The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-22

1sgl, strikes were numerous and the results
pitiful.
In Indiana 1000 pounds constitutes ton;
I'm pennsylvania 2. 100 or 800 pounds constr
tutes ton. In Indiana the average wage
OF workmen in the coal fields. including
inside and outside workmen Is $5l1 per an
num- In Pennsylvania IL Is less than $5uo
per annum. Labor in the Indiana mines
averages 70 cents per hour; in the anthra-
hour.
The Republican party in Indiana has
tnrown around the miner the protecting
shield OF the law. 1t has established the
LABOR commission. 1t has provided fac
tory inspector: IL has enacted child labor
Jaw. The labor commission is voluntary
sentative of labor and a representative OF
capital These representatives, hand IN
hand. have settled hundred strikes.
The Republican administration of state
aHalrs in Indiana, under the lamented
Governor Mount and the present splendld
executive. Governor Durbin. have by voice
and deed aided in the settlement OF differ
ences between the employed and the en-
ployer. Back OF these stands the Repub-
iican party to enact into law propositions
that make for the permanent good of all.
The mine inspector law, supplemented by
recent legislation. is a potent auxiliary In
the accomplishment of these splendid re-
SUITS; The people OF Indiana and the Wess
| stood ready TO pay the increased price or
the products OF our mines IL the miner op-
! tained his share of such increase. The oD-
orator stood ready to make the increase
1
obtained his share of the increase.
Annually the operator and the miner
meet In convention. and, like business men.
| they make contracts, and like honorable
| men, they keep them. The three parties 10
| the agreement. the miner operator and the
public, all profit thereby. No one wishes
TO go back TO the old system; neither the
| operator nor the public nor the miner can
permanently prosper at the expense of the
| other.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
1 Tat he z-itb
the anthracite mneK; let the public be
i taken into account: let contracts be made
there as they are made here; let the miner
have his share in the profits of the mine
let the anthracite operator take lessons
from the Indiana operator; let public senti-
ment demand there. as it demanded here.
that the miner shall have his share; let
those who administer the affairs of state
| there. those who administered the af-
| fairs of state here, aid in that demand
Our system has come, and we believe
| IL mas come TO stay. 1t will be time enough
| to enact compulsory arbitration laws when
the employer or the employed demand il.
| This Is the voice Of labor. This is the
doctrine of the Republican party.
Mr. Taylor also discussed the trust ques-
| tion, concluding this topic as follows:
! THE laws of Indiana do not favor trusts
| or combinations. 1t is for this reason that
no trust or modern combination has been
L.
| They are all of Eastern origin and growth.
Under the complex system Of our federal
and state constitutions and laws it is i'm
| peratively necessary that adequate legis-
| lation TO control trusts must be national
in character. Prosecutions now instituted
/ by the attorney general of the United
| States will finally determine not only the
| full scope Of the present antitrust legisla-
| ton, but also whether a constitutional
amendment is necessary before Congress
can legislate further on the subject.
MI Mt tirr1a 1at ha fant
| Theodore Roosevelt has been tried and has
not been found wanting. He has been in
the furnace of war and under the fierce
light that beats a throne; he has al
ways kept faith with the people. If the
tariff schedule needs revision IL will be
revised; but 1t will be revised with friendly
hands. lt will not be torn asunder by the
enemy of protection The Republican
party will not burn the fields of wheat In
order TO kill the tares.
Two years ago Mr.. Bryan announced
i'm neighboring city, in sight of a great
tin-plate mill, that he would abolish all
tariffs on trust-made articles; yet that
lection. We imported So, 100000 worth OF
tin pate in 1890 Every pound of it was
consumed in this country. Last year we
imported less than 81 900 900 worth, and tin
plate sells for less money to-day than il
did In 1890. In the State of Indiana there
are now five tin-plate mills. three of them
in the trust and two outside. If the tariff
is to destroy the tin-plate combination
| what will be the result? Not only the three
| tin-plate industries in the combination in
Indiana would go down, If that theory
| is correct but also the two outside indus
| tries would go down at the same time We
would not only lose the labor of thousands
OF men In these industries, but thousands
more citizens who depend upon these la
borers. What would be gained by IL? We
are getting tin plate cheaper than we die
In 1890 We can eradicate the trust and
save the factoyies. Free trade, If IL would
do anything, would destroy the trusts anG
close the factories. not only of those withir
the trusts, but those outside who are
struggling to meet the competition of the
trusts
WOULD AFFECT ALL.
Take another example: In Indiana ther,
are number OF steel works that are il
the combination. AT the same time ther,
are large number Of those outside of tn,
combination that In competition there
with. If free trade will destroy the In
dustries within the combna tions it will de
stroy the large number of factories on tn,
outside running in swift competition will
the factories Of the combinations
"But / deny that the reduction of tariff
will affect the trusts as much as it will
affect the industries outside of the trusts
and / submit this one unanswerable arsu
ment to that proposition: OF all the indus
tries that came out of the awful wreck re
sulttng from Democratic free trade from
1893 to 1897, the industries in the trust wer
the most numerous. They withstood tn
cyclone of free trade disaster and wealth
cred the storm better than any other indus
| tries that came through
| 'Of the thousands of industries that wen
over the abyss OF insolvency few of then
were owned by trusts. Trusts can with
, stand the shock of free trade better tha,
the independent factory. 1t can operat
those factories most favorably located an,
close those most unfavorably situated Tn
fortunes of the single factory are bound m
with its own Immediate surroundings Th
. combination shift its work know a
no disaster that can befall this country q
! ours worse than the proposition of De
mocracy that every article that forms th
The trust can be reached by direct an
punitive legislation without DESTROYING th
: thousands of industries that are rlInnino
swift race In competition with the trusts
A large number of the most domino N
trusts in American industrial life to-da
! are upon those articles that for years hav
been upon the free list
"Fellow-citizens. we are living in an ae
of evolution and devolution. Evolution q
industrial life and devolution of things 70
ward greater centers and combina tions
That party that lives up to the full measrr
of Its duty will legislate to upbuild and no
to destroy. If the trust is a menace-Whic
/ believe 1T is-it should be regulated q
destroyed. The Republican party has I'm
courage and the conscience to meet thi
problem and solve it and solve il rightly
II has met much greater problems and
has always had the Quickened conscienc
; and masterful courage to solve them al
/, and solve them rightly"
NEWTON w. GILBERT.
z Ind