The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-11-01

OF employment and the minimum
wages of those employed will in all
probabilities be discussed. If good
sense dominates this convention a
recommendation for the substitu-
ton OF a protective tariff, that real
ly protects American industry, for
the make-shift law of 1914 will be
recommended. 1t will be recalled
that Immediately following the en-
actment of the tariff law of 1914,
100000 wage earners were thrown
out of employment and industrial
America was only saved from des-
truction by the declaration of war.
The American market must be pro-
tected that the output of the Amer
lean laborer shall not be brought
into competition with the output of
labor that has no restriction as to
hours, age or sex. The theory that
destructive legislation aimed at
the owner of industrial enterprise
benefits the laborer is disputed by
the results of the Walker tariff
of the fifties, the Wilson tariff of
the nineties, and the Underwood
law of 1914. In every instance,
following the enactment of these
laws, the country was filled with
armies of unemployed. 1t is of no
benefit to the American workman
to pass an eight hour law at So a
day and then throw down the bars
and put his product in competition
with the laborer of the Orient who
works II hours for zoe. Nor can
this question be solved by building
up a government payroll by gov
eminent ownership of various en-
terprises to such a degree that
large numbers of the working
classes can be employed in these
government enterprises. For even
in that event, private enterprise,
paralyzed as it would be, would not
be responsive sufficiently to taxa
ton to originate the money neces-
sary to meet the payroll.
1T will be a poor return to the
men at the front fighting Our bat
ties to have them return home and
be mustered out of the great army
that fought for II protection and
liberty, only to be mustered into a
greater army of unemployed.
"A Republican congress elected
at this time means that active pre-
parations will Immediately be taken
to prepare this nation for peace.
Fine spun theories will not fill the
empty stomachs. England, France
and Germany, and even Russia,
have for months and years been
working through commissions and
straining every nerve to prepare
themselves to meet the problems
that will confront them Industrial
ly at the conclusion of the war. Up
to the present time practically
nothing has been suggested or
planned looking to that end in this
country. Watchful waiting is as
unproductive of results now as it
was in 1915 and 1916. Eternal vi
GLANCE is the price of victory and
of prosperity in peace. as we'll as in
war. To my mind, the most i'm
portant thing at this time, next to
the prosecution of this war to a VIC
torious conclusion, is energetic and
wise consideration of the problems
that will confront us at the con-
clusion of war. To do anything
else than prepare to do the utmost
for the care of the great army of
men who will be thrown back into
the channels of their every day life,
will spell disaster and panic.
II pledge myself, in the event of
election, to devote all the time
necessary to the protection of the
soldiers interests at home and
abroad; to watch over the interests
of the dependents of the men that
are now fighting our battles; to
help in every way the soldier re-
turning to his home at the conclu-
sion of war. I pledge myself to
this service at all times and on all
occasions.
deliberate and careful consid-
Grafton by this convention of the
questions that I have touched up
on, with several others, that will be
discussed at this meeting, and a
clear cut platform, outlining our
plan of disposal of them, submit
ted to the people of this state, will
certainly result in a Republican vic
tory. Our expression on every
problem confronting the people of
this state must be made clear and
unequivocal. l feel confident that
such consideration will he piven