Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-15
LABOR SPEAKS


will grimly oppose his march to Wash
ington. Tho empty dinner pail Is at last
beginning to be heard from in practi-
cal political way. Did our Republican
friends really think they could avoid
this catastrophe? Truly they showed
confding trust in human nature not
warranted by the history of this world.
Man wants but little here below
nor wants that little long," but he
wants it. and when he is deprived Of
it, first he roars, and then he fights
for it's his nature to-" from the cradle
to the grave. Editors who are pub
fishing campaign maps, trying to prove
by precedent votes that Mr.. Taft Will
capture this or that state, and has q
good chance in this or that doubtful
territory, are wasting their time. They
must take into account human ma
ture." Campaign maps this year are
meaningless. Nobody can guess what
the outcome OF the November election
will be by section or by state, but it
is reasonably certain 1t viii result in
the most crushing defeat the Repub-
lican party has ever received In It's his
tory, because men are men, they are
not wingless angels, and ''You can fool
all of the people some Of the time, and
some of the people all of the time, but
not ell of the people all Of the time"
In a few days the public schools will
resume their activities, and if the DEM
ocratic leaders are wise they viii col
lect and publish Immediately all the
statistics available with regard to high
schools and the senior departments Of
the public schools. If two million chill
dren are allowed to return to school,
and the eastern high schools again
find it worth while to keep their doors
open and hire janitors, 1t may be time
to admit that confidence may be placed
in Republican campaign maps.
In making political forecast it will
be well to remember that resolutions
condemning Republicanism and pledg-
ing support to the Democratic party
have been adopted already by the
metal trades, the iron, steel and tin
workers. hotel employees, painters, dec
orators and paper hangers, coast sea-
men, musicians, blacksmiths, molders,
textile workers, boiler makers, meat
cutters, paper makers, potters, dredg-
ers and many other trades.
L. r. Thomas, secretary of the Metal
Trades federation, writes:
'I have made inquiries in the shop
and the factory, among the busy work.
ers, at the lathe and bench, in the
foundry, and at the furnace, among
werkingmen who have been lifelong
supporters of the Republican party,
men whose aff1liation with the iron
industry has impregnated them with
the doctrine of the protective tariff,
and who have loyalty supported the
party in the past, AND TO WHOSE
VOTES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
OWES ITS TRIUMPHS. I have found
a deep feeling of resentment at the
treatment accorded labor's representa-
tives by the Republican party in the
Chicago convention. IN EVERY IN
STANCE THE ATTITUDE OF PRES
IDENT GOMPERS AND HIS COL
LEAGUES IS COMMENDED, AND
ALL DECLARE THAT A REBUKE
WILL BE ADMINISTERED TO THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NOVEM-
BER THAT WILL BE REMEM-
BERED FOR ALL TIME TO COME.
That it might not be charged that this
article is the effusion OF an enthusiastic
Democratic partisan who sees only
what pleases his eyes, or hears only
what is pleasant to his ears, the writer
would say that since casting his first
vote for James A. Garfield he has 10y
ally supported the Republican party in
every national campaign, and it iE with
reluctance that he now SEWERS HIS
CONNECTION WITH IT."
r. ]. McArdle, president of the Anal
gamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
writes: 1.-THE Republican standard
bearers chief cla4l to attention seems
to have been his connection with the
injunction in labor disputes. 1t is his
paternal relation to the latter that
makes him PARTICULARLY OBJ
NOXIOUS TO MEN OF TOLL. His
running mate (Sherman), being one of
the Big Five in the last house of con-
gress who were directly RESPONSE
BILE FOR THE FAILURE OF THE
REMEDIAL LEGISLATION DE-
MANDED BY LABOR, is particularly
well fitted to fill out ticket against
which every workingman can conscien-
tiously cast his ballot. :. The Re-
publican party has named CANDI-
DATES WITH RECORDS PARTICU-
LARLY NAUSEATING TO ORGAN
lied LABOR"
Therefore, Republicans need not turn
for consolation to obsolete campaign
maps. There are no birds in last
years nest" The maps are worthless.