The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-19

he could not work if he did not have
| plenty to eat. He said that the slave
| owner had a selfish interest in giving 70
| the slave a full dinner pail and plenty
| to eat and wear. Man is of a three fold
nature. He not only has his body, put
| he has his brain and he has his heart
| than thre meals a day. He needs short
ened hours of labor to enable him TO
give some time to his family and to IN
tellectual development.
What has the Rel ublican party done
to shorten the hours of toll? When the
hour law went before the senate, the
Republican senate did not have time to
pass it, but the Republican senate had
plenty of time to pass a financial Dill
that gave the national banks the control
of the paper money of the country. ZAP
plause).
1.-The Republican party has had plen-
ty of time to legislate wnen it wanted
to legislate, but where is the bill that
protects the laboring man from the fear
of the injunction? We are opposed to
government by injunction. We are in
favor of trial by jury. If the meanest
horsethief and the lowest murderer is
entitled to trial by jury, then the labor
ing man is entitled to trial by jury
Great applause)- And 1T IS no answer
to your demand for relief from govern
ment by injunction to say that the din
ner pair is full.
"In our platform we ask for a labor
bureau with a cabinet officer at its head.
for? Why, department of commerce
and industry. Commerce has its repre-
sentative now in our cabinet. The sec
rotary of state is in touch with the con-
sular service and the attorney general
has a good deal to do with corporation
law.
81 do not understand how any labor
ing man can fail to realize the import
ance of that plank in our platform, ask
ing that a representative of labor shall
have a. seat in the presidents official
household so that the toilers may al
ways have voice in the discussion of
questions in which they are interested.
(Applause)-
eve also ask for the election of SEN
atorS by the people. You can not get
any remedial legislation until your bill
passes the senate as well as the house
Under the present method of electing
senators the corporations have more in
f1uence in the selection of a senator than
they should have. and the common man,
the ordinary 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 congress Gap
plause.)
1--WE want an income tax. The Re
publican party is not willing that we
give to the laboring man some relief
from the burden of taxation.
s'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
(Applause.) whenever any Republican
holds up before you the full dinner pail
argument ask him what he thinks OF
the anthracite coal region. (Great APP
plause) Ask him what he thinks of less
than dollar day which is received by
the men who are mining anthracite coal, |
less than dollar a day the year round |
Under those circumstances. what chance |
for the laboring man to improve his |
What chance for him to raise |
his family up and to give mis- children |
higher place than he has enjoyed2 What |
chance is there for that development in |
and for that recreation and |
for those things that are necessary to |
the laboring man as well as to any one |
else? {Great applause.1
But the full dinner pail will not last /
this campaign. The Republican party
has got to meet these questions, and
trap by putting little
cheese in the trap" (Applause)
The night meeting in this city which |
was addressed by Mr.. Bryan was held
covered several thousand people. Mr.
Bryan did not appear until ten minutes
past nine. He was received with dear
ening cheers. and the applause DID not
subside for several minutes He spoke
with evident effort his voice being quite
hoarse as q result of the severe cam
Daigning of the past Few days me
speech was upon general lines, and did
not develop many new points.
Mcuh attention was given to the Phil
mines A shrill voiced person in the
audience asked Mr.. Bryan why he had
advocated the ratification of the Spanish
treaty, to which question he replied:
ssI will tell you, my friend, why l
wanted it ratified. I wanted the treaty
ratified because I wanted the Spanish
var closed I wanted the volunteers
home, and wanted to take
rom the Republican party the war ex-