The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18

EiCultuT6 UT prosperous ana pTOutdpIc
 tndustrialism and that the most pros porous and profitable industrial com munities have always paid the highest daily wages. They even go SO far as
 ,,s 10 ssaymperhaps you, Ike me have that the very reason why certain labor
 Is high priced is because 1t is efficient and therefore a better investment for
 ed. than the lower priced labor with
 whose products 1t comes in competi- tion: Of course, you and know better than that-we have learned better
 from our Republican friends: We We more highly paid even in colonial times in America, than the same labor for the same work, was paid In 0reat
 of some sort of protective legislation
 keeping out of America the pauper la
 Dor. and the products of the pauper la
 Dor Dor of % England; scotland, .r,s "a,es thes
 found the law upon the statute books.
 and we are told, by ignorant histo-
 rians, that there was no such legis-
 lation, but whether that sort of legis.
 lation has been found or not, 1t must
 have existed. because superior wages
 and the prosperity of the workingman
 must be had. and can only D e had. by
 forss of p9tsy ,os. of I pre- Ss
 found after awhile--never fear. sir
 because the theory cannot be sustain
 ed In any other way, and the theory, as
 our Republican friends tell us. is our
 fixed national policy, hence to doubt tt
 would be disloyalty.
 An Idiotic Idea.
 "A wise man entertains a sovereign
 contempt for a great many sorts of
 errors, but the sovereignist of all
 who says that the price of labor de-
 bends upon the amount of work to be
 done in a country and the number of
 men capable and desirous of doing 1t;
 in word. on demand for and supply
 of labor. That particular sort of pe-
 uliarly inspired Idiot attempts to ex- plain that the high wages which were paid in California and all the new States for those employed on farm, in
 store, mine or forest. in comparison with the wages paid in older States, which were without free lands and with comparative abundance of labor
 CTS. Is to be accounted for by the com parative scarcity of workingmen and the comparative abundance of new work in the new States. The same featherless biped, we cannot be too SC |. were on him. sir, carries his explana- tion further and tells you that tn e su- nial times and always since then, over that existing in Great Britain and on the Continent. was due to this same fact, viz: paucity of workingmen ana
 abundance of work. How lacking in
 subtlety of intellect Instead of seek ing in remote metaphysical places req sons satisfactory to curious mind, hc contents himself like a brother to the ox,' with the facts that happen to | obtrude themselves right In front of his nose. These be. sir. mere dema- gogic appeals to the bases set in the
 land-the farmers as our fellow citi, | them. What is the brother the OK fit for anyhow. save to be taxed for
 the creation of naturally unprof1table | industries?-" It Is plain, sir. to me and industry, created by taxation and | maintained by legislation. must neces- | sarily be more profitable to the tax payer and to the consumer and. there. dustry which does not require any legislation to make 1t profitable fin the first instance, nor any taxation of con
 sumers to keep 1t on its feet after 1t has been created by the base agen- cies of soil. climate, natural aptitude and ether environment.
 That reminds me of another blun- der of our ancestors. both under the the United States. They seem to havo entertained a notion that combinations | in restraint of trade. seeking monopoly | and throttling competition. are in some
 individuality and somehow poison the | life of trade. They went so far as to
 contend that the highest object of | mans existence is not to be well man | aged, even at a living money profit to
 himself. but that 1t Is to learn to man. | age himself we'll We know now that combinations of corporations seeking | with the power of monopoly the re- by raising prices to an extortionate | figure. under the shelter of tariff laws, shutting out foreign competitors; and
 seeking further the resultant pow | a | to the farmer raising the raw material.
 and seeking the yet further resultant power to regulate wages, by reason or the fact that the workingman has mo- where else to go to get work except to the concerns in the combination-are, | on the whole. beneficial institutions in free republic of self governing men. They may appear to be doing some | harm. may appear at first blush indeed | to be blocking that broad opportunity for individual effort, which you en | joyed, sir, when you advanced in a lifetime fro mthe position of brake . man on a train to that of leader or men as a railroad and industrial cap tain and which many a country mer- chant, become now a merchant prince. also once enjoyed. These are only phenominal, howeVer-mere outWard- seemings Great combinations or in- dustrial corporations, seeking monopo- listic control. we now know to be m austria; evolutions,' necessary to mod ern development,' and 1t Is blasphemy against almighty God himself to con" tend against this. his law of evolu. tion. There are those who urge that Federal statutes need not aid the evo- lution,' but they are plainly mlstaker, because, 1t being once granted that le is Gods law, as all evolutionary must he granted to be. then the conclusion seems clear that it would be both sac riligious and irreligious not to aid by legislation the evolutionary process SD wisely and so recently discovered.
 Hope for the Country.
 "Sir. there is hope for the Republic as long as it continues to move TOT ward in the tried ways Of the Old
 World. divorcing itself from outsrown American landmarks. That we are moving and divorcing, there IS no doubt Standing now in the dawn ot the twentieth century; having forbid . den the reading of the Declaration of Independence in a part of the country domain; with courts ready to decioe that the Constitution Is not a written letter to be read and o6eyed, put a, dancing panorama, changing itself tC suit changing conditions;' having put our foot down. wisely and firmly. upon freedom of speech and freedom or as sembly and freedom of the press Tn Colorado, and those 'appurtenant-ap nendaEes,' where freedom of speech. press and assembly might be awkward ance of land grabbing nationalittes, having discovered that Gods command against robbery and theft does not ap. pfv to men In the aggregate. acting as nationalities, when robbing communI- ties of their independence or 'benevo-
 lently assimilating their resources amid all these reversals of historical Lt. s,Rn auf T QW h T