The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-03
MELTzER TELLS
 THE WORTH OF
 C. 0. P.'S WORD
Exposes the Party of Broken Promises-BriIliant Speech
 at Rally Last Night

Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts, last evening. at the big rally at Ea- gles' hall, had the following to say:
 'The hour being late and l being the last speaker, I shall not try your pa tience by a lengthy discussion of the issues of this campaign, as they nave been already forcibly and at great length discussed by the very able speakers who preceded me. And when I have listened to the various speak CTS relating and enumerating the va rious sins of omission and commission of which the Republican party is guilty, of it's bad faith and broken promises to the people. and when l thought of the ready promise by the Republicans of prosperity, if the peo- pie only support them in their cher ished policy of protection, and when compared, in my mind, the conditions as they exist now, as they were so aptly illustrated by the previous speak CTS, with the promises of prosperity made so often by the Republican party just before election, it occurred to me that the present condition can be best illustrated by a story l heard the other day, and I believe that at this late hour story will keep you better here than lengthy argument.
 ''The story is as follows: One of the Common People (this is a generic name for all Democrats) has departed this vale of tears and went direct to Heaven. Wandering in Heaven he was astonished at the vastness of the place, at the abundance of riches and treasure he observed everywhere, and in his enjoyment of all what he has seen and observed there he forgot the count of time but being of an inquis- itive kind of a mind he, after awhile. wanted to know how to measure time 0>. ~f and he went to the Bureau of 1nfor- nation, which is in charge of St. Peter. and asked him how to measure time and money in Heaven. Said St. Peter to him, You know what a penny is in your world?' oh, yes,' says MT Common People, I know the value of a penny. I had to count my pennies in the other world to make both ends meet We'll says St. Peter, a thou sand dollars here is like penny there. And you know what a minute is?' con- tinued St. Peter. oh. yes,' says MT. Common People, I was docked every time I was late a few minutes in the shop and I know only too we'll what minute is.' We'll says St. Peter, "a thousand years here is like minute there'
 'rMr. Common People went away rather thoughtfully. but he came back after a little while and said to St. Peter. 'St Peter, please give me penny St. Peter very benevolently smiled at him and said. oh, yes, will give 1t to you, but walt min ute.' And according to all accounts. MT. Common People is still waiting for St. Peter to give him the promised penny.
 "Yes, my friends, the Republican party with the ready benevo1ence like St. Peter promised to you prosperity, but told you to have patience and Wait a minute, they meant St. Peters min- for the promised prosperity to come, and if you will rely upon the Repub- lican promises again you will have to walt until the end of time because they will never keep their promises.
 "And I am frank to say that you will deserve such a fate if you will let the Republican party fool you again by their false promises. Your vote, my friends, is not only a privil- ege, but a duty and trust bestowed upon you for your individual protec- tion and for the collective protection of the whole people, and if you give your vote time and again to a party which betrayed your trust so often you are false to your own. trust of citizenship and you deserve your fate. It is only unfortunate that under our system of government the innocent minority suffers with the guilty ma jority, but I am confident that this year the peoples eyes have been open ed to the iniquities of the Republican party and a different result will fol- low on November Sth But still there is some evidence of indifference, or heedlessness on the part of some vot- CTS, as disclosed by a so-cal1ed straw vote taken by a local newspaper which discloseS so many voting for Hunter, the Socialist candidate for Governor. Of course I know that a good many of the Hunter votes are what you call In slang parlance a kid', but the fact that so many people are so callous about their vote indicates that some people do not realize the seriousness of the issues of this campaign and the strength of corrupt forces the Demo- cratic party has to fight this year. There are always a number of people who do not take their right to vote seriously, or become dissatisfied with both parties on account of some slan derous statements about one candi date, and are liable out of pique or heedlessly to vote for Socialist. thus practically throwing their vote away, and possibly thus assisting the cleo tion of a very undesirable candidate by their defection from the honest and desirable candidate, and to those peo-
 
 will indulge me only a few minutes.
 ''Now I want to say at outset, my friends, that I have no quarrel with Socialism in the abstract, or, rather, abstract Socialism. I have great ad- miration for Socialism as a theory, it's teachers have been pioneers in the evo- lution of political economy, and while they have been too far advanced in their theories for the people to follow. because of the impracticability of their ideas. they served, and do still serve a useful purpose in educating the people in some questions of polit- ical economy and teaching them some economic truths, and as their ideas be- come more practical, Democracy ab sorbS them, and carries out in prac- tice, whenever it is able to do so, but Socialism as advocated now by the different groups of Socialists is too advanced to be of practical use at the present time. In fact, it's advocacy is almost dangerous. because it's teach ing is against individual liberty, and I do not think we are ready to accept event the millennium at the sacrifice of our individual liberty and freedom of action.
 ''If we could get a St. Peter and St. Paul to take the job to carry into practice the theories of Socialism and they would hold it for all eternity, while some would object to the limita- tion, under a Socialistic state, of our individual liberty and freedom of ac- ton, still there would be some com- pensation in the fact that the Social istic government would be admfnis-