The oasis., 1894-01-18
ANOTHER rorrLIsr GENERA.

legal limit Of a day work Co two hours
 The originator of the idea declares
 that ten or twelve hours for a days
 work were all right before the era of
 labor saving machinery, but with all ! the improvements therein he estim- ates that in given length of time one
 operative can now produce as much as ] twenty could turn out Seventy-tye
 years ago. He says: Tt is estimated
 that two hours labor each day per-
 formed by every able bodied person
 will produce all the necesSaries. lux
 ''uries and ornaments the world can
 consume. If this is true it will ne-
 -cessarily follow that for every operat- Five employed ten hours per day four 'others must be forced into pr0fitless ''idleness The vast number of such ''idlers depending upon their labor for subsistence must materially reduce the market for the consumption of ''all products. This again must re- ''duce the number of producers and
 create more idlenesS, which must continue to go on while conditions remain unchanged
 Like most of the fine-spun theories If the populists this proposition has failed to consider several important
 items that must be overcome to give it practical application. For the sake If inquiry in this matter let it be sup posed that all the states and congress lad passed a two-hour law, and all the shops and factories in the country were operating under it's provisions. Where would the product of those shops and factories be sold? In the open market in competition with goods from simi- lar shops and factories in England, France, Belgium and other countries till operating their industries on the ten hour plan. Would not tine foreign goods be cheaper and shut out from sale the product of the American two lours per day industries: How long would the two-hOur system last in the face of that kind of competition? The ,nly way to preserve the proposed two hour system would be to enact a pro- tectiye tariff beside which the Mckin- ley tariff would be an infant Yet free
 rade is one of the tenets of the popu- ists. and one of their cardinal doc trines is embraced man assertion that .he Mckinley act is an iniquity.
 The above is given space to show up some of the crudites and follicS of the | new party. While correction the great ! problem of free coinage of silver, it is | completely at sea on all other ques- l tions. When a public journal cannot | accept all the wild vagares. crude the | Jries and half baked political economy put forth in the name of populism. the { superior beings controlling the popu- i list press close the question by crying 'goldbugr
 One thingat q time is good rule for political parties as we'll as individuals. In the carly conventions of the repub- lcan party were many doctrnaires who sought to commit the new party to all sorts of reforms. With d pro- phetic perspicacity the assembled wis dom perceived that by undertaking too much the new movement would weaken it's force and invite defeat. So the objects undertaken were limited to restriction of slavery and free homes for the people. On those su- blime doctrines the people trusted the young party with power. and it wrote some of the ggaaiest pages Of Ameri- /. jean history
 The birth Of the populi-t party was