The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-08-29

raised, our flag was carried in
honor and triumph to distant parts
of the world, and our supremacy on
land aud sea sustained until now
we are recognized as one of the
greatest world powers.
We congratulate the people OF
Pennsylvania on the splendid pros
perity which they now ENJOY. The
farmer, the mechanic, the laborer
and the professional man, all either
have or may have remunerative
employment. We regret that
under such prosperous conditions
contests should arise between
capital and labor, but we hope and
believe that these disputes will be
finally settled on an equitable basis
that will do full justice to the con-
tending parties. The right OF
capital to make proper aud legal
combinations has been recognized
by legislative enactments in many
OF the States, and this carries with
it the right Of labor to organize in
proper and legal ways for its pro-
lection and advantage; but neither
capital nor labor has the right to
resort to violence or illegal methods
to redress wrongs or obtain rights.
The spirit of mediation and con-
cession should prevail in all dis
putes between capital and labor.
We congratulate the Republicans
of Pennsylvania that there is no
longer any division in the Republi-
can party; that harmony has been
restored; that respect for the will OF
the majority prevails, and that we
present united front arrayed only
against the common enemy, the
Democratic party. Our past trou-
bles and dissensions are forgotten
in the determination TO stand firmly
together in the future. Factional
disputes only benefit the Democratic
party, and our purposes and actions
should be to avoid all cause of dis
sension.
We are amused, rather than con-
cerned, by the declarations of the
late Democratic State convention,
for we readily recognize, as all the
people must, the cooperation of
certain newspapers in their prepara-
ton, which papers, failing in their
attempt to disrupt the Republican
party, have crawled under the tents
of the Democracy with their stale
and false charges and succeeded in
having them adopted as a Demo-
cratic platform. The platform of
the late Democratic State conven-
ton will be found in the files of the
so-called yellow journals during the
past few months.
We believe in surrounding the
press with every constitutional
guarantee vouchsafed to it since the
foundation Of our government, but
il is public menace that these con-
stitutional guarantees should be so
as to have permitted many
OF our newspapers to have degener-
ated into yellow journalism such
as IS detrimental to any State or
We charge the so-called yellow
journals with being subsidized by
the full-page advertisements which
they carry. The advertiser is per-
mitted to dictate their policy and at
his behest these newspapers have
perverted the news columns and the
editorial page from being an honest
record of daily events TO a labored
attempt to misrepresent facts.
We arraign the Democratic party
as incompetent, incapable, insincere
and untrustworthy. The citizens
OF our State, within a very few
days, have witnessed a spectacle
seldom seen in the history OF a
political party asking the sufrages
Of the people. The Democratic
party, ashamed of its record in the
past and afraid to name a single
issue of national character on
which to appeal for support, asks
the people TO forget that in the past,
when entrusted with the admins
tfation OF public affairs, it has ruin
ed our business enterprises, shut
down our mills, closed our factories,
put IN idleness our great laboring
classes, ruined credit of the State
ana nation, and now appeals to the
public on what it chooses to call
local issues. We condemn it in
administration of our State affairs
IS much as i'll the incompetency