The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-26

ignomiiiously defeated in his own party
and thet, too, when he was III the hey
day of his military glory. People do
net believe In life tenure.
Tasks for the Average Man.
Thus did the speaker lead up to the
first reform which he considered in the
hands al the people, which was the
election of United States senators by
the people. He thought that nine-tenfhs
of the people would vote for the p0pu
lar elections OF senators.
Reform NO. 4.
His second reform was the initiative
and the referendum, not new thing
as his opponents had tried to show, be-
cause the Democratic state convention
OF Nebraska had endorsed it ten years
ago, although the Republicans couldn't
understand IT, So hefogged were they
that the leading Republican paper in
that stats declared it was ia new De-
mocratic drink and ii went through I'M
animously1 Government belongs to the
people, yet We see franchises worth mil
lions Of dollars given without the con
sent Of the people being asked.
Reform No. 2.
Equal rights to ali and special priv
ileges To none" handed down by Jeifer-
son was HE third reform for the aver
age man and it lay in taxation and the
tariff. Bryan commended Roosevelt for
coming out for Oh income tax, saying,
81 hope to have an income tax so that
/ the support of the government cannot
be thrown on the backs Of the helpless
poor He demanded more libeTality on
the tariff question. saying that high
wages were not made by high tarif.
but that ii dId give pportuuity for
forming trusts. "EnfosNe the law he
said, abe tha offender large or small.
| 1t IS safer to steal q million in the
United States than q hundred because
We are 50 amazed al the genius of the
former that we forget 10 punish him. "
Reform NO. 4.
The fourth thing fof the average man
to attend to was the labor problems.
Make arbitration compulsory, remove
governments by injunction on the for
Iner matter he quoted President John
Mitchell as saying that he had never
knewn Of strike II Ne had been able
to set the employers and employees to
consult with each other The eight hour
day, Bryan was glad to see materializing.
Reform No. s.
Imperialism was the fifth thing that
the average man might turn his hand
toward rectifyine "Can you doubt that
the burden of imperialism falls upon the
common people while the profits 70 TO
the very few. Your sons are sacrificed.
your money Is furnished. We have
furnished more than s500,000, 10000 for
our country to march at the tail Of the
European procession.
Reform No. 9.
Bryan looked around and couldn't find
any swollen fortunes among tho common
people and then he outlined his sixth
chore for the average man. He again
lapplauded Roosevelt on this point, call
ing attention to the advance Of thought.
why, they called me demagogae, a
iisturDer Of the pence. a socialist, an
anarchist. when | tried TO show them
that sasoiie1 fortunes depended upon
the exploitation oi the pcaple Swollen
fortunes are il The hands Of the few
who didn't make them but seized great
operations and shut OF the door of OPP
Ipoftunity to your boy and mine Isn't
1t time the average man spoGegn
Greeted with Prolonged Applause
IN concluding Bryan said the average
man could do no better than to apply
himself 10 the subject 50 that every mon
should draw out just IN proportion to
what he paid in. 4 long burst Of ap.
plause followed his concluding words and
then Chairman Pape invited the audi
ence TO Gle across the stage 10 shake
hands with the speaker. and most Of
them accepted. For the 200 OF more
Montpelier people who waited, tie spec
ial train over tue Montpelier & Wells
River railroad was held.
After the informal reception. the
Bryan party was driven to the home of
| J. w. Mcdonald, on Hill street, where
they were guests until s;45 this nom.
+ ing when they took the train for Han
over, n. II. Bryan win address the stu.
dents Of Dartmouth college this after
noon and continue his speaking tour in
| New Hampshire for the remainder Of the
week. The following committee Of Barre
men accompanied him to White River
Junction g. II. Pape, G. w. Melcher NJ.
J. McGowan, George n. Tilden and John
y. Smith.