The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-07-15

! II is me butterfly lie, this
gambling game, and there IS much
1 singeing of wings in IT.
THE GREAT NATIONAL PROBLEM
When tho southern problem was
/ spoken Of for many years the pro-
/ fessional politicians of the south told
lis to please let them alone; that the
south would take care of her own
affairs; that they knew the "nigger''
better than we and they id not need
any help in the adjustment of their
/ domestic difficulties Now it begins
to look as though those politicians
had unwittinsly told great truth.
] There are organizations in the most
/ extreme southern states, the object
| of which is to do justice to the COL
ored man. compel him to work and
open opportunities for him to work
and to make him responsible for his
own well being. Prohibition is 4
! fixed fact in many of the states where
/ negroes are in greatest proportion,
and that helps, for the most rabid
southern politician can not talk long
without he has "gracer" The work
| 81 Booker Washington is no longer
! looked upon with dsdain, and the
pupils from Booker Washington's
school are finding places and out on
the poor farms the colored men are
acquiring titles to the land and maxi
! ing living and little more. The
taxable property of the colored man
| has increased in the single state of
Georgia two or three million dollars
in the last year, and under normal
conditions il is reasonable to believe
that within the next Is or 90 years
the colored vote of the south will not
only be cast without intimidation,
but will be honestly counted, and it
Is more than possible that the south
will have settled her labor problems
before the north.
In the north that problem has be-
come a menace. Both conventions
had to spend most of their time in
fixing a plank to satisfy organized
workers They promised to the
working men that except in time Of
extreme peril, there should be no in
junction served upon them without
the other side having notice. We
think it would haze been better to
have left that entirely ont of the
platform. Mr.. Bryan has been
pandering to that vote ever since
markable because he is supposed to
be trained lawyer and brought up
in the belief that the courts of the
United States are Just, that the
Judges are honest and that they will
issue no process which will be a
hardship to any man. But he wants
votes.
But the labor question, north and
south, is the great problem OF our
country and it is one in which there
is more danger of final disaster than
on any one question which is before
the American people. It is a COM
mon remark that everything comes
from labor, ana that is true All the
changes that have been wrought n
this old world from the beginning
have been done through toll, all the
cultivation Of the fields. the opening
of the mines. the building of til
ships and cities-that is all labor.
In that respect labor is omnipotent,
but behind that the moving spring OF
labor in all the ages has been either
for bread or the money that the la
! borer might receive. and when man
denounces capital and lauds labor, he
IS playing with fire. he IS forgetting
that the man with the capital can
get along that the mere laborer can
not get along without the pay.
The last three years we have heard
from high authorities that corpora
tons must be curbed and we have
seen them curbed. and whenever one
Of them is assaulted we have seen that
the first result has been to cripple
labor. Just now throughout the
country the trains are standing still
on the railroad tracks, the factories
are still and the cry that rises up
over all Is Of the men who want to
work who can not obtain employ
ment. Conventions pander to this
fact, conventions tell about a fair
division Of the profits between labor
and capital and tie burden Of II all
Is to offer a premium on vicions la
BOREDOM. And the safest thing for
} the laboring man to consider is what
: is true OF all the world, that what a
man has he must earn and that what
ever IS done TO cause the men who