Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-29

lnOuSnt force ana some business JHdg
ment which passes upon the plans of
that industry and believes that it will
succeed. There must be financiers
bank~rs and capitalists to consent and
their consent must be based upon the
faith that the industry will succeed. If
Mr. Donnelly and Mr.. Bryan were CAPT
talists and business men, then they
themselves might promise employment
TO labor. Or. if the plans proposed by
Mr.. DOnnelly and Mr.. Bryan were re-
ceiving the endorsement of the business
Judgment of others who have capital
then 1t might seem reasonable that free
COINAGE might revive industry and bring
better times
Mr.. Bryan and bis corps of free silver
orators constantly denounce idle capital
Mr.. Bryan knows that idle capital is al
ways the. result of inck Of confidence
lie 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
by this capital. then there must be a
condition of harmony between the people
who own the capital and the men who
stand ready to go 10 work or there will
be no work. If plan Is proposed which
makes capital afraid, and If the workers
stand ready by their votes and their ma
iorities to carry out this plan, then it is
but natural that the men who control
the capital, being afraid of his new plan,
will hoard their capital and keep it idle
rather than risk 1t under conditions
which they believe will be disastrous.
Does it then avail anything to the labor
ing man that this capital is denounced
as the enemy of the country? Edison was
once lahoring man, but is now a cap
italist. When he was laboring man his
opinions and his plans were in a certain
degree dependent upon the plans and the
opinions of some one else. When Edi-
son was laborer. employed in con-
Structing machines, whether he was en-
poyed or not depended upon his en-
ployer. If the employer found by expert
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
of condition where he was worker
with his hands only, into 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
consent to the employment of thousands
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
be under the control and direction of
mind. Majorities have nothing to do
with il except as the majorities are in
harmony with this mind force and have
the approval of its Judgment
Whether 500 or 5000 men are employed
at the burlington machines shops at Lin
coin, Nebraska, during the next four
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
the financial policy Of the government for
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
Bryan and cheap money signs of future
stagna ton 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 Haveiock
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 sec the side tracks lined
with broken engines which the small
force of men employed are not able to
were at work today there would be
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 all
the wheels would be kept rolling night
and day carrying the great crops of Kan
sas, Nebraska and Iowa TO the food con-
Stunning. East This condition would en-
pioy labor and give value to farm prod
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.
hired man cannot be employed upon
n farm without the consent of the own.
er of the farm.
A carpenter cannot get employment
without the consent of the builder who
IS engaged in building houses, and the
builder cannot get the house TO build
without the consent Of the men who
have the money to build houses. In
AL lines OF industry the man who works
with his hands is dependent upon the
man who works with his mind and in
all countries the mind workers are tn.
of industry. When the mind
workers and those who have the making
of the plans for industry have conf,
dence that industry will be profitable
then there is employment.
William Jennings Bryan and his plat
form Is menace to industry and Mr..
Bryan knows it. The conviction is fast.
ened deep upon him and the leaders of
his cause, that the thing which they are
trying to accomplish is against the bust
ness judgment of the American people.
They are condemned by the mind work
ers of the nation, and because they
realize this. they constantly appeal to
class prejudice, hoping that there are
laborers and farmers who hate the bust
ness men and the employers of labor.
that when all these haters are organized
into one great army there will be enough
of them to carry this election for Mr..
Bryan and for the mine owners of Colo
RADIO, in whose interest his candidacy OK.
lists.
Silver Dollars Are Legal Tender.
Many of the plain people" of the
United States have wondered what is
meant, when il is said that Congress in
1873 struck down one-half the money
in the country. The figure is forcible
but somewhat obscure. The Denver
News comes to the rescue 1t says: 'By