The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-03

government are considered grave
dangers lie in our path. The COVER
nor of Ohio sounded a note of warn
ing in his address before the conven-
ton, as he had a right to do, for he
was there by invitation with many
other distinguished p1hlicists. His
sober words of counsel won for him
the confidence of many citizens not
of his political faith, and the violent
opposition of former partisans who
carried their intolerance of private
and patriotic judgment to such ex-
treme lengths as to indicate a pur-
pose to push through certain meas
ures despite what they felt might be
the popular will. That they succeed
ed is history. What the effect of
these revolutionary changes in our
form of state government will be,
time alone will determine. Certain
it is, that at this time the gravest ap-
prehensions are felt by the business
communities throughout the state, as
to the future Iof the mines, mills and
factories, established and built up at
great expense and operated to the
mutual advantage of employer and
employe. The relations of capital to
labor and the measure of protection
to be afforded each under the law, is
Of the greatest public concern.
Whom to Trust.
An attempt at undue regulation and
an invasion of private or corporate
rights, initiates against the best in
terests Of that mighty industrial class
which has only it's labor to SELL With
a steady market, under normal condi-
tions, the man who buys and he who
sells, each regarding the sacred right
of private contract, free from embar-
RAISING legal restraint, always have
and always will find common
ground for mutual interchange and
that community of interest which
makes for industrial peace, profit and
expanding growth. Paternalism is
Socialistic and not democratic. Wise
and humane laws as affecting the toll
ers, already on the statute books,
have the approval of fair-minded
men.
The Farming interests.
Since the beginning of history, the
great farming interests have been the
especial concern of well meaning par
lor politicians. 1t is to be observed
that of all the people on this earth,
the farmers have, more than any
others, worked out their own COM
fort, prosperity and happiness. That
they will continue to exercise sound
Judgment in this particular, is not to
be doubted. They entertain some
very correct and robust convictions
as to the source of wealth and are
not blind to the thinly veiled machin-
ations of the modern constitutional
reformers on the problem of taxation.
More now than ever, they are ad-
dressing themselves to very import
ant but carefully guarded proposed
in making old things new
The farmer stands for the funda-
in life and he makes haste
slowly it may be, but sanely and with
steady trend.
The High Cost of Living.
The high cost of living" is to have
a place in this campaign and it is a
problem not to be lightly dismissed.
The suggestion is made that the
farmers are to get better prices for
their products; the manufacturers
shall make a larger profit; the wage
Garner shall get better wages; the
business and industries of the coun-
try shall be operated at larger profits,
and the ultimate consumer shall get
his food and clothing at less cost. To
this end may the Lord give strength
and prosperity to these optimistic
who stand upon the thres-
hold of the millennium. To them, the
future is covered all over with beauti-
full rainbows and the promise to their
souls Is, that at least some of the
people will be fooled a part of the
enough for them to corral
a sufficient number of confiding vot-
ers to securely attach them to a COM
salary. The task of filling a
quart bottle from a pint cup, has no
terrors for the cheerful soul fertile in
resource for curing human ills. Usu.
ally we call doctor who promises
more than he can cure, a quack;
lawyer who promises to win all his
cases, shyster; vender of articles
or medicines who promises more
than he can possibly perform, a
faker, and a candidate for office or
the political leader who appeals to
all Of the prejudices, passions, hopes,
ambitions and inclinations of the peo.
pie, demagogue.
Perpetuate Our Institutions.
shall neglect no opportunity in
this campaign to appeal to the pa.
triotic citizens of every political
faith, to stand true to the funda-
mental principles upon which our
system of representative democ. |
racy was firmly established. This |
shall not be an appeal as a partisan, |
nor yet as suppliant, for the vote of |
any man.
Neither passion nor prejudice |
should control in the determination |
Of questions vital to the perpetuity
Of our institutions