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BRYAN SPEAKS I that ' that i ly—v the fruits of his toll. ♦ *v »4 44 4 ««»44444 plants and tends his crops, the roving ♦ Bedouins will sweep down from the ♦ hills at harvest time and carry away + the fruits of his industry. 4 If the government does not assure ♦ Topeka, Sept. to the individual the enl > nient of ♦ Journal today the result of his effort, there is no ♦ signed letter, mailed In To stimulus to industry. ka the latter part of Aug We have the best government on ♦ and addrsesed to Judge Ti earth it gives the largest liberty, ♦ the writer of which warns the the greatest hope and the most en ♦ presidential nominee of an al couragement to the ciitzens. and yet. ♦ leged plot to assassinate him. even in this country, it is always ♦ The letter was remailed by necessary to be on the «atch to keep ♦ direction of Taft to the chief the instrumentalities of government ♦ of police of Topeka. from being turned to private gam. ♦ The writer says he One of the greatest problems of heard several suspicious today is to secure an equitable dis Ing men tn a box car formu tribution of the proceeds of toll. The lating plans to assassinate the material wealth of this country is next president, whom they largely a Joint product; In factories said would be Taft, and that few people work alone; and on the they would try to implicate farm a certain amount of co-opera- some negroes. The assassi tion is necessary, WhPre men work nation would take place In together, the army organization ap- Chicago, and would be done plies to some degree: that Is. some with a rifle from the top of a direct, others are directed The dit skyscraper. raper flculty toes been to divide the results ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ fairly between the captains of ln- dustry and the privates n the ranks, As the dividing is done largely lar by the captains, it is not unnatural that! they should magnify their part and | Chicago, Sept 7 Two years ago appropriate too large a share; nel- Representative Littlefield, of Maine, their is it unnatural that there was the victim selected for political should be complaint on the part of I slaughter by Samuel Gompers and the toilers who think that their re the American Federation of lalinr, compense is insufficient who were displeased at the attitude The labor question, therefore, as i Mr. Littlefield had taken In r. . ird to it presents Itself at this time. Is labor legislation before the house chiefly a question of distribution. I This year the federation, acting upon and the legislation asked tor is legit-! the advice of President Gompers. wtll lation which will secure to each that] oppose the Republican candidates for to which his services entitle him | congress In general, while Speaker As legislation is secured through the Cannon is to lie made a special object of attack because of his hostility to measures which organized labor been trying to get through con- s for several "years past. \t Danville, the home of Speaker Cannon. Mr Gompers began the fight In person today, speaking at the Isa bel- Day SBC■!. l.-es In that city. This is to lie followed up, according to the plans of the Federation, by send ing emissaries Into the rural sections of the speaker's district to work against him. • «nei b<‘« Q J with tl pronet LABOR DAY trad dustrial dispute Involved. There is they nothing ambiguous about it; there the 'u • F is nothing that can be misconstrued , natit rij a or misinterpreted, even by one de Chicago. Sept. 7.—With the return elgh a siring to find a double meaning of William J. Bryan to Chicago this tion, only on ■een given Why do the republican leaders at- city has again become the centre of ' a penal sent lating the tempt to read ambiguity into those federal law o . and that words iaterest in Democratic circles The [ man was a mi Simply because they can- •or organi- not meet the proposition presented. iKirf purpose of Mr. Bryan's visit is i zation rather than ' Even Mr. ________ magnate, Taft attempts to avoid the to deliver the labor day address at a i The laboring _ man lied in his issue by saying that "no one has ever b e nstratlon of trades unions at i demand that a dli i shall be Forest Park this afternoon. The drawn between the labor organiza- maintained that the fact that a dis- l pute was industrial gave any basis demonstration has been arranged by tion and the indust .trial monopoly. for the issuing of an injunction In tbe Injunction Reform League, The trust t and the labor organiza- reference thereto." If it is true that which has been organized to create tion cannot be described In th I no one now maintains that, then why a strong public sentiment against the language. The trust magnates same have find fault with out platform on that alleged abuse of the injunction writ. J used their power to amass swollen ¡subject? If nobobdy opposes our Tbe injunction question will be the . fortunes, while no or will say that1 position, we ought to have no dlf- subjee: of Mr. Bryan’s speech. which the labor organiza'ion t has as yet | flculty in securing the passage of a _ iS to be delivered late this afternoon . secured for its mem □era more than law in harmony with this plank. -fhe spec h of the Democratic candi their share of the orofits arising! I’pon the jury question Mr. Taft date is intended as a reply to that ' from their work. E_ But there are fun- clearly takes issue with us He is ■ar: t Judge Taft's speech of accept damental differences .^J. The trust is. thoroughly aroused by what he re- ance in which the Republican candi a combination of dollars: the labor I gards as a menace to the courts. date dealt with the labor question. organ zation is an association of hu Here is his lament: The announcement that Mr. Bryan man beings. In a trust a few men "Never in the history of the coun- will remain in Chicago has attracted attempt to central the product of try has there been such an Insidious a large number of Democratic lead others; in a labor organization, the attack upon the Judicial system .____ as ers front various parts of the coun members unite for the protection of the proposal to Interject a jury trial, try. many of whom come to consult that which Is their own. namely, between all orders of the court made I tb’e Nebraskan in regard to campaign their own labor, which, being neces after full hearing and the enforce-! plans Tonight Mr. Bryan is to ad sary to their existence, is a part of □lent of such nnders ” dress a Democratic mass meeting. To them. The trust deals with dead This w mid come under the head morrow he will spend in consultation matter: the labor organization deals of "Important, if true." But the with Chairman Mack and the mem with life and intellectual and fart is, our platform specifically de bers of the National campaign com-1 moral fo mpartial student clares that we favor a measure mittee On Wednesday he will go to "which passed the I'nited States sen- Peoria to speak befpre the Demo- e in 1896, and which a republican cratlc state convention. tigress has ever since refused to Bryan's l<alx>r Day S|u-ech lact.” etc., providing for trial by Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle Jury in cases of "Indirect" con tiemen: tempt. Are not the proceedings of Labor D^y is a legal holiday and the I’nited States senate a part of the it was made so because the legisla- history of the country? This mea tors thought the wage-earners wor sure passed the I’nited States senate more than twelve years ago. and the thy to have a day specially set apart vote upon ft was so largely unan for the consideration of themes that imous that no roll call was demand concern those who toil. I appreciate ed. The bill was not smuggled the compliment paid tne by the pro through without discussion It was gram committee of this city in in amended in open senate and the mem viting me to participate In the cere bers of the senate had ample oppor TAFT AIAO REC monies of this day, and it was gladly tunity to understand it. It would SPEEC H M AKING TOl’ll accepted, because Chicago is the sec have passed congress and become ond city in the union, and as a labor a law long ago but for the fact that Middle Rasa. Sept 7.—Yacht, au center it is scarcely second to any a few- large corporate employers of to and .trolley will he utilized hxlay city in the world. labor have kept a lobby In Washing to convey the Taft party to Sandusky, if it were proper to speak from ton ever since, and have been able by the way of Fremont, where a visit a text. I would select a passage from to coerce congress into Ignoring the will be made to the home of Ruther Proverbs, for I know of no better ford B Ha os. The party will reach laboring man’s plea. one than that furnished by the words Ing the exciting time, lie also shoto Mr. Taft is not an unbiased judge of Solomon when he de"lared that Sandusky late today »nil go directly where the Jury system is under con as a man "thinketh in his heart, so sideration. Fie is not only known to the home of Edward Marsh, as his is he." This is Bible doctrine: it guest until tomorrow. as the father of government by in i< common sense, and it la human On Tuesday morning Taft begins a junction. but he Is prejudiced against erperlence. We think in our hearts the jury system. Every man is un- series of speeches at the Soldiers' a? well as in our heads ■out of the SAMUEL UOMPERS. Home, to be continued until he reach consciously Influenced by his en- heart "are the issues of life." It JOilrH CANNON. es Cincinnati tonight. He will make vironment. and Mr. Taft's long ser- is a poor head that .’annot find a Who attacked Speaker Cannon to vice upon the bench led him to un- Speaker of the house of represen rear nlatfortn speeches at Sandusky plausible reason for doing what the day. and who is himself "roasted” derate the Importance of the jury tatives, whose record Is attacked in and Cincinnati. Before leaving Taft neart wants to do. I begin my by W. R. Hearst at Davenport. system In his address to the stu his home town In a Labor Day speech said he had enjoyed the week's re speech with this proposition b' cause dents of Yale, entitled. "A Judge on creation thoroughly. I want to impress it unon the :ninjs of the subject will deny the right of the Bench,” he shows a decided by Sampel Gompers. of those who listen to my. and upon the laboring man to exemption from leaning toward an increase of the those who read what I say to yot’r the operation of the existing anti authority of the judge, and praises I ballot every one should use the bal lot to obtain the legislation neces Th' labor question is more a moral trust law. the procedure in the federal court than an intellectual one. 1 If the organization needs to he at the expense of the western courts, sary. The democratic platform pre Davenport, Iowa. Hept. 7.—W R the Ideal toward which the Tolstt., the great Russian philo regulated by law, let it be regulated even though he admits that “the sents democratic party Is striving, namely, Hearst delivered the address today at sopher. in defining the doctrine of by a law which deals with a man as jury system popularizes the court and justice In the distribution of rewards. the Labor Day celebration, devoting tread labor" gives nu one of the man, and not a law that was aimed gives the people to understand that The democratic praty proclaims each it to an attack on Samuel Gompers. batons in support of it. that p»r- to prevent the cornering of a com they have, not only an Interest, but Individual should receive from so W .1 Bryan and Governor Haskell, roual contact with matinal labor— modity or the forestalling of the mar also a part. In the administration of ciety reward for bls toll commensur of Oklahoma. treHsursr of the Dem not a recollection of form* r toil, but ket. He told justice.” He ha, fallen into the er ate with his contribution to the wel ocratic National committee ront'nued acquaintance with it—is I shall not speak of the eight-hour ror of assuming that any improve fare of society, and unless some other the audience that neither of the par necessary tn keep one in sympathy day, or of the employers’ liability ment In the method of court pro party can do the work better, the ties were In sympathy with the work with those who work with their act, because both of the leading par- cedure is an attack upon the author democratic party ought to have the ingmen, and said that years ago. hands. He contends - and is it not ties have endorsed these reforms: ity of the court, This is an ancient support of all, whether they belong when the workingmen were at Wash true?—that lack of sympathy, one the only question to be considered method of opposing reforms. l,o rd to the wage-earning class or occupy ington arguing for what they honest with another, is at the root of most is: which party can best be trusted Macauley had to encounter a slmi- positions in which they direct the ly believed was best for themselves cf the problems of society and gov to secure these reforms? I need lar objection when he favored the efforts of others. If an officer in and families, Bryan calledjthem pub ~ ernment. lie said Haskell was hardly assure you that I am heartily reform of the rotten borough system the industrial army were sure that lie beggars, The world is growing toward bro in favor of both reforms. Those who were op his children and his chaldren's chil a member of the secret citizens’ alll- of England, therhood, and our nation is leading There are two questions, however. posed to the reform construed It dren would inherit his position, hp ance. the way. There Is more altruism Intimately connected with the labor as an attack upon the throne and might feel possibly Indifferent as to Thomas L. Hlsgen, the Jndepend- in this country than anywhere else question upon which the democratic as a menace to the stability of gov those under his command, but the ence candidate » for president, also in the world, and more today than and republican parties do not agree, ernment, but the reform was secured children of those who. today, work there ever has been before. There and I not only feel at liberty to dis and the government of England was for wages may employ the children Is more recognition of the kinship cuss these, but under the circum improved rather than Impaired. So of those who. in this generation, are that exists between us. more thought stances, I have no right to ignore 'the reform attempted by the senate employers. This uncertainty as to about the questions which concern them. One relates to the Issue of ! twelve years ago, and endorsed by future generations, as well as our Danville, Ill., Sept, 7. -Labor Day a common humanity than at i any pre injunctions, and the other to con- three democratic national conven sense of justice, should lead us to was celebrated by a parade and Samuel Gompers, ceding time. The labor organization tempt cases arising under lnjun'-- tions. is In the interest of Justice and make the government as nearly per speechmaking, is a part of this great movement of tions. The republlcan convention has for its object the strengthening fect as poslble. for a good govern president of the American Federa was the principal the masses toward closer fellowship. did not deal candidly with the lahor- of the court in public estimation. ment Is the best legacy that a par tion of Labor, • • • • • It has worked wonders in the past ing man on the subject of the writ ent can leave to his child Riches speaker this afternoon. It Is under and its work Is only commenced. According to the Declaration of may take the wings of the morning stood he will make an attack on Secretary Taft hrs of injunction, The labor organization helps those endeavored to amend his platform Independence, governments are insti and fly away, but government Is per Sneaker Cannon, whose home is at <ntside of It as its members because In this respect and to make worn“ tuted among men to secure to them manent. and we cannot serve pos Danville. the increased wages and Improved promises, which are not supported the enjoyment of their inalienable I I terity -better than by contributing conditions are shared by non-union by his platform, but hfs promises of rights. Among these Inalienable to the perfection of the government, GOVERNOR AM» .MAYOR MIKE SPEECHEM men as well as by union men. fer nothing substantial in the way rl|?hts, th rev are specifically enu that each child born Into the world Do not understand me to say that of reform, and are not binding on merated—life, liberty and the pur- may feel that It has here an oppor Portland. Sept 7.—Labor Day was a labor organization is perfect; "the republican senators and members l suit of happiness. The second and tunity for the most complete devel king can do no wrong” can no more The republican congress has already third, however, are really partB of opment, and a chance to secure, celebrated by one of the best parades This afternoon Governor be spoken of a group than of indi made a record on labor questions, ’the first, for life means nothing to through service, the largest possible In years fharnherlaln. Mayor Lane and others viduals. The labor organization is and the republican party cannot es [the individual if it Is confined to happiness and honor. addressed the gathering. composed of men; its affairs are cape from that record mere animal existence. Man 1, dfs- contr lied by human beings, and hu Chicago, Hept. 7 —On the eve of Mr. Taft’s speech may be conslder- (tlngulshed from the brute in that man beings are not perfect. All that «d as binding upon him. but the cor.- the later merely eats and sleeps and a three weeks' speaking tonr, begin 'Frisco's Big Parade San Francisco. Sept 7.—Industrial man touches is stained with wan’s vention which selected the republi- die,, while man Is endowed by the ning here today. Mr. Bryan has be peace for the first time In years was possibilities. lmper*»c»lons. and his frailty can be can candidates endorsed the repub’i- Creator with infinite come the victim of bolls When the ’raced through all his works. But, can platform—not Mr. Taft’z per- Liberty is necessary for the realiza candidate alighted from the train at in today’s celebration of Labor Day fortunately for the laboring man. sonal views His con 3:50 today a handkerchief protect characterized by two monster pa Tbe republican plat- tion of man's possibilities tb» Judgment pronounced against his form, while pretending to pledge science must be left free that he may ed the back of his neck from con rades. *t Is estimated that twenty- mistake, must be tempered by the some modification of the law. coti- fix for himself the relation between tact with his collar, the affliction five thousand men were in line. His mind having developed on the trip from fact that those with whom the labor tains an exception clause which re himself and his God. Haywood ing man comes into contact are also iterates the very language of the ls-v. must be left free that he may devise Lincoln. Cleveland. Sept 7.—W. 0. Hay *lk»’y to err. When the employe Whether this exception clause was and plan for himself, for his family Bryan was met at the station by d°als with the employer, he Is deal Inserted bv acident or design, th« and for his fellws. His speech must Colonel John I Martin, sergeant-at- wood. former secretary of the West ing w-’tij one of like passions with effect Is the same. It merely pro me free that he may give the world arms of the national committee, Na ern Federation of .Miners, was the About twenty l.lnnelf. Each Is likely to be In vides In substance, that restraining the results of his investigation, and tional Committeeman Miller, of Ore Labor Day orator. sistent upon what he believes to be orders can now issue without noth e present to others the ideal which he gon. and a number of local labor thousand pratlclpated In the parade. r Kb' and the opinion of each, a’ The platform was a triumph for is trying to realize in his work. His leaders, accompanied by a brass band. *hv Is right. Is likely tn"l>e col those who have been opposing th» pen must be free that he may scatter He was roundly cheered as he made ored >y selfish lnter?sts and affect- I laboring ----- man 1, and they have been seed thoughts to the uttermost parts his way to the carriage, which took of the earth and leve to posterity a *1 by incomplete information as to — boasting of their victory. him to the Auditorium Annex, where, record of his work He finds In gov the facts jf the employe has some- The democratic platform on this ernment the cheapest, as well as the he held a brief Interview with the! ’•me, -sorted to violence to enforce • libfect copies the language which chiefs of the party nis »'«r.es, the employer has some the labor organizations subml’»ed to surest, protection of this liberty, to His speaking tour will carry Mr. be, to think, to speak, to act. times »mployed his position to secure the republican and d PTTÌO cratlc con Brvan through ’he -mtes of Illinois, Lowell, Mass, Sept. 7.— ♦ And what constitute, the pursuit *n * share of the joint product ventlons Mr. Taft, In tile not'f;- of happiness” Man must have home Indiana. Ohio. West Virginia. Mary Ix-wls Strang, driving a slzty- ♦ J’ 1» ' province of the law to place cation speech, objects to the Hn- horsepower car, won the road ♦ and friends-- family and society. He land, Delaware. New Jersey, Rhode — ns npon both, and the se- gnage He charges that the antl- must have food or he will starve. Island and New York. race of 254 4 miles in 4 hrs., ♦ curi’y <,f (,ur government is found ' loo» -ly wai With Bryan ns It, centre the Labor ♦ Injunction plank 42 min and 34 Mt He must have clothing and shelter; In ’be fapt that both employer and drawn,” and framed for "the espe- he must have books, h* must have Day celebration outranked any simi ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ,Tr >». In their calmer moments. c al purpose of render celebration in years His first Instruments with which to work He lar •Ill lln in the enactment of la»« ble to one Internretat public appearance was on the review The Idin* County Horticultural So must provide during the period of •hlrh win restrain them in moments of men. and a -Harnett ing stand which was the balcony be ciety held a meeting Saturday after t ation. Some asssme that Interpretation by »n»' Mr. strength for the years when ag<- dulls fore the National Democratic head noon The matter of a display of lawless and that to settle Taft has had long ex; th* his energies snd benumbs his hands quarters. where the Labor Day pa Lane jounty fruit at the Seattle eip »- * labor question permanently we bench, and Is therefor the He may have ambition, he may have rade. with approximately 30,000 un altlon next year was brought up and a«k willingness to work and an environ ion men and women In line, passed s committee cot slating of *. Fleet», >nly to enforce the law rlgor- Interpretation of lani ment that spurs him on: but the *lf. I yield to none in insistence him to give u« If h* (¡so A. Dorrla and M H. Harlow was government may encourage or It may In review *"> ’ edlence to the law I>aw is site Interpretations of After the parade Rryan was whisk discourage his efforts, Government ed to the Iroquois Club for luncheon, appointed to confer with the Com ary in human society, and Its That plank demands •! may bld him hope or leave him to and made a brief talk to the mem mercial Club and the county commit- ’ ’ • ment is essential to peace and to all judicial pmce- sinners’ court In regard to the mat- despair. «ley. we must remedy abuses ber, He then entered an auto to con treated with rig of J or vey him to Forest Park, where h* ad- When I visited the law if we would Insure respect Surely he cannot find vo I ti le and q„«,ed the union men on the subject dan I learned that It L and obedience to. law t'4 tions to the phrase of be- productive, and yet. I M mportant lesson to be learned of the abuse of th» • • ■ - hy th? citizen in a government Hi Ing cultivated like the load of Tonight he will i d tory lie is that the ballot 1« both •' Ther ». that nn- trlcal worker« >94 BW rd—It protects h'm fror they was • Todsv', parade ÍVy enfor es his rights. p< -, nds », averaging s»2. ment of numerically since 1 • • • T1 w n Savage la the purchaser. • Th» labor organization has been f no The Kind You Have Alwayv Bought, and which has bt'cn in use for over 30 yearn, lias home the .^natnre of — and has been made under his j>er- j supervision alnee its infancy. Allow no one to deceh e you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “«Tust-as.good ” are but F.xp«<rinients that tritie w ith mid C'’ ,....^ r the health af Infants und C’hikireii—Exps'etanco against Experiment. /TL C What is CASTORIA (’asteria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, l»rwps and Booth ln»f Syrups. It b» Pleasant. 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