The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-03
From ne Nr,o York Po,s.
The PARTY OF THE LABoRINa

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a very large majority of the votenl
in the United States are men engaged
in productive industry. 1t is their In
terest, first OF all, that the government
make labor honorable, and its rewards
large and safe.
The policy of The democratic party
directly tends to make labor disreputa'
BILE. and to diminish and render uncer-
tain its earning. That Of the RepublI.
can party directly tends to protect and
sustain the interests OF the laborer,
Were their respective politics fully un-
derstood by every honest and patriotic
workman in the country, not one OF
them would vote for Seymour or for
Hoffman.
1t is an idle pretense on the part OF
the democrats that their policy Is hos
tile only to men who are not OF pure
white descent. It Is true that mean
prejudice ofrace Is fostered by them,
and Is main element oftheir strength.
But the real ground OF the contempt
and hatred expressed by democratslo-
working people. In the southern
states, and wherever slavery prevails,
labor is despised, and laboring men
form a caste excluded from the society
of those who live in idleness.
This notion, that responsibility con.
sists in living upon the earnings OF
other men, has spread from the late
party, and has given tone to that
whole organization. The men who
call laborers "mudsills" are the men
who dictated the democratic platform
at New York; the men who now pro-
claim that "aIl5 that.was lost by the
defeat of Lee at Richmond will be
gained by the election of Seymour and
Lei ~ 0 koW In 40
cession Is now more alive than ever.o
The NewYor ring of Tammany Hall.
whose figure h cad Is John II. Hoffman,
Is body of men devoted to the same
principle. They are the people at large;
and live by Rppropriatingt to themselves
the fruit of other mems labors, just as
dishonesty as any STAKEHOLDER. They
are the worthy allies of the southern
champions otan aristocraoy ofidleness
and robbery. Every lRboring man
who votes for Hoffman votes to give
the Tammany ring the control Of the
state Treasury: and through that, the
power to tax him for its support. He
would be as wise to keep his savings
with pickpocket.
The laboring man is concerned for
the right of himself and his class to
prosecute their Industry everywhere.
Why is 1t that all the workmen who
come TO America by hundreds and
thousands from Ireland and Germany
remain in Republican States? Why do
no Irishmen or Germans settle in such
States as South Caroline and Mississip-
pi, which have always been controlled
by Democrats2
Labor is in demand everywhere in
the United States. a days work can,
on the average, add more to the worlds
wealth, and earn more for itself, In the
fertile cotton lands of the southern
than nm ANY other FlOFtinFn nj tho
earth's surface. Why does not labor
go there7 Why were the markets of
the world, which demanded a yearly
increase OF a million bales in the cotton
crop, supplied with an average in.
crease'of less than a hundred thousand,
puted control of the whole cotton terri
tory? -- -zzs fl.r-@ slss
Because that party hates, Expresses
and despises laborinR men. 1t was re-
solved TO allow no labor but that of
slaves; and to degrade to the level Of
slaves every working man. The de-
struction of slavery, brought about by
the Republican party in the interest OF
the labOring people everywhere, has not
entirely discouraged its friends. They
still hold the soil in nearly all the
Southern States. and Cypress, perse-
cute and kill those who attempt to de-
mRnd for laborers a fair share OF their
~ and political power which true Re-
publicanism refuses to no industrious,
b lnest man.
There is no interest of the working
people, after the peaceful enjoyment OF
political equality and of their own
earnings, more pressing than their In
teresI in the financial administration
of the government. The Democratic
platform demands equal taxation of
every kind of properly according to
its Halue''-a taxation of the lAboring
man on his bread, his clothes, his daily
earnings, as heavy as that OF the rich
man upon his wine, his car
riase, his vast income. No party
that can blnnder into such a demand,
in the solemn presentation of Its funda-
mental principles, can be trusted
with the finances of the country.
The rest of its ayowed policy is as
ruinous TO the laborer as this sample.
Its proposed immense issues of curren-
cy would bring on an era of specnla-
never saw. All property would adj
vance in price faster than the earnings
oflabor; capital would accumulate In
hands that never used dollar of 1t,
and the poor man would be plundered.
The unsettling of values which would
result from such q shock to the nation-
al credit as Seymour's election would
distress upon all who depent on their
daily earnings. Thousands of specu-
lators would be enriched by the depre.
citation oEthe currency, at the expense
of working men. 10 &
There is for the man who lives by
work but one course which accords
with his interests, his dignity, his pa-
triotism; and that is to support with
zeal the party which believes in labor,
and would give fit honor and freedom
throughout the land: which would Sc
cure TO 1t the enjoyment of its earnings
in peace, and that steady, undisturbed
gfowth in prosperity and accumulation
OF properly which must come TO It in a
land like this, under a free, firm, up
right government. 3-t
General Grant, as President, support
ed by Congress, will give pence 10 the
whole country; will make laber re-
spected and honorable; viii give value
TO the cuEtency OF the country, stability
to all the markets, and therefore to the
wages of Workmen, and viii command
for the nation the confidence of the
world. BE represents the party of the
lnboring man. ess5 = -
THE WEST VIRGINIA TRIUMPH.
The grand Republican victory in
West Virginia should not be forgotten.
The loyal men of that young State
have been subjected to peculiar trials,
huences. With old Virginia on one
side and Kentucky on the other, they
have not only had to contend against
prejudices of peculiar anti-Republican
strength, but they have been exposed
at the polls to heavy fraudulent Inn
portations. 1t was confidently expect.
ed by the Democratic leaders that IheiI
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