Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-12
THAT FULL DINNER PAIL ARGUMENT.

THAT FULL DINNER PAIL ARGUMENT.
The Commercial Travellers and Ho-
tel Mems Antitrust league Is having a
series of MONDAY meetings at Chicago,
and at one of these meetings this week
Mr.. John NJ. Quinn, commercial trav-
eler who had his pockets full Of "con-
ditlonal orders" in 1896, and who ac-
cordingly voted for Mr.. Mckinley,
spoke as follows:
But here comes our old friend, the
full dinner pair argument.
when the Republicans are driven
into a corner, when they are left do
fenseless, when they can find no ray of
hope in Legitimate argument, they drag
from their political junk-shop an old
dinner pail, bearing the inscription
fun
In the first place there are thou
sands of dinner pals which are amply
as result of the trusts.
Even the man whose dinner pail is
full cannot close his eyes to the fate
of his fellow worlmen whose empty
pail is the result of enforced idleness.
"The workman with well-hlled
stomach reads in the gaunt form and
pleading eye of his equally deserving
brother q warning and an admonition.
,'xJ the man who was well fed yes
' eHyyiy is hunger today, as result OF
concentration, the full dinner pail of
today may be empty tomorrow from
the same cause.
'Bnt what nm insult this dinner pail
appeal Is TO the workman.
II resent It as an arrnignment of our
civilization, an nlfront to industry and
brand of servility for toll
ITO what low estate has the Ameri-
can citizen fallen, II he will sell his
birthright for Il crust OF bread or n
mess of pottagc,
we are accustomed TO the spectacle
OF an OK or an ass urged to his task
by the promise of food at the end of
the journey but mnst the American
citizen submit TO the insulting appeal
from those who arc destroying his in
dependence?
1T Is customary for the master TO
win obedience from Fido by promising
him q bone, but when did the Ameri-
can workman become the Republican
party's dog?,
lis II such an unusual thing for an
American to have n square meal that
the picture of fun dinner pail viii
overbalancc his reason warp his judg-
ment aud send him In mad delight TO
the support of the party which impu-
IDENTIFY holds II To his view?
up 10 the time OF the concentration
of wealth and the attack upon leglti.
mate competition II was no unusual
thing for an American workmen to eat
land eat plenty.
why should 1t he such n strange
and surprising spectacle now, that IL
must he photographed and cmblazoned
among the campaign cartoons ms a
wonderful discovery n freak of ma.
ture-a startling innoyatonY
we contend that the lnborcr ls ms
much entitled to u full dinner pail as
is the millionaire,
Yes, what would your millionaire
say II his vote were sought upon the
ground that he had II full dinner nail ?
Aye, even more. The laborcr has n
clearer title TO good living. for every
adornment OF the outer and every sus-
tenancc for the Inner man, Is the re-
suit of toll
Let them photograph the young mil
llonaire who never earned dollar. din
Ing on terrapln and champagne. Be
side the picture Of the non-producer. let
them present II photograph of the
hungry men who toiled all of their
lives until thrown upon the streets by
the trusts.
The man who never worked feast.
ing; the man who always worked,
hungry.
That would be picture worth
considering!
THE feature OF the dinner pail ar
eument, which the Republicans seem
10 overlook. is this.
WHEN the fortunes OF the rich ran
modestly into the thousands. the
workingman had full dinner pail.
and may have been reminded of IL
during campaigns.
when the rich had increased their
fortunes to hundreds OF thousands the
workingman was told that he should
be satisfied because his dinner pail
was full
When the fortunes had grown 10
millions. labor was advised to rejoice