The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-31
NATIONAL ISSUES
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 litical system and calling for desperate and revolutionary remedies They are not new or strange or threatening. They are but reappearances, in slightly varied forms of some of the dlfhcultles which have always accompanied mate rial prosperity since the beginning or successful enterprise. Unfair ana op- pressive trusts, so-called, are weeds in the garden of prosperity. It is easy to kill them if you kill the flowers and the fruit also, but if you would keep the weeds down and have the garden grow YOU must devote yourself, not to des- perate and destructive remedies, put 10 a wedding process, pulling out the weeds and leaving the useful plants. So. in curbing and regulating those combinations of capital which are ln- iurious to the public, either because they monopolize the market or the sources of supply or the avenues or em- pIoyment, or prevent competition un- fairly and oppressively, care must oe taken not to stop great enterprises which have legitimately reduced the cost of production, not to take America out of the race of competitor for the market of the world, not to close the mills and the mines, not to throw mii- lions of workmen out Of empioyhehe and denrive the farmer of his market for the raw material of manufacture.
 The evils complained of are an out growth of the process of industrial de- velopment of the age. Their regula- tion is also a. necessary part or that nrocess. Our industrial history shows that the steady course of the process hos always been and is now towards better and not towards worse condl- lions. that the diffusion of wealth is outstripping it's concentration Ihere has been greater progress in proouctlve mower during the last century than Tn any thousand years before. The total number of wage-earners in the Unlted States employed in manufacture III looo was 957O00. In 1900 it was 5,S16,Ooo. This enormous addition to the produc- tive power of labor was due, hrst, to the brains that made the discoveries and inventions, and, second, to the cap- ital that built the machines and the mills and the railroads. It is plain that the brains that invent and organize should have their share; the capital that constructs and maintains should be rewarded for it's investment and it's risk: the laborer should have higher wages because his labor is producing more; and the consumer should have lower prices because the product which he purchases is produced with greater ease and at less cost.
 The industrial history of the last half century is a history, first, of the steady increase of productive power, and, sec ond only to that, of the continual strug- gle between these four interests-the brains. the capital, the laborer and the consumer-to secure what each consid- CTS to be fair share of the benefits of the increased wealth. That struggle will continue so long as the increase of productive power and the added incre- ments of wealth that come from that increase continue. Capital and brains always get the advantage al first But our industrial history shows that the laborer and the consumer Wrest their sare of the advantage from capital and secure it for themselves. The organiz- CTS of the Standard Oil company have made a great deal of money. obut the poorest American farmer is lighting his house tonight, at trifling cost, more brilliantly than palaces were lighted a century ago.
 While the 957.0O wage earners of 1850 increased to 5,316,O 900 in 1900, the wages paid to them increased from $236, 900 in 1850 to $2,32S, 900, GOO in 1900 On the other hand while $533 1000 invested in manufactures in 1850 had swelled to $9, 3S5, 900 in 1900, every dollar of cap- ital so invested in 1900 received less than one-third of the return that every dollar of capital received in 1850.
 Not only have the wages of labor in creased but the cost of food and cloth ing has decreased.