The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-16
LABOR DAY SPEECH

vania, declare the following statements to be true:
 q was formerly president of the In ternational Association of Window Glass Workers, embracing the United States. Belgium and France; also pres ident for three years of the Window Glass Workers Association of the United States. and was chief state fac tory inspector of the state of Penn sylvania for two terms of four years each.
 T also declare that in 1893, while the Wilson bill was being considered by congress, I was in Washington, D. C.. with committee of the Window Glass Workers association in the in terests of the Window Glass Work CTS of the United States.
 "Our committee was present at q hearing accorded to the window glass manufacturers of the United States ly the ways and means committee. During the discussion that followed, MT. William Jennings Bryan. who was q member of the ways and means committee, in talking to MT. James A. Chambers of the manufactures ommittee, referred to the manufac- turers as robbers. l then said to Hr Bryan:
 If you consider the manufacturers robbers, what do you think of the workers?"
 ''To which MT. Bryan replied:
 They are a lot of public beg gars'
 Tn reply 1 said:
 'I do not consider it begging to maintain the American standard of wages.
 "1n witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal, this sev- enth day of July, 1908
 JAMES CAMPBELL. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this seventh day of July 1908. JOHN B. DREW, Notary Public The following is contained in an af- fidavit which is on file at Anderson, Ind:
 Anderson, Ind, Sept. 25. 1896. MT. Charles Flood, Moundsville W. Va:
 Dear Sir-Yours of the 23d inst re- ceiVed. You ask me to take oath to what I stated in answer to your for mer letter. In substance l said that myself and others were sent to Wash ington in 1893 for the purpose of mak- ing a statement before the ways and means committee in reference to the tariff on window glass.
 Some of our men had conversa- ton with MT. Bryan after the full committee had adjourned. l was not present all the time they were talking tariff BUT 1 WAS PRESENT AND DID HEAR MIR. BRYAN SAY; YOU ARE PUBLIC BEGGAIiS.'
 ''rhe answer was made; We do not look upon 1t as begging to ask for protection against the importation of foreign product
 "He then said:
 NEVERTHELESS YOU ARE PUBLIC BEGGARS.'
 He left us with this.
 Yours truly,
 "CHARLES BRYANT" So much for the window glass work incident.
 have no comment to make upon it except this: If I thought that the manufacturers of the United States were public robbers and the working men of the United States public beg gars, I would not want to be pres ident of that kind of people and | do not think that any man who calls the manufacturers of the United States robbers and the workingmen of the United states DeBgarS ought to pe President of this great American peo- pie.
 Now for the Haskell matter:
 Everybody knows that just as MT. Roosevelt ran the republican conven- ton to suit himself, so MT Bryan ran the democratic convention 10 suit himself
 Everybody knows that MT. Bryan made MT. Haskell chairman of the committee on resolutions and plat form.
 Everybody does not know, how eyer. that Mr Haskell is a member of a petty sec"et citizens alliance whose one object is to crush labor unions and reduce wages.
 When everybody does know this they will understand why the demo- cratic platform. which MT. Haskell supervised contains a labor plank meant to defraud laboring men and dece:~e the citizens generally.
 l will make no argument on this point, either, but I will simply rest our case, the labor case, on this reso- luton introduced by MT. Haskell. be- ing a secret meeting of the secret al liance of Muskogee, to the Business Mems Alliance:
 "Whereas, It is apparent that there is in our city with the labor people a movement which, if 1t Is not checked at once, will invegh our rights as