The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06

10 madness honest men whose lives
are hard and who have not the kind
of mental training which, will permit
them to appreciate the danger in the
doctrines preached this is to COM
NIT a crime against the body polite
and to be false to every worthy prin-
ciple and tradition of American nat
ional life. Moreover. while such
rfteaching and such agitation may
give livelihood and certain noto-
riety to some of those who take part
in it, and may result in the tempor-
ary political success Of othres, in the
long run every such movement will
either fail or else will provoke vio-
lent reaction, which will itself result
not merely in undoing the mischief
wrought by the demagog and the agi-
tator, but also in undoing the good
that the honest reformer, the true
upholder Of popular rights, has pain
fully and laboriously achieved. Cor
ruption is never so rife as in com
munities where the demogog and the
agitator bear full sway, because i'll
such communities all moral
bands become loosened. and hys.
terra and sensationalism replace the
spirit of sound judgment and fair
dealing as between man and man. In
sheer revolt against the squalid anar-
chy thus produced men are sure in
the end to run toward any leader whu
can restore order, and then their re-
lief at being free from the intoler.
able burdens of class hatred, violence
and demogogy is such that they can
not for some time be aroused to in.
dignation against masdeeds by men of
wealth; so that they permit a new
growth of the very abuses which were
i'll part responsible for the original
outbreak. The one hope for success.
for our people lies in resolute and
fearless, but sane and cool-headed
advance along the path marked ouI
last year by this Congress. There
must be a stern refusal to be misleC
into following either that base crea,
ture who appears and panders to the
lowest instincts and passions in order
to arouse one set of Americans
! against their fellows, or that other
creature, equally base but no baser
who in spirit of greed, or to accu
mulate or add to an already huge
fortune, seeks to exploit his fellow
Americans with callous disregard tc
their welfare of soul and body. The
man who debauches others III order tc
obtain high Office stands on an evi
equality of corruption with the man
who debauches other for financial
profit; and when hatred is sown the
crop which springs up can only be
evil
The plain people who think-thC
mechanics, farmers, merchants, work.
ers with head or hand, the men t.
whom America traditions are dear
who love their country and try to
act decently by their neighbors, owe
| it to themselves to remember that the
most damaging blow that can be
given popular government is to elect
an unworthy and sinister agitator OF
a platform of violence and hypocrisy
Whenever such an issue is raised il
this country nothing can be gained
by flinching from it, for in such cas-
democracy is iteself on trial. Th
triumph of the mob is just as evil
thing as the triumph of the pluto
cracy, and to have escaped one DANCE
avails nothing whatever if we sue
cumb to the other.
Railroad Employees Hours and Eigh
Hour Law.
| call your attention to the need Of
passing bill limiting the number Of
hours of employment of railroad EN-
ployees. The measure is very mod
crate one and | can conceive of II,
serious objection to it, Indeed, s,
far as it is i'll our power, it should b;
our aim steadily to reduce the mum
ber of hours of labor, with as a goa
the general introduction of an eight
hour day. There are industries il
which 1t is not possible that the hour
of labor should be reduced; lust a
there are communities not far enougl
advanced for such a movement to b
for their good, or, if in the Tropics
SO situated that there is no analog
between their needs and ours in thi
matter. On the Isthmus of Panama
for instance, the conditions are i
every way so different from wha
they are here that an eight-hour da
would be absurd; just as it is absurd
so far as the Isthmus is concerned
where white labor can not be employ
ed, to bother as to whether the neces
sary work is done by alien black me
or by alien yellow men. But th
wageworkers Of the United States ar
of so high grade that alike fror
the merely industrial standpoint an
from the civic standpoint it shoul
be our object to do what we can j
the direction Of securing the genera
observance of an eight-hour day.
Employers Liability.
Among the excellent laws which til
Congress past at the last session wa
an employers liability law. 1t wa
marked step in advance to get tn
recognition of employers liability o
the statute books; but the law did nc
go far enough. In spite of all preca,
tions exercised by employers there al
unavoidable accidents and eve
deaths envolved in nearly every lin
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