The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-10-15

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a better understanding between men
who work and those who employ
them. More kindly relations,
fairer, more just, more humane feel
ing should exist between the two.
The best friend any man has in any
community ought to be tine man for
whom he works, the best friend any
employer has in the community
should be the man working for him.
Every enterprise should be managed
on this basis of mutual interests and
benefits. There is no country on the
face of the earth where men can do
as well as they can here in the United
States, no place where so many of
them are able to secure comfortable
homes, own and enjoy them. l
would make it possible for still more
of them to do this and then I would
have the fullest protection given to
all people in the right to own and
use all they do earn and save. | be-
lleve that energy, industry and fru-
gality should have an advantage over
idleness and profigacy, in this world.
The men who bless the race are not
the spendthrifts. To build up a
country three things are needed, cap
ital, labor and enterprise; capital
alone will not do it, labor alone can
not do it, the two together can ac-
complish little until you add to the
two, skill, management, business tact
and enterprise. The three develop
country, make countries worth living
in and secure good wages for labor.
People may say what they will, the
real genuine business party of this
country is the Republican party.
AS a whole the Democratic party
lacks good business sense. Look at
the platforms of the fusion parties
in this State. 1t makes no difference
which one of them, either is enough
to give business man symptoms of
sea sickness; was there ever another
such "hodge-podge" of clap trap
and nonsense? Verify, never. How
Jacksonian Democrat can stand on
single plank in either, is a mystery
to me which is only equalled by the
attempt of genuine Greenbacker to
endorse the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland. Again two years
ago the Democrats promised us that
they were the true friend OF the
Union soldier, and especially agreed
to give them the preference in dis
tributing the patronage OF the coun-
try. How have they kept that prom.
isep Is there Democratic soldier
anywhere who is proud Of his party's
record on the soldier question? Is
there county in the entire Union
where they have not removed Union
soldiers to make place for politicians.
If they removed Republican Union
soldiers simply to make place for
Democrat Union soldiers, 1 would
not complain. Have they done this?
BY no means. Go where you will,
all over this broad land, and you will
find soldiers whose official heads have
been removed simply to make places
for partisans, who never served their
country in any capacity.
Not only this, but for the first time
in the history of this nation, we find
a President of the United States eX-
ercising the veto power to keep over
one hundred soldiers from receiving
the pittance due them from the gov
ernment, in cases where the soldiers
have succeeded in making out a
claim so equitable that both branches
of Congress have said, by solemn
enactment, that in these cases special
legislation was proper to give the SOL
dier his rights. Any man who will
study those veto cases will come to
the conclusion that the President who
vetoed these bills, and the man who
sustained him in these vetoes, should
no longer pose before the people of
this country as the real friends of the
Union soldier. have very strong
presentment that when the soldiers Of
the country get an opportunity to
express their views upon this business