The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-23
SPEECH OF JOE CANNON
INJECTS SOME GINGER
Permanent Presiding Officer, by Use Of His Abun-
dant Wit and Satire, EnthuseS the
Delegates at Chicago.

policy in a generation is the excep
ton. We have more than that IN our
progressive country. ] have given you
the great achievements under Mchln-
ley. Under his worthy great success.
scr we have had the contamination OF
freedom to Cuba wrought out by SUI
perior craftsmanship.
Imperialism Has Vanished.
Imperialism talked about under NC
Kinley has disappeared with growing
civil government and peace In the Pnii-
ippines. Aye---it has disappeared from
the face of the earth. Did I say from
the face of the earth? I will stick to
1t. because the doctrinaire here ana the
doctrinaire there, whether in New
York or Boston, draws his togs about
him saying: II am wiser than thou"
and still after this great question Is
settled by the conscience and the In
telligence all the people cry Wolf.
wolf" Well under the constitution OF
the United States he had a. right to.
Csaughter).
The worlds wealth Is 10000, 000,-
600. The United States has one-fourth
of 1t. But our friends. the enemy,
some of them. little politicians. vex
the air crying Trusts. trusts. trusts"
Oh. they come out with good lungs as
trust busters. Since 1890 have they
ever done any busting? Uaughter).
Trusts? Yes. Great combinations of
capital against public policy? Yes. But
the Republican Party. always true to
the people and its traditions made
haste to provide under the constitution
legislation that would prohibit these
combinations.
Power of the sO,O00,OO0.
There are S0,o00,o00 of our people.
If some man conceives the idea that
when he dies wisdom will have depart
ed and that he can corner the air and
the water and the sunlight. he will
find eighty million of people who make
our civilization that will not only make
law and put into force but by com
petition and enterprise will swear that
the admitted declaration OF the enemy
is falsehood. Can you prove IT.?
Yes. Just a minute
In the last two years the wind and
the water that came from over capt.
talization in forming the so-calied
trusts have been squeezed, and there
are people who make mouth bets"
about the price of watered companies
and companies that have gas on top of
the water. made by the printing. press
lcertiheates. Oh. they stand around
and say, why. there is the most ex-
traordinary shrinkage in values that
was ever tAHoWIl.
How much?"
ooh, n good many hundreds of mil
lions, the Wall Street Journal says
over billion six hundred million
daughter and applause)
Gamblers May Fight II Out.
| And yet every dollar of property,
every particle of property that was
represented by this overcapitalization
two years ago. is yet with US
| daughter and applause.) Now all the
fools that bet it to go down and the
fools that bet 1t to so up can fight II
out 1t don't make one particle OF
difference to the 100000 of people
who live by the sweat of their faces
and do a legitimate business. ZAP.
plause)
| Oh, gentlemen. the law, public opin,
ion, public sentiment, the desire FOL
good investments dollar for dollar II
the factory where a dollar costs one
hundred cents, goes into competition
with the factory that costs a hundred
cents and is burdened with another
hundred common and another hundred
cents gas and another hundred cent
moonshine Work. 1t out It is al
right. (Laughter)
Oh. but says our enemy, my God
look at the strikes you are having II
this country" That is their stroni
suit. strikes, strikes daughter and ap
plause.) Now what is a strike? TIL
strike is an effort by the employer an,
the employee to agree how the prof
should be divided.
If the employee don't get as much a
he thinks he ought to get after arbi
tration has been tried, he strikes.
quarrel about something. The divis
ion of something. Well, then. 1t is alb
solutely necessary to have a strike tina
there should be a profit.
Strikes of the Past.
Great God! How many strikes wer
there under Cleveland when the Demo
, Gratis had the running of things
, daughter and applause.J When NOR
ey became scarce the profits wer
scarce. There is the whole story.
Oh. but outrageous things are dor
I by the employer when he Expresses tn
laborer and outrageous things are dor
, by some laborers when they go on
) strike. Yes, outrageous things al
done in some of our best governs
r churches and amongst those who Z
1 not belong to any church. Once in
t while a citizen commits larceny. Ont
5 in a while a man commits arson Ont
1 in a while n man is guilty of homicid
8 Why, the law is made to protect soc
: ETY. against the man who will not OBJ
the law and who makes war on II
8 neighbors
Q LAW breaking and Remedy.
n Yes. there is law breaking and di
j order. Law breaking in the formati,
of trusts. law breaking at times in Il
organization of labor when 1t goes
Il strike. But the great body of Il
4 American people that own the veal