Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-20
COURIER SIZES UP
 TROUBlOUS TIMES.

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 The editor on the Prescott Courier. @ man who loves the right and hates, the wrong, has been giving himself to meditation over matters which are be coming more and more serious in this country as the days and years roll by. We give the conclusions reached by the editor of the Courier, and com mend them to Review readers:
 Way back east where the trust octopus thrives. labor organizes and gets more wages. then the trust slides up the price of products to meet the wage raise. then it costs more 10 live and another wage raise is the logical sequence. followed by another raise in the price of trust-handled products. and so the game will go on. In the meantime all consumers and small 9ealers are ground between these two great upper and neither millstones. The great soul-destroying trusts are. in the main. creations of class legisIa- tion, mainly of tariff laws which Iegis- late money out of the pockets of the many into the pockets of the few. The great labor organizations are she nat. ural results Of these conditions. which have forced those having a common interest to band together 10 protect themselves against being made serfs of by the very power which sustains them-just as. the whole population rushes to build the Ieyee higher when the great river threatens to break through and destroy the country to which, under normal conditions. it gives life. From these two condi- ions, having their origin in a gov. ernmentaI departure from the sound democratic doctrine of equal rights to all. special privileges to none'-from these two conditions and in them have taken root and furnished those uu- American. noxious and deyil-brei growths. the blacklist and the boycott and a people who should be working shoulder to shoulder for the common good are banding together in oath. bound organizations to either fight 1 each other or place sentinels on guard to protect themselves from each other. The condition is one that pollutes the entire industrial channel of the nation | s1- cy in the minds of men to become dis satisfied and apprehensive. even in | sections where there is little if any immdiate cause for such conditions, and many good and innocent people are made to suffer thereby. It does not require a statesman to know the cause of all this. or to know the remedy. which is to get majority of men into all the law-making bodies of this na ton who will be true to their platform pledges and the people who elected them, rather than to those who ars well heeled with vast accumulaticns of money largely wrung from the people through the operations of the same
 
 class legislation. The never-to-be dis turbed citizen says: 'Oh, these things will regulate themselves in time and lthis Is so just as it is so that the rail road train which has run of the track and killed all the passengers will get back or the track ad run right alonc again. But we are O. the passengers who want the governmental train kept on the track for the safety of the pas. sengers riding right now. and to do this We must all demand that only men Of the strictest integrity and un- questionable patriotism get into Legislative positions The main branch taught in public schools should be common honesty. mingled with suffi cient science of government to enable a man of ordinary intelligence to pro tect himself and the people when he gets elected to a legislative position 2