Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-03-12
THESE HARD TIMES


George Selby of Ona, in the
Portland Telegram of February
25th, says:
"The most interesting subject
at the present time for those
who read and those who do not,
is hard times. The greatest
philanothropist of the age would
be the man who could divine the
real cause and offer a way
whereby our old-time prosperity
would return to us. In a land
of plenty like ours every one
should have food and shelter as
a direct result of his own efforts.
Untold thousands are offering
honest service for food, but can
get no exchange. Why is this?
It is a fact that all proposed rem
edies have failed. Our national
Democratic administration be-
gan by sayins that our tariff
laws were the cause Of all our
woe. Those laws revised and
the land would smile with plenty
they were revised and food
prices went up and labor grew
less in demand. Then this gov
ernment said that our banking
laws were bad-that remedied
and no wolf would be heard at
the poor mans door. That was
done and IL big banking insti-
tutions were created whose
doors are closed to the common
masses and whose management
is being conducted at a big loss
Ito the people. The wolf only
howled little louder at this.
"Then 1t was discovered that
big business and all kinds of
business, for that matter, was
sapping the life from the poor.
A line of systematic prosecution
and persecution Of business men
was started and pursued until
business was paralyzed. Now
they come again through the
postoffice department and offer g
free labor bureau to help labor
. ers to find employment tha'
does not exist. There neveI
! was a time in this or any otheI
country when employment exis
ted and there were men to do II
! but that the worker and the jol
/. would soon get together-whel
5 work is scarce and laborers plen
ty all employment must be loca
|, What good would it do a poo
4 man in Portland to know tina
l. there was a job in Florida?
!, he could get there at all, Ion
: before he reached the spot 10
J, men already would have sougf
d the job. The government ha
8 sent tons of their employmer
r. literature to country pos
Q masters urging them to get tn
l. man and the job together. 4
T, the same time men are goin
y :. from the neighborhood Of thes
y postoffices to fruitlessly see
u employment in the towns viii
o. men from the towns as usless
II. seek the same thing In Il
IN country. BY reports printed
The Telegram l see that there
a hundred applicants to one j
at the Portland postoffice, al
doubtless there are a hundr'
more applicants for the same j
a who never appealed to the pos
y Office. And what makes tf
i'll remedy look entirely ridiculo
ig is that the postofiice departme
10 is discharging employees all ov
n the entrie country. Why doesl
}. it apply its own remedy to
self? OF course, our Democri
ic administration can hide |
hind the European war clo'
,ln but when that clears away [
i've Lord only knows what excr
lty they will give for the misch
rec they have wrought. Fossil
led Mr.. Bryan will order a Tower
en- Babel built while he after
m Chautauqnas, then all will hi
work and every one can cuss
LIST, other fellow in an unkno
tongue because he didn't fin
J. the job. George Selby.