The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-06
ECKEIS 70 WORKING MN
FORMER COMPTROLLER OF THE
TREASURY ON TIVE PREsI-
DENTAL ELECTION
BRYAN SHOULD BE BEATEN
The Speaker Appealed as "a Demo-
crat for the support of the
Wage Garner in Behalf
of Mckinley.

CHICAGO, Oct 5.-James H. Eckels,
ex-comptroiler of the treasury, spoke in
the Auditorium tonight to an audience
that packed the great hall as tightly as
it could be packed, hundreds of people
being turned away.
The meeting was under the auspices Of
the Business Mems Sound Money ASSOC
ciation and embraced men of ali parties
who oppose the 16 to l plank of the Dem
ocratic platform. Mr. Eclels was intro
duced by William Davis. OF Chicago,
president of the Amalgan1ated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers. who made
a short address. The iron aud steel in
dustries were strongly represented in the
meeting. Mr.. Eckels spoke in part, as
follows:
MR. ECKELS' ADDRESS.
propose in this campaign. as a Dem
ocrat. to sllpporI William Mckinley, tho
nominee of the Republican party for re-
election to the preside lrial oiiicr and ON
that behalf / am upon this platform.
which the Sound Money Business Mems
league pay in extending to ne an invita-
ton to address, upon the questions uow
at issue, SO representative d body of
workingmen of this city as are here
gathered, and 1 thank them for it.
trust that before I am done, il an, en-
terrain the logical deduction to be drawn
from the expressed views Of Mr.. Bryan,
that bankers In particular, and business
men in general are joined N Il conspiracy
to rob and degrade labor, that judgment
viii undergo revision and that instead
they will believe the interests Of capital
and labor lie along the same lines, and
that in the advance of the one is wrought
out the well being of the other.
The fact may well challenge the
thoughtful attention Of every laboring
man that nowhere do the declaration of
principles of the Democratic party as to-
day constituted, or the utterances Of the
Democratic candidate appeal TO any bus
mess interest, whether that interest be
small or great. In every section of the
country business men, no matter what
the calling, repudiate them as violative
OF all sound rules of business conduct
and destructive of those underlying prin--
c1ples upon which the common welfare
OF the successful commercial world must
rest. On analysis the laboring man will
lind that this almost universal rejection
or Organism, by those who are conduct
ing the great affairs Of finance, of man
ufacturing, Of trade and commerce, and
who In the very order Of things are Civ.
Ing the largest measure Of employment to
LABOR does not arise from a selfish a
political or class prejudice, as Mr.. Bryan
would have them believe, because neither
enter into the forming of that opinion
1t is their knowledge of the subject
gained through study and their KNOWLEDGE:
gained through experience in transacting
business affairs, which uniformly Unite
In verdict against the issue promul-.
gated by a debauche1 Democracy and
a theorizing Populism. They do not wish
to evade any legal responsibility, to pay
less than their just proportion Of taxes,
10 10 TT, treat their employees or to deal un-.
fairly with the public. They want only
stability in money, equity in law, and
wisdom of word and action in the execu-
tive: They distrust Mr.. Bryan because:
ne. has made it impossible for them to-
INTEREST OF THE WORKER
The question which I submit with con
hdence to the laboring man is. who has
most at stake in this country, the bust
ness man whose energy. thrift, and ven
eure or Scapltal, has made, possible its
VINO are going up and down the country
preaching a gospel of discomfort arraY-
ing class against class and procaiming
doctrlnes, which if enforced would bring
Widespread and far reaching disaster
upon every interest which now stands for.
the use Of capital and the employment of
thousands upon thousands of men in
mine and mill. in furnace and factory
upon the. railroads and the waters, in
store and ID, toffice?. Are they the organs
WeaVerS, the TONNES or the Crokers?
call your attention to the fact that these
I and all their associates who write
the platforms. map out the policies and
control the action Of the Democratic par
ty as today that party reveals itself, are
men who know no calling but politics
ana s1 contribute nothing to the support of
their fellows beyond the emoluments of
such political offices as they NAV nv
chance secure. If once eliminated from no.
itics they will find, Othello-like, their oc-
eupauon gone / assert that these men
are not as well equipred either in word
or deed, to so we'll counsel with labor as
are those who are in the daily life of
greater emphasis that anT na1tv which.