The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-03

feel and therefore know how you
| feel. / look into my own heart and
think / see yours. When | have
worked eight hours day real work
not play-real work, have given the
best that is in me for that day. Ii
you give me rest / will do better next
| day for the eight hours than ! would
! il you work me for twelve hours or
| fourteen. The engineer would not go
asleep on his engine exhausted and
worn out and crash into some other
engine destroying his own life, widow
| ing his own wife, orphaning his own
children and destroying the lives OF
others carrying horror into hundreds
| of homes If he was not OwerwOrked.
| The man who tries to work 365 days
| in the year, regardless of the Sabbath
days rest will do less work and in
ferior work compared with the man
who takes the seventh day in the week
for his rest. Therefore the peoples
party says: Don't make a mere ma
chine out of man. Don't make mere
machine out of woman. Don't make
mere slaves out of these little children.
No. Recognize the limits of human
endurance. Recognize human life.
Whether you are poor, whether you
are rich, whether dressed in broad
cloth or dressed in home-spun, wheth-
Ell educated or acknowledgements
the truth that the same God made us
all, and the same human heart throbs
in the bosoms of us all. (Applause.)
Recognize that the workingman wants
some time for leisure to cultivate his
aalnd cultivate the sweet amenities of
life. Give NM tina for leisure. Give
him time for recreation. GfVe nina
time for mental improvement. Don't
make mere machine of a man. Don't
kill women and men by working them
TO death in the sweat shop. Don take
the lives Of the women and tie chill
dren and men in these filthy dens. Lit
tie children like these under IL, under
Ia, under 15-for Gods sake don't al
low the commercial greed of today
to devour these little children. There
fought to be some limit to the gold
lust. Under our present system they
are being ground up. For what? 10
turn out dividends and enlarge the
gold pile of men who have already got
more than their share. We love Christ
because he loved the little children.
We are drawn to him because of the
human tie which made him love the
little children. And yet in our fac
tories and in our mills. we are all
lowing these little children to be abb
solutely devoured by the spirit of COM
mercial greed. We say it ought to be
stopped. Humanity ought to be as
merciful with its young as the beasts
OF the field and the fowls of the air.
The birds of the air and the beasts OF
the field will fight to death to save
their young. Let us rise to that plane
which puts humanity above the mere
getting of profits and puts the mar,
the woman and the child as the first
consideration rather than to the in
crease of dividends. (Applause)
The Railroads
T.sdsr pnE. present transportation
system you go to tie aefsaf tsanbny you
ticket, or you go there to pay freight,
and you think you are paying for your
own ride only. You are not doing that.
You are paying for somebody else's
ride also: Look at this: Every tele-
graph company has it's dead-heads.
Every telephone company has its dead
heads. Every express company-every
railroad company has it's dead-heads.
All of this dead-headism is charged
up to the expense account. the cost
of the private car which is used with
out pay is put on the expense account.
The travel of congressman who has
free ticket is put on the expense &c
count. The travelling of the governor
and the senator and his telegraph priv
ilege and his express privilege and
telephone privilege is charged up to
expense account. Then what? After
they have found the sum total of the
expense account they put up the rates
on travel and the rates on freight and
the rates on messages so as to make
the business pay a profit over and
above the dead-headism. Do you catch
the point? daughter and applause.)
! nerefore when you go, Mr.. Working
man-when you go to buy ticket
from here to the Worlds fair, for in
stance, to see it yourself and educate
yourself by its object lessons and show
it to your wife and show it to your
children, you are not only paying your
own way to the st. Louis fair, but you
are having the Wav in a DrOnortiOnata