Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-27
NEW ENGLAND AGAINST THE
WORKING CLASSES.

NEW ENGLAND AGAINST THE
WORKING CLASSES.
New England is the home of every
ultra idea and the hotbed of every
ism. From the day that KNEELANp
preached his atheism, and SMITH,
PHILLIPS and FRED DOUGLASS abo-
litionism, down to the present mo-
ment, isms have swarmed from that
quarter like bees from a hive. 1t is
remarkable withal that a people who
are so onscientiously honest in theory
should be so conscientiOusly e in
practice, having an eye to the pocket
even in their enterprises to which
they profess to be prompted by mo-
tives of philanthropy and religion.
Their religion of late has chiefly
consisted of negro. But the pocket
has always been well cared for. The
negro got very little from that quar-
ter. New England economy is not
prodigal. 1t consists chiefly in g pro-
lection s" of self. 1t has cheated the
red men out of their lands, and swim
dies the negro into determination.
They take care of the interests of
every body else-especially their own.
The truth is, their controlling minds
regard the masses of men as mere
drudges, to be used to enrich them
selves, and while they turn up their
pious eyes about well fed and
happy blacks, wiring labor and blood
from their own poor sewing women
at ten cents a day. The only right
they recognize in the poor and the
many, is that of labOring for and en-
riching the capitalists and the few.
By tariffs they have grown rich at the
expense of the Southern States, and
by their cunning in legislation, actu-
ally managed to grow rich during the
war. And the same grasping avarice
and heartless domination W. the
laboring classes, still continues to be
the policy of this great hot bed of Rad
icalism. The working classes all over
the country should be the natural enc
mics of these people. We subiOin the
following from the Philadelphia Age:
During the war national and State legis-
lation, which was almost exclusively man
| aged and controlled by New England in
iuence and men, exhibited To a marked
| and prominent degree the kind Of laws
| enacted by Eastern Radicals, when they
| steer the ship of State. This legislation,
| which was intended to, and is enriching
one class at the expense of all the rest of
the people. is beginning to be felt. The
wOrkingman is beginning to see that,
while he has been getting higher wages
for his labor. still the priceOf every article
which enters into the daily consumption
| of himself and family, has increased in 4
greater ratio than his pay, and, as a con-
sequence, he is no better, if so well OIL,
now, as when legislation was based upon
fair, equitable principles. This idea ap-
plies to the working classes, not to those
who are capitalists and control labor.
There a far different state of facts exists.
over this class the selfish legislation of
New England has thrown a shield Of prO-
| lection, and they AVE rapidly amassed
fortunes, while the laborer. artisan, me-
chanic or wOrkingman, has struggled on
during the war, paid the increased taxes,
and at its close found himself no richer
than at its commencement.
A few facts will Illustrate the difference
| between Radical legislation for capital,
and Radical legislation forlabor. Awool-
en- manufacturer, of Massachusetts,, said
in Boston, in 1865: Before the war it
cost me three dollars and fifty eentsa yard
to make cloth, and / sold it at four dol
lars. Now it costs me four dollars per
ward. and 1 sell il at eight dollars" This
shows how much the Radicals AVE done
for capital, how little for labor. It is fifty
cents for the laborer, the producer, the
man who supplies the working power,
and four dollars for the capitalist. This
is the proportion. In this anu high
prices are kept up II heavy burdens i'm
posed upon the substantial interests of
| the nation. 1t costs fifty cents a yard
more to make a yard of cloth, and yet
when those doing the work ave to pur-
| chase the same for clothing for themselves
and families they are charged m advance
Of four dollars. This is a mOnstrOus inn
position, and it is no wonder that work
ingmen find il diiiiculttO square accounts
at the end OF the year, although
they get advanced wages, The adj
vance is in proportion Of fifty cents to
labor and -four dollars 10 capital, and he
| effect of such legislation can be readily
/ Sttls W hlAt lABbA II NtdAlN bNhbNii II
by adverse action on the part of the Radi-
Gals, capital is floating on the spring tide
of success. Man1facting companies have
| declared enormous dividends, from thirty
to one hundred per cent, owing to the
manner ia which the legislation of the
nation has been manipulated by the Radi-
Gals. The large profits named are not the
returns of fair business energy n enter
prise. They were stimulated by partial
laws-laws in favor of money and against
labor, and the people have to pay advance
in the shape Ofhigh prices for all the arti-
cles they need. Fair encouragement to
capital should be extended, but
not to such extent as to enrich
the few al the expense Of the
hard-wOrked and oveT-taXed many.
New England Radicals have shown that
they mean to leglslate for a section, and
for the few of that section, and the pro
ducers should take immediate and proper
steps with reference to their interests.
The Radical party is in favor of protecting
the few at the expense of the many, and
of eleVating the negro to full political
! equality, in order that they can use his
vote to crush ont more completely the in
terests of white woFkngmen. This Is
their game in the Nation and in the State,