The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-15
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

inquiries as to the cause of the depression that has
placed the leather companys plant part time and
given the leather company basis for its promise of
after-election "fu time"-f Mr. Taft and Mr.. Sher-
man are elected.
He suggests that the country has had seven years
of "the greatest wsest and best president and
twelve years of republican standpatism He admits
that during the twelve years of Hannaism and AL
drchism and Cannonsm the wealth of the country
has increased enormously greatly to the benefit OF
such men as Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harri-
and Schiff, who have monopolized the adj
vantages of full time and keep going"
His figures assert that under equitable per
capita DIVISION every family in the country should
be in possession of $1,000 although it is demon
tratabe fact that very few of the wage earning
class have one-tenth of that sum.
The president of the engine company continues
his merciless array of existing conditions:
The daily press also tells u.s. that since October,
thousands of entire families have been out of work,
a result they have used up all their savings, not
their proportion-$70 900, above-but paltry $50,
all they had been able to during those years of
boosted prosperity The president of the association
for improving the condition of the poor R. F. Cut
ting, says Il not remember such condition
existing before Not even in 1898 and 1894 did
the depression persist so longp While, according
to Senator Foraker on July 1, 1000 skilled work
are out of employment here in Cincinnati" Pre-
sumably the number of the unsked was greater
yet These illustrations of unparalleled prosperity
have been duplicated all over the country No section
has escaped the blight There has been tremendous
exodus of those who could not find employment
half million more having emigrated to Europe than
have immigrated here
Why the depression, why the blight? This mar
vellous' prosperity to have been wonderfully
ef6cacious in keeping the toilers poor. This Gun
precedented" prosperity seems to have been mono
polzed by a few. They have gone piling up
millions, but the 1arders of the workers. it seems
have accumulated nothing so that they face
starvation their reward for the part they took
in producing Widespread" prosperity The bottom
has dropped out of their "fu dinner pail"
Again ask why? You say, regardless of
politics. the manufacturers of this country join
Who they to sell to? How the masses buy
when their savings are gone? With wages reduced,
how are they to pay monopoly prices and yet live?
How you going to bring prosperity to the toiler
without destroying monopoly and special privilege?
Using the force-pump won't alter conditions, the
people want something more than wind. Why not
prick the monopoly bubble, let out of the wind
and water, bring the neceSSareS of life within the
power of the people? The crop of mil
lOna1reS may not grow, but equitable distribution
of the wealth produced according to the part that
each has contributed to its production will bring hap
pness to millions and insure natural therefore
lasting instead of the force pump" prosperity you
propose
Here is manufacturer, at least, who will not
join in renewal of the republican effort to in
timdate the voters of the wage earning class-will
not attempt to work the palpable fraud of 1896 and
1900 for the practical disfranchisement of millions