The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-08
IS A GREAT PARTY
OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Secretary Shaw Outlines Prin-
cipIes of RepubIicaniSm
WAGES HAVE INCREASED
Republican Party Is Party Not Of
Sympathy, But Its Principles
Offer Bountful OPP
portunities.


Washington, June 7.-(speciaD-In a
speech before the Roosevelt Working
mems Club of Wilmington. Del, on the
evening of June g. 1904, Secretary Shaw
said in part;
The Republican party is not a party of
sympathy, but of encouragement In
stead of posing as a benevolent institu-
tion. it represents policies which reduce
the occasion for almsgiving to the mini
mum. Its bounty is opportunity.
The democratic party on the contrary,
never fails to express sympathy for the
over burdened; but its policies, when put
in operation, never fail to reduce condi-
tons which incite sympathy. When the
products of labor find ready sale. and
labor finds correspondingly ready employ
ment, then our opponents are loudest in
their protestations of sympathy for the
over-taxed and over-burdened people.
They never congratulate; they always
smypathlze. They never rejoice: they al
ways bemoan. They seldom cheer ex-
eept at the prospect of something worse.
am neither a prophet nor the son
of a prophet but l venture the opinion
that at least one half of the opponents
argument during the coming campaign
will be directed against alleged unreas-
enable living expenses. You will be told
that the price of meat Is exorbitant 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 repub-
lican legislation
Wages Have Increased.
I am confident, however. that before the
campaign proceeds very far there will be
furnished from the highest possible au-
thority in the United States. well-authen-
ticated data showing that the average
wages have increased in larger propor-
ton that the average articles of ordinary
household consumption. But of this
do not care to speak at this time. My
present purpose will be served by show
ing that universal and constant employ
ment at reasonable wages even in the
face of high-priced living expenses, is
preferable to employment for only por-
ton of our people, though at the same
wage and at much reduced living expen-
SEES. Catch the thought. Employment
for all our people at a given wage, with
living expenses high, is preferable to en-
ployment for only one-half of our people
with living expenses however cheap.
This country has never seen and never
will see suffering at a time when labor
finds ready and constant employment,
whatever the price Of food and clothes
And the converse of this is also true,
This country always has been and al
ways will be filled with suffering when
ever labor fails of employment, however
cheap may be food and clothes.
l think I can demonstrate either one or
both of two propositions. l can show
that the happiness of the wage-earner is
dependent upon high priced farm pro-
ducts, and I can also demonstrate that
the prosperity of the farmer is dependent
upon the ready and constant employment
OF the wage-earner. In other words, II
Is easily demonstrated that the prosper
ity of artisan and farmer is interdepen
dent