAN AT MILWAUKEE,
He Answers the Argument Of the Full
Dinner Pail.
A MASTER DOES NOT STARyE HIS SLAVE
BRYAN Points to the Strikes and LockOuts So
Frequent Throughout the Country and Calls
Attention 10 Wage Reductions
Quite as FIR quent.
Quite as tr quent.
CBy the Associated Press. }

Nby UUe ASSOCldlGu IIGoStJ
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. S-William ].
Bryan made record breaking railroad
run from Chicago to Milwaukee today
to open the Democratic National cam
paign in Wisconsin. Ninety-siX minutes
after the candidates special train left
Chicago Colonel Bryan was bowling to
crowd which met him at the depot here.
At the National Park he addressed a
large crowd. He said in opening:
The Republican party is not prepared
to defend it's position before the country.
The leaders talk about the money qucs-
ton, and yet they are no better able to
defend the Republican position on the
money question than they are on other
questions. The only reason they prefer
TO talk about the money question is that
when they talk on that question they can
use old arguments and when they talk on
the trusts and Imperialism they cannot
use any arguments. (Applause)."
THE Republican party had put itself
on record in the bi-metallic international
commission and in the financial law as
in favor of both metals. He criticised the
Republicans for not standing fast on the
money question, and added that now
the gold standard is the paramount ques-
ton. If there is any man here who be-
lieves that any financial system is more
important than the form of government
under which he lives, then he can agree
with the Republican party. l want to
show you the kind of argument that the
Republican party has made to tho Ger
man who you all know is opposed to
militarism.
1.-THE German says: I don't want a
large army. The Republican party lead
ers slaps him on the back and says:
Never mind about your army, just so you
have a gold dollar in your pocket.
Uaughter). The German says: L don't
believe in a system that takes the best
years of young mans life and devotes
them to any army, and the Republican
leader says: Never mind your boys, pro-
vided you have got dollar in your pocI
ct Oaughter). The German says: 1
came to this country because l believe in
liberty. / come here because 1 believe
that the people are the source of power
/ am here because l want to have the
individual to have his rights respected
and his participation in the Government
protected and the Republican leader
says: Never mind your liberty, never
mind self government, never mind any
thing but the dollar (Laughter).
eff laboring man says that he does
not like the menace of a large army;
if he says that he does not like imperial
ism what is the Republican party, to
him?
1.-THE full dinner pail argument is an
insult to the man who is complaining
that there are forces at work which
mean his destruction and the overthrow
of the Government he loves. But the
dinner pail is not always full. (Laugh-
teri | read in this mornings paper, a
Republican paper down at Chicago, an ar
ticle which describes a threatened strike
in the anthracite region and find the fig
ures given by a member of the national
board of the United Mine Workers of
America now in session at Indianapolis;
/ find that the daily pay of the miner
is small A man spoke for all when hs
said: 1t would not matter if the men
starve at work or starve In idleness.
Think of it my friends $500 per week
for man to support a family on"
Mr.. Bryan cited a number of instances
from trade reports of reduced wages, and
added that even if the Republican party
was responsible for everything that has
happened that gave any benefit for those
who worked for wages, the Republican
party has offset also the benefits that the
| laboring man has received by allowing
trusts to extort from him when he comes
| to buy what he has to buy with. Gap
plause) The wars for liberty have been
! fought by men who would rather die for
liberty than live fat under slavery and
| bondage, and as Mayor Jones well said at
Columbus the other day, The slave had
| plenty to eat and to wear.
"The slave always had full dinner
pail, but under the industrial despotism
the Republican party is forcing on the
United States the men who own the labor
of the rest are not under any obligation
to see that they have either food or cloth
| ing"
The supreme question, said Mr.. Bry
an "for this hour, is whether the nation
shall enter upon the doctrine of force and
conquest or stand upon American ground
and recognize the right of these people
to govern themselves as we'll as the right
of our people to govern themselves"
BPYAN'S SECOND SPEECH.
w j. Bryan made his second campaign
speech in Milwaukee tonight and adj
dressed larger crowd than that which
greeted him at National Park this after
noon 1t was the occasion of the Wlscon-
! sin industrial exposition
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