The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-16
rs IT AN IN
DUSTRlAL REVOLUTION

DOS klAL hENOLO fON =
Every patriotic American Is pray
iHr there will be no great industrial
upheayal Strikes forebode CONNER
csal disaster, rearransement Of in
arstiial conditions and the sapping
uR OF our reserve resoui ces. Busi-
ness becomes paralyzed and ill-feel'
ihs Is engendered until years can
mol recoup from what we lose in q
very few weeks OF Industrial warfare.
Constant increase in the cost OF ne
cessities and Tie seemingly cause
less system OF adding TO the bur
dens OF those who work for wages in
tie great industrial centers can be
charged with the present grave crisis.
Not in the history of our country has
there been such excessive charges
made for the general necessities,
which, added 10 the fact tnat good
recompense has added to the living
ideas OF all classes, makes the pres
tnt disparity between wage earnings
and necessities nnbaarable
The regions west OF the Missouri
river has not felt the difference so
much, one reason being that this dis
tsict Is producing calm, and the
fcodstuff supply is at our very doors.
again. wages here have always been
rroportionately nearer the cost OF liv-
inc than is true in the East
Since 1907, when the financial panic
c9used such tremendous losses in the
manufacturing states, there have
been many workingmen who have
been either unemployed or working
ciI short time. Following these de-
pressing conditions came the advanc-
es on foodstuffs OF such nature as 10
IL bid the average wage Garner with
. family 10 support having he nee
essities OF life; children could not be
sent to the day schools and a gene
81 wave OF unrest and actual distress
has prevailed throughout the states
cs Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
The striking shirtwaist makers OF
New York enlisted the sympathies oi
The sauare-deal world. and the Phlla'
delphia upheaval followed along. The
Philadelphia strike has been little
short Of war the state using all OF
it, police powers to thrust new men
Ia the places of the strikers, the lat
ter burning property and placing the
shitd city of the United States al
most on a war basis.
Railroad raiHmen have been for
months tIyirg . get rate OF wase
regulated OF d more fair basis and
other great @Orscrs In the different
sections have made their demands
10, ar increase in pay-the coal min
trs having practically agreed to
strike in three different mining diyi
sions Of their great order. Managers
of the big industries have been ratl'
er prone To- accept an increase OF
scales, save In few instances. aud
lie Chicago conference between EN-
riovee ani employer indicates iha'
'.the lasf mentioned ciass in the Cen
t,al states believe they can meel tns
exigencies if given a little time g
nrepara foe the change. Compare
live tables show that organized Ia
boz has been patient in demand io'
irslaneei. cs9=o ps norb
when wage was 5000 % l.
when wage was s219 ~ lS
Those two commodities have ad
vanced little more than many others
and the scale OF wage has been heid
almost stationary For some TWO wears
many of the Industrial concerns werr
chuaging the water ont Of the stocks
ihat had been poured in there when
ne Schwaab- Morgan-Rc Rcisers, Morgan
eyndicate was getting the consoilda'
tions the losses being made up by
sharp advances in prices OF all com
rodiiies. In turn the various OUT
side prodncts have had to advance
and lhe ;condtion which eonlron's
the country today can be traced Dach
n when the wizards Of high finance
uere selling $l0s000 concerns rof
81 oo0. 900 and fixing to pay dividenas
on fhe stocks thus walered.
~ .ahor toubles may nor eomeT-ail
.hepe they viii not But the present
conditions must change fos the m
leoaallfies ,fc. SO apparent no one can
eynect them Ia. be long paintained,
,of M 4 eonfne read ave Nfheee ! I
xeionnent ,ypsst aea sinies ~ S.sI:ss',iR 4 Il y
AKA riulas Al .,vspl 81 &c elsiIF ! ~ Ina q
nt 1'e sffdvv
nus; work 10 such end as 70 allpw
general prosperity. Only when a..
prosper can there be stability ana an
business men trust the threatened IN
dnstrial revolution may be ayerted