The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-18

| be wild grant, that the election was
| honest so far as the count is con-
| cerned, or granting at least that
there were enough honestly cast to
| elect Taft anyway, it cannot be de-
| MED in any event that the people
| expressed their preference for the re-
| publican party. Now, how did the
republicans succeed in fooling the
people? Both parties tried to fool
the people, you know that's the
game.
Misjudged the Labor Vote.
The chief element of miscaIcula-
ton by the democrats was the labor
vote-always spell labor with a big
L. The leading spirits of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and it is
safe to say that the majority of the
men of organized labor, are still dis
trustful Of the republican party, still
prefer the platform of the demo-
cratic party to that of the republi-
can party. Moreover, the great ma
jOrity Of them, beyond question, have
greater faith in Bryan than in Taft.
Why, then, did they not vote the
democratic ticket? For the one rea-
son that they were told-not by cam
paign orators, for they would not
listen to campaign orators, but by
their own employers that if Bryan
was elected the factories would be
shut down, and that Roosevelt, be-
ing on the order of Bryan, having
caused the panic and the shutting
down Of number Of factories, Taft
was a different order of man, and
his election would cause the factories
to be reOpened with increased wages
1t is easy enough to say that none
but idiots would be swayed by such
talk as this; but many of them had
been out Of work for month and
they were hungry. Their employers
could afford to open or shut their
mills as they chose, and as it is easy
by concerted action to start up a
boom and force a certain kind of
mushroom prosperity these manu-
facturers, who had so much at stake
in the tariff graft, deliberately CO.
creed their employees and planned to
make a demonstration of opening up
factories and so forth should Taft
be elected.
/ VIII Revise the Tariff.
They will revise the tariff in ac-
oordance with the republican plat
form, which calls for maximum and
minimum tariff with protection to
American industry and a reasonable
profit to the American manufacture
er. That reasonable profit" is
what no one can deny has built up
the enormous government by monop-
oily in this country. But they are
making this demonstration of pros
"erity, and the laboring man is to
he cinched so that he will nevermore
ha inclined to vote the democratic
ticket.
That is why GOmpers and his as
sistants in the American Federation
Of Labor could not deliver the goods,
and that is one of the two chief rea-
sons why the American people sane
toned the monstrous economic in
sanity of keeping a high tariff wall
around mOnopolies
The other reason is like unto it.
The other element in the so-called
reputation of Bryan and Bryanisn
is the business man" There never
was any question that the election
of Taft would stimulate an immediate
business activity. In the long run
most people of this country will he
injured by it, but all are aware that
the average business man is not look
ing out for the long run, but the
short run. If he can make fortune
in size according to his present ideas
IN short time, why, he will retire
from business and spend his days in
ease. Then the rest of the people
can do their own figuring as to how
they are going to make their for
tunes and do likewise
SpcCulatiOns in Stocks.