The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-03
BRYAN SPOKE
 TO LABORERS Tells WOrkingmen to Be
 ware Ofg rusts.
Equal Jus.lee fore Law
 Should Be s erred.
Took for His Text the Biblical Injunction to "Muzzle Not the OK That Treadeth
 Out the Corn"

was marked by the largest and most i'm posing parade of labor unions ever seen here. and by the participation of Wi- liam J. Bryan in the procession and ex. ercises. Eight thousand men marched through the streets. grouped in their unions and each union wearing a distin. {. gushing uniform. Mir. Bryan occupied carriage at the head of the line, and was cheered whenever recognized The orator of the afternoon was Wit. liam J. Bryan. The pavilion at the park was crowded to suffocation
 MT Bryan took for his text the Bible verse. 'Muzzle not the OK that treadeth out the corn" Mir. Bryan said:
 Each decade of our history shows greater production of wealth and the men who produce 1t have legs to show for it. Is this a good condition? A right condition? The solution of the problems that confront us is in legislation, not .n legislation for or against classes, but for equal justice before law. The strike to- day IS the only weapon the laborer las. but 1t is weak and inefficient.
 Could wield Great Force.
 If the laboring men were half as &C., tive on election day as they are in en. fcrcement of their strikes they would wield force that would right the evils which beset them.
 The greatest danger of today is uri- vate monopoly Not that any one no nopoly is worse than others, but the principle is bad which foierates any private monopoly.
 ''I have heard that the true solution of the problem Is for the laboring man to divide profits with tho trusts. That hal been given as an argnmeint for the trusts such thing would he immoral and ffa- polite. It would he like dividing tine spoils of the highw aymen. IL would be permltting q man to rife your pockets and then offer to divide the proceeds with you. Today tho only people who sympn- thize with you are the others who toll Tn other parts Of the Lords vineyard in '@tae present great steel etfilses where eld from? From Texas They have i, steel mills there. They are farmers They are tillers of the soil and laborers like your selves. l want to warn you to resist the overtures of the trust, Beware when c1r- porations ass you to join them. The farm CTS can stand the encroachments of the u trusts longer than you can. The farmers prices get so high that the farmers can- not buy they will eat iae products of their own industry. Their wives can even go back to the primitive method os Inak- ing clothes by weaving But when tke Farmer can no longer pay trust prices, then there will be no more demand fe the products of your toll and you can make no more wages.
 Beware of Trusts.
 The offer of the trusts to divide with the laboring man is a pitfaIl Can YOU trust the corporations to divide honestly? NO. How many of you would like to try lawsuit, when the judge on the bench is the opposing party to the suit9 There gre good judges. good Juries. yet do you want Judges and juries to try cases when they are interested in the outcome them ,elves {? when you permit private monopoly to dictate terms of division then you place y0urseiVes wholly at their mercy. You allow them to water their stock and then expect them tO divide with labor on a just basis.
 You are witnessing a battle between lapor ana the great steel trust This trust was willing to unionize some of it's mIlls, put would have others open to non-union labor. Why? becauca the .rust wants some sill sthat it can depend on Tn the event or strike. It Is an unequal struggle, for the trust can shut down it's mills for year, but laboring men can. not i've year without work It is your duty to crush mopopolies with the hest resources at your command-the ballot
 Government by injunction is an in- iquitous system and ono of the questions demanoins attention at the hands of the servants of the people. and for a court to rule by injunction Is for a court to dispense with Jury and to condemn a AOA d IdW tTdI LflG court itself made. Under the process of gov ernment by injunction. the court consti- tutes itself the power to make the laws execute them and pass judgment on the offender. The whole thing Is wrong.
 under the system a number of epa- ployers can organize themselves, 70 into court and get an order prohibiting others from organizing for the same purnose They can get an order prohibiting work ingmen from getting other workmen to refrain from working The employers can organize to crush labor, but others are forbidden to organize.
 II am opposed to government bv in- junction, not that 1t Is directed especially against the laboring men, but that 1t does away with trial by jury. It is menace not only to one class, but to all. It is within the power of the labor ing man to do away with the system, ,'
 Mir. Bryan condemned the action of the South Ca. olina mill men who for bade their men to celebrate Labor Day or to join unions
 Mir. Bryan went in a carriage from Electric to Shawnee Park-Kansas City kas., where he addressed an open air meeting of 10000 persons, going over the same ground as in this city. He raised laugh at the outset by taking d posi- : tion sheltered from the sun, saving: I've been in the shade for several months now, and I'm used to it."
 Tonight Mir. Bryan made a short ad- dress at the Democratic Club.