Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1900-11-27
THEY NOTICE US
The Conspiracy Of Silence is Broken by the
Capitalist Newspapers


election are complete we have volumi-
nous discussion of plans for reor-
ganization OF the democratic party.
That last Tuesday marked the begin
ming of new era in American politics.
that it was sort of clearing up ofthe
accumulated debris of number of
years is beyond question. 1t has GER
tainly prepared the way for more in
telligent and logical political action.
While the result is adverse to change
in public policy, it means great
changes in the management and poll.
cies of parties and in the political
alignment of agreat part of the peo-
pie.
Glasses and class struggles have
been a most important factor in the
progress of the world. The Magma
Charta was the result of the revolt of
aclass with common interests against
common oppressor. Our own revo-
luton was to very great extent a
class movement. The tories were the
wealthiest and at one time the most
influential element of the population.
The French revolution was the revolt
of the lower orders of society against
an insolent aristocracy. We have
abolished political classes, theoretic-
ally speaking, at least. Every man
may vote and enter the struggle for
political place and power. But we
have developed classes in other spheres
OF activity. Glasses have existed in
all civilizations known to history,
and the history of civilization is the
history OF their struggles. These
struggles have always originated in
the economic or industrial sphere and
they haye been carried into politics
only as a court OF last resort. The
great mass of the people have been
slow to see theclose relations between
industrial and political power. and
r how essential one is to the nnainte-
nance of the other. Class lines have
until recently been too indistinct in
the United States to be of much con-
sequence in politics. The liberality of
our institutions and the extent and
fertility of our natural resources have
made it easy for men to rise from the
lowest to the highest industrial posi-
ton. Our wage earning class, tho
very large, is just beginning to have
distinct class existence. For long
time it was easy for family to cease
to be wage earners after one genera
ton OF service. Not until recent years
had the absorption of our great nat
ural resources proceeded SO far as to
make it necessary for the children OF
wage earners to become wage earners
also. But with the development OF
the industrial machinery, the wage
earning force is reinforced from the
children of the small capitalists, as
well as from its own offspring. Thus
VIC are rapidly becoming nation OF
wage workers.
That the republican party is the
dominant spirit of the nation, that 1T
is the party of the great industrial
and commercial interests of the coun.
try, is beyond dispute. But for local
issues and prejudices, the presidents
victory would have been as decisive
as the democratic victory OF 1897
But its present power does not insure
its supremacy. 1t may not be, ana
most probably is not, as near to ITS
Waterloo now as was the democracy
IN 1852, but we know from the past
that changes may come with great
rapidity. The republican party, be-
ginning as a radical, is now con-
servative, but radicalism still exists.
What shape it will take, how tar 1t
will propose to go, what it will be
able to accomplish, are questions
that will make the next 20 years the
most interesting and most Significant
period in American history.
From the Boston Advertiser.
The telegraphic returns showing
the vote in different sections OF the
country, are not yet complete put
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