The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-05

scientific knowledge of medicine and COM
mon sense in its application And then. sup
pose that doctor restored your wife and
child TO health. 1 ask you, workingmen OF
Elwood. would you go TO the doctor who
prophesied death and who. il he could have
had his way, would have let death do its
work-would you now go to that doctor just
because ne told you his practice was poor
and that he needed your patronage? And yet
government asks you to do this election
and will ask you to do in the next.
ELWOODS GLASS INDUSTRY.
THE opposition told you ten years ago
that you were suffering from protection.
Your presence here in Elwood shows how
you suffer from protection. The opposition
tell you now that you are suffering from
trusts. Very we'll: let us see how that
works in Elwood. Many OF the men who
hear me tonight are employees Of the glass
works. You could not be employed unless
there was an ever-growing market for the
ever-increasing quantity of glass you make.
Yet the American glass industry has in
New England alone driven foreign glass
from the market, and in the last two years
captured 1t for the American workingman's
product In, 1880, in New England. 80 per
cent. of the window glass used was foreign
glass and 10 per cent. American. To-day
most of the window glass used In New
England is American. II ii is said that
this is because glass combinations compel
dealers to accept their glass the answer is,
first. that it Is not true; and, second, that
the people voluntarily pay from 2 to per
cent. more for American glass than they
do for foreign glass solely because they
have found that American glass Is clearer
and less liable 10 breakage.
1.-The opposition TO the government, for
merly called the Democratic party, mas
steadily fought every policy designed TO aid
the American glass industry; the Repub-
N aided Amerl-
can glass industry. Look at the results
In 1880 there were four glass establishments
In Indiana employing S62 men; In 1880 there
were twenty-one glass establishments en-
ploying 300 men; in 1900, ITO glass estap-
lishments employing 13.0l5 men. Now note
the increase in wages. In lSSO the nlghest
amount of wages was 1854, 207. in 1900 the
wages paid to workingmen by glass estaD-
lishments in Indiana were 81 .226,O4I, and TO.
day they are over $S,0OO,OOO And yet, IL
Democracy could have had Its way, the 90
100000 which to-day are paid to Indiana
workingmen in the glass factories alone
would have been paid to foreign working
men for making foreign glass.
Let me give you another illustration: In
1880 Indiana ranked eighth among the
States of the Union in the manufacture or
glass. In 1900 Indiana is the second state
In the Union, Pennsylvania alone being
ahead OF it. And the question for you
glass men to decide is whether you want
to give the power of the government over
to the men whose policies would have pre-,
vented your employment in the past ana
whose policies would destroy your en-
ployment in the future.
II have spoken only of the two items or
tin plate and glass manufacture in Elwood.
But they not all. The number or es-
Establishments of various kinds in Elwood Is
to-day 1885, Nearly 5000 wage earners alone
are employed in those shops and factories;
and these men are paid about $z,VOVO
every year in wages In Madison county
there are oyer 200 manufa g 6nd esiap-
men employed in them and these men are
paid every year more than $6,5V,Oo IN
wages. And yet every step that mas
brought about this miracle of Industry In
Elwood and Madison county has been re
sisted by the very men who ask you to
restore them to power.
THE STEEL TRUST.
1.-The steel trust now employs nearly 10000
more working men than all the concerns
1t absorbed. and it has voluntarily adj
vanced their wages heavily. Yet the OPP
position to the government propose to de-
stroy all organizations of industry, good
or bad. The Republican party proposes to
cure their evils so far as it is within the
power of Congress to do it,
Senator Beverage then discussed and de-
nounced the evils of trusts: There are
bad Industrial organizations just as there
are bad men and bad partnerships" he
said. But Is it wise to wage war OF ex-
termination on all industrial organizations
because of the folly and crime of some?
Punish the bad, correct the evils OF all; but
put not the torch to the whole fabric of
our national industry. Indeed, / am in
clined to think that the dishonest organiza-
tons of capital will destroy themselves.
No organization can last long which, at
the bottom, is not sound and whose prac-
tees are evil. The whole world of business
is at war with all unrighteousness. But
We will not wait for evil to destroy itself,
1t must and shall disappear before wise
legislation so far as legislation can safely
accomplish that end"
Continuing the senator said: 1.-THE oppo-
sition to the government talks of the la
Dor problem. But do you ever hear them
tell what the labor problem is? What is
the labor problem? 1t Is the problem OF
employment; it is the question of steady
work and honest wages and reasonable
hours. Is there any other problem than
that which Is made of these three ele-
ments? How shall you get steady employ
way and there never will be but one way,
and that Is by finding markets where you
can sell what you make. The opposition
to the government says that free trade
will give us these markets But how will
1t? On the contrary would not free trade
make you fight battle of life and death.
even for our market here at home? The
Republican party says that reciprocity will
give us new markets. Reciprocity means
just this: That where another nation will
open its doors to American goods we will
will not inture some industry that employs
American working men. Does that not
sound sensible? Does it not satisfy your
reason? That experiment we are going to
begin with Cuba. And the reason we are
going to begin IL with Cuba is because ma
uonal honor compels 1t. But from the
view point Of our commerce. reciprocity
with Cuba will give to the United States a
new market from the very first for 81, OOo. 900
OF American merchandise every year. And
yet the opposition to the government Is
against reciprocity even with Cuba
AGAINST ALL GOOD.
1.-THE Republican party says expansion
will give US new markets; and expansion
has already given us new markets in our
dependencies which altogether have in
creased 5000 per cent. since those depen-
denotes became ours. And yet the opposi-
ton of the government is against expas-
sion. The Republican party says that the
Orient will give US new markets and that
our possessions in the Pacific ocean is our
door to those markets. Proof of this is
the fact that our sales of American goods
to the countries and islands OF the Orient
which are influenced by the Philippines
have increased 300 per cent. in the last
four years. And yet the opposition to the
government, IL you gave 1t power. would
abandon every policy which gives to the
American workingman the markets of the
far East.
1T waive the question of loyalty. of
patriotism, of that pride that thrills the
American heart when the American sees
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