The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-06

and will innict upon the innocent faI
greater punishment than upon the guilty,
The democratic platform: does not pro-
Ipost to destroy the plants OF the trust
physically. but 1t propose to do the same
thing in q different way. The business
q protective system of tariffs. The bust
ness done by many of the so called trusts
the countly The democrat iicsl' piatfor y
articles coming into competition with
and to put them on the free list. Il
such a course woul be utterly destruct-
I've Of their business. as 1t is, indeed, it
would not only destroy the trusts, but all
OF their smaller competitors.
The ruthless and impracticable charac-
ter of the proposition grows palmer an
realized.
To take the course suggested by the
democratic platform In these matters Is
to invoke the entire community. Innocent
as IT is, in the punishmentsof the guilty,
while our policy is to stamp out the spe-
cthc evil.
Doctrine Of Protection.
TIL republican doctrine of protection, al
definitely announced by the republicans
this year and by previous conventions, is
that q tariff h be imposed on all inn
ported products, whether of the factory,
farm or mine. sufficiently great TO equal
the difference between the cost OF pro-
ductton abroad and at home, and that
this difference should, of course. include
the difference between the higher wages
paid IN this country and the wages paid
abroad and embrace a reasonable profit
OF protection thus adopted and put In
force has led to the establishment of q
rate OF wages here that has greatly en-
boring man. 1t is the policy of the re-
publican party permanently to continue
that standard of living. In 1897 the Ding
ley tariff bill was passed. under which!
we have had, as already said. a period OF
enormous wealth.
Ihe consequent material development
has greatly changed the conditions under
which many articles described by tho
schedule Of the tariff are now produced.
The tariff in a number of the schedules
exceeds the difference between the cost
OF production Of such article abroad and
at home. including a reasonable profit to
the American producer. The excess over
that difference serves no useful purpose.
but offers a temptation to those who
would m~onopolize the production n the
sale OF such articles in this country to
profit by the excess overrate. On the ot1-
er hand, there are other schedules in
which the tariff is not sufficiently high
they should receive upon republican prin-
ctples. as to those the tariff should be re-
duced. A revision Of the tariff under
basis of our present business; system, be-
gun promptly upon the incoming Of the
new administration and considered at the
special session with the preliminary in
~vestigations already begun by the 3appro-
pirate COMMITTEES of the House and Sem
ate, Will make the disturbance Of business
incident to such q change as little as
possible.
The democratic party In; it's platform
eonvi hai nad on 1he the eos snp{ect of Of rs th ple tapifs
denounced by it in 1904 as a system Of the
robbery of the many for the benefit Of the
change the tariff with a view to reaching
e revenue basis and thus to depart from
the protective system The Introduction
pose. cannot but halt the gradual recovery
of the more recent financial depression
and produce business disaster In com,
depression will seem small indeed.
Question Of Labor.
We come now to the question Of labor.
One important phase Of the qualities OF
anxiety to secure for the wage Garner an
equality Of opportunity and such positive
statutory projection as will place him on
republican party has passed an employ
ers' liability act for interstate railroads
and has established an eight-hour law for
government employees and on government
construction. The essence of the reform
affected by the farmer is the abolition of
ton OF, the comparative negligence theory
by which an employe injured in. the SER
vice of his employer does not lose all his
right to recover because of slight negli-
gence on his part. Then there Is the act pro-
viding for compensation for injury to gov
ernment EMPLOYEES. together with the va
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upon interstate commerce railroads for
the protection of their employees and linn
These are all instances Of the efforts of
the republican party to do Justice to the
wage Garner. Doubtless a more conserva-
tive measure for compensation of gov
%ernnent employees will be adopted In the
future; the principle in such cases has
been recognized, and is necessarily some
more fully embodied in definite statutes.
The interests Of the employer and the
employe never differ except when It comes
to 81 division of the joint profit OF labor
and capital into dividends and wages.
This must be a constant source Of peri
and employee as indeed are the other. terms
of the employment.
To give to employees their proper posi-
to maintain themselves against employers
having great capital, they may well unite,
because in union there is strength and
without 1t each individual laberer and en-
ploye would be helpless. The promotion
OF INDUSTRIAL peace through the instru-
mentality of the trade agreement is often
diligently conducted.
There Is a large body of laborers, how
organized into unions. Their rights be-
fore the law are exactly the same as those
of the union men. and are to be protected
with the same care and w~atchfulness.
Rights Of Labor.
In order to induce their employer into q
compliance with their request for changed
terms. of employment workmen have the
right to strike in a body. They have a
right to use such persuasion as they may,
provided 1t does not reach the point Of
duress, to lead their reluctant ~co-faborers
to join them I'M their union against their
employer and they have a right. II they
choose, to accumulate funds to support
those engaged in a strike, to delegate 10
officers the power to direct the action OF
the union, and to withdraw themselves
and thefr, associates from dealings with, or
giving custom to those with whom they
are in controversy.
What they lave not the right to do is to
injure their employers property. to in
jure their employers business by use OF
threats or methods Of physical duress
against those who would work for him or
deal with him or by carrying on what It
sometimes known as a secondary boy
colt against his customers or those with
whom he deals in business. All those who
syinpathize with them may unite to aid
! them in their struggle, but they may not
through the fundamentally of a threat
ened or actual boycott compel third per-
sons against their will and having no In
terest In their controversy to come to
their assistance. These principles have for
a great many years been settled by the
courts of this country.
Threatened unlawful injuries to business.
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