The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1902-11-01

anccs Of trade have been shifted to the
oiDt. side %. TIE isdEtl, au. adjusting
drains have Dern turned into floods Of gold
that pour In upon US with unceasnG con
staucy fl ON every direction. Notwlfhstaud-
luc au expensive war, an embarrassing de.
hClenCy has yielded an embaTrHs s!ug sur
become the highest In the world. President
Cleveland could not sell a small issue of )
OF a syndicate OF Wall street bankers and
yet our Democratic friends are dissatisfied.
They stand In the midst Of all this pros.
perity, sharing equally with us Its rich
blessings, but they are unable TO speak one
word Of frank acknowledgment for Its
existence or Of compliment for the wise
craftsmanship that has brought II about.
They have Just issued a campaign text
book. II Is a most remarkable publication
II processes TO deal with business condi-
tions of the country. and TO set folt tn the
political issues Of the day and the claims
1t consists Of Ss4 pages Of closely printed
matter but you will read It In vain to find
one word about the marvellous changes that
have been wrought duBng the last FIVE
years In our economic conditions. Not one
word can you find In II about our improved
national credit not one word about our
REDUNDANT revenues, not one word
about the phenomenal business activity that
Dervades the whole land; not one word
about the universal employment Of labor;
not one word about the peace, happiness
and contentment that reign everywhere
throughout our broad country; but You will
find page after page Of dfeary doleful
pcssimtsTn about strikes, and trusts and
the water-cure. 1t IL all calamity. calam-
ity! calamity
Origin of Strikes
II Is true that along with all this pros
perity we do have some strikes. but II Is
also true TINT we have never yet had a
strike In this country on account Of the
enforcement of any policy OF the Repub
llcan party. All our strikes have been due
to the fact that the employees have felt that
they were not getting a fair division of a
common prosperity. or that their condition
In some other respects should be improved
The trouble has always been between
them and their employers and never be
tween them and the Republican party We
have strikes also under Democratic admin
istratiOns, but there is differ enCe between
their strikes and ours. When the Repub.
lican party is In power labor strikes, and
when the Democratic party is In power cap
ital strikes.
Labor never strikes except when It is
safe, and capital never strikes except when
It 10 unsafe.
Every wageworker In the land knows
that his services will be In demand so long
as the Republican party remains IN power,
aud that II he knocks on from his work
for while 1t will still be there waiting
for him when he returns to It
Every capitalist knows that the advent OF
the Democratic party to power is signal
TO the business public to take In sail Dem
Ocratic strikes mean general stagnation ana
In many ways and places absolute par
alysis and suspension Of business. Under
Republican strikes thousands go voluntarily
into brief idleness, but under Democratic
strikes tens OF thousands are driven Into
enforced idleness and want. Of Indefinite
duration.
But no matter what may be the cause OF
a strike all just men will deplore II, and
no man or party of men should ever seek
to make out Of It any Kind Of political
capital
The same may be said of the trusts They
ale not in any proper sense OF the WORD
party question, and they never can be
made so. For this reason ! would Ordinari.
~ devote but little time to them, But the
refusal Of Speaker Henderson to be a
candidate for reelection because of the
attitude toward them Of some Republicans
In his district has brought the whole sub
ject 10 the attention of the American peo-
pie In such IA way us to make apology for a
few plain words unnecessary.