Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-04

hours meant employment fer more
men.
President Mckinley wants to see the
laboring people of the country happy
and proseprous, rather than the wife
and children should be crying for
bread as the result Of a panic or the
widow and children mourning the loss
of husband, father or brother through
the cruel violence of federal or state
troops in suppressing riots growing
out of disturbances of this kind, en-
couraged and fostered by Democratic
public sentiment, as was intended to
be the case in the pending anthracite
coal strike.
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No such thing as the solution of a
great strike of this kind would have
been possible four years ago Great
disaster had come upon the country
as the result of a Democratic national
administration and want was every
where and on every hand. Laboring
people would go from one community
to another in search of honest employ
ment of some kind, only to find that
the conditions which prevailed in their
own homes were universal and the
same in all communities. They want
ed work then at anything at any price
while new they want to share in the
general prosperity of the country by
sharing in the profits of their en-
ployers through an increase in their
wages. There were no labor disturb
ances in 1896, except that the pangs of
hunger made men desperate, and if
there were any strikes they were not
settled upon the basis of an increase
in wages. Conditions have changed
very materially.
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The full dinner pail" argument ap-
pears to be furnishing the Democratic
press and orators some amusement.
And in this connection it may be said
that the people who cary them are get
ting some enjoyment out of them
Three square meals a day is enough
to make any man feel good, particular
ly when he knows that wife and chill
dren at home also have plenty Re-
publican legislation has brought about
these changed conditions, and no one
who suffered the pangs of hunger dur
ing the two or three years preceding
years hifyodhh carem en- mfww V
Mckinley's succession to the presi-
dency would want to go back to those
times There is enc thing which lab
oring people and agrlculturist, par,icu-
larly should not forget. and that is
that the protective tariff, while not
one of the issues discussed in the pend
ing campaign, is still one of the issues
and one of the important ones. The
lDboring man not only gets more for
his work, and the farmer more for his
wool than he did under the last Dem
ocratic tariff law, but the people gem
orally are more happy and prosper
Gus. u :,
The recent settlement of the strike
OF theateel workers of the country is
another instance in which themanufac-
turers found it possible under existing
conditions to accede TO the demands
of their striking employees, 10000 of
whom returned to work last Monday
at increased wages. The Democrats
would like to have seen this struggle
prolonged until after the election, as
labor disturbances of this kind are
their long suit in presidential cam
paigns, Nothing suits them better
than to see half million men out cf
employment about election time.
The still further announcement that
American troops are to be withdrawn
from China was also displeasing news
to the Democratic leaders OF the coun-
try. And as soon as Aguinaldo hears
CT the news of Bryan's defeat in No
yember he will give up the fight in
the Philippines, and the troops will
then be Withdrawn from there. Mill.
tarism is one of the principal cam
paign cries of the Democrats, who dc
not like the smell of gun powder