Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — PBOTECTING LABOR [ARTICLE]

PBOTECTING LABOR

The result of the township elections all over the state is. certainly gratifying to the Democracy. Close up the lines, be prepared o advanee-ie solid column next Nov-, ember, and Jasper will be redeemed. The flimsy pretexts urged by oar neighbor for the close call of Mr. Griswold last Monday produces a general smile along the lino. Our neighbor seems to be hard up for consolation. Ho .mounces Frank Welsh and J no. R Gt-iv ns Greenback, rs. Wo smile at his J»nnli ity. Our neighbor writhes under the Democratic lash as applied on last Mondav Road his reasons for the result. To witness his squirming is better than a circus. The Democratsljn this county hold the same number of Trustees as at the election two ■ years ago—four. But for local dissensions in Unior» Newton, Kankakee, Walter and Barkley; they would have had a walK away' The Evaisvill* Journal, Re?u»lica«, thinks there is not enough “enthusiasm in the God and morality party this ear, From the complexion es - the returns this spring, throughout the State. We should think not-

Had the Democrats of this township given up the notion that tl ey could not overcome the radical majority it would have been done. Many retmined at borne, impressed with this Idea, and tye failed by lack of four ve’ea to-sej|fc' the Trustee. Let the th Jfrom the naiads of uiifWeids, rally to the polls, and never give up to defeat until the last ticket «e<Znted out de cl/le# that to be the result. The N. ¥. TrJbnne, before the War, expressed Its disgust with the Unien> denounced the flag as a “rag" and a "flaunting lie.” and when the troubs les narrowed down to peaceable »gparation or war it favored peaceable separation, with the argument th nt a Pnioa pinned together witjjibayonets would be no Union at allWThe Repubiiean conies fin *xpiess’ ion of its •pluior of she Dem ocratic party. Its views wili affect tlio party aoout qs much the inferences of a radical tempera:\ee lecturer vviil affect the standingadiLreputation of Mr. Voorhees . \

. The '.lie pub Lean leaflets a <1 cspiialists, 46-a whole, do ikot differ from Mr. Hehry Ctews, a prtAninent banker of New Yora and an active Republican piotectiotnsY who Ain a recent interview declared that the lab >ring f classes of the Uuited Stat s must be educated to accept a reduction of say, 33a per cent, from the present rates of wages. He says: ' “Manufacturers should uotcut down without explaining why, but theyphould letythe employes know that unless wtfijss are lower great industries will be paralyzed-, Strikes should be avoided. How is . this to be brought about? Well, it will come' with tne immigration of labor sktHed and otlasrwis**.- from Europe. At present the east, gets uo benefit from t e vast that is pourinrg into 't,ds coo ntry. The immigrants go directly to homes In the w st, provided for them- in advance. We must have as cheap labor as that of JUuroptj or our imerests must suffer.” above is tho Dian the Republiwould adopt, yet are furs ever talking about protecting the ia bbter and the way they propose to do it is by reducing his wsg£s. In referring to this matter the Kansas City Star very truthfully remarks that Mr, Cbws undoubtedly states just what most protectionists believe, and what such of them as are engaged in large manufacturing enterprises are acting upon. They are certainly doing their b<*st to “educate the laboring classes” 10 accept a great reduction from existing rates of wages and a ard process it is for those who are compelled to learn the lesson- At Fall River, for instance, there are thousands of workingmen and their families to-day on the verge of starvatijn, although, the factories which formerly employed them have for years paid dividends ranging from 15 to 75 per cent, Stock in some of these manufacturing institutions commands 500 per cent. prem. ium. The owners of these mills are living in luxury upen the accumulated profits of previons years, and now, because they cannot pay such

j large d vrdends m formerly teey reduce the wages of their employes or turn them out to starve. Their col* o ?s.i| fortunes were made by those whom they now oppress, and for whose welfare they care vastly less than for that of the blooded stock they nave imported front Europe. These are the men who prate abeut the “dignity of American labor," and who prephscy th<\ruin of the country if the tariff robbery is stopped, There is somihing lacking in a civilization in which o uch spectacles as are now to be seen ,t FallJßiver and the in inufaeturiqg districts of Pennsylvania as possible. It is some thing which will be supplied in the near future, or there will be a involution which will shake the fabric of s >ciety to its very depths. The wealth which labor creates belongs t« labor, and any system by wnlch labor is jobbed of this wealth is con trary to the laws of the Almighty and to the plainest dictates of justice and humanity. A very essential part of that system is the relie of barbarism called the protect : ve tariff- The relic must disappear before the march of enlightenment, and in the process of wiping It out the capitalist classes for which Mr. Clews speaks must be “educated” to accept a reduction of at least 33| per cent, upon the average rate of profits now realised »v them In the good time com ing no capitalist or corporation will be allowed to reap enormous divl dends from the fruit of unpaid labor. There te a growing feeling that the workingman is entitled not only to sufficient food and clothing, but to his share of the good things of life. This is making itself felt in the old world even mere than in the new and before many years the capitalists will be obliged to centorm to its demauds. The first step toward the mancipation of the American work*ngmen from his present thralldom is the abolition of the protective system; and after that will come other measures for the “education” of Mr, Clews’ select few ’o a sense of theii duties and responsibilities toward thq rest of the community.

Some days ago An a tor George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts made a speech la the Senate on the educational bill oefere that body. In closing bis speech, Bear made an insulting allusion to North Carolina as being the “tail State” in illiteracy. This called Senator Varfice, of North. Carolina, to his feet, whv promptly passed the Massaahusetts Hoar ’hrough his threshing machiue. Senator Vance did not legat'd it proper fora Senator from th# “Te vkrfbury State” to lecture any other State, ' Poor old Hoar and Iris State caught it right and left, Vance charged that Massachusetts was “a State tha: from the very beginning es the foundation of our Government, rather of our'strug* gle for independence, has sacrificed every principle and every ion that was inconvenient fur the purpose of gain, to taunt with poverty who have beep kept poor by the no cess of plunder; a State that is more responsible under Heaven than any other community in this Lind for the lot:eduction of slavery 1. this Conti nent. with all the curses that have followedfit, that is the nursing mother of the horrors of the middle passage, and that after Slavery in Massachusetts was found not to pay sold those slaves down South for a considera tinn, and then thanked God, and sang the long meter doxology through their noses, that they were not responsible any longer for the sin of hpman slavery. Mr. Vance thought that a State with such a record ceuld afford to be medest in applying epithets to her neighbors. Ths course pursued by* the Massachusetts Republican Hoar reminded Mr. Vance of a circumstance which illustrated the position*©! Massachusetts in all great moral questions, “I heard once o fan old maid,” said Mr. Vance,“who got religion at a camp meeting. Im mndiatly after she experienced the change she commence I exhorting the younger and pre.tier women in regard to wearing jewelry and gewgaws, and warned them against the pernicious consequence to piety ®f such vanities. Oh girls,’ said she, ‘I tell you I used to wear ear rings and finger rings, laces and furblcws like you do, but I foun ! they were dreg ging my immortal uoul down to hell and I stripped them eve;y ode off and sold them to my younger sister Sally.’ That is the way Massachusetts relieved herself from slavery. That is the way sue preserved her white* ness of soul.” That is just about the position Massachusetts eoouplss.— S ?nator Vancejdrew the picture of the "Tewksbury State’ with sueh master* ly aoouracy that tho wbele country will redegnize it at the first glahee