The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-20

INV election the plant will be closed.
want to tell you that today the argument
Of the Republican party is not based on
human rights, but it is based merely on
commercialism and on business.
"There.' he said, pointing to the statue
of Seward, Islands the statue of the
greatest man your city produced until
Mr.. Metcalf arose, and there is the finger
pointing upward and l believe on the
pedestal you will find the inscription,
There is a higher law Now when our
good friend who stands at the head of this
great manufacturing concern is called to
his fathers, l propose that you erect
statue of him nearby and have his finger
pointing downwards and have II say,
There is a lower law Lincoln said that
the Republican party believed in the man
and not the dollar, but in case of conflict
it believed in the man before the dollar.
Today the Republican party believes in
the dollar first and the man afterwards,
if at all: and today when you confront
the Republican party with the charge that
it is abandoning the Declaration of In
dependence with the charge that it is de-
stroying the foundation of free govern
garding the doctrine that governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, what is their
answer? 1t is this: If you dare to vote
the Democratic ticket and manifest an
interest in the old principles, we will
close down our factories and destroy your
town"
BRYAN ANSWERS METCALF.
Later on in his speech Mr.. Bryan re-
verified to Mr.. Metcalf and his institution,
saying:
This firm in your city threatens to
close it's factory. That is an old trick.
They made the same threat in 1896, and
yet after the election many that had
threatened to close the mills if l was
elected cut down wages and made their
men suffer after Mckinley was elected. -.
"If this company tells you that it cam
not do business under a Democratic adj
ministration l want you to remember that
we will have just as many farmers here
under a Democratic administration as we
have under a Republican administration,
and they will have to use agricultural i'm
plements and somebody will have to make
them; and if these men tell you that
work and make the implements for the
farmer because they won't do work under
a Democratic administration, ] want you
to read their charter and see If you tlnd
in it anything that authorizes them to do
business under a Republican admlnlstra-
ton, but forbids them to do business
under a Democratic administration
REMEDY FOR COERCION.
Entering then upon the discussion OF
the general trust question Mr.. Bryan
said:
81 believe the time has come when the
corporation should be compelled to keep
it's hands out of politics and attend to
it's own business for which it was organ
lied am not willing that the
independence of the citizens should
be destroyed, and if it is right
for this company to coerce its
employees it must be on the theory that
man who stands at the head of COZ
poration has a right to the votes of its
employees and if he has then let US have
a law enabling Mr.. Metcalf to vote as
many times as he has employees, so that
none of the employees will get away from
him. But if the vote belongs to the cltl-
zen then let us have a law that will make
it a penitentiary offence for man to
try to rob another man of his citizenship
because he works for him. / want you
who labor to understand that when you
work you give to the man who employees
you full recompense for what he pays
you for if you did not he would not
employ you. They go on the theory that
man who works for another man ought
to be under great obligations to him.
Why, my friends, Mr.. Metcalf would not
employ one single man if that man could
not make enough to make his own meat
and bread and something besides for
Mr. Metcalf to pay him for employing
him. When you give full return for all
that you get why should not you have
your citizenship as your own, and why
don't you resent this damnable insult that
is becoming too common in American
politics %
1T is SACRILEGE.
In his Auburn speech Mr.. Bryan dwelt
at considerable length upon his theory
that the Republican party is manifesting
rdc nbo Of form