The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-24
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TUESDAY, JUNE "a, 1902.
GALL LABOR NOW EMPLOYED,

On May 18th the republican state
convention Of Ohio met and adopted a
platform. The plank on capital and
labor began with the words which
head his article The republicans
seem to think hat any statement an
nounced by them must be taken rs
being absolutely true, no matter what
the real state Of facts may be.
1t must be remembered hat when
that declaration was made there were
thousands of idle miners in Pennsyl-
vania, men who had quit work because
their employers would not even give
them a hearing on what they claimed
to be serious grievances. The miners
of West Virginia and in southwest
Virginia were preparing to quit work
because of inability to come to salts
factory understanding with the own
ers.
All labor is we'll employed and
wages are higher than ever before and
all wage earners are contented and
happy, the result of six years of re-
publican administration of national
affairs. This is what Hanna and his
lieutenants would have the people be-
Ieve. 1t must be SO, because the re-
publicans it as a fact.
The fact of strikes in Pennsylvania,
in West Virginia, in Virginia, in Con-
necticut, in New Jersey, where labor,
disconnected with its treatment by
capital, has declared it preferable to
quit work than to continue to labor
under the oppressive rules and regu-
latiOns laid Town for its government
by capital, counts for nothing.
The republican leaders tell you that
labor shOul be content with it's pres
ent conditions. and if it is not content
it is its own fault. These republican
leaders and their friends and allies
the multi-millionaire rus and COM
Dimes, who furnish the money to keep
the republican party in power, tell thu
labOring man that the republican party
has done everything possible to make
the laboring man happy and prosper
ous; therefore, he should be so, regard
less of existing conditions. That party
has made it possible for the aggrega-
lion Of a s capital in all branches Of
industry, so that there can be the con-
troll by n few of each branch of indus
try or manufacture. By his means
the output a be controlled, the re-
enumeration of the wage Garner and the
cost to him of the very article that
he helps TO put on the market can be
controlled.
The farmer is told that under repub-
lican rule the price of all farm pro-
ducts has advanced. but nothing is
said to him about the advance in cost
OF those tools and implements which
he has TO purchase before he can put
his crops on the market.
The mechanic Is told of the advance
in prices of the articles which he
makes for the millionaire trust to put
on the market. but there is absolute
silence as TO the increased price in
articles of food.
The farmer might get a higher price
for his corn and wheat. but that in
crease is more than Offset by the in
crease in the price of what he has 10
buy. The wage Garner perhaps gets
an increase of ten or fifteen per cent.
on his wages. but when he goes to buy
his supply of groceries he finds the
increased cost far greater than the per
cent. advance he has been awarded by
the factory syndicate. the millionaire
mine owner or the railway magnate,
all friends and supporters of the re-
publican party, and men who contrib
ute their millions in each national
campaign to keep hat party in power.
Between the farmer and the wage
Garner is the salaried man. hat army
of thousands upon thousands of non
producers. who find the cos of every
article of comfort or necessary of life