Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1888 — NO SNEER INTENDED. [ARTICLE]

NO SNEER INTENDED.

How the Republican Organs Speak of the Working Classes. [From the New York Herald.) Cne cf our R< publican contemporaries in a leading edit irial referred to the great Democrati,- party in the following way recently: “ Ihe worst elements in the country hope to elect Pr 'ident Cie\eland for another term by the aid of an element which thinks itself the let No sn> er is intended.” Th) I), mocra i partv, as is well known, represents \ery Inrgel/ the m n who gatti eir liv nr by he tw at o. the r i r >ws. Ihty are all dumped togeih ir. howev.r, in one pile as worth--1 ss lUbbish, and, w h a supercilious shrug of the shoulders, s.igma zed as “the worst elen eats in th s country.” A fair pa aphrase of the a’>ove siatemen;. there cm, would le d tomethiug like this: We. the Republicans are Ih>ge t’e n< nos this county, aid the Government should be rnu in oar fax or and for oar prot» <t on ; you Democrats am the fellows in shirt slee e i—the gmasy mechanics, with ytur petty Jan r ergamza ions i n I your pes ering demand f< r higher wages and your horrible strike); you cm the grubl era of the soil—mere ploughshare patriot s— who have get to be put down aud kept down. Well it is very handsome in the Republican organs to come out in this candid way and say just what they thin . If they have really reached the conclusion that the common- people arc no good; that the time has arrived in the history of this co ntry when the fundamental belief that “all men are born free and equal” may be successfully denied—is an insult to the cultured and wealthy class—why, that is an extremely interesting fact, and we shall regard the reception of the new doctrine with considerable curiosity, but, we confess, without a particle of fear as to the result. The Republic in platform illustrates thia novel phase of politic). It announces a determination to lift th) tariff still higher rather than to lower L. That, of course, would make the cost of living more expensive. You must pay more for the necessaries of life and manage to get along wittout any of its comforts. Tpe large de tiers are to be protect d. The business of the country is to be placed in the hands of the few, while small dealers who have made a fair profit, scrape! tog;ther a few thousands, moved into a better bouse, bought a piano for their dau;hte s, sent their boys to college, must I ive way, get out, go into bankruptcy or back into the rank; of the day laborer, where they belorg Still, when they sell their furniture and remove to the tenement, Ihey are to understand distinctly that “no sneer is rntenled.’’ r lhis is to be a monopolists’ government, and as they are not monopolists but only poor folk they must accept 1 heir fate with tho same cheerful faith in provi lenc r with which the “trusts" look over their cozy ban c account and thank the Lord and the Republican party that they are not as other men are. The Democratic platform is in strong contrast with all this. It is the platform of the common people, who are rated by our contemporary as "the worst elements in this country,” though “no sneer is intended. ” It demands an immediate reduction of the taxes, because the Government is already rich enough, and, for .hat matter, the poorer you keep it the better. It proposes a larger market for American products, because that will give a new impulse to business and steady employment to the working classes. It be ieves in money and wants every man to have some. It does not believe in a poor multitude and a rich few-, but in a fair distribution of changes, so that everybody who has the ability may get his share. Ti e people will make their choice between these two platforms in November. “No sneer is intended.”