The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

up only after capital has been fully sat-
isfled and when their hearing does not
bother capital at ALL But from your
standpoint 1t is better to say "T'he la
bOrer is worthy OF his product" than
"The labOTer Is worthy Of his hire" 1t
is your duty to work and live for bet
ter system, a system which the CiViliZa-
tion of the world plainly shows is COM
ing, but in the meantime you have got
to exist, and you ought to vote. Are
you voting this year for labor or for
capital, for your interest or against it?
The WOrkingmRn's Ticket.
Have you ever been out of job? Then
you will admit that there is labor prob
lem. Are you card man? Then your
membership in the union is evidence that
you recognize the labor question A lit
tie further on we shall run over some
fundamental points on this matter. But
now let us consider the candidates on the
two leading tickets before you.
Mr.. Stanley, the Republican candidate
for Governor, in an authentic interview
in a Republican paper and elsewhere,
has denied the existence of any labor
problem He does not see the need, he
says, for this agitation on behalf OF the
laboring man. 1t is easy to see why he
does not. He belongs to the other class.
II he were a miner, a section hand, an
engineer or fireman or trainman, or a
wage worker in any line he would know
better. But he is on the side Of private
capital, and he looks at labor as mere
property to be bought and sold.
What sympathy will you get from Mr..
Stanley?
None at all. Even now, when it is to
his interest to bid for your vote, he
sneers at laws enacted for the good of
labor, saying for instance, that the law
protecting motorneers and conductors by
requiring vestibules on street cars af-
fected only a very small number Of per-
sons and did not amount to much II
this is his attitude now, what would it
be should you elect him to office?
Every other candidate on the Republi-
can ticket is the same. They are all in
line. They are all standing by capital
as against labor, and If they should get
into Office labOrs share of assistance
from them would consist only Of the
leavings rejected by the capitalists.
On the other hand, the POpulist party,
both in it's professions and in its work,
as we'll as in it's membership, stands for
the producer as against the exploiter Its
principles avow the right of the worker
to what he produces, and eternally main
tain the right of the laborer to recogni-
tion as a man, human being with
soul, recognition that he does not get
now by long ways.
The Populist party recognizes the labor
problem, has studied and is studying 1t,
and is arriving at the solution. The
State platform this year "favOrs the pub
lie ownership of all public utilities and
demands "the public ownership and op-
Grafton of all monopolies." Look at the
specific demands for the relief of labor
in the platform. The Republican party
opposes them.
John w. Leedy, the POpulist candidate
for Governor, may not be the polished
and cultivated man that his opponent is
set up to be, but he has always managed
to hold his own. In his office hangs
testimonial from a former employer
written just after the election OF 1896,
which says that if Mr. Leedy gives as
good service as Governor as he did as
farm hand he will satisfy the people
of the State. John Leedy as farm hand
or John Leedy as Governor makes a
plain, straightforward worker, who Is
typical of the class he represents. He
may be plain and somewhat blunt, but
so are you, Mr.. Workingman, and 1t Is
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