The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-07-31

within the law. To destroy them and
from the producing capital OF the coun-
try would entail enormous loss and
would throw out of employment myriads
a result is wholly unnecessary to the
accomplishment of the needed reform.
and will inilict upon the Innocent far
The democratic platform does not pro-
post to destroy the plants of the trust
Physically, but it proposes to r do the same
of this country is largely dependent upon
a protective system of tariffs. The bust
n ness nro aone 6y w ,anny {b OF o ohe SO b sailed trusts ds
the country. The democratic platform
proposes to take off the tariff on al
those produced by the SO called trusts
and to put them on the free list. II
; such a course would be utterly destruct-
of their smaller competitors.
The ruthless and impracticable charac-
ter of the proposition grows palmer as
Its effects upon the whole country are
realized.
To take the course suggested by the
democratic platform in these matters is
to invoke the entire community, innocent
as 1t is, in the punishment of the guilty,
while our policy is to stamp out the spe-
citic evil.
Doctrine of Protection.
The republican doctrine of protection, as
definitely announced by the republicans
this year and by previous conventions, is
poreed products, whether of the factory,
farm or mine, sufficiently great to equal
the difference between the cost of pro-
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
to the American production. A system
of protection thus adopted and put in
force has led to the establishment of a
r 4 IA NJ uynoa 1nrn that hnr 1raatl1y an
HANGED the standard of living of the la
boring man. 1t is the policy of the re-
publican party permanently to continue
ley tariff bill was passed., under which
we have had, as already said, a period of
enormous wealth.
has greatly changed the conditions under
which many articles described by the
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
sale of such articles in this country to
profit by the excess overrate. On the 9TH
er hand, there are other schedules in
which the tariff is not sufficiently high
to give the measure OF protection which
they should receive upon republican prin-
ciples, as to those the tariff should be re-
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taken upon this principle. which is at the
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 appro-
pirate committee of the House and Sen
ate, will make the disturbance of business
incident to such a change as little as
possible.
The democratic party in it's platform
has not had the courage Of Its previous
convictions on the subject of the tariff
denounced by it in 1904 as a system of the
fobbery Of the many for the benefit Of the
change the tariff with a view to reaching
q revenue basis and thus to depart from
into power Of party with this aVowed pur-
pose cannot but halt the gradual recovery
OF the more recent financial depression
parison. with which our recent panic and
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
a level in dealing with h his employer. The
republican party has passed an employ
ers, liability, act for interstate railroads
construction. The essence of the reform
affected by the farmer is the abolition of
lle IulS, III Iut lIllIOuuC.
ton of the comparative negligence theory
by which an employee 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 thereis theact pro-.
viding for compensation for injury to gov.
eminent employees, together with the va
rious statutes requiring safety appliances
upon interstate 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-'
erpment 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.
and capital Into dividends and wages.
This must be a constant source Of peri
odical discussion between the employer
OF the employment
To give to employees their proper posi-
to maintain themselves asainst EMPLOYERS
having great capital. they may we'll unite.
because in union there is strength. and
| ploye would be helpless. The promotion
of industrial peace through the instru-
mentality Of the trade agreement is often
one of the results Of such union when in
diligently conducted.
There 4 a large body Of laborers, how
ever, skilled and unskilled, who are not
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 watchfulness.
Rights of Labor.
In order to induce their employer into a
compliance with their request for changed
terms of employment workmen nave the
right to strike in a body. They have a
right to use such persuasion as they may.
provided it does not reach the point Of
duress. to lead their reluctant c%o-laborers
to join them In their union against their
employer and they have a light, II they
choose. to accumulate funds to support
those engaged in a strike. to delegate to
officers the power to direct the action of
the union, and to withdraw themselves
and their associates from dealings with. or
giving custom to those with whom they
are in controversy.
What they have 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
sympathi1e with them may unite to aid
them in their struggle, but they may not
through the fundamentally of a threat
ened or actual boycott COmDel third per-