The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-08

 reer of courage, fidelity and kindness. Mil Hons accept his eaptaincy, the energy of his service, the purity of his patriotism gentlemen. MT. Bryan.'
 Mr. Bryan was cheered to the echo al he rose to speak He said in part:
 Address of Bryan.
 T think that it is good omen when we can lay aside partisan feeling on an oc- cesion like this, and forgetting the things that separate us, remember the things that are more numerous and more impor- tant that unite us in the bonds of com mon citizenship. think can see signs of progress in politics.
 T am glad to meet at this board one who has been honored by his party with leadership in a great campaign l am glad to testify to my appreciation of his abilities and his virtues. If l am successful, the victory will be the greater to have won from such, and if l am de- feated. the sorrow will be less to have been defeated by such. l am honored to be the guest of a commercial associa ton, for l recognize the importance of commerce.
 Whenever an invention of importance has been heralded some are ready to exclaim that it will deprive somebody of employment and sometimes the labor-sav-
 
 ables a few to do what it required many to do in the same length of time, but the labor-saving machine is rather a labor multiplying machine. Every new inven- ton has enlarged the demand for labor as it has multiplied the efficiency, of labor. There is no doubt that society has gained one of the great inventions that has made largely for the enlarge ment of commerce. that is the corporate entity. The corporation is a step in ad- vance. Ii enables people to do together what people could not do alone. But with every new step in advance responsibilities come. And so society. accepting the cor poration as an established fact is pro ceeding to enact such laws as may be necessary to make the corporations serve the purpose for which they were created, and I am sure that the menners of the association recognize that with the large power that corporate action gives, re- striction is necessary. There is a diff ference between the corporate man and the natural man. God made man and placed him on his footstool to carry out divine decree. Man made the corpora tions for a material purpose. When God made mSl he set limit to his existence, so that if he was q bad man he could not be bad long; but when the corpora ton was created the limit on age was raised and it sometimes projects itself through generation after generation.
 Human Competition.
 When God made man He gave to man. kind a soul and warned him that in the next world he would be held accountable for the deeds done in the flesh, but when man created the corporati tion he could not endow that corporation with a soul. so that if it escapes punishment here it need not fear the hereafter And this 1a pa bac f. compete with the God-made man.
 ''I take it then that can assume that all will recognize the necessity of making competition betwee.i the natural man and the fictitious person sufficiently equal that the natural man may not be trodden under foot.
 '.To my mind the worlds great problem today Is not to solve correctly the ques- tions about which my distinguished friend and l dispute; these are surface indica- tons of a larger problem. That problem is the adjustment of the rewards of so- ciety Is there a measure of rewards? l believe there is What is that meas ure? Ii is the divine measure: it is the lax God stamped upon the world and this law is that every citizen shal draw from society a reward proportionate to the service that he renders to society
 Taft's Address.
 The introduction of MT. Taft was as follows:
 'In the fortunes of war, we acquired alien and subject races. Our govern ment assumed to lead tn em to the lofty eminence of American civilization. For the accomplishment of this purpose. the President sent to the l'iliplnos typical citizen and eminent counsellor and a man with the courage of his con victions. He accomplished the high purpose of his mission. winning both the confidence of his countrymen and