Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-17
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 - dence and prosperity without prece- dent. there would be doubt and de- structlon of confidence.
 I heartily endorse the platform lately adopted by the Republicans of Indiana. which. in substance. says that the Republican party will revise the tariff when it will do more good than harm to the great mass of the people.
 It is vital that the Republican party should remain, in power for the com ing two years in order that the legis- lative and executive departments of the government should continue in harmony If our friends, the enemy, should be successful in eleeting a house of representatives in November next. that body in the Sixtieth con- gress would not be in harmony with the senate or with the president. There would be a "tie-up," so to speak. in legislation. Furthermore, their success would be claimed by our, Democratic friends to be an evil dence of dissatisfaction upon the part
 
 enacted by the Republican congress, as well as an evidence of dissatisfac- ton with the president ard an as- surance of complete power 10 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 retro grade.
 Labor.
 Education, invention, capital 6 and labor have struck hands. The forces of nature are utilized in production for che benefit of both producer and consumer. This condition necessarily required the combined activities of employer and employe. Naturally diff ferences arise between the two as to nat is a proper wage, or. in other words, as tH a fair division of the profits of the business. Laborers found it necessary to cooperate with each other and act together in determining from time to time what was due them in the division of the profits.
 According to the last census 3l .0l0.- 900 of our people are employed in gainful operations, and 3.0o0.000. ac- cording to the statement of MT. Com pers. are organized in what are pop ularly known as unions" I feel quite sure that such Oranizations of labor have, as a rule, been useful, not only to the laborer, but to the employer as well, and to the whole citizenship of the republic. If I were engaged in such occupation, have no doubt that I would be a member of the organiza- ton.
 But it is absolutely necessary before there can be contest about a division of profits that there should be profits to divide. There was but little profit to divide under the last admfnistra- tion of Grover Cleveland. There was much profit to divide under the ad- ministration of William Mckinley. and there is much profit to divide under the administration of Theodore Roose- welt, and labor on the average has. been receiving a larger share of the profits in increasing 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 the people to create a profit shall be continued. The conferences and contests touching the division of the profits from time to time will be reg ulated by the contending parties. Cap ital mast get its fai" share or it will suffer. Neither oan permanently pros per at the expense of the other. The very life of the republic depends upon the integrity. the wisdom. the patriot ism and the vigilance of the people who make the republic. Life. fiber ty ard the pursuit of happiness are inalieDabIe rights guaranteed by the constitution to each citizen, whether he be rich or poor, great or small. The liberty of one man ceases where the liberty of another man begins"
 In the contest between employer and employe from time to time where differences could not be adjusted. the employer on the one hand has resort cd to the lockout and the empIoye. on the other hand, 10 the strike. While both are To be deplored, considering the volume of production and the in- crease of population. they are becom- ing less frequent In my judgment, the time will come when all such diff
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