Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — Arthur and Morev. [ARTICLE]

Arthur and Morev.

[Pitsburg Post General Garfield’s reply to Chairman Jewell, in the last campaign, <’en< u iciag the Morey letter as a forgery, and in which he said: “Its stupid aud brutal sen tim eds I sever expressed or entertained,” was accepted with marks ot unqualified approval by Republicans every where. It was a “good enough Morgan until after election.” Let us see what •were these “stupid and brutal sentiments” according to General Garfield Hefe are tne passages: T take it that the question of employes is only a question of private and corporate economy, and individuals or Companies have the right to buy labor where they can get it the cheapest. We have a trea•y with the Chinese Government which should be religiously kept until its pro* visions are abrogated by the action of the General Gove ament, and I am no’ prepared to say that it should be abrogated until our great manufacturing interests are conserved in the matter of labor.

These sentiments—that corporations bar* the right to buy labor in the cheapest* market, and that the Chinese immigra- I t on should not be restricted no long as c* rporations need laborers-Republi-cans through their leaders characterized as too “stupid and brutal’’ for any member of th dr party to erl itain. But the more attention is directed to the veto message of President Arthur the more apparen | beson.M that the position taken by him does not conflict in any • teri d particular with the opinions upon Chii ese la’»or put into Garfield’s mouth by the Morey letter. Speaking of the Chinese, Preslnent Arthur remarks that “no one can say that the country has not profited by their work. • • • Enterpriser would have hin <t>'rmant but tor them. » • • Tueie may, however, be other sections of ihj com-try where this species ot labor may be advantageously employed. He might as well t-ay that no matter what are the opinions of the entire Pwific B’op'i, our great manufacturing and other interests all over the country are not yet “conserved in the master oi labor,’’ and that our policy as to Chinese immigration should not be changed until they are. The Republican party iu Congress, with few exceptions, voted to sustain the veto message, and thus put itself on the platform of the Morey letter. Who di 1 write that letter? It is a 1 ve document to-day, Las captured the Re publican party, and the author should come to the front ior a brais medal or an office.

Mr. Kelh-y felt himself moet plgi ro ideal in his interruptions of Carlisle in his masterly speech upon revenue reform, but Carlisle led him on until he hit him squarely between the eyes in the following retnatk: I assert that no manufacturer, no friend of the protective system, can be found, not withstanding his constant reiteration of the argument that the duty reduces the price, who is willing to take the tariff off the finished product and leave it on the raw material. In other words, there is no gentleman to be found among them who has sufficient confidence in his theory to subject it to a practical test. Notwithstanding their assertion that the imposition of a duty reduces the cost, they all want free trade in raw material, whether it be produced at home or abroad, and free trade in labor, no matter where it comes from.” Mr. Kelley had nothing further to say. *• Wide-Awake.”a “Sta'warl’’ correspondent of the Republican recently gave no:ice to “half-breeds’* that there would be no places on the Republican t’oket for them. The “half-breed’’ editor published the notice witht u comment, pocketed the dictatorial insult and exclaims “peace reigns tn Wai» saw,!”