The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-07-27
Editorial Department
by F. w. Meyers
GREAT IMAGINATIVE POWERS

The Bulletin discusses the democrat
lc national platform in its editorial
columns and then makes the serious
mistake of publishing the document
itself in the same issue.
No one can deny after reading the
editorial and the platform that the
imagi1 alive faculties of the Bulletin $
editor are in first class working order.
AS an illustration of the Bulletin $
ability along purely imaginative lines,
we quote in succeeding paragraphs
first giving what the Bulletin says
regarding the labor problem then the
platform itself.
The EDITORIAL
THE labor plank is what every labor
ing man should most desire. 1t de-
clares against government by injunc-
ton: it favors arbitration and the
eight-hour day which union laboring
men are always striving for. 1t de-
uOuuCCS UuC luOGuOoS w ulCl1 lave .UCCu
resorted to in the Colorado strike
where miners have been deported and
tried without hearing by jary.'
The PLATFORM.
I'VE favor the enactment AMI admin
istration Of laws. giving labor and
capital impartially their just rights.
Capital and labor ought not to be en-
emies. Each is necessary to the other.
Each has its rights. but the rights of
labor are certainly no less Invested" no
less sacred ana no less .inalienable F."
than the rights of capital.
Constitutional guarantees are VIC
lated whenever any citizen is denied
the right to labor, acquire and enjoy
property, or reside where interest or
inclination may determine. Any de-
NAL thereof by individuals or organi-
cations of governments should be. sum
marily rebuked and punished.
We deny the right of aany executive
to disregard or suspend any constitu
tional privilege or limitation. Obedi-
ence to the laws and respect for their
are. alike the supreme
duty of the citizens and official.
The military should be used only
to support and maintain the law. We
unqualifiedly condemn its employment
for the summary punishment of citi-
zens without trial or for the control of
elections.
We approve the measure which
passed the United States senate ia
1896, but which Republican congress
has ever since refused to enact, relat-
log to contempts in federal courts, and
providing for trial by jury in cases of
indirect contempt. I"
Can the most casual reader or the
most thorough find in the platform the
references to arbitration" or to 1.-THE
eight hour day or the denunciation of
government by injunct;on9' Is not
the Bulletin convicted of misrepresen-
tAtion out of its own MOUTH
Will the Bulletin care?
Will it explain?
Will it apologize:
No.
1t will do none of these things.
1t has been convicted of lying so
many times that its conscience is case
hardened. 1t will keep on misrepre-
senting till the end of the chapter.
The editorial in question teens with
like untruths and Misrepresentation.
Is it not unkind of the platform not
to say the Thing the Bulletin says it
says:
Was it not thoughtless for the
Bulletin to publish its editorial and the
platform in the same issue.
In truth, with the exception of the
attempt to make national issue out OF
a Colorado strike, the platform is a
weak string of platitudes, proposing
nothing and merely restating what
every party belives-that the rights OF
both capital and labor should be re-
spected.
The above is but a sample of the
Bulletins campaign Methods