The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-03

a daily through sleeping car service be- tween St. Louis and Birmingham, first car leaving St. Louis p. m, Sunday, October IS, and arriving in Birmingham 315 D. m., October 19 first car to leave Birmingham 2 p. m., Tuesday, October 20, arriving in St. Louis at 7:S6 o'clock on the following morning.
 This sleeper to St Louis opens up a
 western territory with the quickest sleep CT service possible and will probably be
 popular from the jump. The road will also carry dining cars, library and smok-
 ing car on the trip from Chicago. , ing them down as impractical
 Let's see what the democrats remedy
 is. Suppose right here in Birmingham lit l tie streams of gold were running into i the tills of five or six certain men. what
 remedy would suggest itself to you Would l you tax 'em?
 Turns Off the Tap.
 Tt reminds me of little story. A ] man recently visited an insane asylum i and saw a number of patients bailing
 water out of trough, while the spigot l was running wide open. He asked what | 1t was for, and the keeper said That s l the way we tell whether they are sane
 enough to he let out of the asylum. If they
 are still crazy they go on bailing away 1 but the ones who have got sense turn | off the tap
 'The democrats propose to turn ofs
 the tap!'
 Mr Kern then took up each trust, first l describing the streams of gold empty
 ing into the coffers of the sugar trust, while it grows stronger and the people grow weaker, and declared that in the democratic party a private monopoly is absolutely indefensible. "We stand for equal and exact justice for all men and special privileges for none
 "The remedy is to revise the tariff downward, not upward, to stop the ac- emulation of this mighty power.
 Roosevelt last winter made spasmodic appeals to congress, growing like . caged lion denouncing, not the demo- crats who stood ready to vote for every reform, but his own party corporation protectors. He had a speaker of the house who made it impossible to even get a single reform before the house. Cannon and his committee of five. in the house. and Aldrich with his coterie in the senate sat down on the pockets of the American people. and when their leader shouted to them to come up-while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner
 may return-they sat down, end did nothing, and what few little laws were passed were compromises between 40 men on the one hand, and 80 million people on the other.
 ''The time is coming after March when the American people will compromise with nobobdy. If Theodore Roosevelt, with all his imperious power, his enor- nous will and personality is unable to overcome this dominant power in his own party what will happen with the weak little Taft elected and Roosevelt over in Africa hunting lions?"
 Takes Up Tariff Question.
 MT Kern then took up the tariff ques- tion in detail and defined the democratic principle of tariff for revenue only.
 The speaker declared that If the work ing man is given fair chance he will have no fear, but he believed that unless some change comes there will be mors fireless furnaces three years from now than there are now.
 | Then he came down to MT. Bryan. 1 Every time the name of the presidential l candidate was mentioned the house rose on its feet, and cheered lustily for the Commoner. I've have leader who will go into office on March under no obli- gations to any corporation on earth, hav- 1 ing published his campaign funds to the
  always stood for the right
 What a man he isl While for years he was held up as joke and the para graphers made merry at his expense, he | went right on upholding the banner of l right, and last year when he went to Europe the men who scorned were amazed l to see kings rise up and do him honor as l the foremost American statesman" Here l the applause lasted a full minute. He 1 was hailed as champion of the rights of man whever he went, not as a man of
 wealth, but of honor. All these years | he has never been ashamed to own his 1 Savior's name or to fight for His cause" Fight for Humanity. l MT Kern insisted that "Bryan's fight | is in behalf of humanity He wants to l see every legitimate business in the coun- l try prosper, wants to see railroads, bank l CTS, merchants thrive, but it must be done
 within the boundaries Of the law and under the principles of the golden rule. !" ] He recalled the panic of 1893, saying that 1 the safe and sane men of the republican l party of today are the same men who | planned and famed the panic to use it 1 as brand to carry the election But 1 Bryan was a bigger man. He did not l retaliate when the panic came on last 1 year, but stood up and said: I say to 1 every man who has a dollar in the banks, 1 let him leave it there, and let every man l who has drawn out a dollar take 1t back, | in order that business may be restored to l it's proper place.
 l MT Bryan is not safe man for the l lawless, or the ungody, or the dishonor- 1 able, but for every honest man he is a 1 defender. He has behind him 100000 men, everyone with him and ready to up- hold his hands in his mighty work" , Lewis Introduced. 1 J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago was in- troduced by Chairman Mallory. Mir. Lewis made happy little speech, saying that democracy will carry New Jersey, Con- | necticut and New York, and that the prospects are greater for democratic vic- 1 tory this year than at any time since 1 1892 "If the election were held tomor- row New York. and Ohio and Indiana ] combined, with the great southern vote, we would go to the polls with victory as- 1 sured.'
 | The party left immediately for the de- 1 pot in Lieutenant Governor Henry B. | Gray's automobile, where MT. Kern took | a train for Macon, Ga. The crowd gath l cred around the machine in front of the l theatre and shook hands with MT. Kern,
 while loud cheers went up for the next | Vice President!'
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