The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-12
GOOD TINES COMING.


near at hand in this country.
We read that factories, mills. fur,
nsces and nearly all transportation
lines are in operation to their ful
lest capacity: The great grain
fields OF the West are laden with
abundant harvests the mines are
nearly all yielding up their proc.
ucts to an increased demand: the
people in nearly every vocation Of
life are more generally occupied
than they have been for more than
two years with an increase in wages
in few instances.
Confidence has been restored to
a great extent in financial and in.
dustrial circles, and the evidence is
very strong and clear that this coun.
try is once more on the road to PROS
perity.
| This being the case, and if true it
is the duty of every American citi.
zen to do all he can, physically.
mentally and financially to forward
the great work. Now is the time
tor cooperation, for mutual encour.
agement and success in everything
that will benefit the community
where you live and the general
country.
know that it is too true that
the common laborer is the last per-
son to participate in or enjoy the
benefits of recurring prosperity, but
they should remember that thew
shall eventually share the benefits
and enjoy them much longer than
any other class.
# everybody will use every en-.
deavor to promote good times and
to retain them there is no doubt
that all will participate in and en-.
JOY them in the near future.
The returning prosperity in this
country is attributed to a good
many causes. Some have express
ed themselves to me as the direct
cause being due to the recent tariff
and other legislation of the Demo.
cratic party; while others attribute
the change to the prospect of the
Republican party again getting con.
troll OF the government and undoing
all the Democratic party have done.
My view as to the cause of the
returning prosperity to this nation
is taken from strictly non partisan
standpoint. l do not believe it is
caused by that which either party
has or has not done, or is likely to
DO in the future, but it is simply the
result of the indomitable will, ener-
gy, ambition and courage of the
American people together with the
bountiful crops that God has bless.
ed US with all over the land.
And now one of the first things
l would like to see as result from
the good times predicted, is better
wages paid to the laborers, especial
ly in the South, so that he toe NAV |
enjoy few of the blessings that are |
usually all gobbled up by the monied |
class.
Fara way Moses says that the man |
who performs the hardest, most dis.
agreeable, dirtiest, health destroy |
ing labor usually receives the least |
pay for it. No matter how peces- !
sary the product of his labor is for |
our comfort, the mcn in overalls. |
slouched hat and soiled boots is
scarcely noticed on the streets |
though bis labor may bring comfort |
to thousands of people, while the |
brainless snob, who has never been |
a penny's worth of use to the world |
attracts the attention of the people
clear across the street with his gay
clothing and them not paid for.
The laboring man in this world
is like the definition the boy attrib-
uted to ''salt" as something YOU
never notice until it amt there any
more.
The laboring man is the greatest
recognized necessity on earth, yet
he can g on toiling year after year
tor half pay, telling in rags and
poverty, and The fashionable world
never thinks Of him, nor cares for
his welfare, but when outraged
manhood can stand the oppression
and drudgely no longer, and the
laborer goes out on strike thus
cutting off the supply of the neces>
saries from the fashionable world,
then society recognizes and ac-
knowledges his existence and
wants to drive him back to work
again at the .old starvation wages.
and our present society government
will aid them. with troops, if neces>
sary, to do 1t. Hence, 1 say with
the returning prosperity coming
among us, let us not forget the man
who is the salt Of the earth, remem.
Der everything would taste mighty |
nat without him. Put yourself in |
ms place, DO unto others as you
would wish to be done by, pay him