The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-03
Mr.. BRYAN SPEAKS
TO LABOR|NG MEN
Feature of the Demonstration
at Kansas City.
WARNS AGAINST TRUSTS
SAYS THE BALLOT Is MORE Eff
FECTIVE THAN STRIKES.

EECI1tG THAN STRIKES.
Kansas City. Mo. Sept. labor day
was marked by the largest and most
imposing parade of labor unions ever
seen here, and by the participation of
William j. Bryan in the procession and
exercises. Eight thousand men marched
through the streets. grouped in their
unions, and each union wearing a uni
form These uniforms were made by
the locked-out girls of Garment Max
erS union No. AZ, who have started a
men, dressed in white, rode in a tally
no coach, and were cheered all along
the line.
Mr.. Bryan occupied carriage at the
whenever recognized. A striking fea-
ture Of the parade was the Hold Car
riers' union, negroes, 225 men, wearing
white shirts and black caps, and led
by a negro band.
In the afternoon there was speaking
and athletic games at Electric park
and tonight there were addresses. The
orator Of the afternoon was William ].
Bryan, who was preceded by Mayor
Reed.
The big pavilion at the park was
crowded to suffocation. Mr.. Bryan
took for his text the Bible verse, First
Corinthians tx, g: THE OK that tread
eth out the corn Mr.. Bryan said:
Each decade of our history shows
greater production OF wealth and the
men who produce it have less to show
for it. Is this a good condition? A
right condition? The solution of the
problems that confront us is in legisla-
ton, not in legislation for or against
classes, but for equal justice before the
law.
Strike the Laborers' Weapon.
1.-The strike today is the only weapon
the laborer has, but 1t is weak and in
efficient. If the laboring men were
half as active on election day as they
are in enforcement of their strikes, they
would right the evils which beset them.
The greatest danger of today is private
monopoly. Not that any one monopoly
is worse than others, but the principle
is bad which tolerates any private
monopoly.
II have heard that the true solution
of the problem is for the laboring man
TO divide profits with the trusts. That
has been given as an argument for the
trusts. Such a thing would be i'm
moral and impolitic. 1t would be like
dividing the spoils of hignwaymen. 1t
would be permitting man to rife your
pockets and then offer to divide the
proceeds with you.
To-day the only people who sympa-
thize with you are the others who toll
III QUIET pdIlS the vineyard
In the present great steel strike where
did the first expressions of sympathy
come from? From Texas. They have
no steel mills there. They are farm
ers- They are tillers of the soil, and
laDorerS like yourselves. I want to
warn you to resist the overtures of the
trust. Beware when corporations ask
you to join them. The farmers can
stand the encroachments of the trusts
longer than you can. The farmers live
off their "a NNhaT1 craf
so high that the farmers cannot buy,
they VIII eat the products of their own
industry. Their wives can even go
back to the primitive method of max
ing clothes by weaving. But when the
farmer can no longer pay trust prices,
then there Will be no more demand for
the products of your toll and you can
make no more wages.
Warning Against Trusts.
THE offer of the trusts to divide
with the laboring man is a pitfall. Can
you trust the corporations to divide
honestly? No. How many of you
would like to try a lawsuit when the
judge on the bench is the opposing
party to the suit? There are good
judges, good Juries, yet do you want
judges and juries to try your case when
they are interested in the outcome
themselves? When you permit private
monopoly to dictate terms of division.
then you place yourselves wholly at
their mercy You allow them to water
their stock and then expect them to
divide with labor on just basis.
You are witnessing a battle between
labor and the great Steel trust This
trust was willing to uniOnize some of
its mills, but would leave others open
to non-union labor. Why? Because
the trust can shut down its mills for
year, but laboring men cannot live
year without work. 1t is your duty
to crush monOpOlies with the best re-
source at your command-the ballot
Government by Injunction is an in
1quitous system, and one of the ques-
tons demanding action at the hands
OF the American people. The courts
are the servants of the people, and for
court to rule by Injunction is for a
court 70 dispense with jury and to
condemn man for violating a law that
the court itself made. Under the proc
ess of government by injunction the
court constitutes itself the power to
make the laws, execute them and pass
judgment on the offender
System is Wrong.
The whole thing is wrong. Under
the system a number Of employers can
organize themselves, go into court and
get an order prohibiting others from
organizing for the same purpose They
can get an order prohibiting working
men from getting other workingmen to
refrain from working The employers
are forbidden 70 organize.
/ am opposed to government by in
junction, not that 1t is directed espec-
tally against the laboring man. but
that 1t does away with trial by Jury.
II is menace, not only to one class.
but to all. 1t is within the power of
the laboring man to do away with the
system
Mr.. Bryan condemned the action of
the south Carolina millmen who for
e -
or to join unions
Mr.. Bryan went in a carriage from
Electro park to Shawnee park, Kansas
City, Kan, where he. addressed an
open air meeting of 10000 persons. go
ing over the same ground as in this
city de raised laugh at the outset
by taking position sheltered from the
sun, saying:
I've been in the shade for several
months now and I'm used to it."
Tonight Mr.. Bryan made a short ar
dress at the Democratic club.