The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-07

6 Mississippi levees'-so that democrats,
1t least, ought not to take exception to the
statement But the address states that the
- democratic party who rule New York
" city are letting the poor laboring men
4" starve." True isn't 1t 4? The democracy |
have complete control there, and now en-
poy only five hundred workmen on the |
public works, while they pay eleven mil |
lions of dollars annually as salaries to or
fic'als connected with the department OF
public works. This fact alone shows
whether or not, in New York city, the
democratic party "are letting the poor Ia
"boring men etarvc."
Nothing, so far, 50 very terrible IN this
address il there ? Is there anything out
fair, legitimate argument9 Nothing even
souintiug toward "intmidalion' and Ter
" rorism' is thero2 But hold! We are
Just reaching the terrible Tart Here is
where the "iutimidation" and terrorism
comes in. The address asks "Do you
want to lose the work you now have in the
quarries and marble mills ?" This is the
cliucher. This is coercing citizess, by
threatening them with a loss OF work in
case they vote the democratic ticket. We
invite PARTICULAR attention to this portion
of the adhesive publish the address in
full elsewhele-and ask in all candor if
there is word contained therein which
Can, by any ingenuity of reasoning, by any
| natural or forced construction of the Eng
| lish language be construed into threat
| 10 there u word, or an intimation, OF IN
." timidation p Is it not all fair, legiti-
mae argument proper to be addressed TO
intelligent voters ?
WAL IS the reason, as stated in the adj
dress, why there is danger, with the sue
GEES OF the democracy, that these working
men will lose their present employment in
the quarr;es and marble mills 1t is sim
ply that the democratic party profess to
favor 'free trade" that with full power
in tn, ir hands, to be consistent they must
adopt free trade, and so foreign marble
slate, etc, would be introduced into thit
country free of Guty; that without the
protection afforded by the tariff, our mar
bic producers could not compete with til,
producers of Italian marble and that
consequently, the quarries must ceas'
working, or the price of labor must b.
largely reduced True isn't it? Why
without going to the extent Of free trade
even with the reduced duties proposed in
bill introduced by Morrison, democratic
member of congress from Illinois, an,
which would have passed the house had
been reached, one or the other of these re
suits must have followed The propositio
is too plain for argument; but because o
bringing this fact to the attention of thos
, interested, in perfectly proper manner
the democracy of Rutland are frightene
out of their boots, and timdly shout "1r
= ''timidation !" "Coercion !" "White leagu
q GERS !" "Nor,hern ku klux ~
r The only remaining portion of the &C
dress is, the statement of the self-evideI
proposition that an Initiation of the currenc
appreciates the value of the currency an
enhances the price Of the necessaries c
life, coupled with the infcience-which
I the only logical deduction from Democrat
: plat forms, candidates land letters of accep
q ance, and the action of the democrat
n party in congress-that imitation will il
/, evitably result from the success of the d.
b mocracy in the country.
ir We have thus examined this wonderfv
e and terrible address-which we publish
b the special request of leading democrats
lie and we fail to see anything improper or u
ID usual in it, anything bordering on 'intin
ID dation" or terrorism" If there is az
c hidden mystery about it, we fail to d
e cover it. The only thing approaching
d coercion" is the coercing of the Engli
II language into some queer shapes, but tn
ID lie not so very strange when we have teache
% who write about the SCHOLAR in polite
: and that this election will "shurely settle
d the ''suthern" question-and he candida
's for Office. Upon the whole, we are incl
2. ed to think that our democratic frien
St have discovered very big mares nest.