The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
OF INTEREST TO LABOR.
Republican Platform. Democratic Plato

| Republican Platform. Democratic Platform.
1 We renew our faith In the interest of
| in the policy of protec- American labor and
ton in American la the uplifting of the
| Dor. In that policy working man as the
| our industries have cornerstone of the
been established, di- prosperity of our coun-
| versifed and main try, we recommend
tanned. By protecting that Congress create a
| the home market com department Of labor in
petition has been slim charge of q secretary
ulated and production with aseat In the Cabi-
cheapened. Opportu- net, believing tnat the
nifty to the inventive elevation of the Amer
genius of our people lean laborer will bring
| has been secured and with 1t increased pro.
wages in every depart lection and increased
ment of labor main prosperity to the coun-
| tanned at higher rates try at home and to our
-nigher now than ev- commerce abroad.
err beforehand always
distinguishing our
working people in
| their better conditions
/ of life from those of
any competing coun-
| try.
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 thousands of industries now fur
nishing remunerative employment to
American skill.
What does the Democratic platform
promise? In another plank it opposes
a protective tariff, and for the uplift-
ing of the condition of American labor
it promises nothing more and nothing
better than the creation of another
office. 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 other officeholders to look
after the interests of laboring men,
unmindful of the fact that there is
already non-partisan department of
labor doing efficient and satisfactory
work for the labor interests of the
country. We're 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
merits of the two parties
with reference to their influence on
the question of work and wages by
comparing the tramping armies, the
charity soup houses, the silent factor
les, the grass grown railroads and the |
of 1898 and 1S94-produced |
by the Democratic threat ct policy |
Of free trade or revenue tariff-with |
the protective tariff and its results as
SOOA eOeAeSJ WAph buoy Ast11o3 O1OWu |
railways, employed labor, good wages
and the heaviest exports ever made |
since nations began to exchange pro-
ducts. Labor will be slow to give mp
an evident, tangible, constant con-
dition of prosperity for the promise of
another office to be filled. by
a henchmam of the boy orntOr of the
Platte.
Bryan says it is better to, open the
mints and cut the dollar in which /
wages are paid in two in the middle. I
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. 1t is for la
Dor to decide which of the two poll
cies is most likely to butter his bread.