New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-22
BRYAN TO TELEGRAPHERS
Says Strike Is Great Object Lesson
TO the Public.

contest
lam J. Bryan TO the striking teegTaphers in Gin
ton Hall yesterday afternoon, will impress the
public with the evils OF monopoly as nothing else
has done, but sorry you people have had 10
pay for the object lesson the rest of the naton
while the monopoly has profted by it,"
Mr. Bryan arrived in Manhattan from Washing
ton during the forenoon, but, owing TO de!sy
on the train, there was no enc to meet him. ana
he went alone to the Hoffman House wilere ne
breaktastei before going to the De witt Clntoh
High School, where he addressed the students
At the hotel Mr.. Bryan told the reporters there
would be no panic financial depression Condi-
tons he said. just the reverse OF 1898 LOT
now the prices Of necessities are rising and the
volume Of money is increasing. He looks Tor
continuation of rising prices long the volume
of money continues increasing. Mr. Bryan ex-
pressed opposition 20 even second term in the
Presidents chair.
David r. Hill was also at the Hoffman House.
and it is understood they will go together to-mor-
row to EImira where in the evening Mr.. Bryan
viii deliver hfs lecture The Prince of Peace
and be the chief guest at 4 dollar dinner. The
present lecture trip Of several weeks IS under the
direction Of the Progressive Democratic League.
Mr.. Bryan urged the boys at De Witt Clinton
High School TO realization of their obligations for
the benefits of education and freedom that Ameri-.
citizenship gives, to the necessity OF hgh
purpose in life a realizing sense Of the dig
nifty Of labor NO one" he said, 'Can secure by
honest means fortune big enough to make II a
menace to the people" He told the students that
they should not he ashamed 10 work. but that they
should he ashamed OF idleness. Work will i'm
prove YOU and idleness VIII destroy you" he said.
He referred to a man who had said that 1t was
nonsense to send boy 10 college, for by the time
that boy ready for work the lad who had left
school and got into business would be so lar
ahead that the college boy couldn't hope 10 catch
UP. And I am glad to learn" Mr.. Bryan said,
that this man some little time ago under in
vesugation 10 how he got ahead OF the others
in the accumulation Of a Torture"
After luncheon Mr.. Bryan sat for a photograph
and then drove 70 Clinton Hail. where the striking
telegraphers had assembled. Just before he en-
tered the hail Percy Thomas. chairman Of the
finance committee, had announced that "a friend
Of the cause had sent him $1,000 and promised
$500 a week al long the strike continued. Bryan
noisly greeted.
The telegraphers wildly cheered Mr.. Bryan's state
ment that he had said there were good trusts
and bad trusts and grew enthusiastic when he
added: Il do say that God never made good
enough TO stand at the head of a private monop-
oily" Continuing, he said in part:
Monopolics grind the producer and the employe.
There IS no limit to the selhshneSs OF man when his
Now if the telegraph business is in the hands of
a monopoly. what IS the result? The company or
companies charge what they please and they
also fix the compensation of the employees II
those circumstances ana loses his position, he has
lost the benefit of all the time he has put in the
In great Corporations the man at the head acts
IN the interests of the stockholders. His business
IS TO get all he can for them. and ne viii DO
things he would not il acting for himself. II a
acting for himself says he VIII pay much and
more for labor, he is within his right. If h.
fixes the condition Of life of one thousand or ten
thousand people, no man. / say, man. should
have the power TO determine how they shall live.
The present day conditions make il necessary 70
have a tribunal whore the differences between cap
ital and labor may be settled I cannot see now
can have compulsory arbitration where the decision
shall be made binding on both sides TO the dispute.
Tor You cannot compel man 70 work for less than
he Will. but do believe the sense OF justice iu
the public heart can be successfully appealed 10.
II We had boards Of arbitration bring all the
facts and let the public know, I believe the in
yeStigatonS in 80 out Of 10 would bring forth
a settlement.
In this great controversy Of yours there IS a third
party that must be considered. First there is cap
ital and secondly. there is labor; but hero are
eighty millions Of people that have right to say
that you and your employers must not spend months
fighting while the business Of the country suffers.
They have right to say. 'Arbitrate!"
To-day the strike is the only weapon the labore-
has. think il is disgrace to this generation and
our much Wanted civilization that the laboring
man must starve his wife and children while he
fights his employer. Government by injunction would
never have been heard oS # had arbitration.
This object lesson viii help 70 make mOnop0lics
more odious and arbitration desirable. The
fact that people have been willing to suffer
and make sacrifices that the condition of those
that are 10 follow shall he bothered Is the best
illustration that man is made IN the image Of the
Saviour.