Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-27
CLOUDS BLAcKEN INDUSTRIAL SKIES.

1t is dreadful crisis that the government and
the people Of Great Britain face In misery and
suffering, confronting conditioi.s filled with the
menace Of awful disaster, a nation pays toll for
injustice and may yet be required to pay fur
Their price that will stagger civilization The strik
ing coal miners of Great Britain may yet bring
society to its knees They have driven the gov
eminent 10 propose minimum wage and may vet
drive II To government operation of the coal
mlnes-and that were a long long step to social
Ism. From the chaos that threatens there. let us
here take warning Let us take warning while
time remains IN which to profit by it and mend
our industrial ways. AS surely as the earth en-
dnres and the years increase, so surely else shall
we one day stand face to face with conditions
that will threaten the entire social fabric and men
ace civilization itself with destruction If labor is
oppressed, If men and women are reduced to toll
long hours for wages that mean hut protracted
starvation, If human happiness is ground up in
plntoeraey mills the raw material for the pro
dnetlon OF dividends, there will come day when
the multitude who tortured by society will
turn upon society and torture it.
Whether guided by the selfish motive of self
preservation or impelled by noble conceptions of
social Justice government must abandon the doe
trne that 1t exists for the sole purpose of pro
tectmg property rights II must exault human
rights above all other rights 1t is matter of
little consequence whether a people are wealthy
1t Is matter of the highest consequence that
people as people should be happy When the
power of government is used to create social and
industrial conditions under which happiness arbi-
trarily Is denied to millions of men and women
then indeed Is an invitation extended to destruc-
ton and welcome prepared for anarchy When
the power of government is employed in defense
and perpetuation of economic iniustices whereby
me toll Of millions goes 50 poorly requited that
the very necessities Of life are inadeauately sun
Piled by ceaseeSs exertion doubt not that a ter.
rlbe. unacceptable retribution will be exaeted
In treat Britain the miners ask that the GOV.
efhment hX minimum wage of - % dav for
men and % cents day for hovs Is that an
hniair wager Is not coal mined at too dear
price that Is mined at lesser wage In France
the coal miners are disconnected with their old
age pension and hold that after TWENTY-FIVE wears,
work that pension should not be less than forty
cents day. Is forty cents Zoo much Remember
they can save nothing from their pittance of paw
We lace as dlsheartening conditions this side
~ eteah Look ~ the wooden mills Of Lawrence
Look AZ the cotton mills Of New England ana tho
south Cotton and wool manufactures are anon,
the most highly protected OF our industries who
gels The protectiong Not the emnlove who's.
earnings barely keep him FROM starvation-and
YET me whole justification Of the protective poliey
y ioai II enables American manufacturers 10 main.
IAN me American wage Ntandard and enables the
American laborer 10 maintain the American stand
ara o. hNing That the theory See how il i
disregarded IN practice
We cannot a. people trillc any longer with
THESE questions We must resolutey 1T onr.slve.
y establishing Just conditions nr prepare IL IN 4
overwhelmed ~ last by the niustiecs We tolerate
: y nation must transfer rs worship from money
70 humanity. II must assert maintain AMI az 4
iehd under and BY the law. the absolute snpr,ms.
y OF human rights over property rights anJ
hrsi among these rights Is the right - labor ~
living wage