Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
BRYAN SPEAKS
TO BIG CROWDS
IN WINDY CITY
LABOR DAY ADDRESS STIRS
GREAT MULTITUDE
THOUSANDS CHEER NEBRAsKAN
IN WILD ENTHUSIASM
Celebration in Chicago EcIipses All
Previous Efforts-Monster Parade
Held in Nations Metropolis.
Observance General

today paid grand tribute to W..
~ ]. Bryan.
Although 1t was Labor day it soon
became manifest that the workers had
made 1t Bryan day.
Within an hour after his arrival in
the city the Democratic candidate for
president, standing on the balcony Of
| the Auditorium hotel. received the
plaudits of tens of thousands of toilers
as they marched by in one of the larg-
| est labor parades in the history OF Chi
cago.
The air rang with cheer after cheer,
and enthusiasm unbounded.
| So insistent for speech was the
crowd in front of the hotel that Mr..
| Bryan yielded.
| In the course of a brief address he
| paid tribute to labor and said he be-
lieved in the observance of Labor day
| because he thought I'VE all ought to
| strive to assist in dignifying in every
possible way the honest toll upon
which our nation properly rests"
Goes to Forest Park
| After luncheon Mr. Bryan was con-
| Quoted to Forest park, several miles
away, where he was scheduled to de-
| liver a Labor day address.
| without any preliminaries President
| John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Fed
| Grafton of Labor introduced Mr.. Bryan,
who because of the cheering, stood for
many minutes at the front Of the pavil-
ion before he could begin his speech on
the abuse Of the injunction in labor
disputes.
The speech was practically duplicated
at Brands park an hour afterward,
where the electrical workers wers
gathered.
From the moment the presidential
candidate arrived here until he retired
for the night he was in charge of labor
leaders and leading business men. The
whole city went wild to welcome and
entertain him.
The first public appearance of the
Democratic presidential candidate was
on a reviewing stand on balcony be-
fore the national Democratic headquar-
ters al the Auditorium Annex, where
the Labor day parade, with approx
mately 10000 union men and women in
| line, passed in review before him.
Ovation Is Unprecedented
| He received an ovation such as Chi
csRo has seldom accorded political
candidate.
After the parade Mr.. Bryan was
whisked away to the Great Northern
hotel to the Iroquois club luncheon,
where Re madr. brief talk to the club
members.
lie LIlSU eIlteTeu an dutOInODlle WHICH
conveyed him to Forest park, where he
addressed the union men at o'clock
p. m.
The Labor day parade, under the di-
rection OF John Fitzpatrick, president
of the Chicago federation of labor, was
the greatest event of the kind since
1892.
For the first time since that year
the printers were in the line of march.
Partly on account of their strength of
numbers and partly in honor of the
guest of labor, who Is member OF the
printers union, they were given the
place at the head of the column.
Following the printers were the
pressmen, book binders and other print
ing craftsmen.
The Womens Trade Union league
followed in tallyho coaches and all
unions which have labels. numbering
upward of seventy, made up the rest of
tie first division.
Four other divisions followed.
Origin of Labor Day
Mr. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Labor day is legal holiday, and it
was made so because the legislators
thought the wage-earners worthy to
have a day specially set apart for the
consideration of themes that concern
those who toll. I appreciate the conn
pliment paid me by the program COM
mittee of this city in inviting me to
participate in the ceremonies of this
day, and it was gladly accepted, be-
cause Chicago is the second city in the
Union, and as a labor center it is
scarcely second to any city in the
world. "a
If it were proper to speak from text
I would select passage from Proverbs,
for know of no better one than that
furnished by the words of Solomon
when he declared that as a man
"thinketh in his heart, so is he.'' This
is Bible doctrine; 1t is common sense,
and it is human experience. We think
in our hearts as we'll as in our heads
out of the heart "are the issues of life"
1t is a poor head that cannot find a
plausible reason for doing what the
heart wants to do. I begin my speech
with this proposition because want to
impress it upon the minds of those who
listen to me, and upon those who read
what say to you. The labor question
is more a moral than an intellectual
one.
Tolstoy, the great Russian philoso-
pher, in defining the doctrine of bread
labor" gives as one of the reasons in
support Of 1t that personal contact with
manual labor-not q recollection of for
mer toll, but continued acquaintance
with it's necessary to keep one in
sympathy with those who work with
their hands. He contends-and is it |
not true THAT lack of sympathy one
with another, Is at the root of most of
the problems of society and govern
ment
The world is growing toward brother
hood, and our nation Is leading the |
way. There is more altruism in this |
country than anywhere else in the |
world and more today than there ever
has been before. There is more recog-
milton of the kinship that exists be- |
tween us, more thought about the ques-
tions which concern a common human |
ity than at any preceding time. Tho |
labor organization is a part of this |
great movement of the masses toward |
closer fellowship. 1t has worked Won
ders In the past and Its work is only |
commenced.
The labor organization helps those
outside of 1t as well as its members, |
because the increased wages and inn
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