Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-04
WHAT PARTY SHOULD THE WORK.
LNGMAN SUPPORTs

We give place in another column to an
article presenting in candid manner some
ideas for every laboring man to consider
who intends to vote at the next election.
Strenuous efforts are being made to in
duce that class OF our people who earn
their living by the sweat of their brow to
vote the democratic ticket. As though
the republican party had been and is OPP
posed to the poor man and laborer, and
the democratic party has been and is the
friend Of the humble and lowly working
man.
1t would seem that no workingman
could be caught by this chaff. Here is
party formed upon the basis of free labor,
built up to Its present strength upon that
idea, that has given rivers of its best blood
to make and preserve our country so that
the laborer shall be master of himself and
not the slave Of another. This party is
the republican party.
Opposed to it is the democratic party.
Does any laborer need to be told that this
party held the laborer of the North as well
rs the South, the white as we'll as the
black, no better than slave, fit only for
mudsills, because he worked in the field
orr the shop for livelihood? Does he
need to be told that the democratic leaders
undertook to destroy the government that
they might grind the laborer under their
feet, buy and sell him and his wife and
children, yea. sell their own illegitimatc
children into bondageP Does he need to
be told that the national debt, increased
taxation, depreciation of paper currency,
manned soldiers, widows and orphans
created by the war, are all the work Of
this same democratic party struggling t.
keep down the laboring man and build NJ
an aristocracy of men who despise labor
If he does he has not read the history o.
the country for the past fifteen years, OF
he has suffered himself to be deluded.
The republican party has its foundations
cemented in the blood shed to protect the
laborer and raise him in the social and pc.
litical scale.
The democratic party is reeking with
blood poured out to keep the laborer in
chains and degradation.
The republican party is to-day the only
protection that the poor man in the south
ern States has against the oppression of
the old STAKEHOLDER.
The democratic party upholds violence
in the South to crush out the laborer, while
in the North it assails our labor in the in
terests Of British capitalists, as it forbids
Protestants to parade lest Catholics riot.
In the rebellion the British capitalists
gave the South a helping hand to destroy
the government. They sent out their pi-
rates to burn or .sink our commerce. in
which they were too successful, as our
shipowners and shipbuilders know to their
cost. They took the bonds Of the con.
federate government, furnishing gold in
return to wage hostilities. They supplied
arms, ammunition and moral support. AL
this mas done in the interest of aristocra
cy, and TO keep down in the scale tn
classes who labor. Butthe rebellion failed
Now they are laboring with free trade ar
rumanta, through the democratic party
% accomplish the same thing. But the
laborers Of this country are not like the
serfs of Europe. They read, think and