The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-28
THE sMITH-MURRAY co.

ate. I have felt the weight of the hand I know that the man who wants to get a start. foothold, faces ga nized and inter1aced that you can't get credit on a large scale unless you are willing to go partners with those who already hold the credit. This money trust or what may more prop eray be called the credit trustsi is no myth; it is no naginary thing. It is not trust like others. It does to do business. You can sometimes do business when it isn't watching, like the god, Bael. in the scriptures but again it is not like the god Baal for it is power of life and death, economically speaking. I have seen men put out of business by Wall inconvenient or did not approve of them.
 q don't want corner on prosper ity? Wall street may be all right, but when contrast the fees that pro n1oters- of trusts get and the melons that owners of their stock cut occa- with the wages that the men get who make so much of the value on which they reap their proffte I say to my self. there is corner on prosperity: deal for nothing, other men are get ting nothing for all they can do.
 ."The strength and prosperity and future of Amertca depend on the bur dens Of our working people. How law ish we have been in this country of human life and human strength! There is many a place in this coun- try where the superin tendent would be dismissed were he found overdr1v ing q piece of machinery: but would he be dismissed for overdriving that infinitely more delicate piece of ma cf1inery, the human body? Men are plentiful but fine machinery is deli cate. We waste our men and save our machines. So say we have for gotten what we are trading in. We are trading in the human spirit Only so long as confidence and hope pre- vail will America retain her buoyancy her elasticity. her fndomitable strength. for as are the people so is the nation and as is the nation so is
 .sIt makes my heart bleed to think of the issues that hang on elections nowadays. We have come to this of monopoly away from our. lives or shall we not? Shall we admit that the creature of our own hands is greater than we are? We have been dreadtng all along the time when the power of high finance would be great CT than the government. Have we wishes to be President of the United States should doff his cap to high finance as his inevitable master?
 That at d gentlemen @ is ia tae ,S. choice d,!;T you ation for an indomitable character carry you, away from your better judgment. rms Is no time TOT sell timenta1ity For in proportion as a. man is of indomitable character so is he dangerous. and the result will be inevitable. I am not, criticizing indi- ashamed to attack Individuals, but I have a very great ardor in attacking this program. It is a fatal program
 This is a great industrial town. Men here toil from morning to night for their living. They have been told that the Democrats by removing the would cause wages to be reduced. Have you observed that wa ges went up with, the tariff Applause and laughte10. have never observed 1t a great many protected industries in which it is almost impossible to live on the wages: and a great many Y,,,tn,- unr in which it is easy to live on the wages and that wages are in no way proportionate to the tariff.
 ''If protection makes wages, it is a pretty poor manufacturers, for while it. has the means it doesn't produce tfe result. It ought to invent new it ought to invent some way to get results-to carry on the bluff-for this is a grand piece of humbugl
 organized Iabor-that'e how wages are raised. What have the trusts done for labor except to do their best to put organized labor out of business? The biggest trust of all the Steel trust did put organized labor out of business and the laws of this coun ] try at this moment give permission for. the organization of the steel trust vet the law does not allow the work CTS of this country to form an orga- nization You can be dismissed for to a union but you cannot l boycott a man who discharges you because he does not employ un- ion labor. If it is permissible for capital to organize, say it is deep in- l justice that labor should not be per mitted to organize.
 "The platform of the Third party l says 1t favors organized labor. But | nowhere does it propose to make it 1 legal It promises to do a great many things for the working1nan but | 1t does not promise him opportun- lty to do anything for himself
 If you want to be serfs and if you l want to have guardians over you and want to be children patronized | by a government. I am sorry. be- ga use it will sap the manhood of Am erica. But don't believe il. I think you want to stand a foundation of law and right and take care of your selves But the law of this program proposes government for the people put nothing by the people.
 ''I would a great deal rather do a great many things through the people, as the spokesman of the people, than | for the people. Any man who knows anything knows that the strength of this country is to come whence not