The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-19
ADDRESS AT ARMOURDALE, KAN,
YESTERDAY WAS TO THE
LABORING MAN
As 20 THE EIGHT. -FOUR DAY
NOT A THING HAVE THE REPUB-
LICANS DONE TOWARD
SECURING 1T
ON THE HARD COAL STRIKE
How Does the Anthracite Miner on
Less Than a Dollar a Day Get
Into the Full Dinner
Pail Game?

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept 1S.-Armour-
dale, the center of the packing and stock
yards in this vicinity, was invaded late
this afternoon by William J. Bryan. He
arrived in this city at $50 and was driven
across the Kaw to the Industrial suburb,
which he reached a quarter past 6. The
employees of the various institutions of
the vicinity had already ceased their
daily labors, and they gathered in Shaw
nee park in great numbers when Mr..
Bryan arrived. The sky was overcast
and threatening, and soon rain began to
fall, but notwithstanding these untoward
circumstances the crowd held on man
fully, giving close attention to the end
At night~AIr. Bryan spoke in a huge tent
in this city
Mr.. Bryan made several short speeches
from the rear platform of his car from
Fort Scott to this city, the most note
worthy of these being at Pleasanton, La
cygne. Paola and Olathe He was Joined,
before reaching Kansas City, by Con-
gresham Cowherd and Hon. John L.
Peake, who was the United States minis
ter to Switzerland during the Cleveland
administration. When Kansas City was
5eached they and others from the Mis-
souri, committee Joined the Kansas City
escort committee, which conducted Mr.
Bryan to the packing house center.
SPOKE TO LABOR.
Mr.. Bryan's speech was addressed en-
tirely to the labor element, OF which his
audience was composed. He plunged
Immediately into the Full dinner pail
subject, and in that connection referred
to the anthracite coal strike as a proof,
he said, that the dinner pail is not al
ways so full as the Republican orators
would have their audiences believe. Mr..
Bryan also repeated his arguments
against the trusts, contending that they
were calculated to cut off all the oId-time
opportunities for young men.
In the portion of the address which was
directed especially to the labor problem
as affected by politics, he spoke in part
as follows:
I want to assume that you love your
country better than you love any party,
and that when you are informed upon
the issues of the campaign you will sup
port that party which offers you the
best principles and the best policies. If
we talk to the Republicans about the i'm
portant issues of this campaign, they meet
your argument with one answer, and
that is the full dinner pail. If we ask the
Republicans why for three and one-half
years they have failed to give the labor
ing men protection from government by
injunction, the only answer is, the labor
ing man has a full dinner pail, and he
ought not to object to government by in
junction if the dinner pail is full
DINNER PAIL ARGUMENT.
'Butmy friends, the dinner pail argument
Is an insult to the working men, and the
dinner pail argument will not last
through this campaign, for when the Re-
publicans assume that all that a labor
ing man needs is the full dinner pail he
assumes that the laboring man is all
stomach (Applause.)
Il want to ask the laboring man if he
is content 10 live and die with nothing
more than full dinner pail. My
friends, man is of a three-fold nature.
He not only has his body but he las his
brains and he has his heart also, and the
laboring man needs more than three
meals day. He needs shortened hours
of labor to enable him to give some time
to his family and to intellectual develop
ment
What has the Republican party done
to shorten the hours of toll? When the
eight-hour law went before the senate,
the Republican senate did not have time
to pass 1t, but the Republican senate had
plenty of time to pass a financial bill
that gave to national banks the control
of the paper money of the country. Cap
plause.)
1.-The Republican party has had plenty
of time to legislate when it wanted to-
but where is the bill that protects the
laboring man from the fear of the in.
junction?
\ GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
I'VE are opposed to government by In
junction. We are in favor of trial by
jury The meanest horse thief and the
lowest murderer is entitled to trial by
jury, In our platform we ask for a la
Dor bureau, with a cabinet officer at its
head. I do not understand how any Ia
boring man can fail to realize the i'm
portance of that plank in our platform
asking that representative of labor shall
have a seat in the presidents oficia
household, so that the toilers may alway.
have a voice in the discussion of ques
tions in which they are interested
1--WE also ask for the election of sena
tors by the people. You cannot get any
remedial legislation until your bill passe!
the senate. We want to elect senator.
by the will of the people.
I'VE want an income tax. The Repub
lican party is not willing that we shoulC
have an income tax which would give t
the laboring man some relief from tn,
burden of taxation. We believe that
man should contribute to the support O
his government in proportion to the ben
eft which he receives from his govern
nlent, but the Republican party puts the
burden upon consumption, and make.
men pay in proportion to what they wan
instead of in proportion to what the,
have. Today we cannot collect an income
tax. Whenever any Republican holds II,
before you the full dinner pail argument
ask him what he thinks of the anthra,
cite coal regions. (Applause.)
THE COAL STRIKE.
ask him what he thinks of less thar
a dollar a day, which is received by thu
men who are mining anthracite coal. les,
than dollar a day the year around
What chance for him to raise his famil,
up and then give his children a highe
place than he has enjoyed2 What chenc,
is there for that development intcllectu
allv and for that recreation and for thoe,