The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-08-27

consequent demand for their labor,
some democratic donkey brays,
ssLook at the strike, look at the
srike." In what other country could
the laboring class even attempt a
struggle with such a gigantic cor
poration as the steel company is
said to be? In what other country
would it be possible for them to
remain idle day after day living on
on the accumulated profits ofstheir
former toll? Ask the toilers of
Germany, or France, or England or
OF any other country if they would
dare to engage in such contest.
Strikes occur in other countries
among desperate men who feel that
| that it is as we'll to starve without
working as to starve and work
both Here the steel workers are
striking, not for higher wages, not
because they are mlstreated and
abused, but in order to maintain
the integrity of their organization
and to obtain recognition for it.
The purpose of this strike may be
righteous one, but under no other
system OF government would it be
possible and under a democratic
administration these men would
have been amply content to bear
the evils they already had rather
than to fly to evils they knew not
of. Its republican legislation which
has made prosperity SO general and
the demand for work so great that
these men dare to strike. Let
democracy make what capital of it
they can. 1t is boomerang, an
argument that strikes back at them
harder than anyone else. 1t is the
full dinner pail of last year and
this on which the laboring man is
living to-day without work, and
it is this reserve fund, vouch-safed
him by republican legislation, upon
which he is drawing to-day in his
contest with organized capital
AS the Colonel in his wisdom,
prophesied, the platform is made up
of"Raforrum and Abuse" The next
plank deals with state issues, So
called. With kindly generosity il
intimates that the republican party
has been delivered from the hands
of one corrupt machine into the
hands of another. A party that can
can point to its Crokers and its
Clarks and its corrupt methods in
every state in which it has ever
had control need not cast slurs at
the republican management which
has placed Iowa in the very lead
of all the other states in the points
of wise and sane legislation and
economical and business like man
agement. The republican party be.
lieves in just and equal taxation OF
all property, it always stood fol-
this and will do so in the future.
What democratic state would the
democrats of Iowa have us pattern
after? Missouri Kentucky? Miss.
issippi? Texas? What one of then
all has as good laws, as economical
a government or such bounteous
surplus in its treasury? The proc
of the pudding is the eating thereof
Take any democratic state you vii
and compare it in any regard witt
the state of Iowa and you will say
at once that republicanism is gooc
enough for you.
One of tbs surprises of the
county platform is the indirect en-
dorsement of the present mulct law
The platform states that it favor
an amendment to the law so that
ajority vote might decide the
question in any county. This i:
the only suggestion the democrat
of the county have to make and i
is one which would not effec
Crawford county one whit. Tn
der the present law we have tn
saloon here and unless there is
decided change ip public sentimen
it is here to stay. It's only fair t