Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-20

relopment that deter ines the line of |
cleavage which is separating the |
American people intoswo parties for |
the present and for he future
The Party of Obstruction
And now and for n the future the
Republican party is tsbe the party OF
construction and advace. the party OF
an intelligent, systemic and definite
foreign policy; the parv that. at home,
fosters and directs Ii energies that
produce and then findsabroad an out
let for those products the party that
sees in the American flag something
more than an APOLOGIZE emblem. and
that beholds in that amer the en-
sign of the people whm Providence
has appointed TO lead he world until
our work is done. he Democratic
party Is now. and foreer VIII be. the
party of reaction againt the progress
siye tendencies Of the Iepublican par
ty; the party that souds retreat at
every suggestion of an iyancing and
definite American policyabroad-
And therefore the QUESTION for the
millions of young men. w1o in this cam
paign are going TO enlist q one of those
two great political parties Is. Where
can they find their INST congenfal.
most natural most heliful and most
hopeful comrades? In the ranks OF
which party can they hep tc carry the
American flag farther and farther up
the nights of glory? Cur nation is
young. Our country is young Our
flag Is young. Our destiny Is the des-
tiny of the youth among nations. The
question for the young aen of this re
public to decide is whether they Will
enlist with the Republicanpa party, which
is harmonious with all those natural
elements OF youth. of progress and OF
power, and whose foreign policy Is the
policy of American advance, or with
the Democratic party, which Is at war
with every constructive development
Of our civilization. and whose foreign
policy is the policy Of american re-
treat.
Trusts and Political Parties.
There has been gDwing for
years all over the wald ten
dency towards business consolida-
tiou and cooperation, in order
to accomplish more simply the
greater tasks of production and ex
change. This development began In
France. in the great department stores
Of Paris, where. under oae roof. the
workingmen of that great capital Sc
cured the necessities of life at
cheaper price and better quality and
with greater convenience than they
We're able to get them before In small
and poorly equipped and high-priced
shops. And this development thert
has now reached the stage where nj
the employees in the great department
stores are partners in the enterprise
and stockholders In the company
This spirit of consolidation and con-
bination spread all over Europe. Il
affected nations as well as business
enterprises. 1t formed the German
empire ont of many separate govern
ments, all weak in themselves. bu
irresistible when combined. In thi'
country this great development OF
combination and cooperation has tn
ken hold of every branch of industrial
life 1t has spread faster and wide
in America than anywhere else, sim
ply because the American people arr
more intelligent than any other PEG
pie; simply because we communicate
with each other more than any othe
people: simply because we depend up
on each other more than any othe
people. And all this merely mean
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a single roof than under separat,
roofs. Capital responded to that grea
need, and so the period of great build
ings in our cities developed. and to
day the wealth. the intelligence ant
the business of city is well meas
ured by the number and magnitude,
of what Is called its great buildings
This Is the simplest form of what /.
called a trust. The farmer discovered
that his reaper was better than q
scythe: that the thresher was better
than a fail: that the stacker was bet
ter than pitchfork. And all thes.
wizard-like aids to the science OF
farming-fOr farming is a science
have been adopted by the American
farmer. And yet these devices for
simplifying the science of farming are
merely the development on the farm
Of the same great movement of which
the great building Is the development
in the city. The workingman dis
covered that as an Individual he was
powerless in the important question of
fixing wages, the hours of work and
all the terms of partnership between
labor and capital-for labor and CAPT
tai is partnership. Workingmen
therefore formed labor organizations,
and when rightly conducted, they are
one of the most beneficial develop
ments of our civilization And vet
they are merely the same development
in the world of labor that the great
combinations of capital are In the
world of capital. Railroad men dis
covered that by combining many diff
ferent, Short and separate roads bet
ter road-beds could be secured, through
trains made possible, faster time at
tanned. better service given, cheaper
rates on freight secured. and yet more
better wages and larger
profits TO those who operated the rail-
road; ard SO almost every railroad in
this country has been absorbed into
great systems. And this Is merely
the same development in the world Of
that the labor organiza-
ton is in the world of labor And so
all industry and all enterprise of our
advances through this ten
dency to consolidation. combination
and co operation. 1t may be that the
day will come when every euDlove
Of every department store in America
will be stakeholder in the corpora
ton. as is the case in France. The Illi-
nois Central IA .iroad has already be-
gun 70 divide its profits among its em-
ise. 1t is for sale by A. G.. Luken &
q and Ci,z:xsasa & q. .is....x6<:..