The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

Al "',! .nuustry tnere must be some thought force and some business iudg- ment which passes upon the plans of that industry and believes that it will succeed. There must be fnanciers. bankers and capitalists to consent and thelr consent must be based upon the iaith that the industry will succeed. If MT: Donnelly and Mir. Bryan were capi. tallsts and business men, then they themselves might promise employment lapor, Or, if the plans proposed by MT. Donnelly and MT. Bryan were re- ceiying the endorsement of the business !uusment Of others who have capital, then It might seem reasonable that free coina"e might revive industry and bring better times.
 MT. Bryan and his corps of free silver 0Wfat9ps W constantly dcnounce idle capital. MT. Bryan knows that idle capital is ni ways the result of lack of confidence. lie also knows that idle capital makes idie men. If one set of men have the capltal and another set of men who gre workers stand ready to be employed py tnis capital then there must be n condition of harmony between the peonle who own the capital and the men who stand ready to go to work or there will De no work. If n plan is proposed which makes capital afraid, and if the workers stand ready by their votes and their ma }Eorlties Et s. to carry out this plan, then it is the capital, being afraid of his new nlan' 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 that this capital is denounced as the enemy of the country? Edison was once laboring 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- son was laborer. employed in con structing machines, whether he was em- ployer: If the employer found by experi- cnce that the work in which he was en- gagged was unproftable to him. then Mir. Edison lost his job. Now, MT. Edison. having evolved by his own excrtions 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
 
 be under the control and direction of | mind. Majorities have nothing to do with 1t except as the majOrties are in | harmony with this mind force and have the approval of its judgment.
 | 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 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 Hayelock 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 nt work today there would be a market in these great centcrs 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 tho, wheels would be kept rolling night and day carrying the great crops of Kan sas, Nebraska and Iowa to the food con suming East. This condition would cm- ploy labor and give value to farm prod ucts. The whole theory of Western sue. cess depends upon the activity of Eastern dustry depends upon the faith and conf. dence of the Eastern business mind.
 hired man cannot he employed upon farm without the consent of the own, CT 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 all 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. controllers of industry. When the mind
 
 of the plans for industry have conf dcncc that industry will be profitable then there is employment.
 William Jennings Bryan and his plat form is menace to industry and Mir. Bryan knows it. The conviction is fast cncd deep upon him and the leaders of his cause, that the thing which they are trying to accomplish is against the busi- ness judgment of the American people. They are condemned by the mind work CTS of the nation, and because they realize this. they constantly appeal to class prejudice. hoping that there are laborers and farmers who hate the busi- 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 Mir. Bryan and for the mine owners of Colo- rado, in whose interest his candidacy ex- ists.
 Silver Dollars Are Legal Tender.
 Many of the "plain people, of the United States have wondered what is meant, when it is said that Congress in 1873 struck down one-half the money in the country. The figure is forcible but somewhat obscure. The Denver