Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-11-19
GETTING BACK TO WORK.

GETTING BACK TO WORK.
Under the above head on comment
ing ON the results OF the recent ma
tional election The ST. Louis Globe
Democrat in a recent issue said:
1T is estimated that over 1000 ,00C
persons who have been working Oh
short hours during recent months, OF
not working at all, have been put tC
work on full time since the republi.
cans carried the country week ago
The good tidings come from every
state. Every day since the election
all the daily papers in the country
have been printing dispatches from
various centers telling OF the reopen
ing OF mills and OF the increase in the
hours OF work in mills which had bee
running on short time. And, of course
the papers have been able to chronicle
only a small portion OF this improve
ment The victory registered itself
Immediately in an advance in stocks
along the whole line When, during
the campaign the news was pub
lished that the railways and other
great business interests were sending
in heavy orders TO the steel mills. but
making them contingent on repub-
hcan victory on November 3, the dem
ocratic campa gn managers denounc-
ed these reports as canards, or as at
tempts TO coerce the workers into
voting the republican ticket Demo
cratic newspapers which ought to hav,
known better also joined in this cry.
The developments of the past seven
days shows that the reports were gen.
uine
Il believe thoroughly that the re-
turn OF the republican party to power
will mean the immediate resumption
of prosperity" said Mr.. Taft, in a
statement which he has just made to
the public. He announces his own
programme, which is constructive
enough to suit the country, and con-
sentative enough to show that busi-
ness may now make its contracts with
complete confidence. 81 intend he
declares, ito carry out to the best OF
my ability the Roosevelt policies that
work for the correction OF evils in
business, without running the business
itself. ! am in favor OF combinations
OF capital. just as am in favor OF
combinations OF labor, when those
combinations ae rightly conducted
! would no more think OF destroying
a corporation to cure evils that it
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think OF cutting of mans head to
cure a cold in that particular part of
his body. But ! would cure the evil.
and the earlier all combinations OF
wealth understand that under a re
publican administration they viii be
held strictly accountable to the law
the earlier will business conditions
get on a basis that will be a solid
foundation on which a new prosperity
can be built Mr. Tart also points
out that though Samuel GOmpals, OF
the American Federation OF Labor, al
tackled him uniustly during tile cam
paign, he does not hold any OF the
labor unions responsible for Com
per's words, especially as the unions
by their votes repudiated Corners
attempt to set himself up as a dictator
the polls, they rebuked the agtators
and demagogues. and gave large
majority to the republican ticket
business knows what 1t is doing
when it reOpens shops and again looks
confidently to the future il must be
remembered that many OF the shops
which are relighting their fires are
owned and run by democrats There
is no partisanship in the prosperity
talk which the country hears. 1t is
genuine, and It has nothing to do with
the fortunes OF any particular candi-
in the matter OF deciding their par
tisan affiliations He declares that he
will try to give labor an equality Of
opportunity with capital in the nego-
tiations between them, but no special
privileges 70 either" All this is sound
American doctrine, and the leo1le
had these principles in mind wnen, at
date. The election has settled many
things for four years more, and trade
will have an incentive TO spring for
ward and recover the ground which It
lost in the past twelve months. Most
OF the business men of the country
regardless of theiI party, voted for
Taft Many of those who supported
Bryan did this with the firm faith that
he would be beaten. and that, there
fore, their votes against him would
not be needed. Mr.. Bryans own state
shares with the rest of the country
In the prosperity which his defeat has
brought Bryan himself VIII be among
the beneficiaries OF the rev prosper
ity, as he was of the prosperity which
his defeat in 1896 gave 10 the coun-
try. When we read the cable dis
patches WHICH say Lat the Italian
laborers who recently went back TO
their home land were loud in their re-
joicings at Tafrs victory we know
why-they felt that way. They see in
his victory an indication that the de
mand for labor here will soon be
ahead of supply. as it was during most
of the republican days previous TO the
setback a year ago. The election. in
deed, has registered itself in an in
crease in immigration. which is once
again on the upward turn. The hum
OF the new industries is making pleas
ant music in the ears OF the coun-
try. IL is altogether proboble that be-
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