Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-05-14
{ SEEKER AFTER TRUTH.

In an editorial this morning ad- dressed specially to working people, and in which strong appeal is made to all members of that class to vote the democratic ticket, our contempor- ary says:
 "The corner stone of democracy is opposed to class legislation and class Legislation is the csncerous corpora ton growth which consumes not only the sights and substance of the man who works for days wages, but the rights and substance of all outside the plutocratic class created by class legislation. The republican party is the great grandfather to class legisla- ton and it has created and fostered the trusts which own and control the republican partys they are its chil- dren and are ably supporting it in its very corrupt old age"
 The editor of the Journal Miner does not take back seat for any one when it comes to the matter of labor having known nothing but hard work all of his fife, and at the present time and for the past twenty years, at least, putting in on an average from fourteen to sixteen hours per day. Hence he feels that this appeal is made to him as we'll as to the thou sands of other fellow toilers in the various avenues of industry in this territory.
 While engaged in toil and hard labor all of these years the editor of this paper has not only found time, when occasion presented itself, to vote the republican ticket, but has, in season and out of season, advocated the principles of that party as being the very best for the whole country, which includes the people who labor, as we'll as other classes.
 If we have been deluded all these years and have been working and vot- ing against our own interests, we would like to be set right even at this late day in life. As an earnest seeker after truth, the following questions are respectfully propounded to our contemporary, simply as matter of information;
 What is this particular alleged corner stone of democracy, which con- stitutes the opposition to class legis lationl In what particular creed of the democratic party is it to be found, in the Bryanistic doctrines or among the teachings of the anti-Bryanites What particular act, other than the mouthings of democratic orators and the writings of democratic editors has the democratic party ever performed to prevent the formation of trusts or to curb their powers when formedi
 What particular legislation has been enacted by the republican party, which has resulted in the creation or fostering of trusts, and entltling it to the endearing appeIlation of being the grandfather of trustsi
 If, as alleged, the trusts control the republican party, what about the army of democrats who are actively identified with many of these consoh dations of capital, and some of whom control some of them?
 Is this case of trusts controlling the republican party, and of demo- crats controlling the trustsl
 Is it not fact that the only legal action ever brought against a so- called trust, for the purpose of breaking it up, was instituted by a republican administration? The cases referred to being the action against the beef trust and the railroad merger.
 Is it not fact also that while our contemporary claims that the republi- can party fosters the trusts, that the telegraphic news from the east report every day that the trusts are already planning to defeat the reelection of the present republican president on account of his alleged antagonism to trusts?
 Which states the case truthfullv. our Prescott contemporary or the As sociated press telegrams?
 What individual democratic poIiti- clan, or what individual democrat not a politician, has ever taken any inter est in the difficulties between labor and capital, or has succeeded in se- curing a settlement of them, or has even attempted such a thing, as has been done by Mark Hanna, leading republican politician, who has been most mercllessly assailed by the democratic press and by demo- cratic oratorsl
 Answers to above questions might prove interesting to other men be- sides the writer, who earn their living by their toll.
 Peter R. Brady, one of the pioneers