The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-31
Voiceof thief People
To the Editor:

instinct PERIODS OF oemocrauc rune,
as follows; From 1913 to 1924; from
1892 to 1912: from 1876 to 1861; from
1892 TO 1895 Preceding each of those
periods the country was in high state
of industrial progress. Business was
profitable. Labor was employed and
prosperity reigned.
What was the condition of the coun-
try at the expiration of thos periods
of democratic rule? 1 will answer this
question for Mr. Bryan. Industrial
wreck; bankruptcy, and beggary of
the working people. Let him dispute
it If he can When the workman's
labor went begging for an employer at
any rate of wages; which the poor
mans property went begging for
purchaser at any price, the democracy
had brought advantage to the gam
bier the speculator. and the money
shark. All productive enterprises, all
honest industry, lay PROSTATE, save
three-the pawnbroker, the sheriff and
the gravedigger.
Speaking to workmen, Mr. Bryan
said: we believe in taking the people
into our confidence. We place faith
in our policy and in the intelligence
of our voters" The party leaders made
1t plain in their platform that they
would abolish the tariff on all trust
made goods, but they did not tell the
working people what constitutes trust
made goods. or what would be the re-
suit of their policies on the industries
and labor of the country.
"One of the people, a democrat
whose father was a democrat = now
L,
ploys over 200 hands and pays double
| the rate of wages paid in any other
country-desires to be further in
| formed by Mr.. Bryan, or some one au-
| thorized to speak for him, if the prod
ucts of said shop will be construed as
| trust-made goods and subjected to the
ruinous competition of cheap labor
products in England and other coun-
tries: or if the products of their la
Dor shall be made subject to the break
in prices, the stoppage of orders, and
long period of disuse that must inevita-
bly, follow the abolition Of the tariff.
Speaking for other employees of the
shop, this uneducated but intelligent
workman said: I'VE took a vote on
two floors of the shop and got 129 votes
/ for Taft and protection, against SO for
| Bryan and democratic tariff reform.
AS many Of the present employees were
| thrown out of work and left to starve
during the tariff reform administra-
| ton Of Mr.. Cleveland; as democratic
| tariff reform at all times has proved
| destructive to American industry and
! labor, and tariff reform is the leading
| issue Of the democracy in this cam
paign, we would ask Mr.. Bryan to tell
the working people, whose support he
/ is seeking, If the effect of democratic
tariff reform has changed since the
| pauper period of 1892 to 1896; if the
| democracy can do no better for labor
than restoration of Clevelandism, or il
business depression reduction of wages
! debasement of labor, disemploymen1
and poverty are to be forever the work.
mans reward for democratic loyalty a.
the ballot box?
1.-The result of democratic tariff re
form under Cleveland was dear bu
useful lesson. Intelligent labor mel
have not forgotten their fall from tn,
highest degree of prosperity under Har
rison and protection to the lowest stat
of poverty under Cleveland and tariff
reform. They have not forgotten tina
| II was the DA1slty LdIIll WHICH iS
stored prosperity after the pauper-mak
ing period of Clevelandism had ex
pired They know that the Dingley tar
IF secured to the industries and labo
of the country ten years of the great
est prosperity which the world ha
known. They knew that the presen
dull times were not caused by the tar
if. but by a causeless money scare, re
sulting from misapplication of trus
funds-with which the tariff had moth
ing to do. They know the continu
ance of dull times is not caused b
either the tariff or the trusts, but b
0 the deceptive teaching of free trad
party and a free trade press, whie
raised a senseless cry against frust
0 as a pretext to strike at the industrie
and labor of the country by strikin
5 down the tariff that maintains them.
"All intelligent workmen know tha
O capital is put in business only for prot
it's. Democratic policy not only woul
q wipe out profits, but eat up the prir
cipaL Reduction of wages or susper
sion of business would be the only a.
q tentative to bankruptcy What san
business man would invest his capita
in high priced labor to product good
/ for free trade market? VIII NJ
Bryan answer that question?
The danger of democratic success
holds capital back from investment
Q labor, until their sanity and purpose
defend the industries that employ the
shall be tested at the ballot box. L.
y organized labor repudiate the Gompel
compact with democratic treason
o the national policy to be maintained ;
all cost Then the danger of BIRTHS
0 free trade and foreign competition wi
be removed from every business PR
ject. The bugle call of protected il
o dustry for hands to supply the hon
market will go out from every indus
O trial center and millions in wages wi
flow into the homes of labor. whie
only fear of democratic success ca
now keep away from them.
The democratic leaders strenuous
y work to divert the minds of labor fro
the tariff to injunctions. All INTEL
gent workmen know the issue in tn
: campaign is not anti-injunction law
but the security of their market f,
their products and the maintenance
] home industry to employ and pay the
g wages. II the democrats get contr