The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-13

ably have been successful. A special
session of Congress or of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature then could have en-
acted law, if our present laws are in
adequate, which would have forced a
settlement long before now. If the mine
owners, under the awful stress Of the
necessity of their Republican creators, in
the face of an impending election, will
not agree to arbitrste and thus bedim
Temporarily until after election, this
great object lesson on the power, arro-
gance and heartlessness of the trusts
from before the very eyes of the people,
then, truly, do they consider themselves
impregnable.
Il am opposed to capital punishment
and believe that person who murders
or attempts to murder should be con-
fined for life so that he may never have
another chance to kill, and so if these
men who own the mines persist in their
refusal to mine coal and by their refusal
place our people in danger of famine and
death, there is absolutely nothing left
aahs1t for government to operate The mines
ffoY the people, SO that second attempt
upon the very lives of our people cannot
be made.
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
"If, as it would appear, trusts cut
down tremendously the cost>ef operation
and cheaper the cost of production, what
an amount of good they could do the
country by shortening the hours and in
creasing the pay Of those who labor for
them, thus employing more men and to
some extent solving the problem of caring
for the unemployed, and at the same
time decreasing the cost of living, but
most of our modern trusts forget the ex-
istence of any but themselves and work
only for themselves at the expense of all
others.
II am not opposed to capital or to
legitimate corporations. | do object to
corporation owning a plant worth five
millions, placing its capital at twenty-five
millions and then by cutting wages and
by various kinds of trickery and deceit
ed stock. | also am opposed to corpor-
ations combining as trusts to cut off all
competition and propose to continue to
fight against tariff which permits arti-
cles manufactured here to be continuous
ly sold abroad cheaper than to American
consumers, and am altogether opposed to
tariff which, under the guise of protect
ing an infant industry Which has grown
so that it monopolizes the product of the
entire country, compels an American to
pay so much for the comforts and neces
saries of life that he is required to work
during all his wakefuI hours in order to
live. Therefore | favor proper revis-
ion of the tariff, and believe the best in
terests of our people would be subserved
by limiting tariff revisions to stated per-
iods.
TARIFF AND WAGES.
eOur Republican friends insist that the
tariff benefits American worl1ingnen and
in changing it we endanger his wages.
The trades union and nothing else keeps
the wages up. Take that away and his
wages go too. Railroad freight discrimi-
nations have done more to build up
trusts like the oil and beef and coal
trusts than anything else. | favor such
laws as will compel these determinations
to stop now. / favor law that will eff
fectually prevent children from working
in factories and which will compel them
to go to school. Government owes every
American child common school educa-
ton.
II deplore the attempt now being made
by the Republican leaders to admit
Chinese laborers to the philippine Islands,
believing that to be only a stepping stone
to their entrance into this country. We
should not make the Philippines any
worse than they are and should assist
them to fit themselves for self govern
ment
For three terms / served the people of
this country in the State Legislature
My record is there. 1t speaks for itself
can sec nothing there would change
now. My efforts there was to do the
best could for all the people. That is
my platform now.
In the fight now only started / have
enlisted. not on The side of organized
greed, but in the ranks of that great
army of Lincoln's common people very
beautifully called the Brotherhood of
Man"