Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-24
POLITICAL METHODS SHOULD NOT BE IN OPEN CONFLICT
 WITH THE MATERIAL AD- VANCEMENTOF THE COUNTRY
A Plain Proposition Before the Capitalist as We'll as the Labor CT That Should not be Influenced by Political Methods in Either FavOritism or Hostility to any Partisan Belief.

Oio0iS pdih iO i'tNOi li'd't NiltS
 conflict between labrr and capital il
 the November campaign. We are leal
 to this belief from the action of tn,
 late democratic convention in tn,
 nomination of a legislative ticket fol
 the lower house and the complexion
 of the men who at the time made uE
 that ideality of its plans, namely
 the president of a miners union, tn,
 strongest in Arizona, and two mem
 bers of the typographical union il
 Prescott, both of whom in the latter
 body are strongly identified to the
 cause of unionism. Whether the
 motive of the party has behind it a
 conscientious regard to curb the
 power of especially any mining cor
 poration in exacting from them S
 rigid enforcement of the eight-houl
 law, the inauguration of a mine in
 spector bill, the taxing of the net
 proceeds of mines, the discontinu
 ance, if any exists, of the blacklisting
 of men; or whether on the other
 hand the platform in a mining reform
 respect, is intended to merely hood
 wink the ignorant and secure the
 support of the many miners we know
 not, neither do We care.
 There is one phase. however, to be considered in the action of the demo
 cratic convention that appeals
 sacredly to every man who labors for living, and whether he is engaged
 in a mine, on a ranch, in store, or on the highway, it should and must
 be considered by him, and by him weighed accordingly, and that is the question of employment under the conditions as they exist in the city or the country at the present time, or whether he is desirous to antagonize the influence that prevails in giving him shelter in hours of labor or rate of pay. We have no remedy to apply to these men; whether they are dissatisfied or not in nyof the above conditions, and it is not the motive of this article to authorize any action of suffrage nature or otherwise to guide them morally or politically to take any action whatever in either channel. But We do desire to say this: In a residence of many years in Yavapai we have been face to face with the conditions that have been trying in the extreme to the country, Up to but five years ago Yavapai county from one end to the other was commonly referred to as a poor man country. It had the ele- ments that guaranteed subsistence to body and soul, and when you say that you say all, with few exceptions. Thirty years ago the humblest pros- pector of that day appealed to men of money to come to his relief, and the same channel of industry is just the same today in again asking. We have before us copy of the old Ari- zona Miner, one of two papers pub lished in Arizona in 1869, and as we glance back and down the pages of time since that day we find the same old sentiment in evidence as that of the present, beckoning on the tide of capital and assuring 1t confidence in security and an avenue for invest ment. Any one familiar with the history of this county, or any one who is cOnversant with conditions as they prevailed up to even ten years ago in an industrial rating, and who will place side by side that era with the present must confessedly admit that had it not been for the tireless energy of men-democrats as we'll as republicans-to enlist the support and of capital to substanti- ate that which is before us in mil lions of investments and numberless in employment, Yavapai county and Prescott would have degenerated to a scene of desolation that was so often predicted for it in common sentiment, viz: the grass would have been growing green in the streets. When one looks back to but a few years ago and sees even in this city a re- gard for 1t that creaky shacks i'm pressed one as of for only temporary use, district after district isolated by pack mule methods and no industrial life whatever, and then faces the beneficent influence that capital gives it in development and consideration, 1t seems unjust in a country as new and undeveloped as this is, any senti- ment whatever should be directed against It to thwart its aims or ob jects under conditions as they exist. Yavapai county today Is wavering in the balance, and there Is no dis putting 1t so far as mining goes, and none know it better than the miners who work below. It is appealing just as earnestly today for capital as 1t did twenty or tfh years ago, in other words we are still begging, and it wants it with free hand, giving in return a like freedom consistent with just treatment to those who toll or hose who invest.
 We believe the laborer has rights, and also has he the right to protect himself the same as any other com bination of men have, but unless as sailed we do not believe he has any more privileges than capital has The right to precipit1ie an act. politi- cal or moral. that will ultimately result in evil to capital and labor and at the sacrificing of the industrial interests of the country, or the tainting of it with either alarm or insecurity should be discountenanced. As an illustra- tion to Prescott and Yavapai. if capi tai and labor must of necessity clash, how humiliating and depiorable would it be to face again the desola- ton that prevailed in every district
 around and Tn Prescott that was pal