The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-14
W.. BRYAN
is A MENACE
Best Interests of Railway
Employees Will Be
Served by Election
of Taft.

W.. Brown the senior vice pres
ident of the New York Central lines,
who will be remembered by many
people who heard him speak at the
Y. M. C "A. banquet at Gibson last
year, has come out in the most pow
erful speech ever given for Mr.. Taft
and declares that the policies of w.
]. Bryan ARE A MENACE TO THE
UNITED STATES. At Syracuse, n.
Y, on Saturday Mr.. Brown spoke
before the Brotherhood of Locomot-
iyc Engineers. Touching on the
question of labor organizations he
said:
believe in these organizations of
railroad employees, the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, the Order OF
Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen and the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. They
have done much to bring the standard
of railroad men in the United States up
to its present high level, and in this
great work the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers was the pioneer.
I have said that you and I and all
the rank and file in railway service
are simply fellow employees. I will &C
further and say that as employees OF
the railroad we are partners in the
concern. The men who furnish the
money to build the railroad, and you
and I who furnish our services, oui
labor to run the road, are partners
and whoever attacks the road attacks
you and me. Whoever Injuries the rail-
read injuries the employees as directly
and more seriously than he harms th'
other partner-the owner; for our In
terest is greater, because we receive thu
larger part of the roads earnings.
LABOR GETS THE LARGEST SHARE
THE SPEAKER THEN WENT ON TIC
SHOW THAT OF EVERY. DOLLAF
EARNED BY THE RAILROAD 81
CENTS WENT TO LABOR. He refer
red TO the differences that at time
arise between employer and employe
and continued:
But differ as we may about thes
matters, when attack comes agains
either partner, from whatever source
we should stand firmly together an
have II understood clearly and unmis
takabIy that an attack on either OF u
means trouble with both. The time ha
come when every dollar taken from tn
railroad by legislation or by ruling o
commission is dollar taken from la
Dor. for there is no other place fror
which it can come.
/ don't want to discuss public issue
and have no interest in politics or poll
ticians except where, in my opinion
declared policies are dangerous to In
terests which are vital to our well
being as railroad employes-and ther
is one proposition in the present. cam
: paign too important to your interest
to be overlooked or disregarded.
AS citizens of this great country W
are just now considering the most i'm
portant problem connected with ou
form of government-the election Of
president of the United States. Th
two great leading parties have gath
cred in national convention. Each ha
promulgated it's platform or declars
tion of principles and named its car
didate for the great offices of pres
dent and vice president.
CANDIDATES ARE WIDE APART.
In so far as they relate to railroad
or their employees, the platforms d
not materially differ. In the publ
expression of their views, howeve
upon a proposition of vital importanc
to every employe of evry railroad !
the United States, proposition revC
lutionary in its character and appal
ing in its danger to railroad men an
railroad organizations such as your
these candidates are as widely sepal
ated as the poles
Two years ago last summer NJ
Bryan spent several months travelin
abroad. Almost his entire political cs
reer as congressman, as a candidate fl
the presidency and as an editor h;
been one of criticism of corporate OF
and especially our railroads.
He has posed the friend of I'll
worker. the Iaboring man; and In h
study of railroad conditions abroad 1t
strange that he did not find out an
tell US something of the comparise
between foreign railroad employees m
the railroad employees of this countr
RATES HIGHER; PAY is LESS.
Mr. Bryan could have told us that Z