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a harshness that has increased into
hostility: and it is Of this question |
shall speak. You will find that the
United States army today IS much
more than twice as large a It was
eight years ago. Eight years ago we
had twenty-five thousand soldiers IN
the regular army, now we haze sixty
thousand at the minimum, and We
have authorized the army to reach
one hundred thousand, four times as
great as it was eight years ago, We
are spending today on the army and
navy more than thirty times as much
as We are spending on the department
of agriculture. We have Incorporated
a system of irrigation, and yet, my
friends, we are spending on the army
and the navy n sum in excess q what
we spent eight years ago, and we
| spend more in one year on the army
than we calculate to spend on irriga,
tion within the next twenty years. !
say it is an outrage on agriculture to
| spend thirty times more on the army
| yearly than for agriculture. say 1t
lis a menace to the laboring man OF
the United States that the army
| should be increased as a means OF
protecting capital against the labor
, ing class when they are trying to get
justice done to them. You know, my
| friends, we have had a strike in the
. coal regions, and the republicans
claim credit for the fact that their
president settled the strike. Did you
read the report? You know that re,
| port declares that the loss incurred
by that strike was just about
100000, 900. The president settled
that question by arbitration. We
urged up congress a system of arbi.
tration that would render other strikes
unnecessary. Since that time we have
iHu ~ phiih1 III 1oioIaAhs q Et9ANS
such as never existed during the
democratic administration In this
land, and 1t cen strange 10 me flat
a laboring man a throw up his hat
and hurrah because a strike has been
settled after a loss of one hundred
million dollars when the democratic
party is trying to prevent all strikes.
In 1896 the Chicago platform contain
Led plank In favor Of arbitration, and
If we had succeeded In 1896. the adj
ministration would have urged upon
congress that a system of arbitration,
which would be successful and pre-
vent unnecessary hostility on the
part of the laboring man, who stafyes
| his family in trying TO bring his en-
ployer to fair play, would have TO be
established. In 1900 III platform re-
newed that demand in favor Of arbi.
tation, and yet, while the republican
party has been in power for the last
eight years, II has not taken any
steps toward justice 70 the laboring
| man, and since 1900 we have seen
something 81 the danger which this
country must fear Of this hostility Is
70 increase in the state adjoining you
| They have had a strike and during
the crisis OF that strike the admins
tration has resorted to mean that
have been unknown heretofore In this
/ cuntry, and | speak OF II. my friends,
not SO much To find fault with the
republican governor, but 70 point ont
10 you the natural result OF the applis
cation Or an imperial policy TO Ameri.
can citizens.
We have often criticized the car be-
cause he sends a man without trial
to Siberia, but, my friends, since the
birth OF the ears son, he has issued
a decree in which he has abolished
the plan Of eSiling people and has
brought back all who are not guilty
Of murder, and 50 now since the car
has given np the plan Of exiting 81.
tenders, the Colorado governor II. 50
far as ! know, the one exception
who conyicts people without a trial.
and, my friends, II we are going 70 in
crease our army, and plan how 10
make riot cartridges, we must expect
TO Increase the Of The labor.
Ing trouble, and this administration
has in every state advertised for riot
cartridges.
Now. you. who are republicans. and
whose sympathies are with those who
toll. / want to can your attention TO
the fact that democrats stand for q
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