The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-20
The Knen OF Free LabOr-The New
Slavery OF the New Nation.

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We shall hear from the American La
borer now This class has submitted to
unexamPle wrong and oppression from the
party IN power, If not without murmur-
ing, certainly without the effective resist
ancee which might and ought to have been
made
Labor pays all taxes !; and American
Labor has submitted to tbHSheaviest taxa
ton imposed on any people on the earth.
1t has allowed the bondholder total. ex-
emption; and it has paid the bondhold-
er's share from the wages of daily
toll 80
1t has gwen twenty-five cents out of
every dollar it has earned, to enrich pro-
tected monopolists.
1t has seen the public Landslide Joint
property OF the whole people-onee set
apart for cheap homes for the poor-piven
| away by tens Of millions of acres to land
sharks and lobbyists.
And yet, strange to say, with the bal
lot IN their hands, and with the power, if
| exerted, to reverse the whole course OF
Administration, and preserve its rights,
| and protect itself, it has remained passive,
suffering wrongs without resistance.
But as we said, we shall hear from it
now!
The importation of Chinese laborers.
their substitution, IN all forms of labor,
for Americans or Europeans, is the most
momentous fact Of the time. It is Ieplete
with disaster to working men. It means
starvation, ruin, slavery in the worst OF
conceivable forms.
1T MEANS STARVATION!
1t means starvation to white laborers.
In Massachusetts single firm of shoe
manufacturers have imported one hundred
Chinese operatives. They do the work
well. They are ingenious and quick to
learn. And various other industries are
watching the results of the experiment,
intending so soon as they are assured OF
its practicability, to make similar impor-
| tations.
These Asiatics work for term of wears
for nifty cents day, and board themselves.
The men whom these Pagans have sup
planted received from 50 to Sc day
The latter are now thrown out of employ ;
and soon, in all human probability, every
shoemaker in the State will have to come
down to the Chinese price per day, or go
out Of employ.
IT MEANS SLAVERY.
This is slavery in its worst form. By
the Southern system the master provided
for the young, the old, the sick, the in
firm. There is no obligation on the new
master IN the New Nation, to do anything
OF this sort The helpless may die with
no more care than is bestowed on a dog.
The master pays per day price on which
no American or European laborer can
live; and with the first days inability to
work, destltution comes to the slave
THE HIVE OF IAROP
There is absolutely no limit to the
amount Of this cheap labor. Enough
may be brought from China, Just so soon
as steamers can convey Cinnamon to our
shores, to do all the labor of every sort
that IS required in the United States
Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty millions Of
these laborers can be supplied if needed !
All willing to work for fifty cents a day,
and board themselves.
Able to work in mines, effective hands
on railroads, so ingenious that they can
at once. with former experience, supply
the places of trained shoemakers in the
great factories
Is not this a momentous fact for the
American mechanics and laborers of every
sort?
And so far as we have observed, every
Republican paper is in favor of this Pa
gan irruption-this inundation of slaves
intended to destroy American labor ut
terly, or reduce it to the degraced condi-
ton which IS inseperable from unrequited
toll.
Laboring men, look to your interests
Work while it is yet day, for the night
cometh ?-NOrth1oeSt