Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17
BOURKE COCHRAN AT HIS BEST.
An Audience of Nearly 4,O0O Listened to Him Ex- pound Democratic Principles Robertson and
 Bishop Also Addressed Large Audience

ly republican, that of taking money
 from the pockets of the masses and giving it to few friends of the gov eTnment, the trusts. The republican party does not deny that this policy is immoral, they admit its immortality, [ but defend it by saying that it is pro-
 fitable. How can any violation of the
 moral law be profitable in the end
 when the sole foundation of prosperity and virtuous plenty is a strict obedi- ence of tue moral law?,
 At this juncture the crazy man in the gallery screamed and said some thing untintelligable, and the speaker. looking in the direction where the sound had proceeded, said: Evidently my friend has returned from Cuba a
 little too soon.'' This was followed by cheers and demand to put the dis turber ont; but he made three or four more howls before an officer dragged him into the street.
 The speaker then took up the, tariff
 question and went on to show that as applied by the republicans it destroys honest competition, puts capital. in a position to regulate production and fix prices so that with a cl1rtailed output the profits remain the same, If they are not increased, while the price Of everything advances. WOrkmen are thrown into involuntary idleness, men discharged from one place meet others out for similar reasons, and all have their eyes on the position held by those who are employed. we are told,'' he said. s'that strikes are ruin ing the country. What creates strikes? The trust system, which reduces wages, forces men out of employment and engenders an mate feeling of hatred against the employer. Why is 1t that it is unpopular toabe termed wealthy in this age2 Because so much is aquired by dishonest methods. Why is it that there is a sort of sympathy for the man who assaults g. fellow being on the streets during our labor troubles7 Why is it that men who would be first to raise their hands In support of the law if 1t were violated in any other way remain passive dur Ing these ouHages? 1t is because eVs erybOdy knows that the whole of It is due to system which creates an m. healthy competition in the labor mar ket. This should not be so, considering our great natural advantages. A ragged tramp on the benches in one of our parks would be considered clad in princely raiment in the eyes of a Bedouin camp, and a Mexican would feast sumptnously on the offal ana refuse from our garbage cans. Ina government cannot make nation prosperous, but it cen prevent it from becoming so by thet imposition of an unjust tariff sygt9m With the tarin applied according ,fa the democratic idea the condition 6sr the working peo- pie here would be, as far above @vhat it now is as theitpTesent condition IS above that of laborers in other lands. The object every man strives to attain is the betterment of his condition. The honest man and the thief tare both pur. suing the same thing. the dollar. But the honest man pursues it by labor, the thief by plunder. The democratic and republican parties are both pursu-. ing prosperity, the democrats by pro- duction the republicans by plunder ull' der the name of protection The most remarkable crimes perperated suc- cessfully since the world began have been committed under some gl5ttegirg .sohorOus phrase. Napoleon's slaughter of the youth of France was in the name of glory, and the aggression of the British government against the BOers was to preserve the imperial prestige" He likened republican pro- tetcion to that of allowing every tenth man in the audience to take a dollar out of the pockets of the nine men next to him and protecting him in so doing. In such a case every tenth man would be an ardent protectdonist. He didn't blame the capitalist for get ting all he could and he had no fault to find with the laborer for doing like wise. When the first man heard that he was to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow he heard the whole of the economic law The trouble in this age is so many are. aiming to eat their bread in the sweat of other mems brows. Human beings were not to blame for this, but the government was at fault for putting the few in posi- ton to rob the many. Government could create nothing. It could not ere ate the lumber in table nor naGke barren field fruitful, but 1t could him der general prosperity by legislation designed to benefit certain people. And what it gives to one 1t must take rom another. He made it plain that people cannot be benefited by rasing prices in the cost of living unless there is cor responding increase in the wage scale, and cited several instances to prove that the great mass of people get none Of the so-called protection.
 At the close the speaker was cheeredt and large numbers rushed onto the stage and shook his hand.
 A large number of Italian electors held a meeting yesterday and formed a Parker and Davis club. They will nave another session tonight for the purpose of completing their organiZa- tion.:
 A rousing rally of Polish democrats was held in New Britain yesterday. Almost every Polish voter in the city was present, and 1t was one of the fin est rallies ever held in the town. It was addressed by Benjamin W1tkow- ski of this city, who is stumping among the Russian and Polish people of the state. The town committee ex- pressed the greatest satisfaction with the result
 : Friday was the most active daysin election betting on the New York curb since the campaign began. Tn all, something over $5O,OO0 was put up on 4hn e;+ro&f1x, oI0y1n ox15