The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-27

months, just as regular holidays are
now secured by law for the salaried
clerical workers in the classified SER
vice. No congress has ever more
clearly shown its practical apprecia-
ton of the fact that the welfare of the
wage workers, and the welfare of the
tillers of the soil make the real basis
of the welfare Of the nation as whole
We will do anything that can be
done to further the interests of the
farmer and the wage worker; and this
declaration is subject only to one res.
ervation-which is, that for no man,
and no body of men, will we do any
thing that is wrong. Our constant
aim Is to do justice to every man, and
to treat each man as by his own ac-
lions he shows that he deserves to be
treated. We favor the organization of
labor as we favor the organizations of
capital; but on condition that organ.
lied labor and organized capital alike
act In spirit of justice and fair deal.
ing and with due regard to both the
letter and the spirit of the law.
I'VE heartily favor trades unions,
and we recognize in them. as in cor
porations, when properly conducted,
indispensable instruments in the eco
nomic life of the present day; but
where either type of organization is
guilty of abuse. we do not propose to
weaken the remedial powers of the
government to deal with such abuse.
We are anxious to help, alike by law
and by executive action, SO far as in
our power lies, every honest man,
every right-dealing labor union, AMI,
for the matter of that, every right
dealing corporation.
But as corollary to this, we in
tend fearlessly and resolutely to up
hold the law, and to strengthen it, SO
that We can put down wrong, whether
done by rich or poor; If done by the
most powerful corporation rthe most
influential labor union, just as much
as If done by the humblest and least
influential individual in the land.
The fact that we heartily recognize
an organization or kind of organiza-
ton as useful will not prevent our
taking action to control 1t or to pre-
vent its committing abuse when it uses
In wrong fashion the power which
organization confers.
THE enactment into law of the bill
removing the tax on alcohol used in
the arts will ultimately be of marked
benefit to us in more ways than one.
1t shows likewise the entire willing
ness of those responsible for the hand
ling of the present congress to alter
our revenue system, whether derived
by taxation on imports or internal tax
alton, whenever 1t Is necessary SO to
do.
I'VE stand unequivocally for a
protective tariff, and we feel that the
phenomenal industrial prosperity
which we are now enjoying is not
lightly to be jeoparded, for it would
be to the last degree follish to secure
here and there small benefit at the
cost of general business depression.
But whenever given rate or schedule
becomes evidently Instantaneous
to the nation, because of the changes
which go on from year to year in our
conditions. and where it is feasible to
change this rate or schedule without
too much dislocation of the system.
1t will he done; while general revis-
ion of the rates and schedules will he
undertaken whenever it shall appear
to the sober business sense of our
people that on the whole the benefits
to be derived from making such chang
es will outweigh the disadvantages:
that is. when the revision will do
more good than harm.
Let me add one word of caution.
however. The question of revising
the tariff stands wholly aDart from
the question of dealing with the So
called 'trusts'-that is. with the con-