The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-12-25
is THIS PROSPERITY
T"css "ise the Lie To the Interested
Optimistic Statements Of Re-
publicans on Labor.

oil LABOR.
Inc Hon }. 9. Cannon said, the da
the republicans nominated him 70
speaker OF the house. The people neve
were so well and perfectly employed a
now That great republican leader
Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa. who
when he is speaking will not brook in
terruption by any new member. said or
December i. To-day every man in III.
United States who wants to work find,
employment in the great labor fields O,
the United States. and at compromising
wages"
How do the facts bear out these strone
optimistic assertions? On October @
the Boston Transcript. a leading repub-
!ican paper. said:
Organized labor is facing the greatest
wage crisis since the panic of 1899. II
has been estimated that before the close
Of the year the big employing concerns
OF the country will have discharged near
ly 100000 men,
On November II the New York Jour
nal Of Commerce and Commercial Bulle
Tin. the greatest journal Of this class I'm
this country. said
1T would be folly TO shut our eyes TO
the fact that industrial and in turn conn
mercial depression are following right
along in the wake OF the financial coll
lapse. Mills are shutting down: mining
Is being restricted"
The National Labor Tribune. OF Pitts
burg, said, November 81.
There are still more Idle mills
throughout the country than seemed
possible during the flush times of year
or more ago. What Is still more nm
pleasant to contemplate. number OF the
shutdowns appear TO be for good. or at |
least FOR an indefinite time"
The International Mercantile Agency
OF which cx-Director Of the Census Mer-
ram isthe head, said. about December 3.
The week is characterized BY further
siackening industry. Wages Of 900
"V industrial employees have been re-
uuceu ten per cent. or more. and pre- parn-
tions are making TO effect a similar re-
ouction with respect to 500. 900 Others
IN various lines on or about January .
As indicatingthe slackening in indus
try. we may note the falling or In the
production Of pig iron. The Iron Age
OF December 10 says that the production
Ieh from an average Of l SOC. 900 tons 4
month for July. August and September. !
10 i.o1i.000 tons for November. and that
such a drop within the short space OF d
wo months is altogether unprecedented p
u the American iron industry" Yeti. b
'ays that not only did the stock OF I'M s.
old iron greatly increase during No h
ember. but that for the first week IA b
december there was a still further fall q
ne on in production. "
II. rs has heretofore been supposed lie
he iron and steel industry is the p'
arometer OF business. then a great In al
ustrial storm viii soon be upon us. II
vi course those who choose to do so
IN accept the interested optimistic hi
aporings OF their republican states m
len and discard the disinterested le
arnings OF our great trade and labor II
'urnals and OF our financial and COM so
'ercial authorities. This Is free coun- 70
y and man need not put a roof on his lie;
ouse IL he does not think there will be fr,
~ more rain. Time will tell who were tn
ght. or
BYRON W HOLT. at
The republican programme NAV he ms
cut and dried. but II doesn't vii
NIX that way. Roosevelt may see him
" again leading the party of perquis- fri
$ first and progress when II can't hold w,
OK. 1t still seems that II his control ma
10 continue ne must mount that bron- ev.
and do some of his toughest rough er
ling. He must give the disgruntIed ret
rtion Of his party a record breaking Mr.
Sic Of the strenuous life. Otherwise 10 We
other republican may yet fall the apr
nor OF being defeated by the demo- exh
tic nominee. The signs OF general OF
rest. coupled with open revolt against har
osevelt. lead some not hasty politi- He
ms to believe that the action Of the get
u republican convention is by no per
ans certain.-St. Louis Republic. tior
followers are ready 10 -
and Pat" II he can stand Roosevelt. snir
'. world. prof.
feature. Biggest attraction. troll
II tremendous hit OF years billed for -
republican vaudeville stage. New do /
Z. entitled. "Oh. How Love Roose- acte
i sung by Marcus A. Hanna. Don't tryiI
IT, st. Louis Republic. dow
1t IL claimed democrats will make Com
Teal capital out Of the postal scan 49,
, which. perhaps. accounts for the in Il
the administration is letting them nous
?. Even Roosevelt seems to have there
ired . little Ilsci ton. --Indjarsp- oppo