The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-19

even a slight fall of rain. The working
men gave the closest attention.
Tonight Mr.. Bryan spoke in huge cir
Gus tent in Shelly park, in the heart of
the city.
| On the way from Fort Scott TO Kansas
City Mr.. Bryan made several brief
speeches from the rear platform of his
car, the most noteworthy of the these
being at Pleasanton, La Cygne, Paola
and Olathe.
Mr.. Bryan's speech at Armourdale was
addressed entirely to the labor element,
of which his audience was largely COM
posed. He said in part:
If We talk to the Republicans about
the important issues of the campaign
they meet our argument with one answer.
and that is the full dinner pail. If we
ask the Republican party why for three
and half years they have failed to give
| to the laboring man protection from gov
eminent by Injunction, the only answer
is that the laboring man has free din
ner pail and he ought not to object to
government by injunction if the dinner
pail is full.
THE full dinner pail is satisfactory to
the stomach, but, my friends, it is the
animal and not the man that complains
only when it is hungry and goes to sleep
when it is full. I want to appeal to
something in the laboringman besides his
appetite. want to ask the laboring man
if he is content TO live and die with moth
ing more than a full dinner pail. Mayor
Jones of Toledo we'll described it when he
said that the laboring man always had a
full dinner pail in slavery days, that the
slave had plenty to eat, because he
could not work If he did not have plenty
to eat, He said that the slave owner had
a selfish interest in giving to the slave a
full diner pail and plenty to eat and wear.
Man is of a threefold nature. He Mt only
has his body, but he has his brain and
he has his heart also, and the laboring
man needs more than three meals a day.
He neds shortened hours of labor to en-
able him to give some time to his family,
and intellectual development.
What has the Republican party done
to shorten the hour of till When the
eight-hour law went before the senate,
the Republican did not have time to pass
it, but the Republican senate had plenty
of time to pass a financial bill that gave
the national banks control of the paper
money of the country. (Applause.)
The Republican party has had plenty of
| time to legislate when it wanted legislate,
but where is the bill that protects the
| laboring man from the fear of injunction?
I'VE are opposed to government bp in
| junction. We are in favor of trial by
jury. If the meanest horsethief and the
lowest murderer is entitled to trial by
| jury, then the laboring man is entitled to
trial by. jury. Great applause.) And it
is no answer to your demand for relief
| from government by injunction to say
that the diner pail is full.
SIN our platform we ask for labor
bureau with a cabinet officer at its head.
What does the Republican party ask for?
! Why, a department of commerce and in
dustry. Commerce has its representative
now in the cabinet. The secretary of
state is in touch with the consular ser
vice and the attorney general has
good deal to do with corporation law.
II do not understand how any laboring
man can fail to realize the Importance of
that plank in our platform, asking that
a representative of labor shall have a
seat in the presidents official household
SO that the toilers may always have a
voice in the discussion of questions in
which they are interested. (Applause)
I'VE also ask for election of senators
by the people. You can not get any rem
edial legislation until your bill passes the
senate as we'll as the house. Under the
present method of electing senators the
corporations have more influence in the
selection of senators than they should
have and tho common man ba ordipayx
voter, has less influence than he should
have. We want to elect senators by the
people so that every voter can go to the
polls and write on his ballot the name OF
the man who is to be his representative
in the higher branch of the federal con-
gress. (Applause)
1--WE want an income tax. The Repub-
| lican party is not willing that we should
have an income tax, which would give to
the laboring man some relief from taxa
ton.
You laboring men ought to consider the
question of taxation and these other
questions, but the only reply you get to
all these things is the full dinner pail.
iApplause)
Whenever army Republican holds UP
before you the full dinner pail argument,
ask him what he thinks of the anthracite
coal region. Great applause) Ask him
what he thinks of less than q dollar a
day which is received by the men who
are mining anthracite coal, less than
dollar day the year around. Under
| those circumstances what chance is there
for the laboring man ii improve his
mind? What chance for him to raise his
family I'D and to give his children a
higher place than he has enjoyed? What
chance is there for that development in
teilectually and for that recreation and
for those things that are necessary to the
laboring man as well as to anyone else?
Great applause)
But the full dinner pail will not last
this campaign The Republican party
has got to meet these questions and can
not entice the laboring man into the i'm
perialistic trap by putting a little cheese
in the trap" (Applause)
The. night meeting in this city which
was addressed by Mr.. Bryan was held in
big three-ringed circus tent, which COW
BICYCLE ICE TRIP,