The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-03
ssNIuzzIe Not the Ok That Treadeth Out
the Corn" His Text, but He
Preached Against Capital.
LABOR DAY OBsERvANCEs
ORDERLY PARADEs OF WORKING
MEN IN ALL THE CITIES.
PicnIcs. Athletic Contests and Speech
tures-RiOt ON Tybee Island.

KANSAS CITY, 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 j. Bryan
I'm the procession and exercises. Eight thou
sand men marched through the streets,
grouped in their unions and each union
wearing a distinguishing uniform Mr..
Bryan occupied carriage at the head of
the line and was cheered whenever recog-
nized. In the afternoon there was speaking
and athletic games at Electric Park, and
tonight there were more addresses. The
orator Of the afternoon was William j..
Bryan, who was preceded by Mayor Reed
The pavilion at the park was crowded to
suffocation.
Mr.. Bryan took for his text the Bible
verse. 'tMuzzle not the OK that treadeth out
the corn" He said:
Each decade of our history shows
greater production of wealth and the men
who produce it have less to show for II. Is
this good condition? right condition?
The solution of the problems that confront
us is i'm legislation, not in legislation for or
against classes, but for equal justice before
law. The strike to-day is the only weapon
the labOrer has, but ii is weak and ineffl-
cient. If the labOring men were half as
active on election day as they are in en-
fOrcement of their strikes they would WELD
a force that would right the evils which De-
set them.
THE greatest danger of to-day is private
monopoly. Not that any one monopoly is
worse than others, but the principle is bad
which tOlerates any private monopoly.
Il have heard that the true solution of
the problem is for the labOring men to
divide the profits with the trusts. That
has been given as an argument for the
trusts. Such a thing would be immoral
and impoitic. 1t would be like dividing
the spoils of the highwaymen. 1t would be
permitting a man TO rifle your pockets,
and then offer to divide the proceeds with
you. To-day the only people who sympa-
thizs with you are the toilers who toll in
other parts of the Lords 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 farmers. They are tillers
of the soil and labOrers like yourselves. L
want to warn you to resist the Overtures
of the trust. Beware when corporations
ask you TO join them. The farmers can
stand the Entertainments of the trusts
longer than you can. The farmers live off
their farms. When trust prices get so high
that the farmers cannot Guy they Will eat
the product of their own industry. Their
wives even go back to the primitive
method of making clothes by weaving. But
when the farmer can no longer pay trust
prices. then there will be no 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 corporations to divide honestly? No.
How many of you would like to try a law
suit, 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 jurios to try your cases when they are
interested in the outcome themselves?
When you permit private monopoly to die
tate the terms of division, then you place
yourselves wholly at their mercy You al
low them to water their stock and then ex-
pect them to divide with labor on just
basis.
'You are witnessing a battle between Ia
Dor and the great steel trust. This trust
was willing to unioniZe some of its mills,
but would have others open to noEunion la
Dor Why? Because the trust wants some
mills that it can depend on in the event of
strike. 1t is an unequal struggle, for the
trust can shut down It's mills FOR year,
but laboring men cannot live a year with
out work. 1t is your duty to crush mOnop-
olies with the best resource at your COM
mand-the ballot.
Government by injunction is an iniduit-
Gus system and of the questions de-
handing attention at the hands of the
American people, The courts are the serv-
by Injunction is for a court to dispense
with a jury and to condemn a man for
violating a law that the court itself made
Under the process of government by in
junction the court constitutes 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 employees
can organize themselves, go into court and
get an OrGer prOnlDltlng others from
ganiZing for the same purpose They can
get an order prohibiting workingmen from
getting other worlSingmen to refrain from
working. The employers can organize TO
crush labor, but others are forbidden to
organize.
II am opposed to government by injunc-
ton, not that it is directed especially
against the labOring man. but that ii
does away with trial by jury. II is a men
ace not only to one class but to all. It
is within the power of the laboring man to
do away with the system"
Mr.. Bryan condemned the action OF the
South Carolina mill men, who forbade
their men to celebrate Labor day or to
join unions.
Mr.. Bryan went in a carriage from Elec-
trio Park 10 Shawnee Park, Kansas City.
Kan, where he addressed an open-air
meeting of 10000 persons. going over the
same ground as in this city. He raised a
laugh at the outset by taking a 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 ad-
dress at the Democratic Club.