Show Goke s to YO Richard Croker in the course of an anS V S address ss to the executive committee of Tammany Hall said saidI I should like to mike make a few remarks on a matter which I consider to be the most Important of the hour and that thatis is the necessity that you should sh uld im un impress press on the young men m n of at your yr our dis districts districts districts the importance to them of join joining joining joining ing young mens clubs which are be being beinS beIng ing inS formed throughout the United states stains If I 1 were to use now a common everyday expression to convey my Idea of the condition of the young youns youn man seeking a a future I should say He Is up against it He may ma get a a start or what looks like one but I dont do t care what he Js ls clerk messenger book bookkeeper bookkeeper bookkeeper keeper anything you please there is no ladder on which he h can climb Hun Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds of letters come to me from young men every day telling me just these things and hundreds of letters cone co too from young men telling me pie they cant get employment You ought to get young men to be politicians to study their conditions and to le rn how to make them better There Is no hope for them today There is no chance for them to advance Invite them to join your district clubs Invite them to make speeches whether they are orators or not Get them to give their ideas of the Issues of or the day no matter how roughly they give them If they dont want to join Tammany clubs let Jet them join other clubs only get them thinking Get them to examine their own condition and when they find that they have no chance to get along they will know what to do Think of your own sons you yo lead leaders leaders leadem ers em I know many of you have them If they are placed in a trusts trust tru i they are re slaves to that trust Where are all the little business places that used to be a a feature of New York and of all this country too not many years ago Where are all the little grocery stores and the other shops where whole families had an in interest interest Interest terest in the business and every mem mess ber her of the family as soon as he or she was able was employed They have all been destroyed and an destroyed by the trusts V Matters like these ought to be brought before youg mer men for with their help there can be no question Que tion about the result If tf I had nothing to do with this organization whether I was a a Re Republican Republican Republican publican or a Democrat I 1 would get et up and talk just as I do now If the issues of this campaign were ere thoroughly thor understood Bryan would get 90 50 per cent of the votes In the United States because 10 per cent are arenow arenow now running the 90 per cent and get set setting getting ting their hearts blood Impress these questions on your young men Another thing of which I wish to speak is organized labor Jabor Organized labor cannot protect itself from the in interference interference of foreign labor and I trust that you ou will do whatever you can to strengthen organized labor It is the thew w who have hare made this mag magnificent magnificent city of ours and we owe it to them theta for what they have done for us that we should care for their interests to the fullest extent e tent of our Dower Tammany T wherever It can o ht to protect organized labor and see that scab labor la or does not work against it to disorganize it V The Republican party is on the de defensive defensIve defensive it has not one leg to stand standon on Its ns been driven to the walL Its disgracing the tile American fia I hope that these few words of ot mine will cause ause you to work earnestly on the lines that I have mentioned me Give young oung men inca the use ue of your club houses and nd get them theta to join those Democratic clubs which are doing such magnificent work ork In every state in the country |