Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-03

greSslOn from labor, and the recent
large voluntary advances in wages
have undoubtedly had that result.
Compromise between the two sides
Is impossible; either the one party
or the other must hold distinct as
cendancy of power; and 1t would
seem that we are verging upon the
crisis which will determine where
the victory shall rest
This does not resemble the state
ments made by Mr. Clews and his
fellow banker politicians in the cam
paign of 1900 Then we were told
that the interests of capital AMI
labor were identical. and that the
great corporations which had been
permitted to grow fat by the favor
of the Republican party and at the
expense of the people of the United
States We're fully alive to the re-
quirements of the laboring man. We
were told that the wages of the Ia
borer would keep pace with the
profits Of the great corporations by
which he was employed. And yet at
this moment when these corpor-
ations are thriving as they never
thrlved before, their employees find It
necessary to engage in a strike in
order to obtain even the right Of or
ganization; and Mr.. Clews informs
us that compromise between the two
sides is impossible" He no longer
insists that the interests of labor
and capital are Identical but declares
that either the one party or the other
must hold "a distinct ascendancy OF
power"
1t is difficult for SOME to under.
stand why these great corporations
after having obtained at the hands
of the government favors and priv
ileges by which they are enabled to
roll up enormous profits on compare
lively small investment of capital
refuse to grant to their employees
fair privileges. 1t is strange that in
the hope of maintaining for the cor
porntions the special privileges they
enjoy. the corporation managers do
not increase the pay and the wages
of their employees toward at least n
fraction Of the prosperity enjoyed by
the employer. The employer who
pays good wages and gives his en-
p'oye decent privileges obtains better
results from the Investment he makes
in wages than the employer who Is
continually looking for the best OF
the immediate bargain between him
self and his wOrkingmen. And when
it Is seen that the special privileges
enjoyed by these corporations are
possible only through acquiesence of
the people when they go to the bal
lot box, some find 1t difficult to under
stand why these large employers of
men do not make serious effort ia
keep their employees in a contented
frame of mind.
characteristic that prompts men to
seek dishonest advantages at the hands
of government persuades them to
seek dishonest advantages over the
individual whose labor contributes to
their fortune?
Can it be possible that when a man
steels his conscience SO that he Is en-
nblcd to aid In the purchase of elec
tions, to buy members of congress, tC
brbe men nigh In authority, to sub
sidize those newspapers that will &c
his bidding ana destroy through the
power of money those newspapers
whose editors refuse to 'bend the
pregnant hinges of the knee thai
thrift may follow fawning" II
be possible that when a man stife:
the "stlll small voice in order thai
he may do these things he loses con
sidcration for all other men and FOL
all other things, overlooks the respon
sibilities that may confront him In tn,
future and takes cognizance only oi
the immense advantages and oppor
tmitics of the present?
This appears TO be so, and yet thos'
who are inclined to regard this as mad
ness VIII realize considerable methot
In the madness when 1t is remem
bered that the best possible way IL
which to prepetually maintain class
advantage is TO keep the laboring mel
of the country in position of serf
dom with the labor organizations de
suoyed the only hope the laborlnG
man will have for redress will be tn,
tender mercy of the trust magnate
And in order TO put this mercy" int,
operation il will be necessary for IN,
laboring man to vote as his employe,
votes.
Those who have battered themselves
that the advocates of the single golt
standard and Of the trust system wer,
sincere. when they claimed that labol
and capital should work in harmon,
may have their eyes opened by thu
frank admission of Mr.. Clews. Com
promise between the two sides Is i'm
possible; either the one or the othe
must hold distinct ascendancy oI
power" This, then, Is the doctrin,
of those who see nothing hut gooC
in the Republican party, and nothin.
hut evil in every party that opposes
Republican principles The claim tina
the interests OF capital and labor ar,
Identical and that there must be har
mony between the two In a claim /,
he urged for campaign purposes only
The naked truth. according 10 thes,
representatives of "national honor.
according to these advance agents o
, prosperity" Is that the trusts of In
country must hold the whip over thei