Evening journal., 1914-10-29
THURSDAY OCT. 20 1914
NFW CASTLES OPPORTUNITY.


NTEw CASTLE is the home of Chauncey p. Hol-
IN comb. Speaker of the House of Representatives
and private secretary to United states Senator Will
lard salisbury.
That town on the Delaware is. noxt to the city Of
Wilmington. the most important industrial centre in
our State
Il is interesting therefore to review what the Demo-
cratic national administration, through the Underwood
tariff other agencies has done for sister town
that always has prdod itself upon its Democracy.
Even the most ardent apologist for the Wilson ad-
mnistraton truhfully deny that the people Of
New Castle in sorry plight at the present time
result Of the Democratic industrial blight that has
faen upon the country since the national Democracy
essaycd the task of running the affairs of the Federal
Covornmont,~ Conditions existing in Now Castle are
SO notorious that the laudatory and oxcusatory
efforts of Senator Salisbury and Speaker Hocomb in
behalf of the Democracy cannot cover them up or
explain Them away.
The troubles of New Castle began last October. At
that time began to feel the evil effects OF the
froe-tradc hard times produced by the Wilson admin,
ieirauon
Tho steel mills in that town among the FIRST
the industrial plants there TO feel the pinch of tho
business depression resulting from Democratic control
ih Washington Many steel workers laid off
others were put on part time Some Of the men wero
Informed at the time that the ayoffs and the roduc-
tons were merely for stook-taking purposes. That
"stock-taking" however has continued up the pres
confronted by what promises TO be hard winter. They
have spent their savings accumulated in days of Re-
publican prosperity and conditions bad in all
Industrial fields that they do not know where to turn
what do to find relief for themselves and those who
are dependent upon them for support.
Many Of those who have been fortunate to
retain even a semblance of employment are working
only twenty-our hours week.
The latest phase of the so-caled of good old
Democratic times is that the Baldt Steel Company
the officers ana clerks of which mostly Democratic
has declared cut of twenty per cent in in the
New Castle plant AS eagerly as Rodney s Thayer.
head of the plant. c. r. Jemison another Official and
thcir Democratic colleagues in the enterprise doubt
less would have liked to ignore the existence of Demo-
cratic hard times the pinch OF depression became SO
that they compelled declare the twenty
per cent cut in wages within the ast'week and on
thc very eve OF the election.
Vase in New Castle. many OF whom here
ioore have permitted Speaker Holcomb and his CO.
lahorers in behalf OF hard times TO round them up
election day naturally arc askng themselves why
they should assist by their votes Tuesday Ia,
Democratic effort to rve Wilson hard times upon them
for two and If possible six years longer.
Why should the mills in New Castle he idle work
ine only part time?
Why should 1000 be reduced to absolute idle
ness their earning curtailed by short hours
and wage cuts?
why should clerks have their salaries cut tvent,
per cent?
Why must the office boy give up onc-hftn Of hi
meagre salary of S4 week to bolster the Wilson ad
ministration in its ruinous policies?
Why must the girls in the Edgar Allen America
Manganese Steel Companys plants suffer a lay-on?
Why should other girls have their pay reduced?
Why is it that clerks making cores that apprer
tees are working half-me and that assistant foreme
have been compelled to take of their coats collar
and ties, roll up their sleeves and go into the bi
shops and do the work OF the are not at work
Those qustions that are being asked by wage
carners in New Castle who are being importuned b
Speaker Hocomb and other Democratic workers
vote for continuance of that Democratic control tina
has produced the deplorable conditions complained
uroughout that once-prosperous industrial district
Two years ago under Republican national admir-
ls'ra1ion, New Castle plants were running overtime
HNefy Plant was giving employment to its full quot
'i employees The cost of living also was lower tha
D. Is today The contrast between conditions then an
nose oi today is so striking that it cannot be ignored
Thousands OF Delawareans nov, arc v,o,o,,n.. =, -
Nhal he wage-earners and business men of No
Castle, who have suffered so much tbrouvb Tho w,
son administration, Will do the polls next Tpesas.
Two years ago many Of those voters relvine ,,no
the promises Of President Wilson and other Denoct
speakers voted for change. Unprecedented pro
perty and lower cost of living were among the thin
eanged in the faces of voters with a fulsomeness
1ronise that IS shameless as has been the falu
OF fulnlment They realize what Democrat
promises amount TO- and the opportunity is at hand (
ihen TO take the initial in the matter of right
the industrial grievances from which they suffer as
result Of Democratic inconpotcncy in tho conduct
national affairs.