The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-14
OHIO POLITICS.

Protection to Labor and LSbOrers-Gn- |
creased Tariff Desired-Judge KelIey's |
Reply to Democratic AspersIOns, Etc,
EVENING FELEeRAPH SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE I
CINCINNATI, Sept. IL, lS87.--The political cam
paign has begun long since, and, judging by
peace-and the energy with which each party
seeks to attain the object of its desires, this
campaign bids fair to be an exciting one.
Reports from various sections Of the state,
however, and the enthusiasm with which Re
publican doctrines are received by the people
throughout the Commonwealth, add force to
what all believe, that OHIO will this tail roll up
a majority of loyal votes that will make king
Andrew the First quake with fear In the Pre-
The extension of suffrage to the coloyed man
is a condition which the people of OHIO, as do
all others, believe necessary TO the reconstruo-
tion of the South, and the reorganization of
loyal State governments necessity made evil
dent upon n consideration OF the present status
of the white people OF the South-the majority,
yirulent antagonis is TO all republican and loyal
doctrines; the minority too feeble TO aid IN re-
constructing their own States.
Among the noted statesmen who have argued
the situation in Ohio, Judge Kelley, OF Phila-
delphia, mas been enthn.slas!Ilc,a,ily received,
our country, and education extended TO all on
equal terms.
tariff legislation of the Republican party, he
said:--You cannot govern all families by the
are different. The man who was last week
worth a hundred Thousand dollars and is to-day
when he was rolling IN wealth. The man who
lives in large city like Boston, Philadelphia
man just planted in a homestead in Kansas
or a man who lives in Cincinnati, with its IN
dustrial power. It's internal commerce, and us
manifold i'm plements, cannot govern his family
just as he can when residing in nice country
retreat with ample means about him. What is
good legislation for one country is not good for
another, and nation is but great family.
England could not raise food enough for her
laborers and IL became her interest to admit
all forms of food duty free, and she cheapened
the cost of labor by giving her laborers cheap
food. A country that has iron and coal lying
in abundance; that has cotton, and wool, and
these in order that its unemployed people, who
were raising grain and could tind no market
for it, might have work, should have protec-
ton; and when the Democratic party had In
volved our country in war, and encouraged the
South to hold out, in the hope that 1t would be
victorious, our country was in debt, and its ex-
penses required it TO tax everything that its
seasons had. When Congress could no lon ger
depend upon Custom houses for revenue-with
nOthiEg to pay your soldiers in the field, no
teTna1 taxation. It taxed the wool and Wheat
OF Ohio; it taxed the iron and coal OF Pennsyl-
Middle States, and the West. And what would
1t have been il it had let the tariff stand? Our
Industry burdened with taxes, our produce
burdened, would be laid up in the market. and
foreign goods would have been brought in
whose holders paid no taxation. This would
have shut up all our manufactorles. Our in
dustry woul1 have died out. So in order to
prevent this we increased the tariff, as we did
the taxes, to secure onr workmen labor and its
Just return. And say, without fear of contra
enough in proportion to the internal taxes
nor as protective as when our flag was fred on
as IL hoated serenely from Fort Sumter. y
If a system OF co operation can be wrought out
by which the profits of every establishment
tween The owners IhereoI and tbe iaDorers @
therein shall feel that the controversy be-
tween labor and capital will have been happily
healed.
Judge Kelley quoted from speech of Mr..
Reemelin, q Democratic leader, lately made:-
"See these pantaloons of mine. They cost in
Germany $3.50. Here they would cost $40. Add
TO $3.50 for profit, exchange, freight, and higher
Ja1lOfage here S1'2U, and IL makes Still leaV.
ing SO to go 10 somebody. Who gets it? The
manufacturer" l have book continued the
STsg SSnTsdge, printed in Englsndi setting forth how now
Reemelin yV0ufd be s1rpTTii pTTii99e9d1TT%hag It is M
tain that he was wearing the clothes of small
pox patients, or extracted from the rags picked
flom the cutters of great cities, from the lazza-
ront of italy; and yet, If he wears clothes COM
mandipg the price he named that is true.
America contributes to the manufacture of
Bhoddy, mungo (or soft and fine) rags; Scotland
sends her old stockings and mixed rags; Ger
many her knitted mons" and Austria and
of soft and mungo rags; and by process they
draw these old rags, which have been exported
from this country, into wool, weave them into
'shoddy" cloths and send them back for
American use.
be well for Congress to so legislate that you
should be able to compete with the tailors OF
Belgium and Switzerland, who earn from
eightyfour cents per day. The Democratic
leader who made that speech would
rags Of the world, while they drove theil
sheep to the fold TO shear them. The
great masses of the country hope and trust
that labor will be better secured in its just re.
turns than it is now; for under the republican
system, which contides the government TO the
laboring classes, wages should be liberal and
employ yment tconstant-wageS for the American
laborer adequate to provide a decent house foI
him and his family-ampIe food and healthfu
schools for the children, and the ability oi
the industrious father to maintain them while
there obtaining an education, and finally ia
lay by little something for a "rainy day" and
the in firmities of age.