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Wanted to be Remembered.
The lawyer was drawing up
Enpeck's will. "I hereby be
queath all my property to my
wife," dictated Knpeck. "Got
that down?" "Yes," answered
the attorney." "On conditions
continued Enpeck, "that she
marries within a year." "But
why on that condition?" asked
the man of law. "Because,"
answered the meek and lowly
testator. "I want somebody to
be sorry that I died.
Prosperity talks into an empty
dinner pail ring hollow to the
ears of the out-of-work working
man.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
If anybody tells you that there
will be a panic if the Democrats
win, you tell them that there is
only one class of people who
would be in a panic—that there
will be a panic among those who
who have their hands in other
people's pockets and the panic
will continue until they take
their hands out."-From one of
j Mr. Bryan's Ohio speeches.
Taft says he "kicks no man
while he is down." He doesn't
need to: His manager is doing
all the kicking for him.
The "square deal" of the Re
publican party is the rare deal.
HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY, OCT. 1,1908.
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WHERE IS THE FULL
DINNER PAIL NOWt
Where is the "Abounding Prosperity" Prom
ised by the Republicans-
Former Congressman Robert
Baker has sent a sharp reply to
the suggestion from the New
York Leather Belting Company
that industrial interests support
the Taft-Sherman ticket to the
end of restoring business activity
Mr. Biker, always an ardent
Bryan man, is now the president
of the Austin Rotary Engine
Company, a young corporation
that is marketing a new rotary
engine recently invented by a
South Brooklyn friend, William
K. Austin.
The Austin Rotary Engine
Company a few days ago recei
ved a letter from the New York
Leather Belting Company offer
ing Republican campaign cards
to be posted in industrial estab
lishments, bearing the promise
of "full time" on the strength
of Republican victory. The
method of campaigning for Re
publican votes through th * cor
poration3 is resented by Mr.
Baker, who asks wh> the fac
tories are not on full tima now,
in a Republican administration.
' The correspondence is self-ex
planatiory. The letter received
by the Austin Rotary Engine
Company was as follows:
"New York July 22,1913
Gentleman.—We have tacked
this notice upon the walls of our
factories in Brooklyn and New
York.
"Relieving that the ele tion of
Taft and Sherman means a safe
and progressive business admin
istration, the day following their
election we shall start this plant
on full time and keep going.
"If you believe-with us that
by relieving any uncertainty as
to what the wage earner can ex
pect in the event of electing
men who will secure the business
prosperity of this country, we
should be glad to have you fol
low our example.
As members of the National
Association of Manufacturers,
the American Hardware Manu
facturers' Association, the Am
erican Supply and Machinery
Manufacturers' Association, the
National Credit men's Associa
tion, the Manufacturers' Associ
ation of New York, the 'New
York Board of Trade and Trans
portation, and other commer
cial bodies, if you will kindly fill
in and return to us the enclosed
card, we will supply you with a
'full time and keep going' card,
such as we have posted, and
notify all these associations of
your harmonious attitude.
Regardless of politics, once the
manufacturers of this country
jom universally in this movement
depression will cease.
Lend us your help and post
the card, 'Full time and keep go
ing.'
Yours very truly,
New York Leather Belting Co.
This is the reply sent by Pre3i
dent Robt Baker of the Austin
Rotary Engine Company:
Austin Rotary Engine Co.,
2nd Ave., and Bth St., Brooklyn.
Brooklyn N. Y., July 23 1908.
New York Leather Belting Co.,
No. 51 Beekman Street, New
York.
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Gentlemen: We have yours of
July 22., offering us copies of
cards posted in your factories,
which you say read as follows:
Believing that the election of
Taft and Sherman means a safe
and progressive business admin
istration, the day following their
election we shall start this plant
on Full time and keep going.
Permit us to say we do not un
derstand. Why have you stop
ped your factories? Why is the
Full Time and Keep Going plan
not now in operation? Why has
there been any shutting down
by you and the other members
of the National Association of
Manufacturers, the American
Hardware Manufacturers' As
sociation, and the numerous other
similar associations to which
you say you belong? Did you
not assure us that McKmley
would insure a 'full dinner pail'
to all who desired to work? Was
not this assurance renewed when
your several bodies indorsed
Roosevelt and' Fairbanks ? Then
what emptied the dinner pail of
millions of men who are willing
to work? What greater reliance
be placed on this assurance than
on the others? If you were
false prophets before, how do
we know you will not be again?
But why the closed factories?
Why the idle mills? Why the un
used freight cars? Why the
maintenance of high prices in
the face of falling demand?
Where is the abounding, marvel
ous, wonderful, unparalled, wide
spread prosperity ? Haven't we
got a Republican administration?
Havent we got a Republican
Senate and House of Represen
tatives? Haven't we had them
uninterruptedly for twelve years
Haven't the Republicans made
the laws, State as well as Na
tional, and haven' c they been
charged with their enforcement?
Then what is the matter? If the
laws are defective, why haven't
been altered? If defective
now, were they not equally de
fective eight and four years ago.
when you assured us, all is well,
and leave well enough alone?
Why the depression, we ask?
Haven't we had seven years of
Roosevelt, who according to Re-
publican orators and assistant
Republican, as well as Republi
can newspapers, is the greatest
wisest and best President the
couitry ever had? Haven't we
had twelve years of standpatism
with Hanna, Aldrich and Cannon
sitting on the brakes to prevent
the enactment of legislation not
desired by the gentleman who
are so conspicuous in their sup
port of Taft.and Sherman—Mor
gan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Har
riman, Schiff? Do these men
eyer make a mistake when they
select candidates? Which is
most likely to be misled, these
men who say that Taft is all
right, that he is a conservative,
or the Western farmer who is
told that Taft is a radical?
Where is the abounding pros
perity? Wealth has certainly
increased enormously, or at least,
prices have been boosted to a
point that ought to have satisfied
the most avaricious. The for
tunes of the few have become
gigantic—bounded out of sight,
Morgan, we are told, has three
hundred or so millions. Carnegie
as much, while Roekefeller is
credited with a billion; a few
thousand others having from one
to a hundred millions each. These
seem to have had their full time
and keep going cards in opera
tion while they are generally
credited with having in October-
November last gathered in nearly
everything in a large w*y in the
shape of banks, trust companies,
industrial and railroad combina
tions, which had so far escaped
them. In fact the bulk of the
people have been set at a lively
pace to pay the increasing prices
for the necessarie3 of life these
and a few others control.
Bat what has happened to the
masses, whom you and other
boosters of McKinley and Roose
velt assured were to share in the
prosperity? With a totel esti
mated wealth of soma one hun
dred and ten billions, if the per
capita tables work out all right,
there should be enough to go
round, for that's equal to about
$7,000 per family. But who has
it? How many of the millions
of toilers have a tenth of that
sum free and clear? How comes
it that the bulk of the people are
shy their proportion of this en
ormous wealth? Have they been
lazy, thriftless, or improvident,
during these twelve years? If
lazy then who created the
wealth? Has the average farm
er, mechanic, salesman, clerk,
teacher, or laborer, squandered
their portion in riotous living?
Did they spend it for automobiles
steam yachts, or even for dia
monds? If not, what has be
come of it? Why haven't they
got it, how did they lose if?
What has been the unseen subtle
but apparently all-powerful force
that has taken it from them?
Why have matters become so ap
palling in America that the so
called effete counties of Europe
have felt impelled to take official
cognizance of the deplorable cor.-
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
ditions in which so many of oar
toilers are compelled to live,
ihe Italian Government (as a re
sult of the shocking reports that
reached it) having sent a commis
sion to investigate. Most revol
ting conditions were shown to
exist. Whole fam'lies were
found crowded into one and two
room apartments, while not only
the women, but little children
not much more than babies,
were found, working in filthy,
unhygienic quarters, helping to
eke out a scanty living for the
family. Overcrowding was
shown to be the rule, not the ex
ception. In one case seven
adults and seven children were
living in a dark middle room,
and a large, bare rear room.
The daily press also tells us
that since October, thousands of
entire families have been out of
work, as a result, they have used
up all their savings, not their
proportion—s7,ooo, as above —
but a paltry 150, all they had
been able to save during the
years of boasted prosperity.
The president of the Association
for Improving the Condition of
the Poor R. P. Cutting, says: I
cannot remember such a condi
tion existing before. Not even
in 1893 and 1894 did the depres
sion persist so long! While, ac
cording to Senator Foraker, on
July 1, 22,000 skilled workers
are out of employment here in
Cincinnati. Presumably the
number of the unskilled was
greater yet. These illustrations
or unparalleled prosperity has
been duplicated all over the
country, no section has escaped
the blight. There has been a
tremendous exodus of those who
could not find employment, a
half million more having, emi
grated to Europe than have im
migrated here.
Why the depression, why the
blight? This marvelous pros
perity seems to have baen won
derfully efficacious in keeping
the toilers poor. This unpreced
ented prosperity seems to have
been monopolized bv a few.
They have gone on piling up
millions, but the larders of the
workers, it seems, have accumu
lated nothing, so that they now
face starvation as their reward
for the part they took in produc
ing widespread prosperity. The
bottom has dropped out of their
full dinner pail.
Again we ask why? You say,
regardless of politics, once the
manufacturers of this country
join universally in this move
merit, depression will cease.
Who are they to sell to? How
can the masses buy when their
savings are gone? With wages
reduced, how are they to pay
monopoly prices and yet live?
How are you going to bring
prosperity to the toiler without
destroying monopoly and special
privileges? Using the force
pump won't alter conditions, the
people Want something more
than wind, Why not prick the
monopoly bubble, let out some of
the wind and water, bring the
necessaries of life within the
purchasing power of the people?
The crop of millionaires may not
grow, but an equitable distribu
tion of the wealth produced ac
cording to the part that each
has contributed to its productien
will bring happiness to millions
and insure a natural—therefore
lasting—instead of the force
pump prosperity you propose.
Let us clip the talons of mono
poly, uproot special privilege,
and economic conditions will im
prove so mightily that all will be
able to enjoy the comforts of life
and none will have to toil such
long hours that life becomes a
burden.
Finally, firmly believing in the
fundamental Democracy of Am
erican institutions, we have no
more right to dictate how our
employees should vote than they
have to coerce us.
Yours truly,
Austin Rotary Engine Co.,
By Robert Baker, Pres.
"WE WANT A CHANCE.'*
Adam Bede, famous as the
Hpuse humorist and personally
popular with men of ail parties,
)ut conspicuous as a Cannon
lieutenant, went to the people of
Minnesota and asked for reelec
tion and the people said: "We
waat a change!"
John J. Jenkins, another Can
ion lieutenant, went to Wiscon
in and asked for re-election and
-he people said: "We want a
2hange!"
Senator Fulton went to Oregon
md asked for re-election, and
the people said: "Wo want a
change!"
Senator Hansbrough went to
North Dokota for re-election,'
and the people said. "We want
a change!"
Senator Kittredge heard it in
South Dakota, from the people:
"We want a change!"
Senator Long "asked the peo
ple of Kansas for re-election, and
the people shouted; "We want
a change!"
Senator Hopkins went to Illi
nois and asked for re-election,
and two-thirds of the Republi
cans of Illinois announced: "We
want a change!"
Almost one-half of the Repub
licans of lowa, even when asked
by their distinguished Senator
Allison, replied: "We want a »
change!"
Senator Ankeny went to the
state of Washington and asked
for re-election and the people
3aid: "We want a change!"
The voice of the people is un
mistakable. Wherever they
have had a chance to speak,
they have earnestly lifted their
voices, saying: "We want a
change!*'
That sentiment is sweeping
the whole country: "We want
a change!" *
Conover Letter.
Correspondent to the Democrat
Our community, a central one
in the county is now doing a bit
in politics. Saturday night
Sept 19th the Hon. M. H. Yount
Democratic nominee for the leg
islature, entertained an audience
of ladies and gentlemen with
phonograph renderings of selec
tions from Mr. Bryan's speeches.
Following this he made a good
speech -himself, stating and
maintaining the work and aims
of the Democratic party in State
and nation. After speaking, Mr.
Yount assisted in organizing a
Bryan-Kitchin club, with a large
number of names. Marshall is
a Conover boy, and the people
were pleased to hear him.
The following Thursday night,
our Republican friends also held
a meeting at which a good speech
was made by J. Yates Killian,
Republican candidate for the
legislature. The speaker advo
cated for the most part, things
which the people and Democrats
usually want, and referred to
Thos. Jefferson as father of
sound principles in popular gov
ernment Yates is a business
man and a good fellow; as he
correctly says he is no politician.
It is not strange that he made
some mistakes in what he oppos
ed and favored. His leading .
mistake is in his choice of party.
Wednesday Sept 23, the body
of Mr. Luther Moose was brought
to Conover from near Columbia,
S. C., where he had been doing
business about ten years ana
where he died of brights dis
ease. He was a son of Elkana
Moose, of St. James. His wife
was a daughter of Wm. D. Shell
a sister of his Mrs. Annie Hewitt
keeps a boarding house at Con
over. Rev. Bischoff conducted
the funeral service.
Dr. F. L. Herman has improv
ed his cottage at Conover and
has returned to live in it, after
spending a year or so at Newton.
We are pleased to have him with
us again.
Miss Lydia MueHer of Ashe
ville is spending two weeks at
home.
J. S. K,