The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-12-31

The News Democrat noted few day
since, q contemplated reduction In wages
of from Is to 40 per cent, at the Buche
g. Gibbs Plow Works. General Msnage
H. A. Cavnah, prominent Republican
who believes in effect, that the way Il
make the people prosperous is to ia,
them a little higher, has issued the fol
lowing address to the employees Of the
concern:
ADDRESS
To our fellow vorkmen, upon the indus
trial conditions that exist and are liable
to continue for some time to come:
No one can divine when they will be
better or worse, and they can be worse.
Some facts we have sure The present
conditions and opportunities ara to be
considered and realized.
TO SPECULATE ON BETTER
TIMES TO COME Is ONLY FANCI.
Full AND NEVER REALIZED. THE
PRESENT ONLY Is OURS TO
POSSESS, OCCUPY AND IMPROVE
Industry is the source Of wealth. BY
it provisions are made for the noeessi.
tltes, comforts and even luxuries of life.
To be successful we must be industrious,
provident and economical, AMI they who
do this are conquerors. To consider the
present and its conditions rightfully,
we must retrospect the past experience.
1t is alleged that the experiences of men
and nations are repeated. History re-
peats itself"
Our Nation-One hundred and twenty
years ago our forefath5rs declared our
independence and battled for its success
and its victory they hequeathed unto us
as an excellent heritage. A nation of
pioneers with savage nation to subdue,
primeval conditions to overcome and i'm
prove, and during period of over 175
years our fathers were engaged in pioneer
work. telling the forests, clearing the
grounds for agricultural pursuits and
subsistence. They lived in rudely con-
structed homes with no convenience or
comforts. Luxuries which the hum blest,
by industry, may now enjoy, were wholly
unknown to them. Money they knew of
very little. These rude conditions pro-
due I'd hardy and industrious race of
sons and daughters. With free school
system, where the poorest had eqral
chances with the greatest to secure an
education, the sciences and the arts were
mastered, inventions of usef illness and
labor saving machinery Of all grades and
plishments were developed, and
during the past years the employment of
manual labor in many Of the producing
industries have been reduced, and pro-
duction increa sed to such degree in
many lioes to have caused excessive pro-
duction, over ver-consumption, and many in
dustries conRested beyond endurance;
exaggerated efforts to mainatin their
extended business were made, which com
PEELED them to make obligations which
could not be maintained, hence they
failed.
During these years of unprecedented
advancement, improvement and pros
perity, habits Of extravaganza and even
prohigaCy have been acquired to such an
extent that in some manufacturing in
certain lines, 1t is not profitable OF pos
sible to continue, and many thousands
have had to cease operations. This rapid
concentration of effort and energy into
many lines caused the people to oongre-
gate into cities and villages and contribute
their labor into these lines. They have
oyer-produced, causing a surplus labor in
all the markets.
To overcome these conditions many ex-
pedient remedies are proposed by various
men, but it is better to conform to and
make the most of opportunities. Our
fathers made good use of that which was
for them and prospered, Man must work.
The infinite ediot, "Thou shalt eat bread
by the sweat of thy brow" has always
been in force Labor is worthy OF it's
hire, but it must produce commensurate
values equal to other usefulness and re-
Present conditions are the most i'm
portant consideration. We have an ap-
parent abundance Of many articles; we
have superabundanoe of many more
things. Then to produce more than is
required for usefulness would be
and disastrous to the pro-
ducer. Our stores are filed with goods
and wares; a very large per cent. Of these
are the product Of labor Of foreign lands,
which have been paid for by our money
and we have that much less in the United
States and that much less opportunity to
produce the same goods; hence should be
shut out. The supersbundance Of i'm
portation Of foreign made goods without
reciprocal trade is therefore worse con.
iition to be in than to have none, for II
we had none of these our ingenuity to
create, invent and tn make would produce
It, Are we not foolish to buy ourselves
10 poor that we cannot produce what we
need to exchange with these whom we
expect to trade with usP
Money Is the medium Of exchange only
by which the differences in trade are