Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-06
WILSON ON WAGES.

Sovernor woodrow Wilson analyz.
ed the third party platform, Monday
IL its. relation to the laboring man.
The occasion Of his speech was a
Labor day celebration. under the aus
pices Of the United Trades and La
Dor council, at Buffalo, N. Y.
Governor Wilson said, in part. .-
Se"btelligent working men will ash
the emeR now seeking their votes
what they may be expected to do fol
them. do not mean for them separ
ately, but what they may be expected
to do Bor them which will entitle
them. to the confidence of those who
DeForm the daily labor which hes at
sthe bases Of all our life.
Most Of the answers they get will
sura upon the question Of tariff du.
lies from %hich our politics never
seems able to get away. On the one
e haAd they will be told that If the
Democrat party gets into power they
may look to see industry laaguish an
wages go down and employment be-
come harder and harder to find. They
forget that Democrats constitute
something like half the nation, that
Democrats are engaged in occupa-
tons of every kind, depend upon all
5'Sorts Of business for their livelihood,
, share in every interest and enter
peiseoof the country. 1t may safely
DE taken TO- granted that Democrats
are not going to destroy themselves
economically.
These uncomfortable predictions
come from both the old line Republi-
oanS and from these Republicans of
@ the new departure who are seeking
to builds' up third party of their
own. From Republicans of the old
line these forecasts of disaster we're
to be expected. They have long been
theiF stock in trade. But they we're
aardly to have been expected from
those who had cut themselves loose
from Che older connections and who
were boldly working to make new
thiEgs outaOf old, and yet the predic-
ton of the leaders of the new party
sare as alarming as the veriest stand
patter. There is the stimulating
breath Of hope IN every part Of the
platform d the new party except
that which touched the tariff and the
trusts.
The New Party Platform.
"In fact, there are very singular
features about the platform of the
new party.
o 1T has two sides and two tones.
j. speaks warm sympathy with prac-
tically every project CT social better
ment to which men and women of
broad sympathies are now turning
with generous purposes and on that
side dt is refreshing to read. But
that is not the part of the platform
that reads like a program. 1t is a
proclamation Of sympathy rather, an
1ndicatiop of the direction in which
the leaders of the party would fain
sometime move. The program lies
elsewhere, where the tariff is spok-
en- Of and the trusts. In that portion
Of the document there is an air of
business and a very definite indica-
. tion of what is intended to be done
and by what means. It may be in-
terpreted IN the light of some inter.
esting things Mr.. Roosevelt has re-
Gently asid.
MIR. Roosevelt declares his devot-
ed adherence to the people of the
politician. He declares that he is net
troubled by the fact that very large
Amount of money is taken out of
the pocket of the general taxpayer
and put into the pocket Of particu-
lar classes Of protected manufacture
ers but that his concern is that so
little of this money gets into the
pockets of the employees. have
searched his program very thorough
11y tor an indication of what he ex.
poets to do in order to see to 1t that
a larger proportion of this price
money gets into the pay envelope
and l have found only on sugges-
ton.
The Minimum Wage Scale.
This is a plank in the program
which speaks Of establishing a mini