The evening times., 1900-10-03

'"Tka striking anthracite miners are sus-
tained by the moral support of organized
labor throughout the United States" said
a political veteran at Democratic headquar-
ters today The strike cannot fail TO eX-
ercise a potent influence in politics, and
that influence makes for the election CT
Bryan and Stevenson. Like conditions will
produce like results. and throughout all
ages the masses of the people have had to
struggle to prevent extinction at the hands
of the classes of craft and riches. It is
worthy of remark that in these periodical
conicts between the masses and the classes
the masses have always won. In the skir-
nishes preliminary to the great economic
and Industrial battles Of history the classes
by reason of their organization and the dis
organization of the masses have won tenn
pOrary victories, but in the grand contests
of the world the shrewdness, guile, craft,
and wealth of the classes have been uQ-
availing against the oVermasteFing might
of the masses. Gradually through the cen
turies the ordinary man has been rising
and winning the enjoyment of one right
after another.
After each great Industrial battle the
organization of the masses is lost, but the
organization of the classes is continued
In their greedy appetite that grows by
what it feeds on, they again begin TO en-
cToach upon their poorer and less crafty
fellows Parts of the disOrgantZed mass
cry out in pain and attempt vain re
sistance. The classes, emb0ldened by this
success and needless of the lessons of his
tory encroach still further. Another sec
tion of the disorganized human mass cries
out. The appetite for greed and power
grows. Its vanity fourishes and demands
more money that it may be pampered. 9th
er encroachments follow. Cries go up from
ether parts of this vast disoTganiZed mass.
Then murmuring is heard throughout it.
But the classes only laugh. Their success
sion of little victories along the skirslsh
line encourage them in the delusion that
they are inyineible against the masses they
employ and otherwise dominate, They con-
tinue their encroachments- They feel per-
haps that they can drive this human mass
back to the plane in life il occupied tens
of centuries ago. They carry their en-
eroachments beyond the line Of endurance.
The masses have been beaten, oppressed,
repreSsed, and compressed till they VIII
yield no longer. Th6E the turning point
comes. The masses heretofore disorganiz-
ed and rent by diverse interests become
unified. They have but one purpose and
eemmon interest They rise p unit The
classes are hurled back as a bit of straw
before the wind They learn this lesson
of their own vanity. and grsed usually at
e great cost. The masses then take pos
- session of more ground than they occupied
before Slowly and almost fmperceptibly
other classes grow up. In century OF so
- the lesson is forgotten and history is re-
peated.
This crash is impending. Whether it
viii harpen in November no one knows.
But II VIII come. The classes, with their
boasted intelligence, their fine manners,
sCft speech, and smooth hands. have not
sense enough to see it. They are being
carried by their greed into the same defeat
wherein their predecessors have been
crushed century after century The classes
lack the wisdom to carry their encroach-
ments upCa the masses Just so far. but
they carry than to the point where the
masses become united il a common cause
and turn upon the oppressors. 1t is an old
story.
The rise of the classes in this country
has heen steady. 1t was very slow at
first, They grew faster as the years wore
On. Within the last few years their growth
has gene forward at a furious pace The
faster this growth prog -esses the sooner
the climax is reached"
Charles B. Spahr author of the "Distri-
button of Wealth" extracts from which are
used In the Democratic Campaign Book
says:
The Growth of the Republic.
sour Republic began its career with
the ownership of property widely and
well distributed In fact, the chief rea
son why we became a Republic was be-
cause the economic Independence Of the
mass Of the citizens gave them political
independence and enabled them to de-
mand Govern ment in which the masses
We're consulted. instead OF accepting enc
conducted only by the wealthy classes.
benjamin Franklin. in contrasting
American with British conditions Just
before the Revolution. wrote:
have lately made a tour through
Ireland and Scotland. In these couD-
tries small part of the colony are land
lords. great nobIemen and gentlemen
extremely opulent. living in the highest
affuence and magniicence. The bulk of
the people are tenants. extremely poor
living in the most sordid wretchedness
In dirty novels of mud and straw. and
clothed only in rags. I thought often of
the happiness Of New England. Whers
every man is a freeholder. has vote
IN public affairs. lives in tidy, warm
JOB COULDN'T HAVE STOOD 1T