Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-10
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
AWKWARD QUESTIONS

OUR remarks on the question winch
worsted Secretary Taft continue
" to bring suggestions and COM
ments from friendly readers. This Is
not surprising. Indeed, we expect that
while other campaign issues VIII pc
formulated and presented this Will De
the predominant issue of the campaign
II is the issue which every citizen VIII
understand and appreciate most read
lily. If a man is out of work, is unable
to obtain employment, has no re-
sources to fall back on and must sup
rort not only himself but his depen-
dent family, what is he going to Go
about it? What is to become or MIN
and of his family? Mr.. Tafts answer
OF God knows" which is itself utterly
unanswerable and indisputable ana
yet leaves the poor man in MS phghi'
the starving father of IA starving lam
lily to his fate and to theirs, viii De
remembered when all of his speeches
and addresses are forgotten Indeed
it will be remembered after steps have
been taken to apply real remedies to
the real conditions, not theories, which
confront the American nation. one
thinking citizen who has written us
on the subject says we are indlsputa-
bly, correct in our statement That In
order to have square meals man
must have the opportunity of earning
money with which to pay for them.
Eut, he asks, what is the nature of
the missing opportunity? What OPP
portunities of money earning may be
suggested? He quotes Mr.. Bryan,
who said recently: "All questions of
this kind must be considered from two
standpoints first, that of the tenn
porary remedy; second, that of the
permanent one" He adds that no
man should be allowed to starve to
death There is no difficulty in this
country about production. The trouble
is with the distribution. Withdraw
privilege and favoritism and enact
laws that will secure an open door
to every mans labor and a reward
for his toll Thomas Jefferson was
not afraid to do so when he said the
earth is given as a common stock for
man to labor upon, and If IT is ap-
propriated by some we must take care
that employment be furnished to those
excluded from the land or else the
right to labor upon the land returns
again to the unemployed" Our cor
respondent asks, how could there pos
sibly be an Industrious unemployed |
man if he had free access to unused !
land?
The last question seems to be as
drastic as that which puzzled Mr.. |
Taft. Dear, dear, how annoying it |
must be to good old conservatives, |
genial Republicans of the true tory |
type, to have their peace of mind dis
tuTbed and their party's future i'm
periled by such AWKWARD ques-
tons. The Democratic party has its
task cut out for it. 1t must and 1t
can give satisfactory answers to the
questions that are puzzling the Re-
puhlicans. Ways and means of pro-
ducing and establishing and perpetu-
ating a just relationship between en-
ploying capital and employed labor
must and can be found. There is
plenty of work for everybody in the
country. Yet everybody is not en-
ployed. There is plenty of food for
everybody in the country. Yet some
citizens have not enough to eat.
There is plenty Of education for every
body in the country. AND TWO MIL
LION CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE
ARE BEING DEPRIVED OF THE
COMPLETE EDUCATION TO WHICH
THEY ARE ENTITLED.
Now we will ask a question. 1t is
nonosyllabic. 1t is:
"WHY?"