The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-11-06
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THE PETS OF REPUBLTCANrSM.


The Republican papers are pitching
into the Workingmen's Association of
east Portland. OF course, the only or
CARNATIONS that those papers can afford
to encourage are those composed of
capitalists and monopolists. There is
no end to the ''protecton" that these
fellows want, and no limit to the clam
or of republican papers for special
legislation in their behalf. The man
who carries the purse is the one whose
interests radical newspapers consult.
All others are set down as of no par
ticular account except to furnish
''cheap labor.
The whole history of the republican
party, its argument, its present policy,
are all directed one way-to protect
capital at the expense of labor. What
do they protect in the United States !?
Not labor. There is nothing to keep
the SO much talked about cheap labor
er of England, or the slave laborel of
China from coming here and placing
his muscle and his skill in our market.
If You are in danger from cheap labor,
this is the only source of your danger
Cheap labor cannot hurt you so much
in any other form. These competitors
your protectionist permits invites to
come. Now who is kept out? The
mn,afacturer, whose capital comes here,
represented by his mills and factories,
to compete with American mills and
factories. The cheap labor employed
In those factories may come, since it
only completes with our labor. But
the articles manufactured by those
factories can not come. There is all
there is of the question. 1t is con-
fiict of capital. It is the moneY that
your protectionistha has III his machinery,
not the hands that work that machin-
cry, that asks protection and getsit.
Let the men who direct the radical
party answer this !: Your internal rev.
enue, like the external one. puts n
fearful addition to the cost of those
articles of domestic use which the Ia
berer must have, until, notwithstand-
inghis increased wages, he can scarcely
keep himself supplied with the neces-
saries of life.
The more money a man has, the less
he is taxed and rice rerSa. Your
wholesale exemption of bondholders
from direct tax literally realizes the
scripture which says: ITO him that
hath shall be given, and from him that
hath not shall be taken, even that
which he hath. .
You are never tired of talking about
the sanctity of the public debt, and of
your determination to pay it in coin
IN other words to return the lender
about twice as much money as he
loaned. Neither are you ever tired of
writing diatribes against Working
mems Associations, " Combination"
and all organizations of laborers for
mutual protection. It is useless to
attempt concealment of your purpose
to make yourselves the guardians of
Bonds, Stocks, Iron Works, Mills and
Factories least of the persons who
own all these and who live In luxury.
where toll and tax collectors do not
intrude. You endow these institutions
with the money that your revenue laws
assess upon every man who is con-
sumner. You fence about these estab-
ishments and hedge them In with pro-
lection laws. You curse the people
with exorbitant prices and inferior
fabrics. Under the pretext of foster.
ing trade and giving employment to
labor, you create monopolies to crush
labor under your subjection. And
you create monstrous bonded debt
which saps the vitality and mortgages
the industry of the country, and which
becomes at once an instrument to gov
ern and oppress.
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