Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-25
g: g: 3. 3. EIoob, AM Editors.
WEDNESDAY, moHN1NG.s now as
The Republican Press Alarmed
by rhe InrOads of Labor.

The Republican Press Alarmed
by ihe Inroads of Labor.
The Republican press is wonderfully and
fearfully made. Itassumes to be the vigi-
liant sentinelupon the watch tower of free
dom, liberty and equality, and it processes
to.tiy aJ every wrong with the ferocity Of a
tiger. 1t has just sounded an alarm and
thrown the camp into confusion. A great
wrong, viewed from its stand point, has
been committed, or is about to be commit
ted, and it summons its party to arouse
and crush it out relentlessly. ' .,5!16a p.
BY Congressional enactment, it has been
provided that eight hours shall constitute
a days work in the Navy Y ards and work.
shops of the United States. Following
this enactment comes q decision by the
Attorney General, that for these eight
hours work, these employees are entitled
to as much pay as they heretofore received.
for their ten hours work. These laborers
are few in number, and sdmittfng the inn
probability that they would do one itth
less work than they did when ten hours a.
udH were vi buCul5 bhC dilLCA ChSO
paid them would be comparatively insig-
nificant. bshsg lisf5al 59b nislI9o : !9sfts'
We are told by the Republican press, that
this example set by the Governments of pay
ing workingmen in their. employ ten hours
pay for eight hours work, will lead to dis
content anon glaboringmen and mechanics
throughout. the country I; that it will cause
widespread longing, with all manner of
scheming on the part of mechanics and La
borersy to get into these places !; that the
result will be that Indifferent workmen and
Indifferent mechanics will get into, them
through political manipulation. These
faithful Republican watehmeh are sure,.
very sure, absolutely sure, that the me
chanics and laborers throughout the eoun-
try will not submit to be taxed to sustain
any such system of aristoeracy.S, 1t is al
legged, that sIl paid for over, eight hours
work, when that is,only the length of time
in which work has been performed, is a
gratuity. wrung from the mechanics and Ia
borers of the country. and that they will
not unmurmuringly submit tosit long. 81
We beg the Republican press to continue
to talk in this way. 1t will open the eyes
of the people, and show them what the
Democratic press has undertaken to con-
vince them of, that all the expenditures OF
the Government are wrupg from their toll
and industry. In the campaign justended,
when the Democratic press and the Demo-
cratic speakers undertook to iunveilz the
iniquity of !exempting from taxation the
immense eapital-hundreds upon hundreds
of millions-invested in Government
Bonds, the holders Of which were
drawing thereon regularly every six
months big interest, the Republican poli-
ticians did what they could TO cover 1t up
by assertions that the poor men, the me-
ehanics and laberers paid no, taxes, bat
that the, rich and well to do people paid
them all; but when it is pro-
posed to give to, ,,- the laborer
and mechanic who work ON Governments
work n pitifol increase in their daily COM
pensation, the nervous system OF these
gentlemen is very much disturbed and they,
setiabout giving eonspicuity to the fact,
thatwhateyer sum is paid these workmen
by the Government comes off other work.
men in the country. The clerks in the
service Of the Government work but six
hours q day, and they receive more com
pensation for these six hours services tn an
do the other clerks in the United States
for eight and ten hours services. The pay
for these clerks whodo but six hours work
comes off the labor and industry OF the
country. We have not heard that this fact
has seriously disturbed the nerves of these
Republican editors. ttsoFaFg sG-H.'iEsI
!. Hundreds of millions of the public lanes
are given to great railroad corporations-.
lands that belong to the people-and yet
the Republican press-these vigilant sem
tinels-never once awaken and sound the
alarm that this is an indefensible wrong.
Millions upon millions of dollars are.
'squsndered yearly on Freedmen's Bureaus
in the South, on the pretence thatthey are
necessary to protect. the Negroes against
outrage, fraud and thieyery. but in reality
subserve the partisan ends of the Re
publican party. The cost of these Repub-
lican lighthouses is collected from the labor
and industry of the country in one form
OF taxation and another. And yetth Re
publican press discover no wrong in it. 4
On the shoulders of labor, industry and
enterprise of the United States is thrown
the additional taxation caused by the great
amount of capital invested in Bonds going
scott free OF taxation. This, the Republic
can press justiies as right, as in accordance
with the requirements of justice, of law
and everything of that sort. Itwould seem
chat the chief end of legislation, in the es-
timation of Republican, journals, should be
to promote the interests of'capital and
build up huge corporations, which grow
rich and insolvent upon the industry OF
the great mass of the people who work
from before the rising of the sun until
after the going down thereof; and that any |
movement on the part OF these toiling |
masses to mitigate their hardships and to |
themselves with the comforts OF
life, should be crushed out by stern reproof. |
The .Journal and Negro Suffrage. |
The Journal has an attack of Negro Sut- |
frage. 1t states that sjust two years ago. |
some six or seven papers, which it asserts
are papers "of transcendant ability in the
party" and zinc ude all the
,blest Democratic journals in the country
pronounced for Negro Suffrage as tile
,nly salvation of the Democratic party"
These journals were. not backed up by
,he Democratic party in thus attempting to
strike down the political barriers which
e eparattd the two races. The Journal says
he Democratic party repudiated these
organs and their statesmaniike views
With scorn," because theye"had neither the
Wit, the sagacity,, the enlightened liberalf- 4
y nor manliness to assent to. this course;
hat it was "unable to rise above the vulgar,
,rutaJ preinSieei which leads men of low