The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-02

" ~ ~ 1IilkOIs AoW pAOiAoA Vo~u0t WAsu
eommendation some advice which the I4iv-
insston Post gives to the leaders of the
peoples party in connection with tho his
tory of Mr.. Marcus DAILY, Of Anaconda. II
an authentic record Of Mr.. Days life were
published. it would no doubt be interesting
and instructive to all whether they be-
lonssd to the peoples party or not. Mr..
DAILY is no common man; he has qualities
of mind and heart and capacity for affairs
which few men have. Does the editor OF
the Post. or yourself, both Woodworking
and enter prising men, above the average
man in energy and intellect, desire to have
your work compared, in a material point OF
view, with that OF MIR. DAILY? There are
supposed to be in the world some billion
and a half of people; and if each is to be
compared with Mr.. DAILY, the lives of four
teen hundred millions, nine hundred and
ninsty-nine thousand have been failures.
Such men as Mr.. Daily will get along in the
world; no one need look out for them; they
will always take care of themselves.
But let us take another view: One-ffth
of the people of the United States, who by
necessity are compelled to earn their living
by their hands. are out of employment con-
stantly. There is no work for them. Of
course the most pushing, those who learn
their business best and those who have the
ear of the employers are the ones who get
work. But what of the others, who. per
hsps. for defects in their nature for which
they are not responsible. are not able to
get employment? Will the example of Mr..
Days life help them? Imagine Mr.. Alder
son, the editor of the Post. whose years
have been spent as honestly and honorab!y
in getting wealth as have been the years of
Mr.. DAILY, reciting to n of the one-fifth
,ch ,,c r>oE1n H., rt>o IN w n vp1 ~ 4 In.
cause there is no work for them. the record
of Mr.. Days life. Might he not answer.
Give me the opportunities which Mr.. Day
has had and l will be richer and more i'll
fuential thar he. Compared with Mr..
Daily you are but little better OF than I am;
why do you not take the lesson OF Mr.
Days life to yoursslf?"
How would the record of Mr.. Days life
read to a poor bookkeeper out of employ
ment, who has a la &c family on his hands.
who can render but little aid to him in
making a living? In the beginning OF life
he was full of hope: he WAS not extrava-
giant and saved his money; he bought a
home, married, raised 4 family. aud his
employer Increased his salary from time to
time to enable him to educate them and
raise them more respectfully. but hard times
came; the employer could not pay as much
salary to his ~bookkeeper as he had boon
paying; or perhaps he had failed entirely.
The poor bookkeeper applies for work
everywhere; he is perhaps well-known, but
every one says he is too old; he finds that
active young men are working at salaries
which will not keep his family, who are
scrimping and making one dollar do the
work of two to enable them to keep a house
over their heads. How can a knowledge Of
Mr.. Days great success help him?
There has grown up Il condition of affairs
in our land that is becoming unt,earable.
T ohnr ubiph hpara tha hnr1crc If tina afuta
finds that four people have to support five.
there being no work for the fifth. Every
body sees THAT the few are accommodating
property as Mr.. DAILY has been doing. They
do not work IN the sense that laboring men
do. They have moneys and credits, and in
a few years they have accumulated large
SUMS of money; money which ought tc
ave come to those who did the abor. In
human and unjust laws have enabled them
to . oft by the labor of men who have had
a bare subsistence while at work. They see
paupers and millionaire Cd increasing in the
land. and those who have steAdy employ
ment find it hard to do their duty to theil
families and to the state and to make both
ends meet.
The wo kers of the country have called
the attention of the old parties to this con-
dition. They asked for q remedy. Ont
promises to give them . remedy through
free trade or a low tariff, and The oths
promises a remedy in a hiRn tariff. Tht
producers have waited, but the condition
continues just the same. The producer
have been studying the condition them
selves. They think they AVE q remedy
and AZ tho old parties will not use tbs
remedy prescribed. they propose to start
new party, hoping to bring about q state o
affairs in which even as smart Il man a
Mr.. DAILY is--cannot earn several million
of none i'll q lifetime.
1t is not Mr.. Daily that the peoples part
il after; it is the system by which the Days
Goulds, Vanderbilts, Rockafellers, Stan
fords and other millionaites are enable
to fitch from the mouths of labor tn
bread it has earned" They may no
propose the rIghG means entirely, bu
they are on the right road; the
are working with energy and unseltishnef
to find the remedy, and they will havo tn
courage to apply it when found. Thin.
cannot go or as they are, and by peacefl
~methods--by the power of knowledge c,
pressed i'll the ballot box. they hope i'll tt
near future to guide the ship Of state in H,
other channel, or on another tack, 80 tn
the poop G. the producers of the countr
will all have employment on such terms {
to enable them to live decently and homo
ably ana they, and not another, 1ecei'
what they earn.
; The old parties have shown tbemselv
unable or unwilling for the work that is
be done, and what nobler cause could 81
gage mankind than that which the people
party are supporting-that is the giving
: the lahore, in the language Of Jetfesso
, the bread be has earned."
Helena, May %. 1892. II. M. BEADLE.
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