Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02
REPUBLICAN TACTICS

| REPUBLICAN newspaper asks
N why the country desires change
IA of administration. and sets UP g
very plaintive plea for the party which
is sometimes called Old and Grand.
But in the news columns of this very
Republican organ on the same day
on which it asks why" are two good
explanations of the desire for change
which has taken possession of the
United States. One is contained in a
dispatch from New York, which says
the cIoakrnakers of that city are about
to go on strike for the first time in
fourteen years.
The reason for quitting work is that
their earnings no longer make 1t worth
their while to devote themselves to
the task at which they are experts. A
cloakmaker is as much of an expert
as is any scientist who deals in hairs
breadths or any aviator who tours the
skies. He knows how to make cloaks.
Probably he does not know much else,
but he can make cloak, while the
average Iperson-or even the average
"a1l-round" tailor-is planning one and
thinking about beginning. The amount
of work performed by the cloakmakers
Is marvellous. People who wear cloaks
never bother their heads with think
ing about this. AS far as that is con-
cerned, maybe some cloak wearers
think the garments grow on trees, in
cloak groves. Others may imagine
they are made by machinery. Well.
they are made by machinery, but 1t is
human machinery, and no inventor
ever constructed artificial machinery
as complicated and wonderful.
The cloakmakers have been becom-
ing more and more expert at their
work, and they can now finish more
cloaks in less time than ever before.
AS a reward of increasing skill the
men have had their wages reduced
gradually from $40 to 81 a week, and
the women have had theirs ground
down to SO a week.
So they are going on strike. Can
you blame them? And, by the way,
their strike has already been justified.
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fornian and other fellow citizens of
these oppressed toilers of New York
would not have heard of them and
their wrongs. 1t is a good thing for us
to know as much as possible about
how the other half lives. Think of a
poor woman in an unhealthy part of
Manhattan working all day and part
of the night for SO a week! Think
that in Manhattan alone, the original
New York." there are ten thousand
like her, and then stand up with a
grave face AND A CLEAR CON-
SCIENCE and say, "I believe in Re-
publican prosperity and intend to vote
for more of It,"
The second explanation of the rea-
sonable desire for a change Of admin
istration is found in the following AS
ISOLATED Press report, published in an
other column OF the Republican paper:
"Thirteen women as a committee
from the Women's league Of the state
of New York began a crusade which
they hope viii give employment to 75.-
OUO unemployed women Dy august 10,
The leaguers, through an appeal sent
to business men throughout the state,
ask that as many Of the army Of the
unemployed as possible be taken
900 unemployed women by August 10.
More than dozen firms have agreed
to give employment to women on that
date. According to the statement is
sued by the president of the league,
Mrs. Belle F. Reveira, New York state
has 100000 women who must earn
their daily bread"
We are glad the Republicans are
preparing for Prosperity day. even al
though by their own admission it is
an especially arranged and an elab-
orately FAXED" Prosperity day. If the
Republicans intend to use some of
their campaign funds in paying quasi
wages to alleged "employes" of
eastern concerns. so much the better
for the business concerns and for the
people hired for them by the Republi-
can party.
But, mercy on us, do the Republi-
can campaign managers really think
this belated prosperity" will befool