Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-29

denounced This year." lie contin-
ued, they have turned about and re-
newed their allegiance While they
were making this record In Ohio, they
were doing the very opposite in Iowa.
Last year they endorsed Mr.. Bryan,
but this year rejected him. And thus
1t goes. Democracy is one thing here.
another thing yonder One thing this
year--a different thing last year
something else next year. 1t lacks
stability; it lacks sincerity; 1t lacks
principles. Such party is well fitted
to stay out of power and criticise, but
not ut all fitted to administer public
affairs"
Following these remarks ON the DEM
ocratic party, he lluded the workings
and accomplishments Of the Republi-
can party, declaring that from is or
ganization 1t had gone steadily forward
from one success to another. constant
ly growing in popularity and the con-
fidence of the people. And at no
time has it grown more than when 1t
was out of power" he continued. for
at such times experience with Demo-
cracy has but taught Us to appreciate
all the more highly the superior wis
dom and excellence of Republican prin-
ciples and policies. Its past is secure
not ask to be continued in power
on that account. We stand upon the
living present. Do we come up to the
requirements? Are we now keeping
the faith?"
He reviewed the history of the Re-
publican party during the past five
years, and credited to it exclusively
all the prosperity that has sprung up,
declaring that adverse balances OF
trade have been shifted to the other
side of the ledger. and exhausting
drains have been turned into floods
of gold that pour in upon us with
unceasing constancy from every dl-
rection. The Republican party prom
ised in 1900 to restore the policy OF
protective tariff and mintain the gold
standard, and it has fulfilled its prom
ise President Cleveland could not sell
a small issue of five per cent. bonds at
par, without the assistance of syndi-
cate of Wall st brokers, but today our
two per cent bonds are eagerly sought
for at a premium. And yet our Dem
ocratic friends are dissatisfied! They
stand in the midst of all this prosperity,
sharing equally with us its rich bless
ings, but they are unable to speak one
word of frank acknowledgement for its
existence or of compliment for the wise
craftsmanship that has brought 1t
about"
A text book Just issued by Democ-
racy was referred to as remarkable
document of pessimism, processing
to deal with the business conditions OF
the country, and to set forth the politf-
cal issues of the day, and the claims OF
the two parties with respect thereto,
Page after page" he said, "is filled
with dreary, doleful pessimism about
strikes and trusts and the water cure.
1t is all calamity! calamity! calamity
In reference to strikes, he said they
were not chargeable to any political
party. "The trouble has always been
between wage earners and their en-
ployes," he said, land never between
workingmen and the Republican party.
We have strikes also under Democrat
ic administrations but there is diff
erence between their strikes and ours.
When the Republican party is in pow
er. labor strikes, and when the Demo
cratic party is in power capital strikes,
Labor never strikes except when IT
is safe, and capital never strikes ex-
cept when it is unsafe.
Every wageworker in the land
knows that his services will be in de-
mand so long as the Republican party
remains in power, and that If he
knocks off from his work for awhile,
it will still be there waiting for him
when he returns to It,
Every capitalist knows that the ad-
vent Of the Democratic parry to pow
er Is a signal 10 the business public to
take in sail. Republican strikes are
but local and temporary interruptions,
but Democratic strikes mean general
stagnation and in many ways and
places, absolute paralysis and suspen-
sion Of business. Under Republican
strikes thousands go voluntarily into
brief idleness, under Democratic
strikes tens of thousands are driven
into enforced idleness and want of in
definite duration.
But no matter what may be the
cause of a strike, all Just men will de-
plore it. and no man or party of men
should ever seek to make out of it
any kind of political capital"
The speaker continued that the same
might be said of Trusts. "They are
not in any sense of the word party
question" he continued, "and they
can never be made so. In the first
place, trusts did not originate here as
result of the tariff. but in England
and European countries, where they
have free trade, and where they had
trusts of every character long before
they became common in America, and
where today they are more numerous
than they are in the United States. In
Anerve Ionic never tqualeo