The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-03
BRYAN HAMMERS AT TRUSTS
ADDRESSES BIG LABOR GATHER
 ING IN KANSAS CITY.
Says Monopoly is the Greatest of Dam gers-Declarcs Solution of Problems Confronting Workingmen is in Legis- lation-The Strike a Weak Weapon-A Referenc ce to the Steel Strike.

l he1er6nCe to the SteeK Str1ke. Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 2.-Labor day was marked by the largest and most | imposing parade Of labor unions ever
 seen here and by the participation of William Jennings Bryan in the process sion and exercises. Eight thousand
 men marched through the streets in the parade. Bryan occupied q carriage at the head of the line and was cheered
 as he was recognized. He was the ora
 tor of the day. The pavilion at the
 park was crowded to suffocation. MT.
 Bryan took for his text the Bible quo tation: "Muzzle not the OK that tread eth the corn" Among other things MT. Bryan said:
 "Each decade of our history shows greater protection of wealth and the for 1t. Is this a good condition? A right condition? The solution of the problems that confront us is in legisla- tion, not legislation for or against classes, but for equal justice before law. The strike is to-day the only weapon the laborer has, but it Is weak and in- efficient
 If the laboring men were half as &C., tive on election day as they are in en- forcement of their strikes they would wield the force that would right the evils that beset them.
 "The greatest danger of to-day is pri- vate monopoly. Not that any one mo- nopoly is worse than others, but the principle is bad which tolerates any monopoly. I have heard that the true solution of the problem is for the la boring man to divide profits with the trusts That has not been given as an argument for the trusts Such thing would be immoral and impolitic. It would be like dividing the spells of the highwayman. I want to warn you to resist the overtures of the trust. Be- ware when corporations ask you to join them The farmers can stand the en- croachments of the trust longer than
 
 farms. When trust prices go so high that the farmers cannot buy, they will eat the products of their own industry. But when the farmer can no longer pay the trust prices then there will be no more demand for the products of your toll and you can make no more wages,
 "The offer of the trusts to divide with the laboring man is a pitfall Can you trust the corporation to divide honest ly? No. When you permit private to dictate terms of division then you place yourselves wholly at their mercy.
 You are witnessing battle between labor and the great steel trust. This trust was willing to unionize some of it's mills but would have others open to non- union labor. Why? Because the trust wants some mills that 1t can de- pend on in the event of a strike. It is an unequal struggle, for the trust can shut down it's mills for year but la boring men cannot live year without work. It is your duty to crush monop- oles with the best resources at your command-the ballot.
 "I am opposed to government by in- junction, not that 1t Is directed espe- cially against the laboring man, but that 1t does away with trial by jury. It is a menace, not only to one class, but to all It is within the power of the laboring man to do away with the system"
 MT. Bryan also condemned the action If the South Carolina mill men who forbade their men to celebrate Labor day or to join unions