The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-31
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shines were good-money plenty
and the leaders of the Republican
party were promising Laboring men
"honest pay for honesttoil, "ifHayes
was elected, the Democracy told them
tina. if Hayes was elected Contraction
would go on, the business OF the
country would be reduced, employ
ment could not be obtained at any
price, and hundreds of poor men
would be reduced to starvation.
These fearful predictions are being
fulfilled. All over Ohio, unemploy-
ed and starving Laboring men are
demanding work or bread! Soon
the desperation of starvation will de-
maud bread or blood! We believe if
the Republican party succeeds at 1.-THE
elections this fall, the ''hard times"
we now experience are nothing in
comparison to what the poor will suf-
fer under the contraction policy of
the Republican party, the leaders of
which take care of the Bondholders
that the Bondholders and other rich
men may take care of the poor. The
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Laboring men have yet the remedy
in their own hands-at the ballot
boxes they may yet redress all polit-
|ieal wrongs-if they fail to assert
these rights this fall, the money pow
or will take away the right to vote
unless they r worth SO much mo
ney, and then will the serfdom of the
American laborer to the money pow
er be complete.
We told you last fall, farmers and
laboring men of Preble county, that
the men who were promising you
good times" were deceiying you,
that you and your families would be
hard pressed and in want, while the
leaders ofthe Republican party would
be living in ease and enjoying the
good things of life. Look around
you, and see if what we told you
would be the result of Republican
success has not come true? There
are other and greater depths of suf-
fering for you if Hayes is elected
President, and you should be warn
ed by the experience of the past to
take care of the future by voting
against every Republican nominee.
About eight hundred thousand La
borers in Ohio are out O Unemployment
and winter close at hand, and under
the contraction policy of the Repub-
lican party there is no hope of relief
at present. Suffering and starvation
is the horrible fate that awaits thou
sands of them in our large cities, and
recently meetings have been held for
the purpose of considering their sit
u~ation. At one held in Cincinnati
last month, the following preamble
was adopted which we commend to
the careful reading of all our read
ers, especially TO that class of men
who are voting for the ruinous poll
cy of the party that is bringing this
condition of things upon the coun-
try:
ave, the laboring men of the city,
in council assembled, have calmly
considered our situation. The labor
ing mans wages in the past have
barely been adequate to sustain life
and provide a shelter for himself and
family from day to day. The pres
ent is a doubtful struggle between
life and starvation, for want of en-
ployment, with slight exceptions,
since last fall. We look to the fu-
ture with the most fearful %apprehen-
sions of che resultant consequences
of our unemployment. When our
employment ceases our bread ceases
to be provided for ourselves and fam
lilies; and man cannot live without
bread. Starvation is then at Jul
doors. We are not insensible of the
wealth and plenty that exists in this
city, s~nficientto supply our ~necessi-
ties, but without employment we have
no legal means of obtaining it. Nei
Their are we insensible who have con-
tributed to this wealth. and who the
recipients are. The recipients enjoy
luxury and ease, while we starve and
toll, and are treated with cold indif-
ference and abuse from the public
press for meeting together for the
laudable purpose of obtaining hon
est hard work to support u fami-
lies, and any other representation of
us, or our motives, is false, and has
our indignant censure, and the author
is q liar and scoundrel. We a not
hinder loafers, Communists, tramps,
or even thieves, from dropping in a.
mong us, in a public square. We
counsel good order, not violence, or
anything that would destroy the
peace and harmony of the city. But
we must have work and bread, or we
and our families must perish. We
are no beggars. We earn our living
by the exercise of the muscle, and
we hold that extreme necessity sug-
gests a law superior to all other law,
and the cravings of hunger and want
must and will be supplied. There is
plenty of work at the disposal of the
city authorities, and money, too, but
it wants an Old Hickory to take the
responsibility to see to it."
We don't believe the people of the