The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-16

our people. on farm, In mine. AMI In
factory were unable to realize reason
able profits upon their respective pro-
ducts, and when consumption was at
a minimum for the want Of steady en-.
pioyment by our people at fair wages,
IN Its operations that law has spread
more evenly, and Justly over all pro.
duction in the United States than any
tarin law previously enacted. Under
It's workings there came hope, conf
dence. employment, profitable produce
ton and universal prosperity, which
mas grown and increased from wear to
year up to the present time. Under It.
the people worked out their own SILVA.
ton.
1t did not. and does not, please the
democratic party. That party donoun-
ces the policy of protection az robbery
and declares for tariff for revenue
only. This has been the position of the
democratic party for many years. It
10 Its position today, and the position
OF all its leaders including william !.
Bryan and John Sharp Williams, the
leader of the minority in tn, house of
representatives, who time aud again
during the late session of congress
proclaimed the policy of his party to
be, If clothed with power, not to de-
stroy protection absolutely at one fell
swoop-over night, as he expressed
it-but to journey towards q tariff for
revenue only. He would not kill the
patient at one stroke, but would grad.
ually starve 1t to death.
Such policy means less wages for
labor, both skilled and unskilled, in
every avenue Of production; and, with
increases of wages and slack employ
ment. the great mass of the people
would become less valuable customers
to all other producers. Such a policy
would act and react upon all our
people who are customers for each
other, and We would have the might
mare" of 1893 to 1897 repeated.
Tariff revision in time of prosperity
always has. and always will, halt
business activity, production and COM
merce. The manufacturer will lessen
his output, for he fears to pile up his
product unless there is a seasonable
certainty of realizing its cost and
fair profit. The farmer halts in maxi
Ing improvements and consumes less,
because there is shortened demand
for his products. The decrease in the
wages of labor alone pending revision
would amount to many hundred mil
lion dollars. Where there is confidence
and prosperity without precedent,
there would be doubt and destruction
of confidence.
heartily endorse the platform late
ly adopted by the republicans of In
diana, which, in substance, says that
the republican party will revise the
tariff when 1t will do more good than
harm to the great mass of the people.
1t is vital that the republican party
should remain in power for the coming
two years in order that the legislative
and executive departments of the gov
eminent should continue in harmony.
II our friends, the enemy, should be
successful in electing house of rep
resentatives in November next, that
body in the Sixtieth congress would
not be in harmony with the senate or
with the president. There would be
"tie-up," to to speak, in legislation.
Furthermore, their success would
be claimed by our democratic friends
to be an evidence of dissatisfaction
upon the part of the people with the
legislation enacted by the republican
congress, as we'll as. an evidence of
dissatisfaction with the president and
an assurance of complete power to be
given to them in 1908 to enable them
to carry out their policies. Their sue
cess, conservatively speaking, would
halt production and consumption, and
necessarily. business and commerce,
at least one-tenth. Instead of forging
ahead, as we are now doing, in every
producing. and business avenue we
would halt, aye, more. we would ret
rogade.
Labor.
Education, invention, capital and
labor have struck hands. The forces
of nature are utilized in production
for the benefit of both producer and
consumer. This condition necessarily
required the combined activities of en-
ployer and employee. Naturally differ
ences arise between the two as to what
Is proper wage, or in other words,
, as to fair division of the profits of
the business. Laborers found It neces-
sary to cooperate with each other and
act together in determining from time
to time what was due them in the divi-
sion Of the profits.
According to the last census 80, OOO.-
600 of our people are employed in
gainful operations, and 5000. 10000, ac-
cording to the statement of MIR. Comp
ers. are organized in what, AFRO popu-
larlv known pc "nniore" I feel quite
sure that such crgan:>atirr OF labor
have. as a rule. been ns,rul. not only
to the laborer, but to the employer as
well, and to the whole citizenship of
the republic. II were engaged in
such occupation, have no doubt that
| would be member o. the organize
ton.
But 1t is absolutely necessary before
there can be contest about division
OF profits that there should be profits
to divide. There was but little profit
to divide under the last administration
of Grover Cleveland. There was much
profit to divide under the administra-
ton of William Mckinley, and there is
much profit to divide under the admin
istratfon of Theodore Roosevelt, and
labor on the average has been receiv-
Ing larger share of the profits in in
creasing wages every year since the
election Of Mckinley.
The first thing for each citizen to do
Is to see to it that the economic and
financial policies which enable the peo-
pie to create profit shall be contin-
ued. The conferences and contests
touching the division of the profits
from time to time will be regulated BY
the contending parties. Capital must
get its fair share or it will not con-
tinue in business; labor must get its
fair share or 1t will suffer. Neither
can permanently prosper at the ex-
pense of the other. The very life of
republic depends upon the integrity,
the wisdom, the patriotism and the