Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-02

business mind. Before labor can bcgin
in IVY industry there must be some
tho".ht force and some business judc-
nlent which passes upon the plans Of
that industry and believes that it will
succeed. There must be financicrs.
hankS-s hank md capitalists to consent and
fhsir @ consent must be based upon. the
faith that the industry will succeed. If
Mr.; Donnelly and Mr.. Bryan were capi-
taiists and business men, then they
themselves might promise employment
to labor Or. if the plans proposed by
Mr. Donnelly and Mr.. Bryan were re-
ceiying the endorsement of the business
then it might seem reasonable that free
coinaoc might revive industry and brin.
better times.
Mr. Bryan and his corps of free silver.
Sfa'g5s Ma Rrvom constantly denonnce idle capital
=, He also knows that idle capital makes
idle men. If one set of men have the
capital and another set of men who
are WORKERS stand ready to be employed
osy.,ti.;s ny tnis capital. then there must be a
who own the capital and the men Who
be no work. If plan is proposed which
makes capital afraid, and if the workers
stand ready by their votes and their ma
}orlties ,,1 to carry out this plan, then it is
the capital, being afraid of his new plan,
will hoard their capital and keep it idle
rather than risk it under conditions
which. they believe will be disastrous.
Does it then avail anything to the labor
ing man thatAthis capital is denounced
once !aboring man, but is now cap
italist. When he was laboring man his
opinions and his plans were in certain
degree dependent upon the plans and the
opinions of some one else; When Edi-
structing machines. whether he was EN-
ployed OF not depended upon his en-
ployer. If the employer found BY experi-
ence that the work in which he was en-
gagged was Improbable to him. then Mr..
Edison lost his job. Now. Mr.. Edison,
having evolved BY his own exertions out
with his hands only, into a condition
where he has become great mind force
which controls industry, is vastly more
important to labor than he was before.
Then he could consent to the employment
Of only one man. himself. Now he can
of men. and whether they are employed
or not depends more upon his judgment
than upon their own. The Industries of
the world, no matter who is employed in
them. have always been and always will
mind. Majorities have nothing to do
with it except as the majorities are in
harmony with this mind force and have
the approval of it's judgment.
Whether 500 or 5000 men are employed
at the Burlington machines shops at Lin
years. depends not upon the political
judgment of the men who are employed
in these machine shops, but upon the
business judgment of those who must fur
nish money to pay for this labor. And
this business judgment, looking always to
signs of business safety or Of business
danger. is inspired with confidence or is
inspired with fear as it interprets the
business prosperity of the future by the
political conditions of the future. If this
business mind sees in the election of
stagnation and depression, then it is but
natural that it should keep the number of
men employed to the very least possible
limit. People who ride in the Burlington
trains along by the town of Havelock
near Lincoln where these machine shops
are located, can see the signs of business
depression and can interpret the doubt
that is in the mind of the directors Of the
road, when they see the side tracks lined
with broken engines which the small
force OF men employed are not able to
repair. If the laboring people of the East
were at work today there would be a
market in these great centers of industry
in the East for Nebraska's food product.
and then these great railroad systems
would require every engine and every car
which they own to be in repair and ali
the wheels would be kept rolling night
and day CARRYING the great crops Of Kan
sas. Nebraska and Iowa to the food.con-
snming, East. This condition would en-.
pioy labor and give value to farm nrod.
ucts. The whole theory of Western sue.
cess depends upon the activity Of Eastern
industry and the activity of Eastern in
dustry depends upon the faith and conf.
dence OF the Eastern business mind.
a hired man cannot be employcd unon
a farm without the consent Of the own.
er of the farm, '"n'
4 carpenter cannot get employment,
without the consent of the builder whn
IS engaged in building houses. and thc
builder cannot get the house to build
without the consent of the men whn
nave the money to build houses. In
al! lines of industry the man who works
with his hands is dependent upon the