Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-11
Wants TOilsr to Have Time for His Home
and self-Culturs.
SAYS IT Will RAISE STANDARD OF CITIZEN
Opposed to Strikes, Believing All Disputes
Osn Be Amicablv Settled.
UNION LABOR GIVES HIM GREAT OVATION
Festival is NoRpoliticai ana Di.-
tinEuished Ncbrnsk is RE-
eeived By Representative
Citisens.

William Jennings Bryan made a speech
that was most cordially received 10y his
union labor friends and their friends at
krug park yesterday afternoon at the
opening of the weeks festival which Cen
trail Labor union is directing in the interest
OF the new Labor temple which It proposes
to erect. but the audience would have
been. larger had those in charge Of the
meeting taken occasion to provide seats
for their guests. Some 500 or 800 people
managed to hear Mr. Bryan and larse
proportion of these carried their own seats
big park benohes-a long distance before
the orator arrived. The speakers stand
was improvised a considerable way from
the regular ampitheater and no provision
whatever had been made for seats
Mr Bryan reached the park at ass and
Immediately took a seat on the platform
accompanied by John r. Reagan, L. j.
Piath. Louis V. Guye. A. II. Hansen and
Ed Howell. Mayor Dahlman was unable
to be present and Mr.. Bryan was intro
duced by Ed Howell who presented him
as "the next president OF the United
States. Neither Mr.. Bryan nor his nom
partisan audience appeared to enjoy the
oversight that the gathering was purely
nonpolitical.
self and was received with genuine en-
thusiasm. His speech. extemporaneous.
was given the utmost attention In part
he said:
very glad to see you; very glad circum-
| stances were such that could stop off a
little while and speak to you II is pleas
ant to have bright prospects held out be-
fore one, and I appreciate Mr. HoweiIs
words in introducing me, but being an
nounced as one who is destined to hold
nigh ONCE does not agitate my breast as
II once did man may have SO much
grief that new grief doesn't move him; he
may have so much JOY that new Joy doesn't
move him, but have been hailed 80 many
times as the next president that am not
excited. have come to believe that a
prophet, to be success must have been
anointed, and doubt whether Mr. Howell
Is anointed. CO.'S TX. F'
"As looked at Mr.. FIftchcork ana Mr..
Kennedy moment asoAorie was a com
sressman and the other fs a Congressman
ana saw them burdened with care and
contrasted them with my light-hearted
SELF I'm glad I'm not myself in cam
paign at present, as they are. I don't need
to be- 1 have title that will stick to me-
am an ex-congressman. When man
gets Into that class he will get no lower
| ScFNant OI tne FeOpIe.
speaking of campaigns. regard a man
who holds office as merely representative
of the people. A few years ago made "A
speech in an Iowa town in which l said
the president was hired man. ana that's
all. A New York paper attacked me
fiercely. and said was dragging the high
position down to the level of the hired
man. For ten years have thought Il over
and am not ready to take it back. Tho
people have right to think for themselves.
and to elect men not TO think for them, but
TO act.
There are two schools OF politics The
nrst one believes in having the people
select the men to think for them and then
go TO sleep Ny friends. Jefferson said that
despotism rested in confidence. Good gov
ernment lies in jealousy, not confidence.
In my travels around the world 1 have
seen nations of men who do not think
for themselves, and they are invariably
robbed. but found that just In propor-
tion as the people thought for themselves
and made their ideas known, they got
good government.
Il am not here to make a political speech.
but to make non-partisan talk on govern
ment. have been greeted first as a citizen
and then as democrat 80 many times
since my arrival in this country that some
times 1 have forgotten myself and spoken
as democrat when should have been
merely a citizen. but today / know 1 am
merely citizen.
Dignity of Labor.
II want to talk about the dignity of
labor. 1t is a difficult problem, not only in
this country, but all over the world, to
teach people to respect labor In the
orient there are two classes, thousands of
miles apart in sympathy. There is the rul-
ing class. the hereditary aristocracy. and
II there is the laboring class. and the gulf be-
tween them is almost impassable | have
been rejoicing since my return TO think
that live in a country where the chasm
may be bridged.
yet even In this country we need "a
teach the dignity OF labor. There are peo
pie whose chief claim In society is that
they are at least four generations away
from ancestors whose hands were solled
with toll I'm proud OF the fact that my
father worked and earned money to edu.
cate himself. He worked on a farm, went
: to college and worked there, and after he
I graduated. taught school for time when
went 10 college ! envied the boys who
worked their way through. and wonder ed
II ! ever would be able to accomplish al
/ much In the world as they. Instead of de.
spising them, envied them and respected
them and wanted to make them my frieuds
/ II look back with great deal of prid.
! to the fact that did some work myself
I have done all kinds OF farm work In Z
! recent presidential campaign a man ii
Illinois said he gave me mt start. Yes.
worked for him for 50 cents day. was
boy then. only big enough to hold sack,
. for grain where the men threshsd. but thai
81 l took home Saturday night looked
| bigger to me than any dollars | have seeI
since. And l distinctly recall the fact thai
that man let me cut wood at noon while
rested. When a law student l wanted e
, relieve the family purse. and I'm no,
, ashamed that made 81 week by dustin,
Z the once every night and scrubbing tas
q floor on Saturday night Friends. Il 10 q
good thing 10 become acquainted with Ia
r Dor. Since then have been an employee
: 10 some extent. and l still hold the sam
l. opinion regarding the IaDorins man that
: | held then
] II have been accused Of AfrSying clan