The Washington times., 1904-06-07
SHAW DEFENDS
HIGH PRICES
Give Labor Work and 1t
Can Afford to Pay.
HE SPEAKS AT WILMINGTON
Republican Party One of Encourage
ment, While Democracy Is
Sympathetic.
HE SPEAKS AT WILMINGTON

WILMINGTON. Del. June 7.-Leslia
M Shaw. Secretary OF the Treasury.
was the principal speaker last night be
fore mass meeting of Republicans.
Secretary Shaw said in part:
THE Republican party is not party
OF sympathy, but OF encouragement. In
stead Of posing as a beneV olent tnsti-
tuition. it represents policies which re-
duce the occasion for almsgiving to the
minimum. It's bounty is opportunity.
THE Democratic party, on the con-
trary. never fails to express sympathy
for the overburdened; but its policies,
when put in operation, never fail 10 pro-
duce conditions which incite sympathy.
when the products Of labor find ready
sale, and labor finds correspondingly
ready employment. then our opponents
are loudest in their protestations OF
sympathy for the overtaXed and over
burdened people They never congratu-
late; they always sympathize. They
never rejoice; they always bemoan They
seldom cheer except at the prospect of
something worse.
Outlines Democratic Campaign.
IT am neither a prophet nor the son
of a prophet. but I venture the oniu-
ion that at least one-half of the oppo-
nents argument during the coming
campaign viii be directed against alleg-
ed unreasonable living expenses.
You will be told that the price OF
meat is exorbitaut; that the price OF
bread is unreasonable; in short. that the
price Of everything you buy has been
unduly advanced. and all because OF
Republican policies and Republican
legislation.
Il am confident. however, that before
the campaign proceeds very far there
will be furnished from the highest posi-
bic authority in the United States we'll
authenticated data showing that the
average wages have increased in larger
proportion. than the average articles OF
ordinary Household consumption. But
Of this 1 do not care to speak at this
time.
High Prices or No Work.
My present purpose viii be served
by showing that universal and constant
employment at reasonable wages, even
IN the face OF high-priced living ex-
penses. is preferable to employment for
only portion Of our people. though at
the same wage and at much reduced
living expenses. Catch the thought?
Employment for all our people at a Civ
en- wage, with living expenses high, is
preferable 10 employment for only one
half our people with living expenses
however cheap.
II think 1 can demonstrate either one
or both Of two propositions. I can show
that the happiness Of the wage-earner
Is dependent upon high-priced farm
products, and I can also demonstrate
that the prosperity Of the farmer is de-
pendent upon the ready and constant
employment Of the wage-earner. In
other words, it is easily demonstrated
that the prosperity Of artisan and farm
er IS interdependent.
Phil Armour once said to me- I got
rich when comparatively young man
by watching the coal and iron miners.
Whenever they were employed I packed
every ham / could get my hands on.
Ny partner would say: Phil. you will
break US I'D" / would answer: No
they are working now" But when I
saw the coal and iron workers quit, I
sold every ham we had
Beware of Cheap Living.
1.-THE farmers OF my State understand
this fully
Whenever the Republican party is in
power and its policies are In operation,
when public buildings are being erected.
when rivers and harbors are being
dredged, when railroads are being grad
ed and widened and double-tracked,
when canals are being dug and when
the home market IS protected in the IN
Jerest OF the American producer, artisan.
and farmer, then are all men fed and
Lord deliver US from another period
When living expenses are cheap"