The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-30
or INTEREST TO LABOR.
What the Parties Promise In Their
Respective Platforms.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
We renew our faith In In the interest of
the policy of protection American labor and tn.
to American labor. In uplifting of the working
that policy our indus man, as the cornerstone
tries have been estab- of the prosperity OF our
lished diversified and country, recommend
maintained By pro- that congress create a
tecting the home mar department OF labor in
ket competition has charge of secretary,
been stimulated and with a seat in the cab1
production cheapened net, believing that the
Opportunity to the in elevation of the Aneri
ventiye genius of laborer will bring
people has been secured with 1t increased pro-
and wages in every de- lection and increased
partment of labor main prosperity to the coun-
tanned at higher rates try at home and to our
higher now than commerce abroad.
beforehand always dis
tinguishing work >4sf+
Ing people in their bet szsA
ter conditions of life
from those Of any com
peting country
Here are the respective planks of the
two platforms on the question of the
improvement of the condition of the
American workingman. These planks
are worthy Of little study. The Re-
publican plank is positive, frank and
definite. 1t distinctly says that the
Republican plan for lettering the con-
dition Of American labor is to maintain
the policy of protection; to protect, by
tariff, the labor Of the United States
from the competition which free trade
would certainly produce in allowing
the products Of pauper labor from both
Europe and Asia to come into the
American market and thus stopping
mills, factories, mines and the thou
sands of industries now furnishing re-
munerative employment to American
skill.
What does the Democratic platform
promise? In another plank it opposes
J. protective tariff, and for the uplifting
of the condition of American labor it
promises nothing more and nothing
better than the creation Of another Of
fee. They say in effect, We love the
American laborer so much that in the
event of our success at the polls, we
promise to try to create a secretary
and lot Of of1ceholders to hook after
the interests of laboring men, unmind-
full of the fact that there is already
nOnpartiSan department Of labor doing
efficient and satisfactory work for the
labor interests of the country. Were
the labor interests Of the country to be
placed in charge of a cabinet officer
the matter by the very nature of the
case would have to become partisan.
Laboring men can easily weigh the
respective merits Of the two parties
with reference to their influence on the
question of work and wages by com
pairing the tramping armies, the
charity souphouses, the silent fac
tories, the grass grown railroads and
the stagnation Of 1893 and 1S94-pro-
duoed by the Democratic threat of a
policy of free trade or revenue tariff
with the protective tariff and it's re-
suits as seen today, with busy mills,
crowded railways, employed labor,
good wages and the heaviest exports
ever made by this or any other country
since nations began to exchange prod
ucts. Labor will be slow to give up an
evident, tangible, constant condition Of
prosperity for the promise of creating
another office to be filed by a bench
man of the boy orator Of the Platte.
minis and cut the dollar in which
wages are paid in two in the middle.
President Mckinley says it is better
to open the mills and continue to pay
good wages in the best money the
world has ever known. It is for labor
to decide which of the two policies is
most likely to butter its bread.
The word compound" which is
used frequently in the war dispatches
from China, means an incIOsure. In
that country and Japan it is customary
to build high brick walls around fac
tories, business houses, banks and resi-
dences for protection. and these are
the compounds" mentioned